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Cushing – Czarina

Cushing

CALEB, an American jurist, statesman, and diplomatist; born

Cuthbert

ST., a celebrated father of the early English Church; born, 9,000, encamped on the Little Big Horn, cording to tradition, near Melrose, about in Montana, and he and his entire command were destroyed.

Custis

GEORGE WASHINGTON PARKE, an American writer; born in Mt. Airy, Md., April 30, 1781; was the adopted son of George Washington. He wrote "Recollections of George Washington" (1860), and several plays and orations. He died at Arlington House, Fairfax co., Va., Oct. 10, 1857.

Cutting

MARY STEWART (DOUBLEDAY), an American novelist and short-story writer; born in New York City in 1851. While still a girl, she wrote verse for "Lippincott's." In 1875 she married Charles W. Cutting.

Her most important novels were: "Little Stories of Married Life" (1902); "The Wayfarers" (1908); "Just for Two" (1909); "The Lovers of Sanna" (1912); "Refractory Husbands" (1913).

Cyclamen

sowbread, a genus of primulacex, family primulidæ. The root of the same species is said to be eatable when dried or roasted.

CYCLES. See BICYCLE.

Cystitis

inflammation of the bladder.

Cytheride

a family of entomostracous crustaceans, of which cythere is the type.

Cytheron

a shepherd of Bœotia, changed by Jupiter into a mountain near Thebes.

Cyzicus

a peninsula of Asia Minor, 70 miles S. W. of Constantinople. It was once an island, and the site of an ancient town of the same name.

Czar

a king; formerly the title of the Emperor of Russia. It was first assumed by Ivan IV., in 1547.

Czarevna

the title of the wife of the former czarowitz.

Czarina

formerly the wife of an Emperor of Russia. or

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