CEDAR, s[=e]'dar, _n._ a large evergreen tree remarkable for the durability
and fragrance of its wood; applied also to many more or less similar trees,
as the Barbadoes cedar, properly a juniper, and the Bastard Barbadoes
cedar, properly a _Cedrela_ (used for canoes, cigar-boxes, blacklead
pencils).--_adj._ made of cedar.--_adjs._ C[=E]'DARED, covered with cedars;
C[=E]'DARN (_Milton_), pertaining to or made of cedar; C[=E]'DRINE,
belonging to the cedar-tree; C[=E]'DRY, obsolete form of C[=E]'DARY, having
the colour or properties of cedar. [L.--Gr. _kedros_.]
CEDE, s[=e]d, _v.t._ to yield or give up to another.--_v.i._ to give way.
[L. _ced[)e]re_, _cessum_, to yield, give up.]
CEDILLA, se-dil'la, _n._ a mark placed under the letter _c_ (thus _ç_),
esp. in French, to show that it is to have its soft sound of _s_, where one
would expect the hard, as before _a_, _o_, _u_. [Sp. (Fr. _cédille_, It.
_zediglia_), all from _z[=e]ta_, the Greek name of _z_.]