Vocabulary : Celtic to Cementatory

Celtic : Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. ;; The language of the Celts.
Celticism : A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language.
Celticize : To render Celtic; to assimilate to the Celts.
Celtium : A supposed new element of the rare-earth group, accompanying lutecium and scandium in the gadolinite earths. Symbol, Ct (no period).
Cembalo : An old name for the harpsichord.

Cement : Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc. ;; A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water. ;; The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2. ;; Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society. ;; The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum. ;; To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. ;; To unite firmly or closely. ;; To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom. ;; To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
Cement steel : Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.
Cemental : Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.
Cementation : The act or process of cementing. ;; A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.
Cementatory : Having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly.

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