tergether.' He did not notice how pale

she was, and that there was often a slight spasmodic

contraction of her features. She was

busy with her spinning-wheel, as she placidly

replied: 'Yes,—'though I always 'lowed ez I

counted on livin' single.'"—Charles Egbert Craddock,

In the Tennessee Mountains

(1885).

Cyp'rian (A), a woman of loose morals; so called from the island Cyprus, a chief seat of the worship of Venus or Cyp'ria.

Cyp'rian (Brother), a Dominican monk at the monastery of Holyrood.—Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).