Cuban
Cu´ban (k?"b an), a. Of or pertaining to Cuba or its inhabitants. — n. A native or an inhabitant of Cuba.

Cubation
Cu•ba´tion (k?-b?"sh?n), n. [L. cubatio, fr. cubare to lie down.] The act of lying down; a reclining. [Obs.]

Cubatory
Cu´ba•to•ry (k?"b?-t?-r?), a. [L. cubator he who lies down, fr. cubare.] Lying down; recumbent. [R.]

Cubature
Cu´ba•ture (k?"b?-t?r; 135), n. [L. cubus cube: cf. F. cubature. See Cube.] The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.

Cube (k?b), n. [F. cube, L. cubus, fr. Gr. a cube, a cubical die.]
1. (Geom.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.
2. (Math.) The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4. Cube ore (Min.), pharmacosiderite. It commonly crystallizes in cubes of a green color. — Cube root. (Math.), the number or quantity which, multiplied into itself, and then into the product, produces the given cube; thus, 3 is the cube root of 27, for 3x3x3 = 27. — Cube spar (Min.), anhydrite; anhydrous calcium sulphate.

Cube, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cubed (k?bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cubing.] To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

Cubebic
Cu•beb´ic (k?-b?b"?k), a. Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs).

Cubhood
Cub´hood (k?b"h??d), n. The state of being a cub. [Jocose] "From cubhood to old age." W. B. Dawkins. { Cu´bic (k?"b?k), Cu´bic•al (-b?- k al), } a. [L. cubicus, Gr. : cf. F. cubique. See Cube.]
1. Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.
2. (Crystallog.) Isometric or monometric; as cubic cleavage. See Crystallization. Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. — Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions. — Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See Cube. — Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.

Cubicalness
Cu´bic•al•ness, n. The quality of being cubical.

Cubicle
Cu´bi•cle (k?"b?-k’l), n. [L. cubiculum.] A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

Cubicular
Cu•bic´u•lar (k?-??k"?-l?r), a. [L. cubicularis, fr. cubiculum a sleeping room, fr. cubare to lie down.] Belonging to a chamber or bedroom. [Obs.] Howell.

Cubiform
Cu´bi•form (k?"b?-f?rm), a. Of the form of a cube.

Cubile
Cu•bi´le (k?-b?"l?), n. [L., bed.] The lowest course of stones in a building.

Cubilose
Cu´bi•lose (k?"b?-l?s•), n. [L. cubile bed, nest.] A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird’s-nests.

Cubism
Cu´bism (ku"biz’m), n. (Painting) A movement or phase in post-impressionism (which see, below). — Cu´bist (#), n.

Cubit
Cu´bit (ku"bit), n. [L. cubitum, cubitus; elbow, ell, cubit, fr. (because the elbow serves for leaning upon) cubare to lie down, recline; cf. Gr. ky•biton elbow, ky•ptein to bend, stoop, kyfo•s bent, stooping, humpbacked. Cf. Incumbent, Covey.]
1. (Anat.) The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist. [Obs.]
2. A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. The cubit varies in length in different countries, the Roman cubit being 17,47 inches, the Greek 18,20, the Hebrew somewhat longer, and the English 18 inches.

Cubited
Cu´bit•ed, a. Having the measure of a cubit.

Cubless
Cub´less (k?b"l?s), a. Having no cubs. Byron.

Cuboid
Cu´boid (k?"boid), a. [ Cube + -oid: cf. Gr. .] (Anat.) Cube- shaped, or nearly so; as the cuboid bone of the foot. — n. (Anat.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.

Cuboidal
Cu•boid´al (k?-boid"al), a. (Anat.) Cuboid.

Cubo-octahedral
Cu•bo-oc•ta•he´dral (k?•b?-?k•t?-h?dr al), a. Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.

Cubo-octahedron
Cu•bo-oc•ta•he´dron (-dr?n), n. (Crystallog.) A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.

Cuca
Cu´ca (k??"k?), n. [Sp., fr. native name.] See Coca.

Cuckold
Cuck´old (k?k"?ld), n. [OE. kukeweld, cokewold, cokold, fr. OF. coucoul, cucuault, the last syllable being modified by the OE. suffix -wold (see Herald); cf. F. cocu a cuckold, formerly also a cuckoo, and L. cuculus a cuckoo. The word alludes to the habit of the female cuckoo, who lays her eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.]
1. A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress. Shak.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) A West Indian plectognath fish ( Ostracion triqueter). (b) The cowfish.

Cuckold
Cuck´old, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cuckolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Cuckolding.] To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress. Shak.

Cuckoldize
Cuck´old•ize (-?z), v. t. To cuckold. Dryden.

Cuckoldly
Cuck´old•ly, a. Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking. Shak.

Cuckoldom
Cuck´ol•dom (-?l-d?m), n. The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively. Addison.

Cuckoldry
Cuck´old•ry (-?ld-r?), n. The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.

Cuckoo
Cuck´oo (k??k"??), n. [OE. coccou, cukkow, F. coucou, prob. of imitative origin; cf. L. cuculus, Gr., Skr. kkia, G. kuckuk, D. koekoek.] (Zoöl.) A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species. The European cuckoo ( Cuculus canorus) builds no nest of its own, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them. The American yellow-billed cuckoo ( Coccyzus Americanus) and the black-billed cuckoo ( C. erythrophthalmus) build their own nests. Cuckoo bee (Zool.), a bee, parasitic in the larval stage in the nests of other bees, feeding either upon their food or larvae. They belong to the genera Nomada, Melecta, Epeolus, and others. - - Cuckoo clock, a clock so constructed that at the time for striking it gives forth sounds resembling the cry of the cuckoo. — Cuckoo dove (Zoöl.), a long-tailed pigeon of the genus Macropygia. Many species inhabit the East Indies. — Cuckoo fish (Zoöl.), the European red gurnard ( Trigla cuculus). The name probably alludes to the sound that it utters. — Cuckoo falcon (Zoöl.), any falcon of the genus Baza. The genus inhabits Africa and the East Indies. — Cuckoo maid (Zoöl.), the wryneck; — called also cuckoo mate. — Cuckoo ray (Zoöl.), a British ray ( Raia miraletus). — Cuckoo spit, or Cuckoo spittle. (a) A frothy secretion found upon plants, exuded by the larvae of certain insects, for concealment; — called also toad spittle and frog spit. (b) (Zoöl.) A small hemipterous insect, the larva of which, living on grass and the leaves of plants, exudes this secretion. The insects belong to Aphrophora, Helochara, and allied genera. — Ground cuckoo, the chaparral cock.

Cuckoobud
Cuck´oo•bud´ (k??k"??-b?d•), n. (Bot.) A species of Ranunculus ( R. bulbosus); — called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup. Shak.

Cuckooflower
Cuck´oo•flow•er (-flou•?r), n. (Bot.) A species of Cardamine ( C. pratensis), or lady’s smock. Its leaves are used in salads. also the ragged robin ( Lychnis Flos-cuculi).

Cuckoopint
Cuck´oo•pint (-p?nt•), n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Arum ( A. maculatum); the European wake-robin.

Cucquean
Cuc´quean (k?k"kw?n•), n. [ Cuckold + quean.] A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her. [Obs.]

Cucujo
Cu•cu´jo (k??-k??"h?), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies. { Cu´cul•late (k?"k?l-l?t or k?-k?l"l?t), Cu´cul•la•ted (-l?•t?d or -l?-t?d), } a. [LL. cullatus, fr. L. cucullus a cap, hood. See Cowl a hood.]
1. Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. Sir T. Browne.
2. (Bot.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.
3. (Zoöl.) (a) Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects. (b) Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.

Cuculoid
Cu´cu•loid (k?k?-loid), a. [L. cuculus a cuckoo + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or belonging to the cuckoos ( Cuculidae).

Cucumber
Cu´cum•ber (k?•k?m-b?r, formerly kou"k?m-b?r), n. [OE. cucumer, cocumber, cucumber, fr. L. cucmis, gen. cucumeris; cf. OF. cocombre,F. concombre.] (Bot.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. also similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below. Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus or Cucumis Colocynthis. See Colocynth. — Cucumber beetle. (Zoöl.) (a) A small, black flea- beetle ( Crepidodera cucumeris), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines. (b) The squash beetle. — Cucumber tree. (a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus Magnolia (M. acuminata), so called from a slight resemblance of its young fruit to a small cucumber. (b) An East Indian plant ( Averrhoa Bilimbi) which produces the fruit known as bilimbi. — Jamaica cucumber, Jerusalem cucumber, the prickly-fruited gherkin ( Cucumis Anguria). — Snake cucumber, a species ( Cucumis flexuosus) remarkable for its long, curiously-shaped fruit. — Squirting cucumber, a plant ( Ecbalium Elaterium) whose small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium. — Star cucumber, a climbing weed ( Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.

Cucumis
Cu´cu•mis (k?k?—m?s), n. [L., cucumber.] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds. { Cu•cur´bit, Cu•cur´bite } (ku•kûr"bit), n. [L. cucurbita a gourd: cf. F. cucurbite. See Gourd.] (Chem.) A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; — originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.

Cucurbitive
Cu•cur´bi•tive (k?-k?r"b?-t?v), a. Having the shape of a gourd seed; — said of certain small worms.

Cud (kud), n. [AS. cudu, cwudu, cwidu, cweodo, of uncertain origin; cf, G. köder bait, Icel. kviðr womb, Goth. qiþus. Cf. Quid.]
1. That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
"Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat." - Levit. xi. 3
2. A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid. [Low]
3. The first stomach of ruminating beasts. Crabb. To chew the cud, to ruminate; to meditate; used with of; as to chew the cud of bitter memories.
"Chewed the thrice turned cud of wrath." - Tennyson.

Cudden
Cud´den (k?d"d’n), n. [For sense 1, cf. Scot. cuddy an ass; for sense 2, see 3d Cuddy.]
1. A clown; a low rustic; a dolt. [Obs.]
"The slavering cudden, propped upon his staff." - Dryden.
2. (Zoöl.) The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy.

Cuddy
Cud´dy (-d?), n. [See Cudden. ]
1. An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer. [Scot.]
2. Hence: A blockhead; a lout. Hood.
3. (Mech.) A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc. Knight.

Cuddy
Cud´dy (k?d"d?), n. [Prob. a contraction fr. D. kajuit cabin: cf. F. cahute hut.] (Naut.) A small cabin: also the galley or kitchen of a vessel.

Cuddy
Cud´dy, n. [Scot.; cf. Gael. cudaig, cudainn, or E. cuttlefish, or cod, codfish.] (Zoöl) The coalfish ( Pollachius carbonarius). [Written also cudden.]

Cudgel
Cudg´el (k?j"?l), n. [OE. kuggel; cf. G. keule club (with a round end), kugel ball, or perh. W. cogyl cudgel, or D. cudse, kuds, cudgel.] A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.
"He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and … falls to rating of them as if they were dogs." - Bunyan.
Cudgel play, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels. — To cross the cudgels, to forbear or give up the contest; — a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay one cudgel over another when the contest is ended. — To take up cudgels for, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something).

Cudgel
Cudg´el, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cudgeled or Cudgelled (-ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cudgeling or cudgelling.] To beat with a cudgel.
"An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog." - Shak.
To cudgel one’s brains, to exercise one’s wits.

Cudweed
Cud´weed (k?d"w?d•), n. [Apparently fr. cud + weed, but perh. a corruption of cottonweed; or of cut weed, so called from its use as an application to cuts and chafings.] (Bot.) A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.

Cue (ku), n. [ OF. coue, coe, F. queue, fr. L. coda, cauda, tail. Cf. Caudal, Coward, Queue.]
1. The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
2. The last words of a play actor’s speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword.
"When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer." - Shak.
3. A hint or intimation.
"Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house." - Swift.
4. The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.
"Were it my cueto fight, I should have known it Without a prompter." - Shak.
5. Humor; temper of mind. [Colloq.] Dickens.
6. A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

Cue, v. t. To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.

Cue, n. [From q, an abbreviation for quadrans a farthing.] A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing. [Obs.] The term was formerly current in the English universities, the letter q being the mark in the buttery books to denote such a portion. Nares.
"Hast thou worn Gowns in the university, tossed logic, Sucked philosophy, eat cues?" - Old Play.

Cuerpo
Cuer´po (kwer"po), n. [Sp. cuerpo, fr. L. corpus body. See Corpse.] The body. In cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered.
"Exposed in cuerpo to their rage." - Hudibras.

Cuff (k?f), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cuffed (kft); p. pr. & vb. n. Cuffing.] [Cf. Sw. kuffa to knock, push, kufva to check, subdue, and E. cow, v. t. ]
1. To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.
"I swear I’ll cuff you, if you strike again." - Shak.
"They with their quills did all the hurt they could, And cuffed the tender chickens from their food." - Dryden.
2. To buffet. "Cuffed by the gale." Tennyson.

Cuff, v. i. To fight; to scuffle; to box.
"While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport." - Dryden.

Cuff, n. A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.
"Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff." - Spenser.
"Many a bitter kick and cuff." - Hudibras.

Cuff, n. [Perh. from F. coiffe headdress, hood, or coif; as if the cuff were a cap for the hand. Cf. Coif.]
1. The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.
"He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band, short cuffs, and a peaked beard." - Arbuthnot.
2. Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.

Cufic
Cu´fic (k?•f?k), a. [So called from the town of Cufa, in the province of Bagdad.] Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic language. [Written also Kufic.]

Cui bono
Cui• bo"no [L.] Lit., for whose benefit; incorrectly understood, it came to be used in the sense, of what good or use; and hence, (what) purpose; object; specif., the ultimate object of life.

Cuinage
Cuin´age (kw?n•?j), n. [Corrupted fr. coinage.] The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.

Cuir bouilli
Cuir" bou•illi" [F.] In decorative art, boiled leather, fitted by the process to receive impressed patterns, like those produced by chasing metal, and to retain the impression permanently.

Cuirass
Cui•rass´ (kwe•ras", or kwe"ras; 277), n. ; pl. Cuirasses(-ez). [F. cuirasse, orig., a breastplate of leather, for OF. cuiree, cuirie influenced by It. corazza, or Sp. coraza, fr. an assumed LL. coriacea, fr. L. coriaceus, adj., of leather, fr. corium leather, hide; akin to Gr. cho•rion intestinal membrane, OSlav. skora hide, Lith. skura hide, leather. Cf. Coriaceous.]
1. (a) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle. (b) The breastplate taken by itself. The cuirass covered the body before and behind. It consisted of two parts, a breast- and backpiece of iron fastened together by means of straps and buckles or other like contrivances. It was originally, as the name imports, made of leather, but afterward of metal. Grose.
2. (Zoöl) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.

Cuirassier
Cui•ras•sier´ (kw?•r?s-s?r"), n. [F. cuirassier. See Curass.] A soldier armed with a cuirass. Milton.

Cuirassier
Cui•ras•sier´, n. (Mil.) In modern armies, a soldier of the heaviest cavalry, wearing a cuirass only when in full dress.

Cuish (kw?s), n. [F. cuisse thigh, fr. L. coxa hip: cf. F. cuissard, OF, cuissot, armor for the thigh, cuish. Cf. Hough.] Defensive armor for the thighs. [ Written also cuisse, and quish.]

Culdee
Cul•dee´ (kl-d" or kl"d), n. [ Prob. fr. Gael. cuilteach; cf. Ir. ceilede.] One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
"The pure Culdees Were Albyn’s earliest priests of God." - Campbell.

Cul-de-sac
Cul•-de-sac´ (ku•de-s?k" or kul•de-s?k"), n. ; pl. Culs-de-sac (ku•- or kulz•-). [ F., lit., bottom of a bag.]
1. A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.
2. (Mil.) a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front.
3. (Anat.) Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.

Culerage
Cul´er•age (k?l"?r-?j), n. (Bot.) See Culrage.

Culiciform
Cu•lic´i•form (k?-l?s"i-f?rm). a. [L. culex a gnat + -form:cf. F. culiciforme.] (Zoöl.) Gnat- shaped.

Culinarily
Cu´li•na•ri•ly (k?•l?-n?-r?-l?), adv. In the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a kitchen or cooking.

Culinary
Cu´li•na•ry (k?"l?-n?-r?), a. [L. culinarius, fr. culina kitchen, perh. akin to carbo coal: cf. F. culinare.] Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as a culinary vessel; the culinary art.

Cull (k?l), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Culled (k?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Culling.] [OE. cullen, OF. cuillir, coillir, F. cueillir, to gather, pluck, pick, fr. L. colligere. See Coil, v. t., and cf. Collect.] To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as to cull flowers.
"From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls." - Dryden.
"Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled." - Tennyson.

Cull, n. A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.

Cullet
Cul´let (kul"let), n. [From Cull, v. t. ] Broken glass for remelting.

Cullet
Cul´let, n. [A dim. from F. cul back.] A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).

Cullible
Cul´li•ble (k?l"l?-b’l), a. Easily deceived; gullible.

Culling
Cull´ing (k?l"?ng), n.
1. The act of one who culls.
2. pl. Anything separated or selected from a mass.

Cullion
Cul´lion (k?l"y?n), n. [OF. couillon, coillon, F. coon, a vile fellow, coward, dupe, from OF. couillon, coillon, testicle, fr. il the scrotum, fr. L. coleus a leather bag, the scrotum.] A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion. "Away, base cullions." Shak.

Cullionly
Cul´lion•ly, a. Mean; base. Shak.

Cullis
Cul´lis (kl"ls), n. [OF. coleïs, F. coulis, fr. OF. & F. couler to strain, to flow, fr. L. colare to filter, strain; cf. LL. coladicium. Cf. Colander.] A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also a savory jelly. [Obs.]
"When I am exellent at caudles And cullises … you shall be welcome to me. Beau. & Fl."

Cullis
Cul´lis, n. ; pl. Cullises (-z). [F. coulisse groove, fr. the same source as E. cullis broth.] (Arch.) A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.

Culls (k?lz), n. pl. [From Cull,, v. t.]
1. Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out.
2. Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked.

Cully
Cul´ly (k?l"l?), n. ; pl. Cullies (-lz). [Abbrev. fr. cullion.] A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull.
"I have learned that … I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess." - Addison.

Cully
Cul´ly, v. t. [See Cully, n. , and cf. D. kullen to cheat, gull.] To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive. "Tricks to cully fools." Pomfret.

Culm (kulm), n. [L. culmus stalk, stem; akin to calamus. SeeHalm.] (Bot.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.

Culm, n. [Perh. from W. cwlm knot or tie, applied to this species of coal, which is much found in balls or knots in some parts of Wales: cf. OE. culme smoke, soot.] (Min.) (a) Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses. (b) The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel. Raymond.

Culmen
Cul´men (k?l"m?n), n. [L., fr. cellere (in comp.) to impel; cf. celsus pushed upward, lofty.]
1. Top; summit; acme. R. North.
2. (Zoöl.) The dorsal ridge of a bird’s bill.

Culmiferous
Cul•mif´er•ous (k?l-m?f"?r-?s), a. [L. culmus stalk or stem + -ferous: cf. F. culmifère.] Having jointed stems or culms.

Culmiferous
Cul•mif´er•ous (kul•mif"er•us), a. [2d culm + -ferous.] (Min.) Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.

Culminal
Cul´mi•nal (kul"mi•n al), a. Pertaining to a culmen.

Culminant
Cul´mi•nant (-n ant), a. Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant. [R.]

Culminate
Cul´mi•nate (kul"mi•nat), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Culminated (-na•t&eucr;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Culminating (-na•ting.] [L. cuimen top or ridge. See Column.]
1. To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.
"As when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator." - Milton.
2. To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.
"The reptile race culminated in the secondary era." - Dana.
"The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating." - Motley.

Culminate
Cul´mi•nate (kul"mi•nat), a. Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; — applied to the growth of corals. Dana.

Culmination
Cul´mi•na´tion (kul•m?-n?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. culmination]
1. The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
2. Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.

Culpa
Cul´pa (kul"pa), n. [L.] (Law) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart. Wharton.

Culpability
Cul•pa•bil´i•ty (k?l•p?-b?l•?-t?), n. ; pl. Culpabilities (-tz). [Cf. F. culpabilite.] The state of being culpable.

Culpable
Cul´pa•ble (k?l"p?-b’l), a. [OE. culpable, coulpable, coupable, F. coupable, formerly also coupable, formerly also coulpable, culpable, fr. L. culpabilis, fr. culpare to blame, fr. culpa fault.]
1. Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal. State Trials (1413).
"If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures." - Sharp.
2. Guilty; as culpable of a crime. [Obs.] Spenser. — Cul´pa•ble•ness, n. — Cul´pa•bly, adv.

Culpatory
Cul´pa•to•ry (-t?-r?), a. Expressing blame; censuring; reprehensory; inculpating.
"Adjectives … commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense." - Walpole.

Culpe (kulp), n. [F. coulpe, fr.L. culpa.] Blameworthiness. [Obs.]
"Banished out of the realme … without culpe." - E. Hall.

Culpon
Cul´pon (kul"pon), n. [See Coupon.] A shred; a fragment; a strip of wood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Cult (kult) n . [F. culte, L. cultus care, culture, fr. colere to cultivate. Cf. Cultus.]
1. Attentive care; homage; worship.
"Every one is convinced of the reality of a better self, and of the cult or homage which is due to it." - Shaftesbury.
2. A system of religious belief and worship.
"That which was the religion of Moses is the ceremonial or cult of the religion of Christ." - Coleridge.

Culter
Cul´ter (kul"ter), n. [L.] A colter. See Colter.

Cultivable
Cul´ti•va•ble (k?l"t?-v?-b’l), a. [Cf. F. cultivable.] Capable of being cultivated or tilled. Todd.

Cultivatable
Cul´ti•va•ta•ble (k?l"t?-v?•t?-b’l), a. Cultivable.

Cultivate
Cul´ti•vate (k?l"t?-v?t), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cultivated (-v?•t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Cultivating (-v?•- t?ng).] [LL. cultivatus, p. p. of cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p. p. of colere to till, cultivate. Cf. Colony.]
1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as to cultivate soil.
2. To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.
"Leisure … to cultivate general literature." - Wordsworth.
3. To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.
"I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly." - Burke.
4. To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.
"To cultivate the wild, licentious savage." - Addison.
"The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end." - Tillotson.
5. To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as to cultivate corn or grass.

Cultivator
Cul´ti•va•tor (k?l"t?-v?•t?r), n. [Cf. F. cultivateur.]
1. One who cultivates; as a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell.
2. An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles. In a broader signification it includes any complex implement for pulverizing or stirring the surface of the soil, as harrows, grubbers, horse hoes, etc. { Cul´trate (k?l"tr?t), Cul´tra•ted (-tr?- t?d), } a. [L. cultratus knife-shaped, from culter, cultri, knife.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.

Cultriform
Cul´tri•form (-tr?-f?rm), a. [L. culter, cultri, knife + -form.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.

Cultrivorous
Cul•triv´o•rous (k?l-tr?b"?-r?s), a. [L. culter, cultri, knife + vorare to devour.] Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; — applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity. Dunglison.

Culturable
Cul´tur•a•ble (k?l"t?r-?-b’l; 135), a. Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured. London Spectator.

Cultural
Cul´tur•al (k?l"t?r-a]/>l), a. Of or pertaining to culture.

Culture
Cul´ture (k?l"t?r; 135), n. [F. culture, L. cultura, fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf. Colony.]
1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as the culture of the soil.
2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as the culture of the mind.
"If vain our toil We ought to blame the culture, not the soil." - Pepe.
3. The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
"What the Greeks expressed by their paidei•a, the Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture." - J. C. Shairp.
"The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture." - Tylor.
Culture fluid, a fluid in which the germs of microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of study or as a means of modifying their virulence.

Culture
Cul´ture, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cultured (-t?rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. Culturing.] To cultivate; to educate.
"They came … into places well inhabited and cultured." - Usher.

Culture
Cul´ture, n.
1. (Biol.) (a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms in artificial media or under artificial conditions. (b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation. The word is used adjectively with the above senses in many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture, etc.
2. (Cartography) Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels.

Culture features. (Surv.) The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

Culture myth. A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

Cultured
Cul´tured (k?l"t?rd), a.
1. Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." Shenstone.
2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.
"The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments." - I. Taylor.
"The cunning hand and cultured brain." - Whittier.

Cultureless
Cul´ture•less, a. Having no culture.

Culturist
Cul´tur•ist, n.
1. A cultivator.
2. One who is an advocate of culture.
"The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man." - J. C. Shairp

Cultus
Cul´tus (k?l"t?s), n. sing. & pl.; E. pl. Cultuses (-z). [L., cultivation, culture. See Cult.] Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2.

Cultus
Cul´tus, a. [See Cultus cod.] Bad, worth less; no good. [Northwestern U. S.]
""A bad horse, cultus [no good] !" he said, beating it with his whip." F. H. Balch. { Cul"ver’s phys"ic, orCul"ver’s root• }. [So called after a Dr. Culver, who used it.] (Bot.) The root of a handsome erect herb ( Leptandra, syn. Veronica, Virginica) common in most moist woods of North America, used as an active cathartic and emetic; also the plant itself.

Culverin
Cul´ver•in (k?l"v?r-?n), n. [F. coulevrine, prop. fem. of couleuvrin like a serpent, fr. couleuvre adder, fr. L. coluber, colubra.] A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles.
"Trump, and drum, and roaring culverin." - Macaulay.

Culverkey
Cul´ver•key (-k?•), n.
1. A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree. Wright.
2. An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill ( Scilla nutans). [Obs.]
"A girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands." - Walton.

Culvert
Cul´vert (k?l"v?rt), n. [Prob. from OF. coulouere, F. couloir, channel, gutter, gallery, fr. couler to flow. See Cullis.] A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

Culvertailed
Cul´ver•tailed (-t?ld•), a. United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.

Cumacea
Cu•ma´ce•a (k?-m?"sh?-? or -s?-?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.

Cumbent
Cum´bent (k?m"bent), a. [Cf. Recumbent, Covey.] Lying down; recumbent. J. Dyer.

Cumbersome
Cum´ber•some (km"br-sm), a.
1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
"To perform a cumbersome obedience." - Sir. P. Sidney.
2. Not easily managed; as a cumbersome contrivance or machine.
"He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome, circuitous." - I. Taylor.
— Cum´ber•some•ly, adv. — Cum´ber•some•ness, n.

Cumbrance
Cum´brance (k?m"br ans), n. Encumbrance. [Obs.]
"Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man’s cumbrance, if not snare." - Milton.

Cumbrian
Cum´bri•an (k?m"br?-a]/>n), a. Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there. Cumbrian system (Geol.), the slate or graywacke system of rocks, now included in the Cambrian or Silurian system; — so called because most prominent at Cumberland.

Cumbrous
Cum´brous (k?m"br?s), a.
1. Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
"He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight." - Swift.
"That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively." - De Quincey.
2. Giving trouble; vexatious. [Obs.]
"A clud of cumbrous gnats." - Spenser.
— Cum´brous•ly, adv. — Cum´brous•ness, n.

Cumene
Cu´mene (k?"m?n), n. [From Cumin.] (Chem.) A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C₆H₅.C₃H₇, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; — called also cumol.

Cuminil
Cu´mi•nil (k?"m?-n?l), n . A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.

Cuminol
Cu´mi•nol (-n?l), n. [ Cuminic + L. oleum.] A liquid, C₃H₇.C₆H₄.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; — called also cuminic aldehyde.

Cummerbund
Cum´mer•bund, n. [Written also kummerbund, cummerband, etc.] [Hind. kamarband, fr. Per. Kamar loins + band fastening.] A sash for the waist; a girdle. [India]

Cummin
Cum´min (k?m"m?n), n. Same as Cumin.
"Ye pay tithe of mint, and cummin." - Matt. xxiii. 23.

Cumu-cirro-stratus
Cu´mu-cir•ro-stra´tus (k?•m?-s?r•r?-str?"t?s), n. (Meteor.) Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.

Cumulative
Cu´mu•la•tive (k?"m?-l?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. cumulatif.]
1. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated. "As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, not original." Bacon
2. Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.
"The argument … is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative." - Trench.
3. (Law) (a) Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; — said of evidence. (b) Given by same testator to the same legatee; — said of a legacy. Bouvier. Wharton. Cumulative action (Med.), that action of certain drugs, by virtue of which they produce, when administered in small doses repeated at considerable intervals, the same effect as if given in a single large dose. — Cumulative poison, a poison the action of which is cumulative. — Cumulative vote or system of voting (Politics), that system which allows to each voter as many votes as there are persons to be voted for, and permits him to accumulate these votes upon one person, or to distribute them among the candidates as he pleases.

Cumulose
Cu´mu•lose (k?"m?-l?s•), a. [From Cumulus.] Full of heaps.

Cunctation
Cunc•ta´tion (k?nk-t?"sh?n), n. [L. cunctatio, fr. cunctari, p. p. cunctatus, to delay.] Delay; procrastination. [R.] Carlyle.

Cunctative
Cunc´ta•tive (k?nk"t?-t?v), a. Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.

Cunctator
Cunc•ta´tor (k?nk-t?"t?r), n. [L., lit., a delayer; — applied as a surname to Q. Fabius Maximus.] One who delays or lingers. [R.]

Cunctipotent
Cunc•tip´o•tent (k?nk-t?p"?-t ent), a. [L. cunctipotens; cunctus all + potens powerful.] All-powerful; omnipotent. [R] "God cunctipotent." Neale (Trans. Rhythm of St. Bernard).

Cund (kund), v. t. [See Cond.] To con (a ship). [Obs.]

Cuneal
Cu´ne•al (k?"n?-a]/>l), [L. cuneus a wege. See Coin.] Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped. { Cu´ne•ate (k?"n?-?t), Cu´ne•a•ted (- ?•tEd), } a. [L. cuneatus, fr. cuneus a wege SeeCoin.] Wedge-shaped; (Bot.), wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as a cuneate leaf.

Cunner
Cun´ner (k?n"n?r), n. [Cf. Conner.] (Zoöl.) (a) A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast ( Ctenolabrus adspersus); — called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. [Written also conner.] (b) A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.

Cunningman
Cun´ning•man (-m?n•), n. A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Cunningness
Cun´ning•ness, n. Quality of being cunning; craft.

Cup (kup), n. [AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa tub, cask; cf. also Gr. ky•ph hut, Skr. kupa pit, hollow, OSlav. kupa cup. Cf. Coop, Cupola, Cowl a water vessel, and Cob, Coif, Cop.]
1. A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.
2. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
"Give me a cup of sack, boy." - Shak.
3. pl. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
"Thence from cups to civil broils." - Milton.
4. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
"O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me." - Matt. xxvi. 39.
5. Anything shaped like a cup; as the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
"The cowslip’s golden cup no more I see." - Shenstone.
6. (Med.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping. Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. Milman. — Cup and can, familiar companions. — Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping. — To be in one’s cups, to be drunk.

Cup, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cupped (kupt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupping.]
1. To supply with cups of wine. [R.]
"Cup us, till the world go round." - Shak.
2. (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
3. (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as to cup the end of a screw.

Cupbearer
Cup´bear•er (-bâr•er), n.
1. One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.
2. (Antiq.) One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master. "I was the king’s cupbearer." Neh. i. 11.

Cupboard
Cup´board (kub"berd), n. [Cup + board.]
1. A board or shelf for cups and dishes. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet. Cupboard love, interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. "A cupboard love is seldom true." Poor Robin. [Colloq.] — To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [Colloq.] "My stomach cries cupboard." W. Irving.

Cupboard
Cup´board, v. t. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. [R.] Shak.

Cupel
Cu´pel (ku"pel), n. [LL. cupella cup (cf. L. cupella, small cask, dim. of cupa) : cf. F. coupelle. See Cup, and cf. Coblet.] A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). [Written also coppel.] Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.

Cupel
Cu•pel´ (ku•pel"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cupelled (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupelling.] To refine by means of a cupel.

Cup-gall
Cup´-gall (-g?l•), n. A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall.

Cupola
Cu´po•la (k?"p?-l?), n. ; pl. Cupolas (-lz). [It. cupola, LL. cupula, cuppula (cf. L. cupula little tub). fr. cupa, cuppa, cup; cf. L. cupa tub. So called on account of its resemblance to a cup turned over. See Cup, and cf. Cupule.]
1. (Arch.) A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.
2. A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.
3. A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, — used chiefly in foundries and steel works.
4. A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.
5. (Anat.) The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

Cupping
Cup´ping (k?p"p?ng), n. (Med.) The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. also sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess. Cupping glass, a glass cup in which a partial vacuum is produced by heat, in the process of cupping. — Dry cupping, the application of a cupping instrument without scarification, to draw blood to the surface, produce counter irritation, etc. — Wet cupping, the operation of drawing blood by the application of a cupping instrument after scarification.

Cuppy
Cup´py, a.
1. Hollow; cuplike; also full of cups, or small depressions.
2. Characterized by cup shakes; — said of timber.

Cupreous
Cu´pre•ous (k?"pr?-?s), a. [L. cupreus, fr. cuprum.] Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.

Cupric
Cu´pric (k?"pr?k), a. [From Cuprum.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; — said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.

Cuprite
Cu´prite (k?"pr?t), n. (Min.) The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.

Cuproid
Cu´proid (k?"proid), n. [ Cuprum + -oid.] (Crystalloq.) A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles.

Cup-rose
Cup´-rose (k?p"r?z), n. Red poppy. See Cop-rose.

Cupulate
Cu´pu•late (k?"p?-l?t), a. Having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous.

Cupule
Cu´pule (k?"p?l), n. [See Cupola.]
1. (Bot.) A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.
2. (Zoöl.) A sucker or acetabulum.

Cur (kûr), n. [OE. curre, kur; cf. dial. Sw. kurre dog, OD. korre watchdog, and Icel. kurra to murmur, grumble, Sw. kurra to rumble, croak, Dan. kurre to coo, whirr; prob. of imitative origin.]
1. A mongrel or inferior dog.
"They … like to village curs, Bark when their fellows do." - Shak.
2. A worthless, snarling fellow; — used in contempt.
"What would you have, you curs, That like nor peace nor war?" - Shak.

Curability
Cur•a•bil´i•ty (k?r•?-b?l"?-t?), n. The state of being curable; curableness.

Curable
Cur´a•ble (k?r"?-b’l), a. [Cf. F. curable. See Cure, v. t.] Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. "Curable diseases." Harvey. — Cur´a•ble•ness, n. — Cur•a•bly, adv. { Cu•ra•çao", Cu•ra•çoa" } (k??•r?-s?"), n. A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; — first made at the island of Curaçcao.

Curarize
Cu´ra•rize (-r?z), v. t. To poison with curare.

Curassow
Cu•ras´sow (k?-r?s"s?), n. [Native name in Brazil.] (Zool.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidae. The crested curassow ( Crax alector) is black, and about the size of a small hen-turkey, with an erectile crest of curled feathers. It ranges from Mexico to Brazil. The galeated curassow or cushew bird ( Ourax Pauxi) is similar in size, and has a large, hollow, blue, pear-shaped protuberance on the head.

Curat
Cu´rat (k?"r?t), n. [SeeCuirass.] A cuirass or breastplate. [Obs.] Spenser.

Curation
Cu•ra´tion (k?-r?"sh?n), n. [Cf. OF. curacion.] Cure; healing. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Curative
Cur´a•tive (k?r"?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. curatif. See Cure, v. t.] Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot.

Curatorship
Cu•ra´tor•ship, n. The office of a curator.

Curatrix
Cu•ra´trix (-tr?ks), n. [L.]
1. A woman who cures.
2. A woman who is a guardian or custodian. Burrill.

Curb (k?rb), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Curbed (k?rbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curbing.] [F. courber to bend, curve, L. curvare, fr. curvus bent, curved; cf. Gr. curved. Cf. Curve.]
1. To bend or curve [Obs.]
"Crooked and curbed lines." - Holland.
2. To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one’s will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.
"Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed." - Milton.
"Where pinching want must curbthy warm desires." - Prior.
3. To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.

Curb, v. i. To bend; to crouch; to cringe. [Obs.]
"Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good." - Shak.

Curb, n.
1. That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse.
"He that before ran in the pastures wild Felt the stiff curb control his angry jaws." - Drayton.
"By these men, religion, that should be The curb, is made the spur of tyranny." - Denham.
2. (Arch.) An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.
3. A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
4. A curbstone.
5. (Far.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness. James Law. Curb bit, a stiff bit having branches by which a leverage is obtained upon the jaws of horse. Knight. — Curb pins (Horology), the pins on the regulator which restrain the hairspring. — Curb plate (Arch.), a plate serving the purpose of a curb. — Deck curb. See under Deck.

Curbless
Curb´less, a. Having no curb or restraint.

Curbstone
Curb´stone (kûrb"ston•), n. A stone set along a margin as a limit and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone. Curbstone broker. See under Broker.

Curculionidous
Cur•cu•li•on´i•dous (k?r•-k?-l?-?n"?-d?s), a. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Curculionideae, or weevil tribe.

Curcuma
Cur´cu•ma (k?r"k?-m?), n. [Cf. F., It., & Sp. curcuma; all fr. Ar. kurkum. Cf. Turmeric.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant ( Curcuma longa). Curcuma paper. (Chem.) See Turmeric paper, under Turmeric.

Curdiness
Curd´i•ness (-?-n?s), n. The state of being curdy.

Curdle
Cur´dle (k?r"d’l), v. i. [From Curd.] [Sometimes written crudle and cruddle.]
1. To change into curd; to coagulate; as rennet causes milk to curdle. Thomson.
2. To thicken; to congeal.
"Then Mary could feel her heart’s blood curdle cold." - Southey.

Curdle
Cur´dle, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Curdled (-d’ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Curdling (-dl?ng).]
1. To change into curd; to cause to coagulate. "To curdle whites of eggs" Boyle.
2. To congeal or thicken.
"My chill blood is curdled in my veins." - Dryden.

Curdy
Curd´y (k?rd"?), a. Like curd; full of curd; coagulated. "A curdy mass." Arbuthnot.

Cure> (kur), n. [OF, cure care, F., also cure, healing, cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is not related to care.]
1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.]
"Of study took he most cure and most heed." - Chaucer.
"Vicarages of great cure, but small value." - Fuller.
2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
"The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners." - Spelman.
3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as to use the water cure.
4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
"Past hope! past cure! past help." - Shak.
"I do cures to-day and to-morrow." - Luke xii. 32.
5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
"Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure." - Dryden.
"The proper cure of such prejudices." - Bp. Hurd.

Cure, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cured (kurd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curing.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See Cure,.]
1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; — said of a patient.
"The child was cured from that very hour." - Matt. xvii. 18.
2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; — said of a malady.
"To cure this deadly grief." - Shak.
"Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power … to cure diseases." - Luke ix. 1.
3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
"I never knew any man cured of inattention." - Swift.
4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

Cure, v. i.
1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.]
2. To restore health; to effect a cure.
"Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles’ spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure." - Shak.
3. To become healed.
"One desperate grief cures with another’s languish." - Shak.

Cure
Cu•re´ (ku•ra"), n. [F., fr. LL. curatus. See Curate.] A curate; a pardon.

Cureless
Cure´less, a. Incapable of cure; incurable.
"With patience undergo A cureless ill, since fate will have it so." - Dryden.

Curer
Cur´er (-?r), n.
1. One who cures; a healer; a physician.
2. One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.

Curette
Cu•rette´ (ku•ret"), n. [F., fr. curer to cleanse.] (Med.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.

Curette
Cu•rette´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Curetted p. pr. & vb. n. Curetting.] (Med.) To scrape with a curette.

Curial
Cu´ri•al, a. Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as the curial etiquette of the Vatican. — n. A member of a curia, esp. of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.

Curialism
Cu´ri•a•lism (ku"ri•a•li?z’m), n. The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Gladstone.

Curialist
Cu´ri•a•list (k?"r?-?-l?st), n. One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Shipley.

Curialistic
Cu•ri•a•lis´tic (-l?s"t?k), a. [L. curialis belonging to the imperial court, fr. curia, LL., also counselors and retinue of a king.]
1. Pertaining to a court.
2. Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.

Curiality
Cu•ri•al´i•ty (-?l"?-t?), n. [Cf. LL. curialitas courtesy, fr. curialis.] The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court. [Obs.] Bacon.

Curiet
Cu´ri•et (k?"r?-?t), n. A cuirass. [Obs.] Spenser.

Curing
Cur´ing (k?r"?ng), p. a. & vb. n. of Cure. Curing house, a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.

Curiologic
Cu•ri•o•log´ic (-?-l?j"?k), a. [Gr. kyriologiko•s speaking literally (applied to curiologic hieroglyphics); ky•rios authoritative, proper + lo•gos word, thought. Cf. Cyriologic.] Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.

Curiousness
Cu´ri•ous•ness, n.
1. Carefulness; painstaking. [Obs.]
"My father’s care With curiousness and cost did train me up." - Massinger.
2. The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.
3. Inquisitiveness; curiosity.

Curl (kûrl), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Curled (kûrld); p. pr. & vb. n. Curling.] [Akin to D. krullen, Dan. krölle, dial. Sw. krulla to curl, crisp; possibly akin to E. crook. Cf. Curl, n. , Cruller.]
1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
"But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid." - Cascoigne.
2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent’s body.
"Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve." - Milton.
3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
"Thicker than the snaky locks That curledMegaera." - Milton.
"Curling with metaphors a plain intention." - Herbert.
4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
"Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl the waves." - Dryden.
5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve.

Curl, v. i.
1. To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as leaves lie curled on the ground.
"Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature." - Shak.
2. To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls. "Cirling billows." Dryden.
"Then round her slender waist he curled." - Dryden.
"Curling smokes from village tops are seen." - Pope.
"Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow." - Byron.
"He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor." - Bret Harte.
3. To play at the game called curling. [Scot.]

Curl (kûrl), n. [Akin to D. krul, Dan. krölle. See Curl, v. ]
1. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
"Under a coronet, his flowing hair In curls on either cheek played." - Milton.
2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
"If the glass of the prisms … be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes." - Sir I. Newton.
3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.

Curledness
Curl´ed•ness, n. State of being curled; curliness.

Curler
Curl´er (-er), n.
1. One who, or that which, curls.
2. A player at the game called curling. Burns.

Curlew
Cur´lew (kûr"lu), n. [F. courlieu, corlieu, courlis; perh. of imitative origin, but cf. OF. corlieus courier; L. currere to run + levis light.] (Zoöl.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill. The common European curlew is N. arquatus. The long-billed ( N. longirostris), the Hudsonian ( N. Hudsonicus), and the Eskimo curlew ( N. borealis, are American species. The name is said to imitate the note of the European species. Curlew Jack (Zoöl.) the whimbrel or lesser curlew. — Curlew sandpiper (Zoöl.), a sandpiper ( Tringa ferruginea, or subarquata), common in Europe, rare in America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved bill. See Illustation in Appendix.

Curliness
Curl´i•ness (k?rl"?-n?s), n. State of being curly.

Curling
Curl´ing, n.
1. The act or state of that which curls; as the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.
2. A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
"Curling … is an amusement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his partner, which has been well laid before, or to strike off that of his antagonist. Pennant (Tour in Scotland. 1772)." Curling irons, Curling tong, an instrument for curling the hair; — commonly heated when used.

Curlingly
Curl´ing•ly, adv. With a curl, or curls.

Curly
Curl´y (k?rl"?), a. Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.

Curlycue
Curl´y•cue (k?rl"?-k?), n. [Cf. F. caracole.] Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. [Sometimes written carlicue.] [ Colloq. U.S.] To cut a curlycue, to make a flourish; to cut a caper.
"I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot." - McClintock.

Curmudgeon
Cur•mudg´eon (k?r-m?j"?n), n. [OE. cornmudgin, where -mudgin is prob. from OF. muchier, mucier, F. musser to hide; of uncertain origin; cf. OE. muchares skulking thieves, E. miche, micher.] An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
"A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro." - W. Irving.

Curmudgeonly
Cur•mudg´eon•ly, a. Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as a curmudgeonly fellow.

Curmurring
Cur•mur´ring (k?r-m?r"r?ng), n. Murmuring; grumbling; — sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. [Scot.] Burns.

Curr (k?r), v. i. [Prob. imitative.] To coo. [Scot.]
"The owlets hoot, the owlets curr." - Wordsworth.

Currant
Cur´rant (k?r"r ant), n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name from its resemblance to that grape.]
1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; — used in cookery.
2. The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
3. (Bot.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. Black currant,a shrub or bush ( Ribes nigrum and R. floridum) and its black, strong- flavored, tonic fruit. — Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry. — Currant borer (Zoöl.), the larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth ( AEgeria tipuliformis) and a longicorn beetle ( Psenocerus supernotatus). — Currant worm (Zoöl.), an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly ( Nematus ventricosus), introduced from Europe, and the spanworm ( Eufitchia ribearia). The fruit worms are the larva of a fly ( Epochra Canadensis), and a spanworm ( Eupithecia). — Flowering currant, Missouri currant, a species of Ribes ( R. aureum), having showy yellow flowers.

Currency
Cur´ren•cy (k?r"r?n-c?), n. ; pl. Currencies (-sz). [Cf. LL. currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of currere to run. See Current.]
1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as the currency of time. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
2. The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
3. That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
4. Fluency; readiness of utterance. [Obs.]
5. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
"He … takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value." - Bacon.
"The bare name of Englishman … too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful." - W. Irving.

Currentness
Cur´rent•ness, n.
1. The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.
2. Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. [Obs.]
"When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language … sound other than most full of sweetness?" - Camden.

Curricle
Cur´ri•cle (k?r"r?-k’l), n. [L. curriculum a running, a race course, fr. currere to run. See Current, and cf. Curriculum.]
1. A small or short course.
"Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next." - Sir T. Browne.
2. A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.

Currycomb
Cur´ry•comb (k?r"r?-k?m•), n. A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.

Currycomb
Cur´ry•comb, v. t. To comb with a currycomb.

Curse (k?rs), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cursed (k?rst) or Curst; p. pr. & vb. n. Cursing.] [AS. cursian, corsian, perh. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. korse to make the sign of the cross, Sw. korsa, fr. Dan. & Sw. kors cross, Icel kross, all these Scand. words coming fr. OF. crois, croiz, fr. L. crux cross. Cf. Cross.]
1. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
"Thou shalt not … curse the ruler of thy people." - Ex. xxii. 28.
"Ere sunset I’ll make thee curse the deed." - Shak.
2. To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
"On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse ’em with such sons as those." - Pope.
To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell.

Curse, v. i. To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
"Then began he to curse and to swear." - Matt. xxi. 74.
"His spirits hear me, And yet I need must curse." - Shak.

Curse, n. [AS. curs. See Curse, v. t.]
1. An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
"Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses." - Shak.
2. Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
" The priest shall write these curses in a book." - Num. v. 23.
"Curses, like chickens, come home to roost." - Old Proverb.
3. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
"The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance." - Shak.
"All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget, Is propagated curse." - Milton.
The curse of Scotland (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds. — Not worth a curse. See under Cress.
Syn. — Malediction; imprecation; execration. See Malediction.

Cursedly
Curs´ed•ly, adv. In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously. [Low]

Cursedness
Curs´ed•ness, n.
1. The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.
2. Wickedness; sin; cursing. Chaucer.
3. Shrewishness. "My wife’s cursedness." Chaucer.

Curser
Curs´er (k?rs"?r), n. One who curses.

Curship
Cur´ship (k?r"sh?p), n. [ Cur + -ship.] The state of being a cur; one who is currish. [Jocose]
"How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship!" - Hudibras.

Cursitating
Cur´si•ta•ting (k?r"s?-t?•t?ng), a. [See Cursitor.] Moving about slightly. [R.] H. Bushnell.

Cursor
Cur´sor (k?r"s?r), n. [L., a runner. See Cursitor.] Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

Cursores
Cur•so´res (k?r-s?"rEz), n. pl. [L. cursor, pl. cursores, a runner.] (Zoöl.) (a) An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaae. (b) A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.

Cursorial
Cur•so´ri•al (k?r-s?"r?- al), a. (Zoöl.) (a) Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. (b) Of or pertaining to the Cursores.

Cursoriness
Cur´so•ri•ness, n. The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as cursoriness of view.

Cursory
Cur´so•ry (k?r"s?-r?), a. [L. cursorius, fr. cursor. See Cursor.]
1. Running about; not stationary. [Obs.]
2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.
"Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner." - Hallam.

Curstness
Curst´ness (kûrst"nes), n. Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. [Obs.] Shak.

Curt (kurt), a. [L. curtus; cf. Skr. kart to cut. Cf. Curtail.] Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as curt limits; a curt answer.
"The curt, yet comprehensive reply." - W. Irving.

Curtail dog
Cur"tail dog (dog•; 115). A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting.
"Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs." - Shak.

Curtailer
Cur•tail´er (kur•tal"er), n. One who curtails.

Curtailment
Cur•tail´ment (k?r-t?l"m ent), n. The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. Bancroft.

Curtain
Cur´tain (k?r"t?n; 48), n. [OE. cortin, curtin,fr. OF. cortine, curtine, F. courtine, LL. cortina, curtian (in senses 1 and 2), also small court, small inclosure surrounded by walls, from cortis court. See Court.]
1. A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
2. (Fort.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
3. (Arch.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
4. A flag; an ensign; — in contempt. [Obs.] Shak. Behind the curtain, in concealment; in secret. — Curtain lecture, a querulous lecture given by a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. Jerrold.
"A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long- suffering." - W. Irving.
— The curtain falls, the performance closes. — The curtain rises, the performance begins. — To draw the curtain, to close it over an object, or to remove it; hence: (a) To hide or to disclose an object. (b) To commence or close a performance. — To drop the curtain, to end the tale, or close the performance.

Curtain
Cur´tain, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Curtained (-t?nd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Curtaining.] To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
"So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red." - Milton.

Curtana
Cur•ta´na (k?r-t?"n?), n. The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; — also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

Curtate
Cur´tate (k?r"t?t), a. [L. curtatus, p. p. of curtare to shorten, fr. curtus. See Curt.] (Astron.) Shortened or reduced; — said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic. Curtate cycloid. (Math.) See Cycloid.

Curtein
Cur•tein´ (k?r-t?n"), n. Same as Curtana.

Curtesy
Cur´te•sy (k?r"t?-s?), n. ; pl. Curtesies (-sz). [Either fr. courlesy, the lands being held as it were by favor; or fr. court (LL. curtis), the husband being regarded as holding the lands as a vassal of the court. See Court, Courtesy.] (Law) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands. Mozley & W.

Curtness
Curt´ness, n. The quality of bing curt.

Curtsy
Curt´sy (kûrt"sy), n. Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.

Cururo
Cu•ru´ro (k??-r??"r?), n. [Chilian name.] (Zoöl.) A Chilian burrowing rodent of the genus Spalacopus. { Cur´val (k?r"v al), Cur´vant (- v ant) }, a. [L. curvans, p. pr. ] (Her.) Bowed; bent; curved. { Cur´vate (k?r"v?t), Cur´va•ted (-v?-t?d), } a. [L. curvatus p. p. of curvare to curve, fr. curvus. See Curve.] Bent in a regular form; curved.

Curvative
Cur´va•tive (k?r"v?-t?v), a. (Bot.) Having the margins only a little curved; — said of leaves. Henslow.

Curvature
Cur´va•ture (k?r"v?-t?r; 135), n. [L. curvatura. See Curvate.]
1. The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. Cowper.
"The elegant curvature of their fronds." - Darwin.
2. (Math.) The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form. — Absolute curvature. See under Absolute. — Angle of curvature (Geom.), one that expresses the amount of curvature of a curve. — Chord of curvature. See under Chord. — Circle of curvature. See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle. — Curvature of the spine (Med.), an abnormal curving of the spine, especially in a lateral direction. — Radius of curvature, the radius of the circle of curvature, or osculatory circle, at any point of a curve.

Curvedness
Curv´ed•ness (-?d-n?s), n. The state of being curved.

Curvet
Cur´vet (kûr"v?t or kûr-v?t"; 277), n. [OE. corvet, It. corvetta: cf. F. courbette. See Curve, and cf. Corvetto.]
1. (Man.) A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.
2. A prank; a frolic.

Curvet
Cur´vet, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Curveted or -vetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Curveting or -vetting.] [Cf. It. corvettare. See Curvet, n. ]
1. To make a curvet; to leap; to bound. "Oft and high he did curvet." Drayton.
2. To leap and frisk; to frolic. Shak.

Curvet
Cur´vet, v. t. To cause to curvet. Landor.

Curvicaudate
Cur•vi•cau´date (k?r•v?-k?"d?t), a. [L. curvus bent + E. caudate.] (Zoöl.) Having a curved or crooked tail.

Curvicostate
Cur•vi•cos´tate (k?r•v?-k?s"t?t), a. [L. curvus + E. costate.] (Bot.) Having bent ribs.

Curvidentate
Cur•vi•den´tate (k?r•v?-d?n"t?t), a. [L. curvus + E. dentate.] Having curved teeth.

Curviform
Cur´vi•form (k?r"v?-f?rm), a. [L. curvus + -form.] Having a curved form.

Curvilinead
Cur•vi•lin´e•ad (k?r•v?-l?n"?-?d), n. (Geom.) An instrument for drawing curved lines. { Cur•vi•lin´e•al (- al), Cur•vi•lin´e•ar (-?r), } a. [L. curvus bent + E. lineal, linear.] Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as a curvilinear figure.

Curvilinearity
Cur•vi•lin•e•ar´i•ty (-?r"?-t?), n. The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.

Curvilinearly
Cur•vi•lin´e•ar•ly (-?r-l?), adv. In a curvilinear manner.

Curvinerved
Cur´vi•nerved (-n?rvd•), a. [L. curvus bent + E. nerve. ] (Bot.) Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; — called also curvinervate and curve-veined.

Curvirostral
Cur•vi•ros´tral (-r?s"tr al), a. [L. curvus + E. rostral.] (Zoöl.) Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.

Curvirostres
Cur´vi•ros´tres (-r?s"tr?z), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. curvus curved + rostrum beak, rostrum.] (Zoöl.) A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.

Curviserial
Cur•vi•se´ri•al (-s?"r?-al), a. [L. curvus bent + E. serial.] (Bot.) Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.

Curvity
Cur´vi•ty (k?r"v?-y?), n. [L. curvitas, from curvus bent: cf. F. curvite.] The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness. Holder.

Curvograph
Cur´vo•graph (k?r"v?-gr?f), n. [L. curvus bent + -graph.] (Geom.) An arcograph.

Cuscus
Cus´cus, n. [The same word as Couscous, fr. F. couscous couscous, Ar. kuskus.] (Bot.) A soft grass ( Pennisetum typhoideum) found in all tropical regions, used as food for men and cattle in Central Africa.

Cushewbird
Cush´ew•bird (k?sh"?-b?rd•), n. (Zoöl) The galeated curassow. See Curassow.

Cushionet
Cush´ion•et (k??sh"?n-?t), n. [OF. coissinet, F. coussinet. See Cushion, and cf. Coussinet.] A little cushion.

Cushiony
Cush´ion•y (-?), a. Like a cushion; soft; pliable.
"A flat and cushiony nose." - Dickens.

Cushite
Cush´ite (k?sh"?t), n. A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah.

Cusk (k?sk), n. (Zoöl.) A large, edible, marine fish ( Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; — called also tusk and torsk.

Cuskin
Cus´kin (k?s"k?n), n. A kind of drinking cup. [Obs.]

Cusp (kusp), n. [L. cuspis, -idis, point, pointed end.]
1. (Arch.) A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.
2. (Astrol.) The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc.
3. (Astron.) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.
4. (Math.) A multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent.
5. (Anat.) A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth.
6. (Bot.) A sharp and rigid point.

Cusp, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cusped (k?spt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cusping.] To furnish with a cusp or cusps.

Cuspid
Cus´pid (k?s"p?d), n. [See Cusp.] (Anat.) One of the canine teeth; — so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.

Cuspis
Cus´pis (k?s"p?s), n. [L.] A point; a sharp end.

Cussedness
Cuss´ed•ness, n. [ Cussed (for cursed) + -ness.] Disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]
"In her opinion it was all pure "cussedness."" Mrs. Humphry Ward.
"Disputatiousness and perversity (what the Americans call "cussedness")." James Bryce.

Custard
Cus´tard (k?s"t?rd), n. [Prob. the same word as OE. crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L. crustatus covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta crust; cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde. See Crust, and cf. Crustated.] A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona ( A. squamosa, reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. — Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] Shak.

Custodier
Cus•to´di•er (-?r), n. [Cf. LL. custodiarus.] A custodian. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Custody
Cus´to•dy (k?s"t?-d?), n. [L. custodia, fr. custos guard; prob. akin to Gr. to hide, and E. hide. See Hide to cover.]
1. A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
"A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas." - Bacon.
2. Judicial or penal safe- keeping.
"Jailer, take him to thy custody." - Shak.
3. State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
"What pease will be given To us enslaved, but custody severe, And stripes and arbitrary punishment?" - Milton.

Customable
Cus´tom•a•ble (-a•b’l), a. [Cf. OF. coustumable.]
1. Customary. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.

Customableness
Cus´tom•a•ble•ness, n. Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [Obs.]

Customably
Cus´tom•a•bly, adv. Usually. [Obs.] Milton.

Customarily
Cus´tom•a•ri•ly (-a•ri•ly), adv. In a customary manner; habitually.

Customariness
Cus´tom•a•ri•ness, n. Quality of being customary.

Customary
Cus´tom•a•ry (kus"tum•a•ry), a. [CF. OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See Custom, and cf. Customer.]
1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
"Even now I met him With customary compliment." - Shak.
"A formal customary attendance upon the offices." - South.
2. (Law) Holding or held by custom; as customary tenants; customary service or estate.

Customary
Cus´tom•a•ry, n. [OF. coustumier, F. coutumier.] A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as the Customary of the Normans. Cowell.

Customer
Cus´tom•er (kus"tum•er), n. [A doublet of customary, a. : cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See Custom.]
1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [Obs.]
"The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths." - Hakluyt.
2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
"He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it." - Goldsmith.
3. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as the customers of a bank. J. A. H. Murray.
4. A peculiar person; — in an indefinite sense; as a queer customer; an ugly customer. [Colloq.] Dickens.
5. A lewd woman. [Obs.] Shak.

Custos
Cus´tos (kus"tos), n. ; pl. Custodes (kus•to"dez). [L.] A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent. [Obs.] Custos rotulorum (rot•u•lo"rum) [LL., keeper of the rolls] (Eng. Law), the principal justice of the peace in a county, who is also keeper of the rolls and records of the sessions of the peace.

Custrel
Cus´trel (kus"tr el), n. [OF. coustillier. See Coistril.] An armor-bearer to a knight. [Obs.]

Custrel
Cus´trel, n. See Costrel. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Cutaneous
Cu•ta´ne•ous (ku•ta"ne•us), a. [Cf. F. cutane, fr. L. cutis skin. See Cuticle.] Of or pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.

Cutch (kuch; 224), n. See Catechu.

Cutch, n. (Zoöl.) See Cultch.

Cute (kut), a. [An abbrev. of acute.] Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning. [Colloq.]

Cuteness
Cute´ness, n. Acuteness; cunning. [Colloq.]

Cutgrass
Cut´grass (kut"gras•). A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

Cuticle
Cu´ti•cle (ku"ti•k’l), n. [L. cuticula, dim. of cutis skin; akin to E. hide skin of an animal.]
1. (Anat.) The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.
2. (Bot.) The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.
3. A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.

Cutin
Cu´tin (ku"tin), n. [L. cutis skin, outside.] (Bot.) The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork.

Cutin
Cu´tin (ku"tin), n. [L. cutis skin, outside.] (PLant Physiol.) A waxy substance which, combined with cellulose, forms a substance nearly impervious to water and constituting the cuticle in plants.

Cutinization
Cu•tin•i•za´tion (k?•t?n-?-z?"sh?n), n. (Bot.) The conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork.

Cutinize
Cu´tin•ize (k?"t?n-?z), v. t. & i. To change into cutin.

Cutis
Cu´tis (k?"t?s), n. [L. See Cuticle.] (Anat.) See Dermis.

Cutlet
Cut´let (kut"let), n. [F. côtelette, prop., little rib, dim. of côte rib, fr. L. costa. See Coast.] A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.

Cut-out
Cut´-out (kut"out•), n. (a) (Telegraphy) A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit. (b) (Elec.) A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.

Cutpurse
Cut´purse (kut"pûrs•), n. One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket
"To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse." - Shak.

Cutter
Cut´ter (k?t"t?r), n.
1. One who cuts; as a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
2. That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.
3. A fore tooth; an incisor. Ray.
4. (Naut.) (a) A boat used by ships of war. (b) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead. (c) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; — also called revenue cutter.
5. A small, light one-horse sleigh.
6. An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
7. A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. [Obs.]
8. A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; — so called from the facility with which it can be cut. Cutter bar. (Mach.) (a) A bar which carries a cutter or cutting tool, as in a boring machine. (b) The bar to which the triangular knives of a harvester are attached. — Cutter head (Mach.), a rotating head, which itself forms a cutter, or a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine. Knight.

Cutthroat
Cut´throat (k?t"thr?t•), n. One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.

Cutthroat
Cut´throat, a. Murderous; cruel; barbarous.

Cutting
Cut´ting (kut"ting), n.
1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.

Cutting
Cut´ting, a.
1. Adapted to cut; as a cutting tool.
2. Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as a cutting wind.
3. Severe; sarcastic; biting; as a cutting reply.

Cuttingly
Cut´ting•ly, adv. In a cutting manner.

Cuttle
Cut´tle (k?t"t’l), n. [OF. cultel, coltel, coutel, fr. L. cultellus. See Cutlass.] A knife. [Obs.] Bale. { Cut´tle (kut"t’l), Cut´tle•fish• (- fish•), } n. [OE. codule, AS. cudele; akin to G. kuttelfish; cf. G. kötel, D. keutel, dirt from the guts, G. kuttel bowels, entrails. AS. cwiþ womb, Goth. qiþus belly, womb.]
1. (Zoöl.) A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally. It has an ink bag, opening into the siphon, from which, when pursued, it throws out a dark liquid that clouds the water, enabling it to escape observation.
2. A foul-mouthed fellow. "An you play the saucy cuttle with me." Shak.

Cuttoo plate
Cut•too" plate (k?t-t??" pl?t•). A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.

Cutty
Cut´ty (kut"ty), a. [Cf. Ir. & Gael. cut a short tail, cutach bobtailed. See Cut.] Short; as a cutty knife; a cutty sark. [Scot.]

Cutty
Cut´ty (k?t"t?), n. [Scotch.]
1. A short spoon.
2. A short tobacco pipe. Ramsay.
3. A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott.

Cuttystool
Cut´ty•stool (-stool•), n.
1. A low stool. [Scot.]
2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.

Cutwal
Cut´wal (kut"wal), n. [Per. kotwal.] The chief police officer of a large city. [East Indies]

Cutwater
Cut´wa•ter (kut"wa•ter), n. (Naut.)
1. The fore part of a ship’s prow, which cuts the water.
2. A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.
3. (Zoöl.) A sea bird of the Atlantic ( Rhynchops nigra); — called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.

Cutworm
Cut´worm (-w?rm•), n. (Zoöl.) A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvae of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

Cuvette
Cu•vette´ (k?-w?t"), n. [F., dim. of cuve a tub.]
1. A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
2. (Fort.) A cunette.