Cult of Anagkë
The Cult of Anagkë is the Cult devoted to the worhsip of Anagkë, the Goddess of Fortune and one of the Compensatory Gods (also known as “the Whore of Fare”). The Cult is extremely popular in the Three Seas, especially among the higher, political castes.

Cult of Husyelt
The Cult of Husyelt is the Cult devoted to the worship of Husyelt , the God of the hunt, one of the so-called Compensatory Gods . The Cult is rumoured to be extraordinarily wealthy, and high-ranking members of the Husyeltic priesthood often possess as much political clout as Shrial apparati.

Cult of Yatwer
The Cult of Yatwer is the traditional Cult of the slave and menial castes, taking as its primary scriptures, The Chronicle of the Tusk , the Higarata , and the Sinyatwa . Yatwer is the Goddess of the earth, fertility and servitude. According to census records, six out of ten caste-menials regularly attend some form of Yatwerian rite, making Yatwer the most popular of the Hundred Gods. Despite the vast numbers of adherents enjoyed by the Cult, it remains one of the more impoverished, and generates a huge number of zealous devotees as a result.

Members

- Psatma Nannaferi — Mother-Supreme of the Cult..
- Hanamem Sharacinth — Matriarch of the Cult.
- Sharhild — High-Priestess of the Cult.
- Vethenestra — Chalfantic Oracle.
- Eleva — High-Priestess of the Cult.
- Maharta — High-Priestess of the Cult.
- Phoracia — High-Priestess of the Cult.
- Aethiola — High-Priestess of the Cult.

Cults
The Cults are the various sects devoted to the individual Gods of the so-called Kiünnat . In the Three Seas , the Cults have been administratively and spiritually subordinate to the Thousand Temples since Triamis I , the first Aspect-Emperor of Cenei, declared Inrithism the official state religion of the Ceneian Empire in 2505. The Book of Gods , which enumerates the various Gods and explains the rites basic to each, together with the Higarata , form the primary sources of scripture for the Cults. Each Cult traditionally keeps indexes called Omen texts, detailing the various omens and their meanings.

Cumor
"Haarnan Cumor" Haarnan Cumor is the High Cultist of Gilgaöl in the Holy War , claimed by disease at Caraskand .

Appearance

Cumor is an older man, his square-cut beard as white as hoarfrost.

Haarnan Cumor

Title(s): High Cultist of Gilgaöl
Lived: 4043 - 4111
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: High Cultist of Gilgaöl
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Haarnan Cumor

Title(s): High Cultist of Gilgaöl
Lived: 4043 - 4111
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: High Cultist of Gilgaöl
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Cundraul
"Cundraul III" High King of Akksersia mentioned in The Sagas.

Cundraul III
High King of Akksersia mentioned in The Sagas.

Cundulkas
"Ettwë Cundulkas" A Lord of the Great Ordeal.

Cuno-Inchoroi
"Cuno-Inchoroi Wars" Cûno-Inchoroi Wars are the protracted series of wars between the Nonmen and the Inchoroi following the ancient arrival of the latter.

The Fall of the Incû-Holoinas

According to the Isûphiryas , the Incû-Holoinas , the “Ark-of-the-Skies,” plunged to earth to the west of the Sea of Neleöst in land ruled by Nin’janjin , the Nonman King of Viri . The letter sent by Nin’janin to Cû’jara-Cinmoi , the King of Siöl , is recorded as follows: Rather than send aid to Nin’janjin, Cû’jara-Cinmoi assembled an army and invaded the lands of Viri. Nin’janjin and his Ishroi capitulated without battle; Viri became a bloodless tributary of Siöl. The western lands of Viri, however, remained shrouded in cloud and ash. Survivors from the region spoke of a fiery vessel streaking across the skies. So Cû’jara-Cinmoi commanded Ingalira , a hero of Siöl, to lead an expedition to find this Ark. What happened to Ingalira on this expedition is not recorded, but he returned to Siöl some three months later and presented two inhuman captives to Cû’jara-Cinmoi. Ingalira called these captives Inchoroi, or “People of Emptiness,” both because the sounds they made were empty of meaning and because they fell from the emptiness of the sky. He spoke of flattened forests and gouged plains, of mountains thrown into a ring, and of two golden horns rearing from a molten sea, so mighty they brushed the clouds. Repelled by the obscene aspect of the Inchoroi, Cû’jara-Cinmoi had them put to death, and set a Watch upon the Incû-Holoinas, the Ark-of-the-Skies. Years passed, and the power of Cû’jara-Cinmoi and the High Mansion of Siöl waxed. The Mansion of Nihrimsul was subdued, and her King, Sin’niroiha , “First Among Peoples,” was forced to wash the sword of Cû’jara-Cinmoi. With the subsequent conquest of Cil-Aujas to the south, Siöl and her High King commanded an empire that ranged from the Yimaleti Mountains to the Sea of Meneanor . During this time, the Watch was kept on the Ark. The land cooled. The skies cleared.

The Destruction of the Watch

Either because of original inconsistencies or because of subsequent corruptions, extant version of the Isûphiryas are unclear as to the subsequent order of events. At some point a secret embassy of Inchoroi reached Nin’janjin at Viri. Unlike the Inchoroi brought to Cû’jara-Cinmoi by Ingalira, these possessed the ability to speak Ihrimsû. They reminded Nin’janjin of Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s treachery in his time of need, and offered an alliance to break the yoke of Siöl over Viri. They would undo, the Inchoroi said, the misfortune their coming had wrought upon the Cûnuroi of Viri. Despite the warnings of his Ishroi, Nin’janjin accepted the Inchoroi terms. Viri revolted. The Siölan Ishroi within its halls were slain; the rest were enslaved. At the same time, the Inchoroi swarmed from the Ark, overwhelming the Watch. Only Oirinas and his twin, Oirûnas , survived, riding hard to warn Cû’jara-Cinmoi.

The Slaying of Sil

Sil , the Inchoroi King, and Nin’janjin assembled their hosts to meet Cû’jara-Cinmoi on the Fields of Pir Pahal , which Men would call Eleneöt in a later age. According to the Isûphiryas, the Nonmen of Viri were dismayed by the sight of their allies, who wore fierce and festering bodies as garments of war. Gin’gûrima , the greatest hero among them, pointed to Nin’janjin and declared, “Hate has blinded him.” This treason within a treason was repeated by others, until it became a thundering chorus. Nin’janjin fled, seeking protection from Sil. The Inchoroi then turned upon their allies, hoping to destroy the host of Viri before Cû’jara-Cinmoi and the great host of Siöl could close with them. Overmatched by the Inchoroi and their weapons of light, the Nonmen of Viri were driven back with horrendous losses. Only Cû’jara-Cinmoi and his Ishroi Chariots saved them from utter destruction. The chroniclers of the Isûphiryas claim the battle raged through the night and into the following morning. Eventually, all but the most powerful of the Inchoroi were overwhelmed by the valour, sorceries , and numbers of the host of Siöl. Cû’jara-Cinmoi himself struck down Sil, and wrested from him his great weapon, Suörgil, “Shining Death,” which Men in a latter age would call the Heron Spear . Much reduced, the Inchoroi fled back to their Ark, taking Nin’janjin with them. Cû’jara-Cinmoi hunted them within sight of the Ring Mountains , but was forced to abandon his pursuit when word of further disasters reached him. Emboldened by Siöl’s distraction, Nihrimsul and Cil-Aujas had revolted.

The Second Watch

Weakened by the Battle of Pir Pahal , Cû’jara-Cinmoi was hard pressed to recover his empire. A Second Watch was put upon the Holoinas, but no attempt was made to breach the gold-grooved faces of the Ark. After years of hard campaigning, Cû’jara-Cinmoi finally brought the Ishroi of Cil-Aujas to heel, but King Sin’niroiha and the Ishroi of Nihrimsul continued to resist him. The Isûphiryas chronicles dozens of bloody yet indecisive confrontations between the two Kings: the Battle of Ciphara, the Battle of Hilcyri, the Siege of Asargoi. Proud beyond reason, Cû’jara-Cinmoi refused to relent, and put to death every embassy Sin’niroiha sent to him. Only when Sin’niroiha became King of Ishoriöl through marriage did the High King of Siöl concede. “A King of Three Mansions,” he is said to have declared, “may be Brother to a King of Two.” The Isûphiryas mentions the Inchoroi only once during this time. Unwilling to assign desperately needed Ishroi to the Second Watch, Cû’jara-Cinmoi had charged Oirinas and Oirûnas, the sole survivors of the First Watch, with recruiting Men for the duty. Among these Halaroi was a “criminal” named Sirwitta . Apparently Sirwitta had seduced the wife of a high-ranking Ishroi and conceived by her a daughter named Cimoira . The Judges of the Ishroi were perplexed: such a thing had never happened before. The truth of Cimoira was suppressed, and despite her mannish blood she was accepted as Cûnuroi. Sirwitta himself was banished to the Second Watch. Somehow (the Isûphiryas does not go into detail) Sirwitta managed to enter the Incû-Holoinas. A month passed, and all thought him lost. Then he reappeared, deranged, screeching claims so alarming that Oirinas and Oirûnas brought him directly to Cû’jara-Cinmoi. What was said between Sirwitta and the High King of Siöl is not recorded. The chroniclers say only that Cû’jara-Cinmoi, after hearing Sirwitta speak, ordered him put to death. A later entry, however, described Sirwitta as “tongueless and imprisoned.” It appears the High King, for some unknown reason, had rescinded his warrant. Many years of peace followed. From their fortresses in the Ring Mountains, the Ishroi of Siöl guarded the Ark. Whether the Inchoroi lived still or had perished, no one knew. Cû’jara-Cinmoi grew old, for the Nonmen of those days were still mortal. His eyesight dimmed, and his once-mighty limbs began to fail him. Death whispered to him.

The Womb-Plague

Then Nin’janjin returned. Invoking the ancient codes, he appeared before Cû’jara-Cinmoi begging Mercy and Penance. When the High King of Siöl bid Nin’janjin come near so he might see him, he was astonished to discover his old adversary had not aged. Then Nin’janjin revealed his true reason for coming to Siöl. The Inchoroi, he said, were too terrified of Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s might to leave their Ark, so they dwelt in confinement and misery. They had sent him, he claimed, to sue for peace. They wished to know what tribute might temper the High King’s fury. To which Cû’jara-Cinmoi replied: “I would be young of heart, face, and limb. I would banish Death from the halls of my people." The Second Watch was disbanded and the Inchoroi moved freely among the Cûnuroi of Siöl, becoming their physicians. They ministered to all, dispensing the remedies that would at once make the Nonmen immortal and doom them. Soon all the Cûnuroi of Eärwa , even those who had initially questioned Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s wisdom, had succumbed to the Inchoroi and their nostrums. According to the Isûphiryas, the first victim of the Womb-Plague was Hanalinqû , Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s legendary wife. The chronicler actually praises the diligence and skill of the High King’s Inchoroi physicians. But as the Womb-Plague killed more and more Cûnuroi women, this praise becomes condemnation. Soon all the women of the Cûnuroi, wives and maidens both, were dying. The Inchoroi fled the Mansions, returning to their ruined vessel.

The Fall of Cû’jara-Cinmoi

Ishroi from across Eärwa answered Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s call to war, even though many held the High King responsible for the deaths of their beloved. Grieved almost to madness, the High King led them through the Ring Mountains and arrayed them across the Inniür-Shigogli , the “Black Furnace Plain.” Then he laid Hanalinqû’s corpse before the unholy Ark and demanded the Inchoroi answer his fury. But the Inchoroi had not been idle over the long years since the Battle of Pir Pahal. They had delved deep into the earth, beneath the Inniür-Shigogli and out into the Ring Mountains. Within these galleries they had massed hordes of twisted creatures unlike any the Cûnuroi had ever seen: Sranc , Bashrags , and mighty Dragons . The Ishroi of the Nine High Mansions of Eärwa, who had come to destroy the diminished survivors of Pir Pahal, found themselves beset on all sides. The Sranc withered before the sinew and sorcery of the Ishroi, but their numbers seemed inexhaustible. The Bashrags and the Dragons exacted a horrifying toll. More terrible still were those few Inchoroi who ventured out into battle, hanging above the tumult, sweeping the earth with their weapons of light, apparently unaffected by the sorceries of the Ishroi. After the disaster of Pir Pahal, the Inchoroi had seduced the practitioners of the Aporos , who had been forbidden from pursuing their art. Poisoned by knowledge, they devised the first of the Chorae to render their masters immune to Cûnuroi magic. But all the heroes of Eärwa stood upon the Black Furnace Plain. With his bare hands, Ciögli the Mountain , the strongest of the Ishroi, broke the neck of Wutteät the Black , the Father of Dragons. Oirinas and Oirûnas fought side by side, working great carnage among the Sranc and Bashrags. Ingalira, the hero of Siöl, strangled Vshikcrû , mighty among the Inchoroi, and cast his burning body into the Sranc. The mighty closed with the mighty, and innumerable battles were fought. But no matter how hard the Inchoroi pressed, the Cûnuroi would yield no ground. Their fury was that of those who have lost wives and daughters. Then Nin’janjin struck down Cû’jara-Cinmoi. The Copper Tree of Siöl fell into pitching masses of Sranc, and the Cûnuroi were dismayed. Sin’niroiha, the High King of Nihrimsul and Ishoriöl, fought his way to Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s position, but found only his headless body. Then the hero Gin’gûrima fell, gored by a Dragon. And after him Ingalira, who had been the first to lay eyes upon the Inchoroi. Then Oirinas, his body sundered by an Inchoroi spear of light. Realizing their plight, Sin’niroiha rallied his people and began fighting his way into the Ring Mountains. A greater part of the surviving Cûnuroi followed him. Once clear of their foe, the glorious Ishroi of Eärwa fled, gripped by a mad fear. Either too weakened or suspecting a trap, the Inchoroi did not pursue.

The War of Extermination

For five hundred years the Cûnuroi and the Inchoroi waged a war of extermination, the Cûnuroi to avenge their murdered wives and the eventual death of their race, and the Inchoroi for reasons they alone could fathom. No longer did the Cûnuroi speak of the Incû-Holoinas, the Ark-of-the-Skies. Instead they spoke of Min-Uroikas, “the Pit of Obscenities”—what would later be called Golgotterath by Men. For centuries it seemed the abominations had the upper hand, and the poets of the Isûphiryas record defeat after defeat. But slowly, as the Inchoroi exhausted their fell weapons and relied more and more on their vile slaves, the Cûnuroi and their Halaroi servants gained the advantage. Then at long last the surviving Ishroi of Eärwa trapped the last of their diminished foe within the Incû-Holoinas. For twenty years they warred through the Ark’s labyrinthine halls, finally hunting the last of the Inchoroi into the deep places of the earth. Unable to destroy the vessel, Nil’giccas instructed the remaining Qûya to raise a powerful glamour about the hated place. He and the surviving kings of the Nine Mansions forbade their peoples from mentioning the Inchoroi or their nightmarish legacy. The last Cûnuroi of Eärwa withdrew to their Mansions to await their inevitable doom.

Cuno-Inchoroi Wars
Cûno-Inchoroi Wars are the protracted series of wars between the Nonmen and the Inchoroi following the ancient arrival of the latter.

The Fall of the Incû-Holoinas

According to the Isûphiryas , the Incû-Holoinas , the “Ark-of-the-Skies,” plunged to earth to the west of the Sea of Neleöst in land ruled by Nin’janjin , the Nonman King of Viri . The letter sent by Nin’janin to Cû’jara-Cinmoi , the King of Siöl , is recorded as follows: Rather than send aid to Nin’janjin, Cû’jara-Cinmoi assembled an army and invaded the lands of Viri. Nin’janjin and his Ishroi capitulated without battle; Viri became a bloodless tributary of Siöl. The western lands of Viri, however, remained shrouded in cloud and ash. Survivors from the region spoke of a fiery vessel streaking across the skies. So Cû’jara-Cinmoi commanded Ingalira , a hero of Siöl, to lead an expedition to find this Ark. What happened to Ingalira on this expedition is not recorded, but he returned to Siöl some three months later and presented two inhuman captives to Cû’jara-Cinmoi. Ingalira called these captives Inchoroi, or “People of Emptiness,” both because the sounds they made were empty of meaning and because they fell from the emptiness of the sky. He spoke of flattened forests and gouged plains, of mountains thrown into a ring, and of two golden horns rearing from a molten sea, so mighty they brushed the clouds. Repelled by the obscene aspect of the Inchoroi, Cû’jara-Cinmoi had them put to death, and set a Watch upon the Incû-Holoinas, the Ark-of-the-Skies. Years passed, and the power of Cû’jara-Cinmoi and the High Mansion of Siöl waxed. The Mansion of Nihrimsul was subdued, and her King, Sin’niroiha , “First Among Peoples,” was forced to wash the sword of Cû’jara-Cinmoi. With the subsequent conquest of Cil-Aujas to the south, Siöl and her High King commanded an empire that ranged from the Yimaleti Mountains to the Sea of Meneanor . During this time, the Watch was kept on the Ark. The land cooled. The skies cleared.

The Destruction of the Watch

Either because of original inconsistencies or because of subsequent corruptions, extant version of the Isûphiryas are unclear as to the subsequent order of events. At some point a secret embassy of Inchoroi reached Nin’janjin at Viri. Unlike the Inchoroi brought to Cû’jara-Cinmoi by Ingalira, these possessed the ability to speak Ihrimsû. They reminded Nin’janjin of Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s treachery in his time of need, and offered an alliance to break the yoke of Siöl over Viri. They would undo, the Inchoroi said, the misfortune their coming had wrought upon the Cûnuroi of Viri. Despite the warnings of his Ishroi, Nin’janjin accepted the Inchoroi terms. Viri revolted. The Siölan Ishroi within its halls were slain; the rest were enslaved. At the same time, the Inchoroi swarmed from the Ark, overwhelming the Watch. Only Oirinas and his twin, Oirûnas , survived, riding hard to warn Cû’jara-Cinmoi.

The Slaying of Sil

Sil , the Inchoroi King, and Nin’janjin assembled their hosts to meet Cû’jara-Cinmoi on the Fields of Pir Pahal , which Men would call Eleneöt in a later age. According to the Isûphiryas, the Nonmen of Viri were dismayed by the sight of their allies, who wore fierce and festering bodies as garments of war. Gin’gûrima , the greatest hero among them, pointed to Nin’janjin and declared, “Hate has blinded him.” This treason within a treason was repeated by others, until it became a thundering chorus. Nin’janjin fled, seeking protection from Sil. The Inchoroi then turned upon their allies, hoping to destroy the host of Viri before Cû’jara-Cinmoi and the great host of Siöl could close with them. Overmatched by the Inchoroi and their weapons of light, the Nonmen of Viri were driven back with horrendous losses. Only Cû’jara-Cinmoi and his Ishroi Chariots saved them from utter destruction. The chroniclers of the Isûphiryas claim the battle raged through the night and into the following morning. Eventually, all but the most powerful of the Inchoroi were overwhelmed by the valour, sorceries , and numbers of the host of Siöl. Cû’jara-Cinmoi himself struck down Sil, and wrested from him his great weapon, Suörgil, “Shining Death,” which Men in a latter age would call the Heron Spear . Much reduced, the Inchoroi fled back to their Ark, taking Nin’janjin with them. Cû’jara-Cinmoi hunted them within sight of the Ring Mountains , but was forced to abandon his pursuit when word of further disasters reached him. Emboldened by Siöl’s distraction, Nihrimsul and Cil-Aujas had revolted.

The Second Watch

Weakened by the Battle of Pir Pahal , Cû’jara-Cinmoi was hard pressed to recover his empire. A Second Watch was put upon the Holoinas, but no attempt was made to breach the gold-grooved faces of the Ark. After years of hard campaigning, Cû’jara-Cinmoi finally brought the Ishroi of Cil-Aujas to heel, but King Sin’niroiha and the Ishroi of Nihrimsul continued to resist him. The Isûphiryas chronicles dozens of bloody yet indecisive confrontations between the two Kings: the Battle of Ciphara, the Battle of Hilcyri, the Siege of Asargoi. Proud beyond reason, Cû’jara-Cinmoi refused to relent, and put to death every embassy Sin’niroiha sent to him. Only when Sin’niroiha became King of Ishoriöl through marriage did the High King of Siöl concede. “A King of Three Mansions,” he is said to have declared, “may be Brother to a King of Two.” The Isûphiryas mentions the Inchoroi only once during this time. Unwilling to assign desperately needed Ishroi to the Second Watch, Cû’jara-Cinmoi had charged Oirinas and Oirûnas, the sole survivors of the First Watch, with recruiting Men for the duty. Among these Halaroi was a “criminal” named Sirwitta . Apparently Sirwitta had seduced the wife of a high-ranking Ishroi and conceived by her a daughter named Cimoira . The Judges of the Ishroi were perplexed: such a thing had never happened before. The truth of Cimoira was suppressed, and despite her mannish blood she was accepted as Cûnuroi. Sirwitta himself was banished to the Second Watch. Somehow (the Isûphiryas does not go into detail) Sirwitta managed to enter the Incû-Holoinas. A month passed, and all thought him lost. Then he reappeared, deranged, screeching claims so alarming that Oirinas and Oirûnas brought him directly to Cû’jara-Cinmoi. What was said between Sirwitta and the High King of Siöl is not recorded. The chroniclers say only that Cû’jara-Cinmoi, after hearing Sirwitta speak, ordered him put to death. A later entry, however, described Sirwitta as “tongueless and imprisoned.” It appears the High King, for some unknown reason, had rescinded his warrant. Many years of peace followed. From their fortresses in the Ring Mountains, the Ishroi of Siöl guarded the Ark. Whether the Inchoroi lived still or had perished, no one knew. Cû’jara-Cinmoi grew old, for the Nonmen of those days were still mortal. His eyesight dimmed, and his once-mighty limbs began to fail him. Death whispered to him.

The Womb-Plague

Then Nin’janjin returned. Invoking the ancient codes, he appeared before Cû’jara-Cinmoi begging Mercy and Penance. When the High King of Siöl bid Nin’janjin come near so he might see him, he was astonished to discover his old adversary had not aged. Then Nin’janjin revealed his true reason for coming to Siöl. The Inchoroi, he said, were too terrified of Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s might to leave their Ark, so they dwelt in confinement and misery. They had sent him, he claimed, to sue for peace. They wished to know what tribute might temper the High King’s fury. To which Cû’jara-Cinmoi replied: “I would be young of heart, face, and limb. I would banish Death from the halls of my people." The Second Watch was disbanded and the Inchoroi moved freely among the Cûnuroi of Siöl, becoming their physicians. They ministered to all, dispensing the remedies that would at once make the Nonmen immortal and doom them. Soon all the Cûnuroi of Eärwa , even those who had initially questioned Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s wisdom, had succumbed to the Inchoroi and their nostrums. According to the Isûphiryas, the first victim of the Womb-Plague was Hanalinqû , Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s legendary wife. The chronicler actually praises the diligence and skill of the High King’s Inchoroi physicians. But as the Womb-Plague killed more and more Cûnuroi women, this praise becomes condemnation. Soon all the women of the Cûnuroi, wives and maidens both, were dying. The Inchoroi fled the Mansions, returning to their ruined vessel.

The Fall of Cû’jara-Cinmoi

Ishroi from across Eärwa answered Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s call to war, even though many held the High King responsible for the deaths of their beloved. Grieved almost to madness, the High King led them through the Ring Mountains and arrayed them across the Inniür-Shigogli , the “Black Furnace Plain.” Then he laid Hanalinqû’s corpse before the unholy Ark and demanded the Inchoroi answer his fury. But the Inchoroi had not been idle over the long years since the Battle of Pir Pahal. They had delved deep into the earth, beneath the Inniür-Shigogli and out into the Ring Mountains. Within these galleries they had massed hordes of twisted creatures unlike any the Cûnuroi had ever seen: Sranc , Bashrags , and mighty Dragons . The Ishroi of the Nine High Mansions of Eärwa, who had come to destroy the diminished survivors of Pir Pahal, found themselves beset on all sides. The Sranc withered before the sinew and sorcery of the Ishroi, but their numbers seemed inexhaustible. The Bashrags and the Dragons exacted a horrifying toll. More terrible still were those few Inchoroi who ventured out into battle, hanging above the tumult, sweeping the earth with their weapons of light, apparently unaffected by the sorceries of the Ishroi. After the disaster of Pir Pahal, the Inchoroi had seduced the practitioners of the Aporos , who had been forbidden from pursuing their art. Poisoned by knowledge, they devised the first of the Chorae to render their masters immune to Cûnuroi magic. But all the heroes of Eärwa stood upon the Black Furnace Plain. With his bare hands, Ciögli the Mountain , the strongest of the Ishroi, broke the neck of Wutteät the Black , the Father of Dragons. Oirinas and Oirûnas fought side by side, working great carnage among the Sranc and Bashrags. Ingalira, the hero of Siöl, strangled Vshikcrû , mighty among the Inchoroi, and cast his burning body into the Sranc. The mighty closed with the mighty, and innumerable battles were fought. But no matter how hard the Inchoroi pressed, the Cûnuroi would yield no ground. Their fury was that of those who have lost wives and daughters. Then Nin’janjin struck down Cû’jara-Cinmoi. The Copper Tree of Siöl fell into pitching masses of Sranc, and the Cûnuroi were dismayed. Sin’niroiha, the High King of Nihrimsul and Ishoriöl, fought his way to Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s position, but found only his headless body. Then the hero Gin’gûrima fell, gored by a Dragon. And after him Ingalira, who had been the first to lay eyes upon the Inchoroi. Then Oirinas, his body sundered by an Inchoroi spear of light. Realizing their plight, Sin’niroiha rallied his people and began fighting his way into the Ring Mountains. A greater part of the surviving Cûnuroi followed him. Once clear of their foe, the glorious Ishroi of Eärwa fled, gripped by a mad fear. Either too weakened or suspecting a trap, the Inchoroi did not pursue.

The War of Extermination

For five hundred years the Cûnuroi and the Inchoroi waged a war of extermination, the Cûnuroi to avenge their murdered wives and the eventual death of their race, and the Inchoroi for reasons they alone could fathom. No longer did the Cûnuroi speak of the Incû-Holoinas, the Ark-of-the-Skies. Instead they spoke of Min-Uroikas, “the Pit of Obscenities”—what would later be called Golgotterath by Men. For centuries it seemed the abominations had the upper hand, and the poets of the Isûphiryas record defeat after defeat. But slowly, as the Inchoroi exhausted their fell weapons and relied more and more on their vile slaves, the Cûnuroi and their Halaroi servants gained the advantage. Then at long last the surviving Ishroi of Eärwa trapped the last of their diminished foe within the Incû-Holoinas. For twenty years they warred through the Ark’s labyrinthine halls, finally hunting the last of the Inchoroi into the deep places of the earth. Unable to destroy the vessel, Nil’giccas instructed the remaining Qûya to raise a powerful glamour about the hated place. He and the surviving kings of the Nine Mansions forbade their peoples from mentioning the Inchoroi or their nightmarish legacy. The last Cûnuroi of Eärwa withdrew to their Mansions to await their inevitable doom.

Cunuroi
The Nonmen (in their own tongue, Cûnuroi ) are an immortal non-human species native to Eärwa , whose presence preceded the arrival of Men by tens of thousands of years. They achieved a tremendous level of civilisation before the Arkfall , the arrival of the Incû-Holoinas and the vile Inchoroi it carried within it. The Nonmen triumphed over the Inchoroi over the course of millennia of battle, but were so weakened by the conflict and resulting cataclysms that they were unable to prevent the arrival of men in Eärwa, who subsequently supplanted them. Today, Nonmen are only found in numbers in Ishterebinth , their sole surviving stronghold. All Nonmen females were killed thousands of years ago in the Womb Plague , leaving only males. The passage of millennia has driven many of the Nonmen insane; these madmen are known as the Erratic .

Mythology

According to myth, Imimorûl was the first Nonman. He fled from the Heavens into the depths under the world in a way of avoiding the gaze of the gods. In the most common scripture, Imimorûl founded Siöl as the first of the High Mansions and beget at least two children, Tsonos and Olissis . After his death, Tsonos followed his father as High King of the Nonmen. However, Nihrimsul was founded by other Nonmen from outside this tradition and rejected Siöl's authority, leading to millennia of strife and occasional war. All of the other High Mansions were founded by Siöl and by descendants of Tsonos. The Nihrimsuli, sometimes called "Dark Nonmen", were disregarded for their lack of noble blood until Sin’niroiha of Nihrimsul married Tsinirû of Ishoriöl ; their son Nil’giccas was accounted of the blood of Tsonos, thus reuniting the bloodlines. According to the Nihrimsûli, their Mansion was actually founded by Imimorûl directly. Tsonos and Olissis murdered their father whilst he slept and then fled like cowards to found Siöl. Unsurprisingly, this version is thoroughly rejected in the dominant Tsonic tradition. Imimorûl is named as the “Father of the False” in The Chronicle of the Tusk , and in Mannish traditions, was a once-glorious God imprisoned deep in the earth as punishment for teaching sorcery to the Nonmen. According to Cûnuroi traditions, Imimorûl was not imprisoned within the earth, but sought refuge in the “Deepest Deep,” those places the gods could not judge because they could not see. Though Ajencis famously attributes the Nonman aversion to open sky to his theory of “vital accommodations,” the Nonmen themselves see this predilection as a sacred observance of Imimorûl’s ancient straits—as well as the best way to find oblivion upon their deaths. Nonmen occasionally practice a ritual trip to the deepest part of the world they can find, known as a Fathoming. The Fathoming constitutes a symbolic re-enactment of Imimorûl’s flight from the Heavens (or “Starving”) into the depths beneath what became Siol, the House Primordial, the idea being that souls so deep can slip the notice of the Gods and find oblivion. Fathomings were most common undertaken by those upon the threshold of death, the thought being that the Deepest Deep lay on the edge of Oblivion. The Psalms of Imimorûl seem to allege that Imimorûl had no wife but instead created the rest of the Nonman species by implanting his flesh within that of lions: The World to him, who sings my song, for I am the Font, the Spirit of the Deepest Deep, and mine is the first heart to beat your blood. The World to him, who sings my song. I, Imimorul, fled the Heavens, so much did I love the brooks that chirrup, the high mountains that hiss, the myriads that bolt through this blessed hair, The World to him, who raises up rooves in the Deep. I, Imimorul, did flee the Starving [sky], so much did I fear the Heavens, the wrath of those who were wroth, who would forbid my love, of the myriads of the World. The World to her, who kindles her fire in the Deep. I, Imimorul, did cut from my hand my fingers, and from my arm, my hand, and from my body, my arm, and these pieces of me I did place in the wombs of Lions, so that I might dwell content in my own company. And I became One-Armed, Imimorul, the Unshielded. And you were as children to me, the form of Gods as the issue of Lions, sons who would father nations, and daughters who would mother the myriads of the World. And I sang to you such songs as are only heard in the highest of Heavens, and nowhere in the Hells. We did weep together, as we sang, for woe cares not for names or glory only that skin blackens for bruising, breaks for blood. The World to him, who sings my song. The World to him, who finds me in the Deep. The World to him, and woe.

History

The Nonmen call themselves ji’cûnû roi, “the People of Dawn,” for reasons they can no longer remember. (They call Men j’ala roi, “the People of Summer,” because they burn so hot and pass so quickly.) The Chronicle of the Tusk, which records the coming of Men to Eärwa, generally refers to Nonmen as Oserukki, the “Not Us.” In the Book of Tribes, the Prophet Angeshraël alternately refers to them as “the Accursed Ones” and “the sodomite Kings of Eärwa,” and he incites the Four Nations of Men to embark on a holy war of extermination. Even after four millennia, this xenocidal mission remains part of the Inrithi canon. According to the Tusk, the Nonmen are anathema:

Accomplishments

But Cûnuroi civilization was ancient even before these words were carved into the Tusk. While the Halaroi, Men, wandered the world dressed in skins and wielding weapons of stone, the Cûnuroi had invented writing and mathematics, astrology and geometry, sorcery and philosophy. They dredged mountains hollow for the galleries of their High Mansions. They traded and warred with one another. They subdued all Eärwa, enslaving the Emwama , the soft-hearted Men who dwelt in Eärwa in those early days.

Decline

Their decline is the result of three different catastrophic events. The first, and most significant, was the so-called Womb Plague . In the hope of achieving immortality, the Nonmen (specifically, the great Cû’jara-Cinmoi ) allowed the Inchoroi to live among them as their physicians. The Nonmen did in fact attain immortality, and the Inchoroi, claiming their work done, retired back to the Incû-Holoinas . The plague struck shortly after, almost killing males and uniformly killing all females. The Nonmen call this tragic event the Nasamorgas, the “Death of Birth.”

Cûno-Inchoroi Wars and Near-Extinction

The following Cûno-Inchoroi Wars further sapped their strength, so that by the time the first Tribes of Men invaded, the Nonmen had not the numbers or, some say, the will to resist their advance. Within the course of a few generations they were nearly exterminated. Only the Mansions of Ishoriöl and Cil-Aujas survived.

Interbreeding

It is possible for Nonmen to impregnate human women; and, when Nonmen females still existed, it was possible for them to be impregnated by human men. However, such mixed-breed pregnancies are rare, and it is even rarer for them to come to term. Those who do survive may have very long lives; Anasûrimbor Nanor-Ukkerja I ’s life of 178 years was credited to the Nonman blood in his veins. The earliest known instance of interbreeding between humans and Nonmen was Cimoira , the child of the human Sirwitta and a female Nonman, whose birth was recorded in the Isûphiryas .

Mansions

Instead of cities and castles Nonmen built underground systems of vast halls and passages called " Mansions ", always located beneath the mountains. The total number of Nonmen mansions is unknown, although it is known that the mightiest, the High Mansions, numbered nine. Greatest, most powerful and most populous was Siöl , lying under the titanic peaks of the Northern Kayarsus . The proudest and most fiercely independent was Nihrimsul , located under the south-eastern Yimaleti Mountains. Cil-Aujas lay in the east, under the peak of Aenaratiol at the south tip of the Osthwai Mountains. Ishoriöl , the Exalted Hall, lay in the far west, beyond the Demua Mountains near the shores of the Great Ocean. Viri , in the north, lay under the peak of Antareg in the Urokkas, a small range of mountains overlooking the Neleöst , the Misty Sea. Illisserû lay far to the south, under the Betmulla Mountains. Curunq lay under the Araxes Mountains and Cil-Aumûl under the Hinayati Mountains . The last, Incissal , lay under the hills near what is now the city of Domyot .

Physiology

Nonmen are bigger and stronger than humans. They are adapted to subterranean life and thus have skin devoid of any pigment, all-black eyes, and are hairless. It is mentioned in the books that Nonmen cannot derive meaning from paintings, which is why they depict their history through sculpture. This may imply that they do not see colors, having monochrome vision. The god-alien 'Engineers' in the movie "Prometheus" (2012) by Ridley Scott look almost exactly like Bakker's Nonmen.

Curunq
Curunq was one of the nine High Mansions of the Nonmen . It was located in the Araxes Mountains , south-east of Cil-Aujas . It was founded in the second wave of Nonman expansion, possibly from Cil-Aujas given their relative proximity. Curunq fought as part of the Nonman coalition during the Cûno-Inchoroi Wars , although the level of its involvement given its vast distance from the Incû-Holoinas is unknown. Like the other Mansions, it suffered the debilitating effects of the Womb Plague and was then destroyed during the Cûno-Halaroi Wars . The later fate of the Mansion is unknown.

Cutias
"Cutias Sarcellus" Cutias Sarcellus is a Knight-Commander of the Shrial Knights, murdered and replaced by Consult skin-spies .

Appearance

Sarcellus is lean and tall, clean-shaven with short black hair. He is handsome, with full lips and large brown eyes.

What Came Before

Sarcellus was killed and replaced by the skin-spy Maëngi .

Cutias Sarcellus

Title(s): Knight-Commander of the Shrial Knights
Lived: 4072 - 4099
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Male
Occupation: Knight-Commander of the Shrial Knights
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought

Cutias Sarcellus

Title(s): Knight-Commander of the Shrial Knights
Lived: 4072 - 4099
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Male
Occupation: Knight-Commander of the Shrial Knights
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought

Cutias Pansulla
New Im­pe­ri­al Con­sul of Nansur and po­lit­ical ri­val of Esmenet.

Cutias Sarcellus
Cutias Sarcellus is a Knight-Commander of the Shrial Knights, murdered and replaced by Consult skin-spies .

Appearance

Sarcellus is lean and tall, clean-shaven with short black hair. He is handsome, with full lips and large brown eyes.

What Came Before

Sarcellus was killed and replaced by the skin-spy Maëngi .

Cutias Sarcellus

Title(s): Knight-Commander of the Shrial Knights
Lived: 4072 - 4099
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Male
Occupation: Knight-Commander of the Shrial Knights
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought

Cutias Sarcellus

Title(s): Knight-Commander of the Shrial Knights
Lived: 4072 - 4099
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Male
Occupation: Knight-Commander of the Shrial Knights
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought

Cuärweth
Cuärweth is a fiefdom of interior Ce Tydonn , located to the north of Meigeiri . The Earl of Cuärweth at the time of the First Holy War was Damergal . At the time of the Great Ordeal , this fiefdom was ruled by Shilka Grimmel .

Cuäxaji
Cuäxaji is the Sapatishah-Governor of Khemema .

Cuäxaji

Title(s): Sapatishah-Governor of Khemema
Lived: 4069 -
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sapatishah-Governor of Khemema
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Cuäxaji

Title(s): Sapatishah-Governor of Khemema
Lived: 4069 -
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sapatishah-Governor of Khemema
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Cu’cirrurn
One of the Cûnuroi still remaining in Ishterebinth by 4132.

Cu’cûlol
Cu'cûlol was a Nonman Qûya and member of the Consult . He was a kinsman of Cû'jara-Cinmoi .

What Came Before

Cu'cûlol joined the Consult at an unknown date.

The Unholy Consult

Cu'cûlol was among the Qûya who fought the Swayali , Mandati and Mysunsai under Anasûrimbor Serwa during the battle for Golgotterath . He was one of the casualties of this confrontation .

Trivia

Cu'cûlol is referred to as "impossibly ancient" , meaning he could quite possibly have been the second oldest living Nonman (after Morimhira ) before his death in 4132.

Cu'cûlol

Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Cûnuroi
Nationality: Siölan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Qûya Member of the Consult
Relatives: Cû’jara-Cinmoi (kinsman)
Books: The Unholy Consult

Cu'cûlol

Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Cûnuroi
Nationality: Siölan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Qûya Member of the Consult
Relatives: Cû’jara-Cinmoi (kinsman)
Books: The Unholy Consult

Cu’huriol
Cu'huriol was the King of Siöl before Arkfall and the grandfather of Cû'jara-Cinmoi .

Story

Cu'huriol became King of Siöl after his elder brother Morimhira refused the Seal of the House Primordial . He had at least two children, Cet'moyol and Linqirû , whose incestuous affair eventually resulted in the birth of Cû'jara-Cinmoi . Cu'huriol had both of his children executed for their scandalous affair, but spared the life of his grandson and raised him as his heir . After the death of Cu'huriol, Cû'jara-Cinmoi lost much of the popularity he had gained during his early life .

Cu'huriol

Title(s): King
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Cûnuroi
Nationality: Siölan
Gender: Male
Occupation: King of Siöl
Relatives: Morimhira (brother) Cet’moyol (son) Linqirû (daughter) Cû’jara-Cinmoi (grandson) Cu’cûlol (kinsman)
Books: The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Cu'huriol

Title(s): King
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Cûnuroi
Nationality: Siölan
Gender: Male
Occupation: King of Siöl
Relatives: Morimhira (brother) Cet’moyol (son) Linqirû (daughter) Cû’jara-Cinmoi (grandson) Cu’cûlol (kinsman)
Books: The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Cu’mimiral
In­jori Ishroi, called "Drag­on-​gored" and "Lord Limper".

cub
-a young animal, esp. the young of the bear.
-jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill
-mannered boy.
-to bring forth;
-- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons.
-a stall for cattle.
-a cupboard.
-to shut up or confine.

cuban
-of or pertaining to cuba or its inhabitants.
-a native or an inhabitant of cuba.

cubation
-the act of lying down; a reclining.

cubatory
-lying down; recumbent.

cubature
-the process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.

cubbed
-of cub

cubbing
-of cub

cubbridge
-head
-a bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

cubby
-alt. of cubbyhole

cubbyhole
-a snug or confined place.

cubdrawn
-sucked by cubs.

cube
-a regular solid body, with six equal square sides.
-the product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.
-to raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

cubeb
-the small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (piper cubeba; in med., cubeba officinalis), native in java and borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. the dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

cubebic
-pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive
-green resin extracted from cubebs).

cubed
-of cube

cubhood
-the state of being a cub.

cubic
-alt. of cubical
-a curve of the third degree.

cubical
-having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.
-isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. see crystallization.

cubically
-in a cubical method.

cubicalness
-the quality of being cubical.

cubicle
-a loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

cubicular
-belonging to a chamber or bedroom.

cubiform
-of the form of a cube.

cubile
-the lowest course of stones in a building.

cubilose
-a mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's
-nests.

cubing
-of cube

cubit
-the forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist.
-a measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.

cubital
-of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle.
-of the length of a cubit.
-a sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand.

cubited
-having the measure of a cubit.

cubless
-having no cubs.

cubo
-octahedral
-presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.

cubo
-octahedron
-a combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.

cuboid
-cube
-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot.
-the bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.

cuboidal
-cuboid.

cuca
-see coca.

cucking stool
-a kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked;
-- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool.

cuckold
-a man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
-a west indian plectognath fish (ostracion triqueter).
-the cowfish.
-to make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.

cuckold's knot
-a hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together;
-- called also cuckold's neck.

cuckolded
-of cuckold

cuckolding
-of cuckold

cuckoldize
-to cuckold.

cuckoldly
-having the qualities of a cuckold; mean
-spirited; sneaking.

cuckoldom
-the state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively.

cuckoldry
-the state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.

cuckoo
-a bird belonging to cuculus, coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.

cuckoobud
-a species of ranunculus (r. bulbosus);
-- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup.

cuckooflower
-a species of cardamine (c. pratensis), or lady's smock. its leaves are used in salads. also, the ragged robin (lychnis flos
-cuculi).

cuckoopint
-a plant of the genus arum (a. maculatum); the european wake
-robin.

cucquean
-a woman whose husband is unfaithful to her.

cucujo
-the fire beetle of mexico and the west indies.

cucullate
-alt. of cucullated

cucullated
-hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.
-having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest american blue violet.
-having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects.
-having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.

cuculoid
-like or belonging to the cuckoos (cuculidae).

cucumber
-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.

cucumiform
-having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.

cucumis
-a genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.

cucurbit
-alt. of cucurbite

cucurbitaceous
-of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.

cucurbite
-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
-having the shape of a gourd seed;
-- said of certain small worms.

cud
-that portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
-a portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.
-the first stomach of ruminating beasts.

cudbear
-a powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. it is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially lecanora tartarea.
-a lichen (lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained.

cudden
-a clown; a low rustic; a dolt.
-the coalfish. see 3d cuddy.

cuddle
-to lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
-to embrace closely; to fondle.
-a close embrace.

cuddled
-of cuddle

cuddling
-of cuddle

cuddy
-an ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
-a blockhead; a lout.
-a lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
-a small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.
-the coalfish (pollachius carbonarius).

cudgel
-a staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.
-to beat with a cudgel.

cudgeled
-of cudgel

cudgeler
-one who beats with a cudgel.

cudgeling
-of cudgel

cudgelled
-of cudgel

cudgelling
-of cudgel

cudweed
-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
-the tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail
-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
-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.
-a hint or intimation.
-the part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.
-humor; temper of mind.
-a straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.
-to form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
-a small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.

cuerpo
-the body.

cuff
-to strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.
-to buffet.
-to fight; to scuffle; to box.
-a blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.
-the fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.
-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.

cuffed
-of cuff

cuffing
-of cuff

cuffy
-a name for a negro.

cufic
-of or pertaining to the older characters of the arabic language.

cuinage
-the stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of cornwall.

cuirass
-a piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle
-the breastplate taken by itself.
-an armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.

cuirassed
-wearing a cuirass.
-having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass;
-- said of certain fishes.

cuirasses
-of cuirass

cuirassier
-a soldier armed with a cuirass.

cuish
-defensive armor for the thighs.

cuisine
-the kitchen or cooking department.
-manner or style of cooking.

cul
-de
-sac
-a passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.
-a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front.
-any bag
-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.

culasse
-the lower faceted portion of a brilliant
-cut diamond.

culdee
-one of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of scotland, ireland, and wales.

culerage
-see culrage.

culex
-a genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and mosquito.

culiciform
-gnat
-shaped.

culinarily
-in the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a kitchen or cooking.

culinary
-relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art.

cull
-to separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
-a cully; a dupe; a gull. see cully.

culled
-of cull

cullender
-a strainer. see colander.

culler
-one who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market.

cullet
-broken glass for remelting.
-a small central plane in the back of a cut gem. see collet, 3 (b).

cullibility
-gullibility.

cullible
-easily deceived; gullible.

cullies
-of cully

culling
-of cull
-the act of one who culls.
-anything separated or selected from a mass.

cullion
-a mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion.

cullionly
-mean; base.

cullis
-a strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly.
-a gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.

cullises
-of cullis

culls
-refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out.
-any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked.

cully
-a person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull.
-to trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive.

cullyism
-the state of being a cully.

culm
-the stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.
-mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses.
-the waste of the pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.

culmen
-top; summit; acme.
-the dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.

culmiferous
-having jointed stems or culms.
-containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.

culminal
-pertaining to a culmen.

culminant
-being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant.

culminate
-to reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.
-to reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.
-growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth;
-- applied to the growth of corals.

culminated
-of culminate

culminating
-of culminate

culmination
-the attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.
-attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.

culpa
-negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.

culpabilities
-of culpability

culpability
-the state of being culpable.

culpable
-deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
-guilty; as, culpable of a crime.

culpatory
-expressing blame; censuring; reprehensory; inculpating.

culpe
-blameworthiness.

culpon
-a shred; a fragment; a strip of wood.

culprit
-one accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.
-one quilty of a fault; a criminal.

culrage
-smartweed (polygonum hydropiper).

culs
-de
-sac
-of cul
-de
-sac

cult
-attentive care; homage; worship.
-a system of religious belief and worship.

cultch
-empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.

culter
-a colter. see colter.

cultirostral
-having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.

cultirostres
-a tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.

cultivable
-capable of being cultivated or tilled.

cultivatable
-cultivable.

cultivate
-to bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
-to direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.
-to seek the society of; to court intimacy with.
-to improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.
-to raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

cultivated
-of cultivate

cultivating
-of cultivate

cultivation
-the art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
-bestowal of time or attention for self
-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care.
-the state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.

cultivator
-one who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature.
-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.

cultrate
-alt. of cultrated

cultrated
-sharp
-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.

cultriform
-shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.

cultrivorous
-devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives;
-- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity.

culturable
-capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured.

cultural
-of or pertaining to culture.

culture
-the act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
-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.
-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.
-to cultivate; to educate.

cultured
-of culture
-under culture; cultivated.
-characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well
-educated.

cultureless
-having no culture.

culturing
-of culture

culturist
-a cultivator.
-one who is an advocate of culture.

cultus
-established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. cf. cult, 2.

cultus cod
-see cod, and buffalo cod, under buffalo.

cultuses
-of cultus

culver
-a dove.
-a culverin.

culverhouse
-a dovecote.

culverin
-a long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18
-pounder with serpent
-shaped handles.

culverkey
-a bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree.
-an english meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (scilla nutans).

culvert
-a transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

culvertail
-dovetail.

culvertailed
-united or fastened by a dovetailed joint.

cumacea
-an order of marine crustacea, mostly of small size.

cumbent
-lying down; recumbent.

cumber
-to rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.
-trouble; embarrassment; distress.

cumbered
-of cumber

cumbering
-of cumber

cumbersome
-burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
-not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine.

cumbrance
-encumbrance.

cumbrian
-pertaining to cumberland, england, or to a system of rocks found there.

cumbrous
-rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
-giving trouble; vexatious.

cumene
-a colorless oily hydrocarbon, c6h5.c3h7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid;
-- called also cumol.

cumfrey
-see comfrey.

cumic
-see cuming.

cumidine
-a strong, liquid, organic base, c3h7.c6h4.nh2, homologous with aniline.

cumin
-a dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (cuminum cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway.

cuminic
-pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid.

cuminil
-a substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.

cuminol
-a liquid, c3h7.c6h4.cho, obtained from oil of caraway;
-- called also cuminic aldehyde.

cummin
-same as cumin.

cumshaw
-a present or bonus;
-- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of canton.
-to give or make a present to.

cumu
-cirro
-stratus
-nimbus, or rain cloud. see nimbus, and cloud.

cumulate
-to gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

cumulated
-of cumulate

cumulating
-of cumulate

cumulation
-the act of heaping together; a heap. see accumulation.

cumulatist
-one who accumulates; one who collects.

cumulative
-composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
-augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.
-tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered;
-- said of evidence.
-given by same testator to the same legatee;
-- said of a legacy.

cumuli
-of cumulus

cumulose
-full of heaps.

cumulostratus
-a form of cloud. see cloud.

cumulus
-one of the four principal forms of clouds. seecloud.

cun
-to con (a ship).
-to know. see con.

cunabula
-the earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.
-the extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.

cunctation
-delay; procrastination.

cunctative
-slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.

cunctator
-one who delays or lingers.

cunctipotent
-all
-powerful; omnipotent.

cund
-to con (a ship).

cundurango
-the bark of a south american vine (gonolobus condurango) of the milkweed family. it has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer.

cuneal
-relating to a wedge; wedge
-shaped.

cuneate
-alt. of cuneated

cuneated
-wedge
-shaped
-wedge
-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.

cuneatic
-cuneiform.

cuneiform
-alt. of cuniform
-alt. of cuniform

cunette
-a drain trench, in a ditch or moat;
-- called also cuvette.

cuniform
-wedge
-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone;
-- especially applied to the wedge
-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient persian and assyrian inscriptions. see arrowheaded.
-pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge
-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them.
-the wedge
-shaped characters used in ancient persian and assyrian inscriptions.
-one of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. they are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.
-one of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna;
-- called also pyramidal and ulnare.

cunner
-a small edible fish of the atlantic coast (ctenolabrus adspersus);
-- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer.
-a small shellfish; the limpet or patella.

cunning
-knowing; skillful; dexterous.
-wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
-crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
-pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
-knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
-the faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.

cunningly
-in a cunning manner; with cunning.

cunningman
-a fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.

cunningness
-quality of being cunning; craft.

cup
-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.
-the contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
-repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
-that which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
-anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
-a cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
-to supply with cups of wine.
-to apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. see cupping.
-to make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.

cup
-gall
-a kind of oak
-leaf gall. see gall.

cup
-moss
-a kind of lichen, of the genus cladonia.

cup
-rose
-red poppy. see cop
-rose.

cupbearer
-one whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.
-one of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master.

cupboard
-a board or shelf for cups and dishes.
-a small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.
-to collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

cupel
-a shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).
-to refine by means of a cupel.

cupellation
-the act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.

cupelled
-of cupel

cupelling
-of cupel

cupful
-as much as a cup will hold.

cupfuls
-of cupful

cupid
-the god of love, son of venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.

cupidity
-a passionate desire; love.
-eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness

cupola
-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.
-a small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.
-a furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity,
-- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.
-a revolving shot
-proof turret for heavy ordnance.
-the top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

cupolas
-of cupola

cupped
-of cup

cupper
-one who performs the operation of cupping.

cupping
-of cup
-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.

cupreous
-consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.

cupric
-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.

cupriferous
-containing copper; as, cupriferous silver.

cuprite
-the red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.

cuproid
-a solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles.

cuprous
-of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper;
-- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.

cuprum
-copper.

cupulate
-having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous.

cupule
-a cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.
-a sucker or acetabulum.

cupuliferous
-of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples,
-- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

cur
-a mongrel or inferior dog.
-a worthless, snarling fellow;
-- used in contempt.

curability
-the state of being curable; curableness.

curable
-capable of being cured; admitting remedy.

curacao
-alt. of curacoa

curacies
-of curacy

curacoa
-a liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace;
-- first made at the island of curaccao.

curacy
-the office or employment of a curate.

curare
-alt. of curari

curari
-a black resinoid extract prepared by the south american indians from the bark of several species of strychnos (s. toxifera, etc.). it sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the indians as an arrow poison.

curarine
-a deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the strychnos toxifera. it is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

curarize
-to poison with curare.

curassow
-a large gallinaceous bird of the american genera crax, ourax, etc., of the family cracidae.

curat
-a cuirass or breastplate.

curate
-one who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.

curateship
-a curacy.

curation
-cure; healing.

curative
-relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.

curator
-one who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.
-one appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.

curatorship
-the office of a curator.

curatrix
-a woman who cures.
-a woman who is a guardian or custodian.

curb
-to bend or curve
-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.
-to furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
-to bend; to crouch; to cringe.
-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.
-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.
-a frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
-a curbstone.
-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.

curb roof
-a roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.

curbed
-of curb

curbing
-of curb

curbless
-having no curb or restraint.

curbstone
-a stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.

curch
-see courche.

curculio
-one of a large group of beetles (rhynchophora) of many genera;
-- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc.

curculionidous
-pertaining to the curculionideae, or weevil tribe.

curculios
-of curculio

curcuma
-a genus of plants of the order scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (curcuma longa).

curcumin
-the coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, c14h14o4, with a green fluorescence.

curd
-the coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. it is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese.
-the coagulated part of any liquid.
-the edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower.
-to cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
-to become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey

curded
-of curd

curdiness
-the state of being curdy.

curding
-of curd

curdle
-to change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
-to thicken; to congeal.
-to change into curd; to cause to coagulate.
-to congeal or thicken.

curdled
-of curdle

curdless
-destitute of curd.

curdling
-of curdle

curdy
-like curd; full of curd; coagulated.

cure
-care, heed, or attention.
-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.
-medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
-act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
-means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
-to heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well;
-- said of a patient.
-to subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal;
-- said of a malady.
-to set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
-to prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
-to pay heed; to care; to give attention.
-to restore health; to effect a cure.
-to become healed.
-a curate; a pardon.

cureall
-a remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea.

cured
-of cure

cureless
-incapable of cure; incurable.

curer
-one who cures; a healer; a physician.
-one who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.

curette
-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.

curfew
-the ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest,
-- instituted by william the conqueror; also, the bell itself.
-a utensil for covering the fire.

curia
-one of the thirty parts into which the roman people were divided by romulus.
-the place of assembly of one of these divisions.
-the place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
-the court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
-any court of justice.
-the roman see in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration;
-- called also curia romana.

curialism
-the view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the latin church.

curialist
-one who belongs to the ultramontane party in the latin church.

curialistic
-pertaining to a court.
-relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the latin church.

curiality
-the privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court.

curiet
-a cuirass.

curing
-of cure
-p. a. & vb. n. of cure.

curio
-any curiosity or article of virtu.

curiologic
-pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.

curios
-of curio

curiosities
-of curiosity

curiosity
-the state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
-disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.
-that which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.

curioso
-a virtuoso.

curiosos
-of curioso

curious
-difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
-exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
-careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying;
-- sometimes with after or of.
-exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.

curiously
-in a curious manner.

curiousness
-carefulness; painstaking.
-the state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.
-inquisitiveness; curiosity.

curl
-to twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
-to twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
-to deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
-to raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
-to shape (the brim) into a curve.
-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.
-to move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
-to play at the game called curling.
-a ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
-an undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
-a disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.

curle
-of curia

curled
-of curl
-having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).

curledness
-state of being curled; curliness.

curler
-one who, or that which, curls.
-a player at the game called curling.

curlew
-a wading bird of the genus numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

curliness
-state of being curly.

curling
-of curl
-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.
-a scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.

curlingly
-with a curl, or curls.

curly
-curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.

curlycue
-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.

curmudgeon
-an avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.

curmudgeonly
-like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.

curmurring
-murmuring; grumbling;
-- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes.

curr
-to coo.

currant
-a small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the levant, chiefly from zante and cephalonia;
-- used in cookery.
-the acid fruit or berry of the ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
-a shrub or bush of several species of the genus ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the ribes rubrum.

currencies
-of currency

currency
-a continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
-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.
-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.
-fluency; readiness of utterance.
-current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

current
-running or moving rapidly.
-now passing, as time; as, the current month.
-passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
-commonly estimated or acknowledged.
-fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
-a flowing or passing; onward motion. hence: a body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
-general course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.

currently
-in a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.

currentness
-the quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.
-easiness of pronunciation; fluency.

curricle
-a small or short course.
-a two
-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.

curricula
-of curriculum

curriculum
-a race course; a place for running.
-a course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.

curriculums
-of curriculum

currie
-see 2d & 3d curry.

curried
-dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.
-prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc.
-of curry

currier
-one who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned.

currish
-having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.

curry
-to dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring;
-- said of leather.
-to dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.
-to beat or bruise; to drub;
-- said of persons.
-a kind of sauce much used in india, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
-a stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
-to flavor or cook with curry.

currycomb
-a kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.
-to comb with a currycomb.

currying
-of curry

curse
-to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
-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.
-to utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
-an invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
-evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
-the cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.

cursed
-of curse
-deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.

cursedly
-in a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.

cursedness
-the state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.
-wickedness; sin; cursing.
-shrewishness.

curser
-one who curses.

curship
-the state of being a cur; one who is currish.

cursing
-of curse

cursitating
-moving about slightly.

cursitor
-a courier or runner.
-an officer in the court of chancery, whose business is to make out original writs.

cursive
-running; flowing.
-a character used in cursive writing.
-a manuscript, especially of the new testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand;
-- opposed to uncial.

cursor
-any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

cursorary
-cursory; hasty.

cursores
-an order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the ratitaae.
-a group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.

cursorial
-adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. see illust. of aves.
-of or pertaining to the cursores.

cursorily
-in a running or hasty manner; carelessly.

cursoriness
-the quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.

cursory
-running about; not stationary.
-characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.

curst
-of curse
-imp. & p. p. of curse.
-froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.

curstfully
-peevishly; vexatiously; detestably.

curstness
-peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.

curt
-characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.

curtail
-to cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
-the scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.

curtail dog
-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.

curtailed
-of curtail

curtailer
-one who curtails.

curtailing
-of curtail

curtailment
-the act or result of curtailing or cutting off.

curtain
-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.
-that part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. see illustrations of ravelin and bastion.
-that part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
-a flag; an ensign;
-- in contempt.
-to inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

curtained
-of curtain

curtaining
-of curtain

curtal
-curt; brief; laconic.
-a horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.

curtal ax
-alt. of curtelasse

curtal friar
-a friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.

curtana
-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
-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.

curtation
-the interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.

curtein
-same as curtana.

curtelasse
-a corruption of cutlass.

curtes
-courteous.

curtesies
-of curtesy

curtesy
-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.

curtilage
-a yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.

curtle ax
-alt. of curtelasse

curtly
-in a curt manner.

curtness
-the quality of bing curt.

curtsy
-same as courtesy, an act of respect.

curule
-of or pertaining to a chariot.
-of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.

cururo
-a chilian burrowing rodent of the genus spalacopus.

curval
-alt. of curvant

curvant
-bowed; bent; curved.

curvate
-alt. of curvated

curvated
-bent in a regular form; curved.

curvation
-the act of bending or crooking.

curvative
-having the margins only a little curved;
-- said of leaves.

curvature
-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.
-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.

curve
-bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
-a bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
-a line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
-to bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
-to bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.

curved
-of curve

curvedness
-the state of being curved.

curvet
-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.
-a prank; a frolic.
-to make a curvet; to leap; to bound.
-to leap and frisk; to frolic.
-to cause to curvet.

curveted
-of curvet

curveting
-of curvet

curvicaudate
-having a curved or crooked tail.

curvicostate
-having bent ribs.

curvidentate
-having curved teeth.

curviform
-having a curved form.

curvilinead
-an instrument for drawing curved lines.

curvilineal
-alt. of curvilinear

curvilinear
-consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.

curvilinearity
-the state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.

curvilinearly
-in a curvilinear manner.

curvinerved
-having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved;
-- called also curvinervate and curve
-veined.

curving
-of curve

curvirostral
-having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.

curvirostres
-a group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.

curviserial
-distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.

curvity
-the state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.

curvograph
-an arcograph.

cushat
-the ringdove or wood pigeon.

cushewbird
-the galeated curassow. see curassow.

cushion
-a case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.
-anything resembling a cushion in properties or use
-a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf
-a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston
-the elastic edge of a billiard table.
-a riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings;
-- called also cushion dance.
-to seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
-to furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.
-to conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

cushioned
-of cushion

cushionet
-a little cushion.

cushioning
-of cushion

cushionless
-hot furnished with a cushion.

cushiony
-like a cushion; soft; pliable.

cushite
-a descendant of cush, the son of ham and grandson of noah.

cusk
-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
-a kind of drinking cup.

cusp
-a triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.
-the beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc.
-the point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent
-shaped luminary.
-a multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent.
-a prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth.
-a sharp and rigid point.
-to furnish with a cusp or cusps.

cuspated
-ending in a point.

cusped
-of cusp

cuspid
-one of the canine teeth;
-- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. see tooth.

cuspidal
-ending in a point.

cuspidate
-to make pointed or sharp.
-alt. of cuspidated

cuspidated
-having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf.

cuspidor
-any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort.

cusping
-of cusp

cuspis
-a point; a sharp end.

cussuetudinary
-a manual or ritual of customary devotional exercises.

custard
-a mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.

custode
-see custodian.

custodes
-of custos

custodial
-relating to custody or guardianship.

custodian
-one who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.

custodianship
-office or duty of a custodian.

custodier
-a custodian.

custody
-a keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
-judicial or penal safe
-keeping.
-state of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.

custom
-frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
-habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
-long
-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. see usage, and prescription.
-familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
-to make familiar; to accustom.
-to supply with customers.
-to have a custom.
-the customary toll, tax, or tribute.
-duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
-to pay the customs of.

customable
-customary.
-subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.

customableness
-quality of being customable; conformity to custom.

customably
-usually.

customarily
-in a customary manner; habitually.

customariness
-quality of being customary.

customary
-agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
-holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
-a book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the customary of the normans.

customer
-one who collect customs; a toll gatherer.
-one who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
-a person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.
-a peculiar person;
-- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer.
-a lewd woman.

customhouse
-the building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.

custos
-a keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.

custrel
-an armor
-bearer to a knight.
-see costrel.

custumary
-see customary.

cut
-of cut
-to separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.
-to sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.
-to sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.
-to castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.
-to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.
-to wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.
-to intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.
-to refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.
-to absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.
-to do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
-to admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
-to perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.
-to make a stroke with a whip.
-to interfere, as a horse.
-to move or make off quickly.
-to divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.
-an opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.
-a stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.
-that which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.
-a notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.
-the surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.
-a portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.
-an engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.
-the act of dividing a pack cards.
-the right to divide; as, whose cut is it?
-manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.
-a common work horse; a gelding.
-the failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
-a skein of yarn.
-gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
-formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.
-overcome by liquor; tipsy.

cut
-off
-that which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.
-the valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. see expansion gear, under expansion.
-any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.

cut
-out
-a species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.
-a device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.

cutaneous
-of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.

cutaway
-having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.

cutch
-see catechu.
-see cultch.

cutchery
-a hindoo hall of justice.

cute
-clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.

cuteness
-acuteness; cunning.

cutgrass
-a grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of leersia.

cuticle
-the scarfskin or epidermis. see skin.
-the outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.
-a thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.

cuticular
-pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.

cutin
-the substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork.

cutinization
-the conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork.

cutinize
-to change into cutin.

cutis
-see dermis.

cutlass
-a short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. see curtal ax.

cutlasses
-of cutlass

cutler
-one who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.

cutlery
-the business of a cutler.
-edged or cutting instruments, collectively.

cutlet
-a piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.

cutling
-the art of making edged tools or cutlery.

cutose
-a variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.

cutpurse
-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

cutter
-one who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
-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.
-a fore tooth; an incisor.
-a boat used by ships of war.
-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.
-a small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service;
-- also called revenue cutter.
-a small, light one
-horse sleigh.
-an officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
-a ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
-a kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework;
-- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.

cutthroat
-one who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
-murderous; cruel; barbarous.

cutting
-of cut
-the act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
-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.
-adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.
-chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.
-severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.

cuttingly
-in a cutting manner.

cuttle
-a knife.
-alt. of cuttlefish

cuttle bone
-the shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.

cuttlefish
-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.
-a foul
-mouthed fellow.

cuttoo plate
-a hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.

cutty
-a short spoon.
-a short tobacco pipe.
-a light or unchaste woman.

cuttystool
-a low stool
-a seat in old scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.

cutwal
-the chief police officer of a large city.

cutwater
-the fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.
-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.
-a sea bird of the atlantic (rhynchops nigra);
-- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. see skimmer.

cutwork
-an ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

cutworm
-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
-a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
-a cunette.
-a small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.