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Cerauʹnium

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The opal. So called by the ancients from a notion that it was a thunder-stone. (Latin, ceraunium; Greek, kerauʹnios.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Central Sun
Centre
Centre of Gravity
Centumviri
Centurion
Century White
Cephalus and Procris
Cepheus
Cepola
Cequiel
Ceraunium
Cerberus
Cerdonians
Ceremonious (The)
Ceremony
Ceres
Cerinthians
Cerulean Brother of Jove (The)
Cess
Cestui que Vie
Cestus

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