- Clichy, town, France.
- Clifton, town, England.
- Climate.
- Clinton, town, Iowa, U.S.A.
- Clinton, town, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Clinton, De Witt, American statesman.
- Clinton, Henry Fynes, English scholar.
- Clitheroe, town, England.
- Clitomachus, Greek philosopher.
- Clitor, ancient town, Greece.
- Clive, Lord, of Plassy.
- Clock.
- Cloister.
- Clonmel, town, Ireland.
- Clootz, Jean Baptiste, Baron, French Revolutionist.
- Clot, Antoine, French physician.
- Clotilda, St, wife of Clovis.
- Clough, Arthur Hugh, English poet.
- Cloves, tree and fruit.
- Clovio, Giulio, Italian painter.
- Clovis, king of the Franks (See France).
- Cloyne, town, Ireland.
- Club, Clubs.
- Club-Foot.
- Cluny, town, France.
- Clusium (Chiusi, q.v.), ancient town, Italy.
- Cluver, Philip, German geographer.
- Clyde, river, Scotland.
- Clyde, Lord, British general.
- Clytæmnestra, wife of Agamemnon (q.v.).
- Cnidus (Tekir), ancient town, Asia Minor.
- Cnossus, town, Crete.
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- Coal.
- Coanza, river, Africa.
- Coatbridge, town, Scotland.
- Cobalt, chemical element.
- Coban, town, Central America.
- Cobbett, William, English political writer.
- Cobden, Richard, English politician.
- Cobija, town, Bolivia.
- Coblentz, town, Prussia.
- Cobra, genus of snakes.
- Coburg, town, Germany.
- Coca (Cuca, q.v.), plant.
- Cocceius, Johannes, Dutch theologian.
- Cochabamba, town, Bolivia.
- Cochin, state, India.
- Cochin China, country, Asia.
- Cochineal, dyestuff.
- Cockatoo, bird.
- Cockatrice, fabulous animal.
- Cockburn, Mrs Alison, Scottish ballad-writer.
- Cockburn, Sir George, British admiral.
- Cockburn, Lord, Scottish judge.
- Cocker, Edward, English arithmetician.
- Cockerell, Charles Robert, English architect.
- Cockermouth, town, England.
- Cockle, mollusc.
- Cockroach, insect.
- Cocles, Horatius, Roman hero.
- Cocoa, or Cacao, tree and fruit.
- Cocoa-Nut Palm.
- Cocytus, river & legendary river, Greece.
- Cod, fish.
- Cod-Liver Oil.
- Code, body of laws.
- Codogno, town, Italy.
- Codrington, Sir Edward, British admiral.
- Codrus, king of Athens.
- Coehorn, Menno, Baron van, Dutch military engineer.
- Cœlentera, or Cœlenterata, group of animals.
- Coello, Alonso Sanchez, Spanish painter.
- Coen, Jan Pieterszoon, founder of Batavia, Java.
- Cœnobia, monastic communities (See Monasticism).
- Cœur, Jacques, early French trader and economist.
- Coffee.
- Coffer-Dams, in engineering.
- Cognac, town, France.
- Cohesion, in capillary action (See Attraction, Capillary Action, and Constitution of Bodies).
- Cohoes, town, New York, U.S.A.
- Coimbatore, district, India.
- Coimbra, town, Portugal.
- Coin, town, Spain.
- Coinage (See Bullion, Mint, Money, and Numismatics).
- Coir, fibre (See Cocoa-Nut Palm).
- Coire, town, Switzerland.
- Cojutepec, town, San Salvador.
- Coke, fuel.
- Coke, Sir Edward, English lawyer.
- Colberg, town, Prussia.
- Colbert, Jean Baptiste, French statesman.
- Colchester, town, England.
- Colchester, Lord, English statesman.
- Colchicum, plant.
- Colchis, ancient country, Caucasus.
- Coldstream, town, Scotland.
- Colebrooke, Henry Thomas, English Orientalist.
- Coleoptera, order of insects.
- Coleraine, town, Ireland.
- Coleridge, Hartley, English writer.
- Coleridge, Sir John Taylor, English lawyer and critic.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, English poet.
- Colet, John, dean of St Paul’s, London.
- Colet, Louise Revoil, French poetess and novelist.
- Colic, disease.
- Coligni, or Coligny, Gaspard de, admiral of France.
- Colima, town, Mexico.
- Colin, Alexander, Flemish sculptor.
- Collaert, Hans, Flemish engraver.
- Collé, Charles, French dramatist.
- Colle, Rafaelle del, Italian painter.
- College.
- Collier, Arthur, English metaphysician.
- Collier, Jeremy, English divine.
- Collingwood, Lord, English admiral.
- Collins, Anthony, English philosopher.
- Collins, Mortimer, English poet.
- Collins, William, English poet.
- Collins, William, English painter.
- Collodion, its composition and uses.
- Collot d’Herbois, Jean Marie, French Revolutionist.
- Colman, George, the Elder, English dramatist.
- Colman, George, the Younger, English dramatist.
- Colmar, town, German Alsace.
- Colne, town, England.
- Colocynth, plant and drug.
- Cologna, town, Italy.
- Cologne, town, Rhenish Prussia.
- Colombia, United States of, South America.
- Colombo, town, Ceylon.
- Colon (Aspinwall, q.v.), town, Panama.
- Colonna, Giovanni Paolo, Italian composer.
- Colonna, Vittoria, Neapolitan princess and poetess.
- Colony, Colonies.
- Colophon, ancient town, Asia Minor.
- Colorado, State, U.S.A.
- Colorado River, U.S.A.
- Colossae, ancient town, Asia Minor.
- Colosseum, amphitheatre at Rome (See Amphitheatre, Architecture, and Rome).
- Colossians, The Epistle to the.
- Colossus, statue at Rhodes.
- Colour, Sensations of (See Light and Optics).
- Colston, Edward, English merchant.
- Colt, Samuel, inventor of the revolver.
- Columba, Celtic saint.
- Columbanus, Irish monk.
- Columbia, town, South Carolina, U.S.A.
- Columbia, District of, U.S.A.
- Columbia, British, North America.
- Columbus, town, Ohio, U.S.A.
- Columbus, town, Georgia, U.S.A.
- Columbus, Christopher, discoverer of America.
- Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Roman writer on agriculture.
- Colza Oil.
- Comacchio, town, Italy.
- Comana, or Chryse, ancient town, Cappadocia, Asia Minor.
- Comana, ancient town, Pontus, Asia Minor.
- Comanches, North-American Indians.
- Comayagua, town, Honduras.
- Comb.
- Combaconum, town, India.
- Combe, Andrew, Scottish physiologist.
- Combe, George, Scottish physiologist.
- Combe, William, English writer.
- Combermere, Viscount.
- Combinations, among workmen.
- Comedy (See Drama).
- Comenius, or Komensky, Johann Amos, Moravian educationist.
- Comets.
- Comines, town, France.
- Comines, Philippe de, French historian.
- Comitan, or Comitlan, town, Mexico.
- Comitia, of ancient Rome.
- Commerce.
- Commercy, town, France.
- Commodus, Lucius Aurelius, Roman emperor.
- Common Law.
- Common Pleas, Court of, England.
- Common Prayer, Book of, Church of England (See Liturgy).
- Commons, waste lands.
- Commons, House of (See Parliament).
- Commune, administrative division, in France.
- Communism.
- Como, town, Italy.
- Como, Lake of, Italy.
- Comonfort, Ignacio, Mexican soldier and politician.
- Comores, or Comoro Islands, East Africa.
- Company, corporate association.
- Comparative Anatomy.
- Compass, Mariner’s.
- Compiègne, town, France.
- Compostella (Santiago), town, Spain.
- Compton, Henry, bishop of London.
- Comte, Auguste, French philosopher.
- Comus, in Greek mythology.
- Conca, Sebastiano, Italian painter.
- Concan, district, India.
- Concepcion, town, Chili.
- Conclave, meeting for election of a pope.
- Concord, town, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
- Concord, town, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Concordance, verbal index.
- Concordat, papal agreement.
- Concordia, Roman goddess.
- Concordia, town, Italy.
- Concrete, substitute for stone.
- Concubinage.
- Condamine, Charles Marie de la, French geographer and mathematician (See La Condamine).
- Condé, town, France.
- Condé-sur-Noireau, town, France.
- Condé, Princes of, France.
- Condé, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of.
- Condé, Louis, Prince of (Condé the Great).
- Condé, Louis Henry Joseph, duke of Bourbon.
- Conde, José Antonio, Spanish Orientalist.
- Conder, Josiah, English writer.
- Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, French philosopher.
- Condom, town, France.
- Condor, bird.
- Condorcet, Marquis de, French philosopher and politician.
- Condottieri, Italian mercenary troops.
- Conecte, Thomas, French monk and preacher.
- Conegliano, town, Italy.
- Conferreatio, form of Roman marriage.
- Confectionery.
- Confession, of sin.
- Confirmation, ecclesiastical rite.
- Confucius, Chinese sage.
- {{9link|Congé d'Élire|Congé d’Élire, mandate for election of a bishop.
- Conger-Eel, fish (See Eel).
- Congleton, town, England.
- Congleton, Lord, chancellor of Irish exchequer.
- Congo, country, West Africa.
- Congregationalists, religious denomination.
- Congress, in diplomacy.
- Congreve, William, English dramatist.
- Congreve, Sir William, inventor of the rocket.
- Coni, town, Italy.
- Conic Sections, or Conics.
- Conington, John, English scholar.
- Conjeveram, town, India.
- Connaught, province, Ireland.
- Connecticut, State, U.S.A.
- Connemara, district, Ireland.
- Connor, Bernard, English physiologist.
- Conolly, John, English physician.
- Conon, Athenian general.
- Conrad, kings & emperors (See Germany).
- Conradin, king of Sicily.
- Conrart, Valentin, first secretary of the French Academy.
- Consalvi, Ercole, Italian cardinal and statesman.
- Consanguinity, or Kindred.
- Conscription, Military (See Army).
- Consecration.
- Conservatory, or Conservatoire, Musical.
- Consistory, ecclesiastical council.
- Consolidation Acts, English.
- Conspiracy, in law.
- Constable, officer of the peace.
- Constable, Archibald, Scottish publisher.
- Constable, Henry, English poet.
- Constable, John, English painter.
- Constance, town, Baden, Germany.
- Constance, Lake of, Switzerland.
- Constant de Rebecque, Henri Benjamin, French philosopher and economist.
- Constantine, town, Algeria.
- Constantine, Roman & Greek emperors (See Roman History and Greek Empire).
- Constantine I., the Great, Roman emperor.
- Constantine, emperor of Gaul, Spain, and Britain.
- Constantine VII. (Porphyrogenitus), Byzantine emperor.
- Constantine Pavlovich, Russian prince.
- Constantinople, capital of Turkey.
- Constantinus Cephalas, compiler of an anthology (q.v.).
- Constantius I., Flavius Valerius, Roman Emperor.
- Constitution, and Constitutional Law.
- Constitution of Bodies.
- Consuegra, town, Spain.
- Consul, Roman magistrate.
- Consul, commercial and legal officer in foreign country.
- Consulate of the Sea, Book of the.
- Consumption (Phthisis, q.v.), pulmonary disease.
- Contempt of Court, offense.
- Conti, Prince of (Armand de Bourbon).
- Contraband.
- Contract, in law.
- Conversano, town, Italy.
- Conveyancing, in law.
- Convocation, of Church of England.
- Conway, town, Wales.
- Conybeare, John, English divine.
- Conybeare, William Daniel, English geologist.
- Cook, Captain James, English navigator and explorer.
- Cook’s Islands, or Harley Archipelago, South Pacific.
- Cookery.
- Coolie, or Cooly, Asiatic labourer.
- Coomassie, capital of Ashantee, West Africa.
- Cooper, Abraham, English painter.
- Cooper, Anthony Ashley, three earls of Shaftesbury (q.v.).
- Cooper, Sir Astley Paston, English surgeon.
- Cooper, Charles Henry, English historiographer.
- Cooper, James Fenimore, American novelist.
- Cooperage, handicraft.
- Co-operation.
- Coorg, province, India.
- Coot, water-fowl.
- Coote, Sir Eyre, British general.
- Copaiba, Balsam of (See Balsam).
- Copal, resin.
- Copan, town, Honduras.
- Copenhagen, capital of Denmark.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, German astronomer.
- Copiapo, town, Chili.
- Copley, John Singleton, historical painter.
- Copper, metal, chemical element.
- Copperas, mineral.
- Coprolites, Fossil.
- Copts, Egyptian people.
- Coptos, ancient town, Egypt.
- Copyhold, land tenure.
- Copyright.
- Coquerel, Athanase Josué, French Protestant theologian.
- Coquerel, Athanase Laurent Charles, French Protestant theologian.
- Coques, Gonzalez, Flemish painter.
- Cora (Cori), ancient town, Italy.
- Corals, or Coral Animals.
- Coram, Thomas, English philanthropist.
- Corbeil, in architecture.
- Corcyra (Corfu, q.v.), island, Greece.
- Corday d’Armans, Marie-Anne-Charlotte, assassin of Marat.
- Cordeliers, Franciscan monks.
- Corderius (Mathurin Cordier), French writer.
- Cordova, town, Spain.
- Cordova, or Cordoba, town, Argentine Republic.
- Cordova, town, Mexico.
- Corea, kingdom, Asia.
- Corelli, Arcangelo, Italian musical composer.
- Corenzio, Belisario, Greek Neapolitan painter.
- Corfu, island & town, Greece.
- Coriander, plant and fruit.
- Corigliano, town, Italy.
- Coringa, town, India.
- Corinna, Greek poetess.
- Corinth, town, ancient Greece.
- Corinthians, Epistles to the.
- Coriolanus, Caius Marcus, Roman patrician.
- Corioli, ancient town, Italy.
- Cork, bark of tree.
- Cork, county & town, Ireland.
- Cork, Earls of (Boyle, q.v.).
- Corleone, town, Italy.
- Cormenin, Vicomte de, French jurist.
- Cormontaigne, Louis de, French military engineer.
- Cormorant, bird.
- Corn Laws, English.
- Corn Trade, British.
- Cornaro, Luigi, Italian writer.
- Corneille, Pierre, French dramatist.
- Corneille, Thomas, French dramatist.
- Cornelius, Peter von, German painter.
- Corneto, town, Italy.
- Cornhert, Theodore, Dutch writer.
- Cornutus, L. Annæus, Roman Stoic philosopher.
- Cornwall, county, England.
- Cornwall, Barry (Procter, q.v.).
- Cornwallis, First Marquis, British general.
- Coro, town, Venezuela.
- Coromandel Coast, India.
- Corona, envelope of the sun.
- Coronation.
- Coronelli, Vincenzio, Italian geographer.
- Coroner, officer of the law.
- Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille, French painter.
- Corporation.
- Corpulence.
- Corpus Christi, church festival.
- Correa da Serra, José Francisco, Portuguese politician and scientist.
- Correggio, Antonio Allegri, Italian painter.
- Corrèze, department, France.
- Corrientes, town, Argentine Republic.
- Corry, town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Corseul (See Côtes-du-Nord).
- Corsica, island, Mediterranean.
- Corssen, Wilhelm Paul, German philologist.
- Cort, Cornelius, Dutch engraver.
- Corte-Real, family of Portuguese navigators.
- Cortes, Spanish legislature (See Spain and Portugal).
- Cortes, Hernan, conqueror of Mexico.
- Cortese (Courtois, q.v.), family of French painters.
- Cortona, town, Italy.
- Corunna, or Coruña, town, Spain.
- Corvey, Benedictine abbey, Saxony.
- Corvisart-Desmarets, Baron de, French physician.
- Corvus, M. Valerius, Roman general.
- Coryatt, Thomas, English writer.
- Corybantes, in Greek mythology.
- Coryphæus, leader of chorus, in Greek tragedy.
- Cos, island, Asia Minor.
- Cosenza, town, Italy.
- Cosin, John, bishop of Durham.
- Cosmas, surnamed Indicopleustes, ancient geographer.
- Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian historian.
- Cosmogony.
- Cosne, town, France.
- Cossacks, Russian tribes.
- Costa Rica, republic, Central America.
- Costanzo, Angelo di, Italian historian.
- Costello, Dudley, English journalist.
- Costello, Louisa Stuart, English writer.
- Coster, Laurence, Dutch printer (See Roster and Printing).
- Costs, Legal.
- Costume.
- Cota, Rodrigo, Spanish poet.
- Côte d’Or, department, France.
- Cotes, Roger, English mathematician.
- Côtes-du-Nord, department, France.
- Cotopaxi, volcano, Ecuador.
- Cotrone (Crotona, q.v.), town, Italy.
- Cotta, family of German publishers.
- Cottabus, Greek game.
- Cottereau, Jean, French royalist (See Chouans).
- Cottin, Sophie, French novelist.
- Cotton.
- Cotton, Charles, English writer.
- Cotton, George Edward Lynch, bishop of Calcutta.
- Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce, political writer and founder of Cottonian Library.
- Cotys, Thracian kings.
- Coulomb, Charles Augustin, French physicist.
- Council, Ecclesiastical.
- Council Bluffs, town, Iowa, U.S.A.
- Counsel (Advocate and Barristers, q.v.).
- Count, Countess, title.
- County, administrative area.
- Courayer, Pierre François le, French theologian.
- Courier, Paul Louis, French writer.
- Courland, province, Russia.
- Coursing, with greyhounds.
- Court, Courts, Judicial.
- Court Martial.
- Court, Antoine, French Protestant.
- Court de Gebelin, Antoine, French scholar.
- Courtois, Jâques and Guillaume, French painters.
- Courtrai, town, Belgium.
- Cousin, Victor, French philosopher.
- Coustou, Nicholas and Guillaume, French sculptors.
- Coutances, town, France.
- Couthon, Georges, French Revolutionist.
- Coutts, Thomas, English banker.
- Covenanters, in Scottish history.
- Coventry, town, England.
- Coverdale, Miles, translator of English Bible.
- Covilha, town, Portugal.
- Covington, town, Kentucky, U.S.A.
- Cowell, John, English jurist.
- Cowley, Abraham, English poet.
- Cowper, William, English poet.
- Cowry, shell and money.
- Cox, David, English painter.
- Cox, Richard, bishop of Ely.
- Coxcie, Michael, Flemish painter.
- Coxe, William, archdeacon, English writer.
- Coypel, family of French painters.
- Coysevox, or Coyzevox, Charles Antoine, French sculptor.
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- Crab, crustacean.
- Crabbe, George, English poet.
- Cracow, town, Austrian Poland.
- Craig, John, Scottish Reformer.
- Craig, Sir Thomas, Scottish jurist and poet.
- Craik, George Lillie English writer.
- Crail, town, Scotland.
- Crake, bird.
- Cramp, muscular disease.
- Cranach, Lucas, German painter and caricaturist.
- Cranberry, plant and fruit.
- Cranbrook, town, England.
- Crane, bird.
- Crane, hoisting machine.
- Cranmer, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury.
- Crannogs, Celtic lake dwellings.
- Crantor, Greek philosopher.
- Crape, silk fabric.
- Crashaw, Richard, English poet.
- Crassus, Lucius Licinius, Roman orator.
- Crassus, Marcus Licinius, Roman triumvir.
- Crates of Athens, actor and writer of comedies.
- Crates of Mallus, grammarian and Stoic philosopher.
- Crates of Thebes, Cynic philosopher.
- Cratinus, Greek comedian.
- Cratippus, Peripatetic philosopher.
- Cratippus, Greek historian.
- Crauford, Quentin, English antiquary.
- Crawford, Thomas, American sculptor.
- Crawfurd, John, English political writer.
- Crayer, Gaspard de, Flemish painter.
- Crayon, material for drawing.
- Cream of Tartar, chemical salt.
- Creasote, or Creosote, antiseptic, drug, and poison.
- Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot, French novelist.
- Crébillon, Prosper Jolyot de, French poet.
- Crécy, or Cressy, town, France.
- Credi, Lorenzo di, Italian painter.
- Crédit Foncier, Crédit Mobilier, credit banks.
- Crediton, town, England.
- Creech, Thomas, English translator.
- Creeds, authorized formularies of doctrine.
- Creek Indians, North America (See Indians).
- Crefeld, town, Germany.
- Crema, town, Italy.
- Cremation, method of disposing of human corpses.
- Cremona, province & town, Italy.
- Creole.
- Creon, king of Corinth, in Greek fable (See Jason and Medea).
- Creon, king of Thebes, in Greek fable.
- Creosote (Creasote, q.v.), antiseptic, drug, and poison.
- Crescimbeni, Giovanni Mario, Italian poet.
- Crespi, Daniele, Italian painter.
- Crespi, Giovanni Battista, Italian sculptor.
- Crespi, Giuseppe Maria, Italian painter.
- Creswell, Sir Cresswell, English judge.
- Cressy (Crécy, q.v.), town, France.
- Crest, in heraldry (q.v.).
- Crest, town, France.
- Creswick, Thomas, English painter.
- Crete, or Candia, island, Mediterranean.
- Cretinism, disease.
- Creuse, department, France.
- Creutz, Gustaf Philip, Count, Swedish poet.
- Creuzer, Georg Friedrich, German philologist.
- Creuzot, or Creusot, Le, town, France.
- Crevier, Jean Baptiste Louis, French writer.
- Crewe, town, England.
- Cribbage, game.
- Crichton, James, The Admirable Crichton.
- Cricket, insect.
- Cricket, game.
- Cricklade, town, England.
- Crieff, town, Scotland.
- Crime.
- Crimea, peninsula, Russia.
- Criminal Law.
- Crimmitzschau, town, Saxony.
- Crispin and Crispinian, Sts.
- Crissa, ancient town, Greece.
- Critias, Greek orator and poet.
- Crivelli, Carlo, Venetian painter.
- Croatia and Slavonia, crown-land, Hungary.
- Crocodile, reptile.
- Crœsus, king of Lydia.
- Croft, William, English musical composer.
- Croker, John Wilson, English critic.
- Croker, Thomas Crofton, Irish antiquary.
- Croly, George, English divine and poet.
- Cromarty, county, Scotland.
- Crome, John, English painter.
- Cromlech, monumental stone or circle of stones.
- Crompton, Samuel, inventor of the spinning mule.
- Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector of the British Commonwealth.
- Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex.
- Cronstadt, town, Russia.
- Cronstadt, town, Austria.
- Croquet, out-door game.
- Cross, instrument for inflicting capital punishment & sacred symbol.
- Crossbill, bird.
- Crotch, William, English musical composer.
- Croton Oil.
- Crotona.
- Croup, disease.
- Crousaz, Jean Pierre de, Swiss philosopher.
- Crow, bird.
- Crowe, Eyre Evans, English historian.
- Crowland, town, England.
- Crown, of king or emperor.
- Croydon, town, England.
- Crucifix and Crucifixion (See Cross).
- Cruden, Alexander, author of Concordance to Bible.
- Crusades.
- Crusenstolpe, Magnus Jakob, Swedish historian.
- Crusius, Christian August, German theologian.
- Crustacea, class of animals.
- Cruveilhier, Jean, French anatomist.
- Cruz, Jean de la, Spanish mystic.
- Cruz, Ramon de la, Spanish dramatist.
- Crypt, in architecture.
- Cryptography, writing in cypher.
- Crystallography.
- Csokonai, Mihaly Vitez, Hungarian poet.
- Csoma de Körös, Alexander, Hungarian philologist.
- Ctesias, Greek physician and historian.
- Ctesiphon, ancient town, Assyria.
- Cuba.
- Cubebs.
- Cubitt, Thomas.
- Cubitt, Sir William.
- Cuca, plant.
- Cuckoo, or Cuckow, bird.
- Cucumber, vegetable.
- Cuddalor, town, India.
- Cuddapah, district, India.
- Cudworth, Ralph, English philosopher.
- Cuenca, province & town, Spain.
- Cuenca, town, Ecuador.
- Cuirass, defensive armour.
- Cujas, or Cujacius, Jacques de, French jurisconsult.
- Culdees, order of ecclesiastics.
- Cullen, William, Scottish pathologist.
- Cullera, town, Spain.
- Culloden, Scotland, Battle of (1746).
- Cumæ, or Cuma, ancient Greek colony, Italy.
- Cumana, town, Venezuela.
- Cumberland, county, England.
- Cumberland, town, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Cumberland, Richard, Bishop of Peterborough.
- Cumberland, Richard, English dramatist.
- Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of.
- Cumbraes, islands, Scotland (See Bute).
- Cumin, or Cummin, plant.
- Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon, African traveller and hunter.
- Cunard, Sir Samuel, founder of line of steamships.
- Cuneiform Writing.
- Cunitz, Maria.
- Cunningham, Allan, Scottish writer.
- Cunningham, Peter, English miscellaneous writer.
- Cunningham, William, Scottish theologian and ecclesiastic.
- Cupar-Fife, town, Scotland.
- Cupid, Roman god (the Greek Eros).
- Cupping, surgical operation.
- Curaçoa, or Curaçao, island, West Indies.
- Curassow, bird.
- Curate.
- Cures, ancient town, Italy.
- Cureton, William, English Orientalist.
- Curfew, bell.
- Curia, ancient Roman tribal division & papal court.
- Curlew, bird.
- Curling, game.
- Curragh, plain, with military camp, Kildare, Ireland.
- Curran, John Philpot, Irish orator.
- Currants, fruit.
- Currency, or Current Money (See Money).
- Currie, James, Scottish physician and critic.
- Curry, condiment.
- Currying, in leather manufacture (q.v.).
- Curtius, Mettus, Roman legendary hero.
- Curtius, Rufus, Quintus, biographer of Alexander the Great.
- Curve, Curves.
- Curzola, town, Austrian Dalmatia.
- Cusa, Nicolas de (Cusanus), cardinal and Reformer.
- Cush, of Scripture.
- Custard Apple.
- Customs Duties.
- Custos Rotulorum, keeper of records.
- Cutch, state, India.
- Cutch Gundava, district, Baluchistan.
- Cuthbert, St, bishop of Lindisfarne, England.
- Cutlery.
- Cuttack (Cattack, q.v.), district and town, India.
- Cuttle-Fish.
- Cuvier, Georges (Baron Cuvier), French naturalist.
- Cuxhaven, town, Germany.
- Cuyaba, town, Brazil.
- Cuyp, family of Dutch painters.
- Cuzco, town, Peru.
- Cybele, in Greek mythology.
- Cyclades, group of islands, Greece.
- Cyclones, areas of low atmospheric pressure (See Atmosphere, Climate, and Meteorology).
- Cyclopes, in Greek mythology.
- Cynics, school of Greek philosophy.
- Cy-Près, in law.
- Cypress, tree.
- Cyprian, bishop of Carthage.
- Cyprus, island, Mediterranean.
- Cyrenaica, or Pentapolis, district, Africa.
- Cyrenaics, school of Greek philosophers.
- Cyrene, ancient town, Africa.
- Cyril, St, bishop of Jerusalem.
- Cyril of Alexandria.
- Cyril of Berytus, Byzantine jurist.
- Cyrus the Elder, founder of the Persian empire.
- Cyrus the Younger, Persian satrap.
- Cyzicus, ancient town, Asia Minor.
- Czacki, Tadeusz, Polish statesman and writer.
- Czartoryski, Adam George, Polish prince and patriot.
- Czaslau, town, Bohemia.
- Czechs, Slavonic people.
- Czegled, town, Hungary.
- Czenstochova, Old and New, towns, Poland.
- Czernowitz, town, Austria.
- Czerny, Karl, Austrian musical composer and pianist.
- Czerny George, Tsrni George, or Karageorgevich, Servian leader.
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- D, the fourth letter of the alphabet.
- Dacca, district and town, India.
- Dace, fish.
- Dacia, ancient country, Europe.
- Dacier, André, French scholar.
- Dacier, Anne Lefèvre, French scholar.
- Da Costa, Isaak, Dutch poet and theologian.
- Dacotah (Dakota, q.v.).
- Dactyls (See Corybantes).
- Dædalus, in Greek legend.
- Daffodil, plant.
- Dagger, weapon.
- Daghestan, government, Asiatic Russia.
- D’Agincourt, Jean Baptiste, French archæologist.
- Dagon, Philistine diety.
- Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, French painter and physicist.
- D’Aguesseau, Henri François, chancellor of France.
- Dahl, Johann Christian, Norwegian painter.
- Dahl, Michael, Swedish painter.
- Dahl, or Dale, Vladimir Ivanovitch, Russian writer.
- Dahlgren, Karl Fredrik, Swedish poet and humorist.
- Dahlia, plant.
- Dahlmann, Friedrich Christian, German historian.
- Dahlstjerna, Gunno Eurelius, Swedish poet.
- Dahomey, kingdom, West Africa.
- Daillé, Jean, French Protestant divine.
- Daimiel, town, Spain.
- Dairy.
- Daisy, plant.
- Dakota, Territory, U.S.A.
- Dalberg, Prince of, patron of German literature.
- D’Alembert, Jean le Rond, French mathematician and philosopher.
- Dalgarno, George, Scottish educational writer.
- Dalhousie, Marquis of, governor-general of India.
- Dalin, Olof von, Swedish poet.
- Dalkeith, town, Scotland.
- Dalling and Bulwer, Lord, British diplomatist.
- Dalmatia, crown land, Austria.
- Dalrymple, Scottish family (See Stair and Hailes).
- Dalton, John, English physicist.
- Damages, in law.
- Daman (Damaun, q.v.), Syrian hyrax, mammal.
- Damaraland, district, South Africa (See Hereroland).
- Damascenus, Johannes, theologian, early Greek Church.
- Damascenus, Nicolaus, Greek historian.
- Damascius, Neoplatonic philosopher.
- Damascus, town, Syria.
- Damask, cloth.
- Damask Steel.
- Damaskeening, or Damascening, in metal work.
- Damasus, two popes.
- Damaun, town, India.
- D’Amboise, George, French cardinal.
- Damiens, Robert François, assailant of Louis XV. of France.
- Damietta, town, Egypt.
- Damiri, Arabian naturalist.
- Damiron, Jean Philibert, French philosophical writer.
- Dammar, or Dammer, resin.
- Damocles, courtier of Dionysius.
- Damon, friend of Pythias.
- Dampier, William, English navigator.
- Dan, town, Judæa.
- Dana, family of eminent Americans.
- Danae, mother of Perseus.
- Danaus, in Greek legend.
- Danbury, town, Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Danby, Francis, English painter.
- Dance.
- Dance, family of English architects and painters.
- Dancourt, Florent Carton, French dramatist.
- Dandelion, plant.
- Dandolo, patrician family of Venice.
- Dandolo, Vincenzo, Count, Italian scientist.
- Daniel, of Scripture.
- Daniel, Book of.
- Daniel, Gabriel, French Jesuit historian.
- Daniel, Samuel, English poet.
- Daniell, John Frederick, English chemist.
- Daniell, Samuel, Thomas, and William, English painters.
- Dannecker, Johann Heinrich von, German sculptor.
- Dante (Dante Alighieri), Italian poet.
- Danton, George Jacques, French Revolutionist.
- Dantzic, or Danzig, town, Germany.
- Danube, river, Europe.
- Danvers, town, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Danville, town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Danville, town, Illinois, U.S.A.
- D’Anville, Jean Baptiste, French geographer.
- Daphne, in Greek mythology.
- Daphnephoria, Greek festival.
- Darabjird, or Darab-Gherd, town, Persia.
- D’Arblay, Madam (Frances Burney), English novelist.
- Darboy, Georges, archbishop of Paris.
- Dardanelles, Strait of.
- Dardanus, in Greek mythology.
- Dares of Phrygia, on the legends of Troy.
- Darfur, country, Central Africa.
- Darien, isthmus and district, South America.
- Darius I., king of Persia.
- Darius II., Ochus or Nothus, of Persia.
- Darius III., Codomannus, of Persia.
- Darjiling, or Darjeeling, district and town, India.
- Darlington, town, England.
- Darmstadt, town, Germany.
- Darnétal, town, France.
- Dartford, town, England.
- Dartmoor Forest (see Devonshire), England.
- Dartmouth, town, England.
- Daru, Pierre Antoine, Comte de, French writer and statesman.
- Darwin, Erasmus, English poet and scientist.
- Dashkoff, Catherina R. W., Russian princess.
- Dass, Petter or Peder, Norwegian poet.
- Date Palm.
- Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie, French naturalist.
- Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, English man of science.
- D'Aubigné, Jean Henri Merle, historian of the Reformation.
- D’Aubigné, Théodore Agrippa, French historian and poet.
- D’Aubusson, Pierre, grand-master of the Knights of St John.
- Daun, Count von, Austrian general.
- Dauphiné, old province, France.
- Daurat, Jean, French poet.
- Davenant, Sir William, English poet and dramatist.
- Davenport, town, Iowa, U.S.A.
- David, king of Israel.
- David, St, patron saint of Wales.
- David, Félicien César, French musical composer.
- David, Jacques Louis, French painter.
- David, Jean Pierre (David d’Angers), French sculptor.
- David Ha-Cohen, Spanish rabbi.
- Davidists, Christian sects.
- Davies, Sir John, English poet and statesman.
- Davila, Henrico Caterino, Italian historian.
- Davis, John, English navigator.
- Davy, Sir Humphrey, English man of science.
- Dawlish, town, England.
- Dax, town, France.
- Day, in the calendar (See Astronomy and Calendar).
- Day, John, English dramatist.
- Dayton, town, Ohio, U.S.A.
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