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- Cinch - n. - A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
- Cinch - n. - A tight grip.
- Cinchona - n. - A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.
- Cinchona - n. - The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.
- Cinchonaceous - a. - Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.
- Cinchonic - a. - Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.
- Cinchonidine - n. - One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.
- Cinchonine - n. - One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
- Cinchonism - n. - A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.
- Cinchonize - v. t. - To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.