Cadwallonis erat primaevus jure Cynetha: 
  Proh pudor! hunc oculis patruus privavit Oenus.
  The Pentarchia.

CYNIC TUB (The), Diog’enes, the Cynic philosopher lived in a tub, and it is to this fact that illusion is made in the line: 

  [They] fetch their doctrines from the Cynic tub. 
  Milton, Comus, 708 (1634).

CY’NOSURE (3 syl.), the pole-star.  The word means “the dog’s tail,” and is used to signify a guiding genius, or the observed of all observers.  Cynosu’ra was an Idaean nymph, one of the nurses of Zeus (1 syl.).

CYN’THIA, the moon or Diana, who was born on Mount Cynthus, in Delos.  Apollo is called “Cynthius.”

  ... watching, in the night,
  Beneath pale Cynthia’s melancholy light. 
  Falconer, The Shipwreck, iii. 2 (1756).

Cyn’thia. So Spenser, in Colin Clout’s Come Home Again, calls Queen Elizabeth, “whose angel’s eye” was his life’s sole bliss, his heart’s eternal treasure.  Ph.  Fletcher, in The Purple Island, iii., also calls Queen Elizabeth “Cynthia.”

  Her words were like a stream of honey fleeting.. 
  Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes... 
  Her looks were like beams of the morning sun
  Forth looking thro’ the windows of the east... 
  Her thoughts were like the fumes of frankincense
  Which from a golden censer forth doth rise. 
  Spenser, Colin Clout’s Come Home Again (1591).

Cyn’thia, daughter of Sir Paul Pliant, and daughter-in-law of Lady Pliant.  She is in love with Melle’font (2 syl.).  Sir Paul calls her “Thy”—­W.  Congreve, The Double Dealer (1694).

CYN’THIA WARE.  Auburn-haired girl living upon Lost Creek in Tennessee, in love with Evander Price, a young blacksmith.  When he is sent to the penitentiary upon a false accusation, she labors unceasingly for a year to obtain his pardon.  A year after it is granted, she learns that he is doing well in another State and has forgotten her.  In time, he returns, married and prosperous, and calls upon his old friends upon Lost Creek.

“His recollections were all vague, although at some reminiscence of hers he laughed jovially, and ’’lowed that in them days, Cinthy, you an’ me had a right smart notion of keepin’ company tergether.’  He did not notice how pale she was, and that there was often a slight spasmodic contraction of her features.  She was busy with her spinning-wheel, as she placidly replied:  ’Yes,—­’though I always ’lowed ez I counted on livin’ single.’”—­Charles Egbert Craddock, In the Tennessee Mountains (1885).

CYP’RIAN (A), a woman of loose morals; so called from the island Cyprus, a chief seat of the worship of Venus or Cyp’ria.

Cyp’rian (Brother), a Dominican monk at the monastery of Holyrood.—­Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).