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Cretaceous System – Cube

Cretaceous System

the highest

Crome

JOHN, an English artist; born in Norwich, in 1769. During the greater part part of his life he was a teacher of drawing. In 1805 he founded the Norwich Society of Artists, of which he be- " CROCODILE

Crosier

the pastoral staff of an archbishop, surmounted by a cross; or of a bishop or abbot, terminating in a curve or crook. It is generally elaborately carved and ornamented with jewels, etc.

CROSS

Cross

MARY ANN EVANS. See ELIOT, GEORGE.

Croton

a river in New York which joins the Hudson, 32 miles N. of New water through the Croton Aqueduct, York City.

It supplies the city with aqueduct was completed in 1906. which was first opened in 1842. A new which carries a portion of the water

Crystallites

minute non-polarizing bodies (the result of incipient crystallization) occurring in the vitreous portions of igneous rocks .

Ctesias

a Greek historian of about 400 B. C., contemporary with Xenophon and partly with Herodotus. He was a physician, and lived for 17 years at the court of Persia. He wrote a "History of Persia," of which little remains .

Ctesiphon

a city of Babylonia, on the E. bank of the Tigris and opposite Seleucia, the common winter residence con of the Parthian kings, and finally the capital of the Parthian kingdom. It was cap conquered by the Romans in A. D. 115, and destroyed by the Arabs under Omar in 637. Its ruins still attest its former magnificence.

Cuando

a name of the Chobe, a tributary of the Zambesi.

Cubeb

the small spicy berry of the plant or plants described under CUBEBA.

Cubeba

a genus of hypogenous exogens, order Piperaceæ, tribe Piperidæ. The flowers are diœcious, invested by sessile bracts; the fruits contracted at the base into what look like pedicels.

They are found in Asia and Africa.

Cube

in geometry, a solid figure contained by six equal squares, a regular hexahedron. From the simplicity of its form it is the unit for measuring the