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Cincinnati
Language; Encyclopedias
The metropolis of Ohio, stands on the Ohio River, opposite Covington and Newport, by rail 270 m. SE. of Chicago; the city stands on hilly ground, and is broken and irregular; there are many fine ...
Cinderella
Language; Encyclopedias
The little cinder-girl, the youngest member of a family who must drudge at home while her elder sisters go to balls, till one day a fairy befriends her and conveys her to a ball, where she shines as ...
Cineas
Language; Encyclopedias
The minister of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus; was the ablest orator of his time, and his master was in the habit of saying of him, that his eloquence had gained him more cities than his own arms; sent on ...
Cintra
Language; Encyclopedias
A Portuguese town, 17 m. NW. of Lisbon, where a much reprobated convention between the French under Marshal Junot and the English under Sir Hew Dalrymple was signed in 1808, whereby the former were ...
Cinqué Cento
Language; Encyclopedias
Five hundred, the Renaissance in literature and art in the 16th century, the expression 5 hundred standing for 15 hundred.
Cinnabar
Language; Encyclopedias
A sulphide of mercury from which the mercury of commerce is obtained.
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