Cynic Tub (The), Diog'enês, the Cynic philosopher lived in a tub, and it is to this fact that illusion is made in the line:
[
They
] fetch their doctrines from the Cynic tub.
Milton,
Comus
, 708 (1634).
Cy'nosure (3 syl.), the pole-star. The word means "the dog's tail," and is used to signify a guiding genius, or the observed of all observers. Cynosu'ra was an Idaean nymph, one of the nurses of Zeus (1 syl.).
Cyn'thia, the moon or Diana, who was born on Mount Cynthus, in Dêlos. Apollo is called "Cynthius."
... watching, in the night,