Cic"la*toun` (?), n. [Of. ciclaton.] A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] [Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.]
His robe was of ciclatoun,
That coste many a Jane.
Chaucer.
Cic"u*rate (?), v. t. [L. cicurare to tame, fr. cicur tame.] To tame. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Cic`u*ra"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. cicuration.] The act of taming. [Obs.] Ray.
||Ci*cu"ta (?), n. [L., the poison hemlock.] (Bot.) a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.
&fist; The name cicuta is sometimes erroneously applied to Conium maculatum, or officinal hemlock.
Cic`u*tox"in (?), n. (Chem.) The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.