Cero—plastic. The art of modelling in wax.
Cero-strotum or Cestrotum, Lat. A kind of encaustic painting upon ivory or horn, in which the lines were burnt in with the cestrum, and the furrows filled with wax.
Certosina Work. Florence, 15th century. Ivory inlaid into solid cypress-wood and walnut. The style is Indian in character, and consists in geometric arrangements of stars made of diamond-shaped pieces, varied with conventional flowers in pots, &c.
Certyl. Old English for kirtle.
Ceruse. A name for white lead. (See Carbonate of Lead.)
Cervelliere. (See Cerebrerium.)
Cervi (lit. stags). Large branches of trees with the forks still left upon them, but cut down close to the stock, so that the whole presented the appearance of a stag’s antlers. Cervi were employed to strengthen a palisade, so as to impede the advance of infantry, or resist attacks of cavalry.
Cervical (from cervix, a neck). A cushion or pillow for supporting the back of the head on a bed or dining-couch. (See Pulvinar.)
Cervus. (See Stag.)
Ceryceum (κηρύκειον, a herald’s staff). It is a synonym of Caduceus (q.v.).