Hound's Tongue;** a genus of plants belonging to the pentandria class, and in the natural method ranking under the 41st order, Asperiflorae. See Botany Index.

**CYNOMETRY,** in Botany, a genus of plants belonging to the decandria class, and in the natural method ranking with those of which the order is doubtful. See Botany Index.

**CYNOMORIUM,** in Botany, a genus of plants belonging to the monocota class, and in the natural method ranking under the 50th order, Amentaceae. See Botany Index.

**CYNOPHONTIS,** in antiquity, a festival observed in the dog days at Argos, and so called ἀπὸ τῶν κυνῶν φονέων, i.e. from killing dogs: because it was usual on this day to kill all the dogs they met with.

**CYNOREXY,** an immoderate appetite, to the degree of a disease, called also fames canina and bulimy.

**CYNOSARGES,** a place in the suburbs of Athens, named from a white or swift dog, who snatched away part of the sacrifice offering to Hercules. It had a gymnasium, in which strangers or those of the half-blood performed their exercises; the case of Hercules, to whom the place was consecrated. It had also a court of judicature to try illegitimacy, and to examine whether persons were Athenians of the whole or half blood. Here Antisthenes set up a new sect of philosophers called Cynics, either from the place, or from the snarling or the impudent disposition of that sect.

**CYNOSCEPHALÆ,** in Ancient Geography, a place in Thessaly near Scotussa; where the Romans, under Q. Flamininus, gained a great victory over Philip, son of Demetrius king of Macedon. These Cynoscephalæ... Cynossema, the tomb of Hecuba, on the promontory Mastusia, over against Dardanus, in the south of the Chersonesus Thracica; named either from the figure of a dog, to which she was changed, or from her sad reverse of fortune (Pliny, Mela).