a. rare. Also cindrous. [f. CINDER sb. + -OUS.] = CINDERY 1.

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1607.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. IV. ii. Metals … of a certain sharp and cindrous humor.

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1845.  E. Warburton, Crescent & Cross, I. 307. Not a shrub, or patch of moss, or lichen, clothed those cindrous-looking rocks.

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1859.  Dickens, T. Two Cities, 75. With a cinderous smell.

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