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• CILIATE; CILIATED
  Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.
• CILIA
  The eyelashes.
• CILIARY
  Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.
• CILIATA
  One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth.
• DOMICILIAR
  A member of a household; a domestic.
• SUPRACILIARY
  Superciliary.
• CONCILIATIVE
  Conciliatory. Coleridge.
• CONCILIATORY
  Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.
• RECONCILIATORY
  Serving or tending to reconcile. Bp. Hall.
• DOMICILIATE
  1. To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile. 2. To domesticate. Pownall.
• CONCILIABLE
  A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. Bacon.
• SICILIAN
  Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants. Sicilian vespers, the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.
• DOMICILIARY
  Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family. The personal and domiciliary rights of the citizen scrupulously guarded. Motley. Domiciliary visit , a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it,
• IRRECONCILIATION
  Want of reconciliation; disagreement.
• RECONCILIATION
  1. The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship. Reconciliation and friendship with God really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. S. Miller. 2. Reduction
• CONCILIATE
  To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was
• SICILIANO
  A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.
• CONCILIAR; CONCILIARY
  Of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council. Jer. Taylor.
• COECILIAN
  See CæCILIAN
• CAECILIAN
  A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Cæciliæ or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.
• SUPERCILIARY
  Having a distinct streak of color above the eyes; as, the superciliary woodpecker. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.
• DENTATE-CILIATE
  Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.