The poor shall never cease out of the land.
Deut. xv. 11.
Syn. -- To intermit; desist; stop; abstain; quit; discontinue; refrain; leave off; pause; end.
Cease, v. t. To put a stop to; to bring to an end.
But he, her fears to cease
Sent down the meek-eyed peace.
Milton.
Cease, then, this impious rage.
Milton
Cease, n. Extinction. [Obs.] Shak.
Cease"less, a. Without pause or end; incessant.
Cease"less, adv. Without intermission or end.
||Cec`i*do*my"i*a (?), n. [Nl., fr. Gr. khki`s, &?;, a gall nut + myi^a a fly.] (Zo÷l.) A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.
Ce"ci*ty (?), n. [L. caecitas, fr. caecus blind: cf. F. cÚcitÚ.] Blindness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Ce*cu"tien*cy (?), n. [L. caecutire to be blind, fr. caecus blind.] Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Ce"dar (sē"d&etilde;r), n. [AS. ceder, fr. L. cedrus, Gr. ke`dros.] (Bot.) The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.
&fist; The cedar of Lebanon is the Cedrus Libani; the white cedar (Cupressus thyoides) is now called Chamťcyparis sphŠroidea; American red cedar is the Juniperus Virginiana; Spanish cedar, the West Indian Cedrela odorata. Many other trees with odoriferous wood are locally called cedar.
Cedar bird (Zo÷l.), a species of chatterer (Ampelis cedrorum), so named from its frequenting cedar trees; -- called also cherry bird, Canada robin, and American waxwing.
Ce"dar, a. Of or pertaining to cedar.
Ce"dared (?), a. Covered, or furnished with, cedars.