CINNAMON, _s._ The fragrant bark of a low tree in the island of Ceylon. _To dye cinnamon colour._—Take about three pints of _right stone crottle_, (common lichen) about four or six chips of young fustic, and a good flake of walnut-bark; put them down in eight quarts of water; when your time of boiling is half done, add a pint of crottle and eight or ten fustic chips; make four very thick canvass bags, ten inches broad and fourteen or fifteen inches long—wash them when made, lest they should hurt your colour. Divide one pound of fur into four parts, and put a part into each bag; tie a leaden weight to each bag, at both ends, allowing two inches of string, to admit the bags to rise that height from the bottom, lest they should burn; place them in the pot so that they may not entangle with each other, put in your frame without the lid, and fill the pot with water. It will take from twelve to eighteen hours boiling; divide that time as to the drawing each shade; look at them every hour by lifting out a bag, and if you see a shade to your eye, draw a part and put down your bag again: in this case you should put half a pound of fur in your bags. There are many shades of cinnamon wanting in fishing. Thus you have your colour nice and clean. The reason of using the bags is the difficulty of carding the crottle out of the fur; and the reason of boiling so long, is, that the bag in some degree prevents the dye. You may get a more flaming cinnamon by using the following dye-stuff:—A quarter of a pound of turmeric, half a table-spoonful of brasil, and a flake of walnut-bark; follow the process of the other, as to the addition of more dye-stuff, the bags, leads, &c.—_Old Receipt._ CINQUE, _s._ A five. CIRCLE, _v._ To move round any thing; to enclose, to surround; to confine. CIRCUMVOLATION, _s._ The act of flying round. CIRRUS, _s._ A description of cloud. _Cirrus_ or _Curlcloud._—When, after much fine weather, this cloud appears like a white line pencilled along on the azure sky, we may generally reckon on a change; and if the cloud increases, and others are added to it latterly, or if it change to the wane-cloud, rain will probably follow before long. The tufts of cirrus, called mares’ tails, are known to be a sign of wind, which has frequently been found to blow from the quarter to which these curlclouds have previously pointed.—_Foster._ CIST, _s._ A case, a tegument, commonly the enclosure of a tumour. CISTERN, _s._ A receptacle of water for domestic uses; a reservoir; an enclosed fountain; any watery receptacle. CITRON, _s._ A large kind of lemon. CITRON-WATER, _s._ Aqua vitæ, distilled with the rind of citrons. CLARET, _s._ A species of French wine.