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"The Illustrated London Reading Book"

_ a register of events in order of time; a history
CHRO'NICLER, _s._ a writer of chronicles; a historian
CHRONO'METER, _s._ an instrument for the exact measuring of time
CI'PHER, _s._ a figure, as 1, 2
CI'RCUIT, _s._ a circular band
CI'RCUIT, _s._ ring; round; stated journey repeated at intervals
CIRCU'MFERENCE, _s._ the space enclosed in a circle
CIRCUMSCRI'BE, _v.a._ enclose in certain lines or boundaries; bound;
Limit
CI'RCUMSTANCE, _s._ something relative to a fact; incident; event
CI'STERN, _s._ a receptacle of water for domestic uses; reservoir
CI'STUS, _s._ rock-rose
CI'TADEL, _s._ a fortress; a place of defence
CI'TIZEN, _s._ a freeman of a city; townsman
CI'TY, _s._ a corporate town that hath a bishop
CI'VIL, _a._ political; not foreign; gentle; well bred; polite
CIVI'LITY, _s._ politeness; complaisance
CI'VILIZA'TION, _s._ civilising manners
CI'VILIZE, _v.a._ reclaim from savageness and brutality
CLA'MOUR, _s._ noise; tumult; disturbance
CLA'RION, _s._ a trumpet
CLI'MATE, _s._ a region, or tract of land, differing from another by the
temperature of the air
CLU'STER, _s._ a bunch
CO'GNIZANCE, _s._ trial; a badge by which one is known
COLLE'CT, _v.


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