Vocabulary : Cyma to Cymene

Cyma : A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form. ;; A cyme. See Cyme.
Cymar : A slight covering; a scarf. See Simar.
Cymatium : A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.
Cymbal : A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller. ;; A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together. ;; A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.
Cymbalist : A performer upon cymbals.

Cymbiform : Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.
Cymbium : A genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola.
Cymbling : A scalloped or "pattypan" variety of summer squash.
Cyme : A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.
Cymene : A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.

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