Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of weevils, of the family Curculionidœ.
- noun A genus of South American barbets. The type is C. macrodactylus. Also
Cyphos. Spix , 1824. - noun See
scyphus .
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To the same countess a gold cyphus, -- a proof that in 1415 his maternal grandmother was still alive.
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820
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"to Joan, Countess of Hereford, our dear grandmother, a gold cyphus."
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820
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