[Central India] (10,000), includes a group of feudatory States lying between Rajputana in the N. and Central Provinces in the S.
[Central Provinces] (12,944), States partly British and partly native, occupying the N. of the Deccan, and lying between the Nerbudda and the Godavary.
[Ceos], one of the Cyclades, a small island 13 m. by 8 m., yields fruits; was the birthplace of Simonides and Bacchylides.
[Cephalonia] (80), the largest of the Ionian Islands, 30 m. long, the ancient Samos; yields grapes and olive oil.
[Cephalus], king of Thessaly, who having involuntarily killed his wife Procris, in despair put himself to death with the same weapon.
[Ceram`] (195), the largest of S. Moluccas; yields sago, which is chiefly cultivated and largely exported.
[Cerberus], the three-headed or three-throated monster that guarded the entrance to the nether world of Pluto, could be soothed by music, and tempted by honey, only Hercules overcame him by sheer strength, dragging him by neck and crop to the upper world.
[Ceres], the Latin name for [Demeter] (q. v.); also the name of one of the asteroids, the first discovered, by Piazzi, in 1801.
[Ceri`go] (14), an Ionian island, the southernmost, the ancient Cythera; yields wine and fruits.
[Cerinthus], a heresiarch of the first century, whom, according to tradition, St. John held in special detestation, presumably as denying the Father and the Son.