*cédille, n.f., (gram.) cedilla.

cédrat, n.m., (bot.) (tree) cedrate, lemon-tree; (fruit) lemon.

cédratier, n.m., (bot.) cedrate, lemon-tree.

cèdre, n.m., cedar; cedar of Lebanon.

cédrie, n.f., cedrie, cedar-resin.

cédule, n.f., (jur.) cedule, schedule, memorandum, notice; note of hand.

ceindre (ceignant, ceint), v.a., to enclose, to encompass, to surround, to bind; to fence; to gird on, to put on, to encircle. Une corde lui ceignait les reins; his loins were girt with a cord. — le diadème; to put on the diadem.

se ceindre, v.r., to bind round one; to encircle one’s brow with anything.

ceintrage, n.m., (nav.) frapping, swifting (of rigging).

ceintrer, v.a., (nav.) to frap, to gird. — un vaisseau; to frap a ship.