Vocabulary : Cernuous to Ceromancy

Cernuous : Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.
Cero : A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).
Cerograph : A writing on wax.
Cerographic : Alt. of Cerographical
Cerographical : Of or pertaining to cerography.

Cerographist : One who practices cerography.
Cerography : The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax. ;; A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
Cerolite : A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.
Ceroma : The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans. ;; That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves. ;; The cere of birds.
Ceromancy : Divination by dropping melted wax in water.

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