CUBATION, noun [Latin , to lie down.] The act of lying down; a reclining.

CUBATORY, adjective Lying down; reclining; incumbent.

CUBATURE, noun [from cube.] The finding exactly the solid or cubic contents of a body.

CUBE, noun [Gr., Latin , a die or cube; to set or throw down, that which is set or laid, a solid mass.]

1. In geometry, a regular solid body, with six equal sides, and containing equal angles.

2. In arithmetic, the product of a number multiplied into itself, and that product multiplied into the same number; or it is formed by multiplying any number twice by itself; as, 4 times 4 = 16, and 16 times 4 = 64, the cube of 4.

The law of the planets is, that the squares of the times of their revolutions are in proportion to the cubes of their mean distances.

CUBE root, is the number or quantity, which, multiplied into itself, and then into the product, produces the cube; or which, twice multiplied into itself, produces the number of which it is the root; thus, 3 is the cube root or side of 27, for 3 times 3 = 9, and 3 times 9 = 27.

CUBEB, noun The small spicy berry of the Piper cubeba, from Java and the other E. India isles. It was formerly called, from its short stems, Piper caudatum, or tailed pepper. It resembles a grain of pepper, but is somewhat longer. In aromatic warmth and pungency, it is far inferior to pepper.

CUBIC, CUBICAL, adjective [Latin See Cube.] Having the form or properties of a cube; that may be or is contained within a cube. A cubic foot of water is the water that may be contained within six equal sides, each a foot square.

CUBIC, CUBICAL adjective [Latin See Cube.] Having the form or properties of a cube; that may be or is contained within a cube. A cubic foot of water is the water that may be contained within six equal sides, each a foot square.

Cubic number, is a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product by the same number; or it is the number arising from the multiplication of a square number by its root. [See Cube.]

CUBICALNESS, noun The state or quality of being cubical.

CUBICULAR, adjective [Latin] Belonging to a chamber.

CUBICULARY, adjective [Latin , a bedroom.] Fitted for the posture of lying down. [Little used.]

CUBIFORM, adjective Having the form of a cube.

CUBIT, noun [Latin , the elbow; signifying a turn or corner; Gr.]

1. In anatomy, the fore arm; the ulna, and bone of the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

2. In mensuration, the length of a mans arm from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. The cubit among the ancients was of a different length among different nations. Dr. Arbuthnot states the Roman cubit at seventeen inches and four tenths; the cubit of the scriptures at a little less than 22 inches; and the English cubit at 18 inches.

CUBITAL, adjective

1. Of the length or measure of a cubit.

2. Pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as the cubital nerve; cubital artery; cubital muscle.

CUBITED, adjective Having the measure of a cubit.

CUBOID, adjective Having the form of a cube, or differing little from it.

CUBOIDAL, adjective [Gr., cube, and form.] Cubiform; in the shape of a cube; as the cuboidal bone of the foot.

CUCKINGSTOOL, noun An engine for punishing scolds and refractory women; also brewers and bakers; called also a tumbrel and a trebuchet. The culprit was seated on the stool and thus immersed in water.

CUCKOLD, noun A man whose wife is false to his bed; the husband of an adulteress.

CUCKOLD, verb transitive

1. To make a man a cuckold by criminal conversation with his wife; applied to the seducer.

2. To make a husband a cuckold by criminal conversation with another man; applied to the wife.

CUCKOLDDOM, noun The act of adultery; the state of a cuckold.

CUCKOLDLY, adjective Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean; sneaking.

CUCKOO, noun [Latin , Gr. See Gawk.] A bird of the genus Cuculus, whose name is supposed to be called from its note. The note is a call to love, and continued only during the amorous season. It is said the cuckoo lays its eggs in a nest formed by another bird, by which they are hatched.

CUCQUEAN, noun A vile lewd woman. [Not in use.]

CUCULLATE, CUCULLATED, adjective [Latin , a hood, a cowl.]

CUCULLATE, CUCULLATED adjective [Latin , a hood, a cowl.]

1. Hooded; cowled; covered as with a hood.

2. Having the shape or resemblance of a hood; or wide at the top and drawn to a point below, in shape of a conical roll of paper; as a cucullate leaf.

CUCUMBER, noun [Latin] The name of a plant and its fruit, of the genus Cucumis. The flower is yellow and bell-shaped; and the stalks are long, slender and trailing on the ground, or climbing by their claspers.

CUCURBIT, noun [Latin , a gourd.] A chemical vessel in the shape of a gourd; but some of them are shallow, with a wide mouth. It may be made of copper, glass, tin or stone ware, and is used in distillation. This vessel, with its head or cover, constitutes the alembic.

CUCURBITACEOUS, adjective Resembling a gourd; as cucurbitaceous plants, such as the melon and pumpkin or pompion.

CUD, noun [See Chew and Jaw.]

1. The food which ruminating animals chew at leisure, when not grazing or eating; or that portion of it which is brought from the first stomach and chewed at once.

2. A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed.

3. The inside of the mouth or throat of a beast that chews the cud

CUDDEN, CUDDY, noun A clown; a low rustic; a dolt. [Not used.]

CUDDLE, verb intransitive To retire from sight; to lie close or snug; to squat.

CUDDY, noun

1. In ships, an apartment; a cabin under the poop, or a cook-room. It is applied to different apartments, in different kinds of ships.

2. The cole-fish.

CUDGEL, noun A short thick stick of wood, such as may be used by the hand in beating. It differs strictly from a club, which is larger at one end than the other. It is shorter than a pole, and thicker than a rod.

To cross the cudgels, to forbear the contest; a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel-players, who lay one cudgel over another.

CUDGEL, verb transitive

1. To beat with a cudgel or thick stick.

2. To beat in general.

CUDGELER, noun One who beats with a cudgel.

CUDLE, noun A small sea fish.

CUDWEED, noun A plant of the genus Gnaphalium, goldy-locks or eternal flower, of many species. The flowers are remarkable for retaining their beauty for years, if gathered in dry weather.

CUE, noun [Latin]

1. The tail; the end of a thing; as the long curl of a wig, or a long roll of hair.

2. The last words of a speech, which a player, who is to answer, catches and regards as an intimation to begin. A hint given to an actor on the stage, what or when to speak.

3. A hint; an intimation; a short direction.

4. The part which any man is to play in his turn.

Were it my cue to fight.

5. Humor; turn or temper of mind. [Vulgar.]

6. A farthing, or farthings worth.

7. The straight rod, used in playing billiards.

CUERPO, noun [Latin , body.] To be in cuerpo or to walk in cuerpo are Spanish phrases fro being without a cloke or upper garment, or without the formalities of a full dress, so that the shape of the body is exposed.

CUFF, noun [Latin , Gr.]

1. A blow with the fist; a stroke; a box.

2. It is used of fowls that fight with their talons.

To be at fisty-cuffs, to fight with blows of the fist.

CUFF, verb transitive To strike with the fist, as a man; or with talons or wings, as a fowl.

CUFF, verb intransitive To fight; to scuffle.

CUFF, noun [This word probably signifies a fold or doubling.] The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.

CUINAGE, noun The making up of tin into pigs, etc. for carriage.

CUIRASS, noun A breast-plate; a piece of defensive armor, made or iron plate, well hammered, and covering the body from the neck to the girdle.

CUIRASSIER, noun A soldier armed with a cuirass, or breast plate.

CUISH, noun Defensive armor for the thighs.

CULDEE, noun [Latin , worshipers of God.] A monkish priest, remarkable for religious duties. The Culdees formerly inhabited Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

CULERAGE, noun Another name of the arse-smart.

CULICIFORM, adjective [Latin , a gnat or flea; form.] Of the form or shape of a flea; resembling a flea.

CULINARY, adjective [Latin , a kitchen. See Kiln.] Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as a culinary fire; a culinary vessel; culinary herbs.

CULL, verb transitive To pick out; to separate one or more things from others; to select from many; as, to cull flowers; to cull hoops and staves for market.

CULLED, participle passive Picked out; selected from many.

CULLER, noun

1. One who picks or chooses from many.

2. An inspector who selects merchantable hoops and staves for market.

CULLIBILITY, noun [from cully.] Credulity; easiness of belief. [Not elegant nor used.]

CULLING, participle present tense Selecting; choosing from many.

CULLION, noun

1. A mean wretch. If from cully, one easily deceived; a dupe.

2. A round or bulbous root; orchis. Latin

CULLIONLY, adjective Mean; base. [A bad word, and not used.]

CULLIS, noun

1. Broth of boiled meat strained.

2. A kind of jelly.

CULLY, noun [See the Verb.] A person who is meanly deceived, tricked or imposed on, as by a sharper, jilt, or strumpet; a mean dupe.

CULLY, verb transitive To deceive; to trick, cheat or impose on; to jilt.

CULLYISM, noun The state of a cully. [Cully and its derivatives are not elegant words.]

CULM, noun [Latin See Quill and Haulm.]

1. In botany, the stalk or stem of corn and grasses, usually jointed and hollow, and supporting the leaves and fructification.

2. The straw or dry stalks of corn and grasses.

3. A species of fossil coal, found in small masses, not adhering when heated, difficult to be ignited, and burning with little flame, but yielding a disagreeable smell.

CULMIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , a stalk; to bear.] Producing stalks. culmiferous plants have a smooth jointed stalk, usually hollow, and wrapped about at each joint with single, narrow, sharp-pointed leaves, and their seeds contained in chaffy husks, as wheat, rye, oats and barley.

CULMINATE, verb intransitive [Latin , a top or ridge.] To be vertical; to come or be in the meridian; to be in the highest point of altitude; as a planet.

CULMINATION, noun

1. The transit of a planet over the meridian, or highest point of altitude for the day.

2. Top; crown.

CULPABILITY, noun [See Culpable.] Blamableness; culpableness.

CULPABLE, adjective [Latin , a fault.]

1. Blamable; deserving censure; as the person who has done wrong, or the act, conduct or negligence of the person. We say, the man is culpable or voluntary ignorance is culpable

2. Sinful; criminal; immoral; faulty. But generally, culpable is applied to acts less atrocious than crimes.

3. Guilty of; as culpable of a crime. [Not used.]

CULPABLENESS, noun Blamableness; guilt; the quality of deserving blame.

CULPABLY, adverb Blamably; in a faulty manner; in a manner to merit censure.

CULPRIT, noun [supposed to be formed from cul, for culpable, and prit, ready; certain abbreviations used by the clerks in noting the arraignment of criminals; the prisoner is guilty, and the king is ready to prove him so.]

1. A person arraigned in court for a crime.

2. Any person convicted of a crime; a criminal.

CULTER, noun [Latin] A colter, which see.

CULTIVABLE, adjective [See Cultivate.] Capable of being tilled or cultivated.

CULTIVATE, verb transitive [Latin , to till, to dwell.]

1. To till; to prepare for crops; to manure, plow, dress, sow and reap; to labor on manage and improve in husbandry; as, to cultivate land; to cultivate a farm.

2. To improve by labor or study; to advance the growth of; to refine and improve by correction of faults, and enlargement of powers or good qualities; as, to cultivate talents; to cultivate a taste for poetry.

3. To study; to labor to improve or advance; as, to cultivate philosophy; to cultivate the mind.

4. To cherish; to foster; to labor to promote and increase; as, to cultivate the love of excellence; to cultivate gracious affections.

5. To improve; to meliorate, or to labor to make better; to correct; to civilize; as, to cultivate the wild savage.

6. To raise or produce by tillage; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

CULTIVATED, participle passive Tilled; improved in excellence or condition; corrected and enlarged; cherished; meliorated; civilized; produced by tillage.

CULTIVATING, participle present tense Tilling; preparing for crops; improving in worth or good qualities; meliorating; enlarging; correcting; fostering; civilizing; producing by tillage.

CULTIVATION, noun

1. The art or practice of tilling and preparing for crops; husbandry; the management of land. Land is often made better by cultivation Ten acres under good cultivation will produce more than twenty when badly tilled.

2. Study, care and practice directed to improvement, correction, enlargement or increase; the application of the means of improvement; as, men may grow wiser by the cultivation of talents; they may grow better by the cultivation of the mind, of virtue, and of piety.

3. The producing by tillage; as the cultivation of corn or grass.

CULTIVATOR, noun

1. One who tills, or prepares land for crops; one who manages a farm, or carries on the operations of husbandry in general; a farmer; a husbandman; an agriculturist.

2. One who studies or labors to improve, to promote and advance in good qualities, or in growth.

CULTRATED, adjective [L, a knife.] Sharp-edged and pointed; formed like a knife; as, the beak of a bird is convex and cultrated

CULTURE, noun [Latin See Cultivate.]

1. The act of tilling and preparing the earth for crops; cultivation; the application of labor or other means of improvement.

We ought to blame the culture not the soil.

2. The application of labor or other means to improve good qualities in, or growth; as the culture of the mind; the culture of virtue.

3. The application of labor or other means in producing; as the culture of corn, or grass.

4. Any labor or means employed for improvement, correction or growth.

CULTURE, verb transitive To cultivate.

CULVER, noun [Latin] A pigeon, or wood pigeon.

CULVERIN, noun [Latin , a serpent.] A long slender piece of ordnance or artillery, serving to carry a ball to a great distance.

CULVERKEY, noun A plant or flower.

CULVERT, noun A passage under a road or canal, covered with a bridge; an arched drain for the passage of water.

CULVERTAIL, noun [culver and tail.] Dove-tail, in joinery and carpentry.

CULVERTAILED, adjective United or fastened, as pieces of timber by a dove-tailed joint; a term used by shipwrights.

CUMBENT, adjective [Latin] Lying down.

CUMBER, verb transitive [G., to arrest, to concern, to trouble, to grieve.]

1. To load; to crowd.

A variety of frivolous arguments cumbers the memory to no purpose.

2. To check, stop or retard, as by a load or weight; to make motion difficult; to obstruct.

Why asks he what avails him not in fight, and would but cumber and retard his flight.

3. To perplex or embarrass; to distract or trouble.

Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke 10:40.

4. To trouble; to be troublesome to; to cause trouble or obstruction in, as any thing useless. Thus, brambles cumber a garden or field. [See Encumber, which is more generally used.]

CUMBER, noun Hindrance; obstruction; burdensomeness; embarrassment; disturbance; distress.

Thus fade thy helps, and thus thy cumbers spring. [This word is now scarcely used.]

CUMBERSOME, adjective

1. Troublesome; burdensome; embarrassing; vexatious; as cumbersome obedience.

2. Unwieldy; unmanageable not easily borne or managed; as a cumbersome load; a cumbersome machine.

CUMBERSOMELY, adverb In a manner to encumber.

CUMBERSOMENESS, noun Burdensomeness; the quality of being cumbersome and troublesome.

CUMBRANCE, noun That which obstructs, retards, or renders motion or action difficult and toilsome; burden; encumbrance; hindrance; oppressive load; embarrassment.

CUMBROUS, adjective

1. Burdensome; troublesome; rendering action difficult or toilsome; oppressive; as a cumbrous weight or charge.

2. Giving trouble; vexatious; as a cloud of cumbrous gnats.

3. Confused; jumbled; obstructing each other; as the cumbrous elements.

CUMBROUSLY, adverb In a cumbrous manner.

CUMFREY, noun A genus of plants, the Symphytum; sometimes written comfrey, comfry, and comphry.

CUMIN, noun [Latin , Gr.] An annual plant of one species, whose seeds have a bitterish warm taste, with an aromatic flavor.

CUMULATE, verb transitive [Latin , a heap.] To gather or throw into a heap; to form a heap; to heap together. [Accumulate is more generally used.]

CUMULATION, noun The act of heaping together; a heap. [See Accumulation.]

CUMULATIVE, adjective

1. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass.

2. That augments by addition; that is added to something else. In law, that augments, as evidence, facts or arguments of the same kind.

CUN, verb transitive

1. To know. [Not used.] [See Con.]

2. To direct the course of a ship. [See Cond, the true orthography.]

CUNCTATION, noun [Latin , to delay.] Delay. [Not much used.]

CUNCTATOR, noun One who delays or lingers. [Little used.]

CUND, verb transitive To give notice. [See Cond.]

CUNEAL, adjective [Latin , a wedge. See coin.] Having the form of a wedge.

CUNEATE, CUNEATED, adjective Wedge-shaped.

CUNEATE, CUNEATED adjective Wedge-shaped.

CUNEIFORM, CUNIFORM, adjective [Latin , a wedge, and form.] Having the shape or form of a wedge.

CUNEIFORM, CUNIFORM adjective [Latin , a wedge, and form.] Having the shape or form of a wedge.

CUNNER, noun A kind of fish, less than an oyster, that sticks close to the rocks.

CUNNING, adjective [G. See Can.]

1. Knowing; skillful; experienced; well-instructed. It is applied to all kinds of knowledge, but generally and appropriately, to the skill and dexterity of artificers, or the knowledge acquired by experience.

Esau was a cunning hunter. Genesis 23:1.

I will take away the cunning artificer. Isaiah 3:3.

A cunning workman. Exodus 38:23.

2. Wrought with skill; curious; ingenious.

With cherubs of cunning work shalt thou make them. Exodus 26:1.

[The foregoing senses occur frequently in our version of the scriptures, but are nearly or quite obsolete.]

3. Artful; shrewd; sly; crafty; astute; designing; as a cunning fellow.

They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.

In this sense, the purpose or final end of the person may not be illaudalbe; but cunning implies the use of artifice to accomplish the purpose, rather than open, candid, or direct means. Hence,

4. Deceitful; trickish; employing stratagems for a bad purpose.

5. Assumed with subtilty; artful.

Accounting his integrity to be but a cunning face of falsehood.

CUNNING, noun

1. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.

Let my right hand forget her cunning Psalms 137:5.

2. Art; artifice; artfulness; craft; shrewdness; the faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose. Hence in a bad sense, deceitfulness or deceit; fraudulent skill or dexterity.

Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.

CUNNINGLY, adverb Artfully; craftily; with subtilty; with fraudulent contrivance.

We have not followed cunningly devised fables. 2 Peter 1:16.

CUNNINGMAN, noun A man who pretends to tell fortunes, or teach how to recover stolen or lost goods.

CUNNINGNESS, noun Cunning; craft; deceitfulness.

CUP, noun [Latin , a little cup ]

1. A small vessel of capacity, used commonly to drink out of. It is usually made of metal; as a silver cup; a tin cup But the name is also given to vessels of like shape used for other purposes. It is usually more deep than wide; but tea-cups and coffee-cups are often exceptions.

2. The contents of a cup; the liquor contained in a cup or that it may contain; as a cup of beer. See 1 Corinthians 11:25.

3. In a scriptural sense, sufferings and afflictions; that which is to be received or endured.

O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Matthew 26:27.

4. Good received; blessings and favors.

My cup runneth over. Psalms 23:5.

Take the cup of salvation, that is, receive the blessings of deliverance and redemption with joy and thanksgiving.

5. Any thing hollow like a cup; as the cup of an acorn. The bell of a flower, and a calyx is called a flower-cup.

6. A glass cup or vessel used for drawing blood in scarification.

CUP and can, familiar companions; the can being the large vessel out of which the cup is filled, and thus the two being constantly associated.

CUPs, in the plural, social entertainment in drinking; merry bout.

Thence from cups to civil broils.

CUP, verb intransitive

1. In surgery, to apply a cupping-glass to procure a discharge of blood from a scarified part of the body.

2. To supply with cups.

CUPBEARER, noun An attendant of a prince or at a feast, who conveys wine or other liquors to the guests; an officer of the kings household. Nehemiah 1:11.

CUPBOARD, noun [cup and board.] Originally, a board or shelf for cups to stand on. In modern houses, a small case or inclosure in a room with shelves destined to receive cups, plates, dishes and the like.

CUPBOARD, verb transitive To collect into a cupboard; to hoard. [Not used.]

CUPEL, noun [Latin , a little cup.] A small cup or vessel used in refining metals. It retains them while in a metallic state, but when changed by fire into a fluid scoria, it absorbs them. Thus when a mixture of lead with gold or silver is heated in a strong fire, the lead is oxydated and vitrified, and sinks into the substance of the cupel while the gold or silver remains pure. This kind of vessel is made usually of phosphate of lim, or the residue of burnt bones, rammed into a mold, which gives it its figure.

CUPELLATION, noun The refining of gold or silver by a cupel or by scorification.

CUPGALL, noun A singular kind of gall found on the leaves of oak, etc. It contains the worm of a small fly.

CUPIDITY, noun [Latin , to desire, to covet.] An eager desire to possess something; an ardent wishing or longing; inordinate or unlawful desire of wealth or power. It is not used, I believe, for the animal appetite, like lust or concupiscence, but for desire of the mind.

No property is secure when it becomes large enough to tempt the cupidity of indigent power.

CUPOLA, noun In architecture, a spherical vault on the top of an edifice; a dome, or the round top of a dome.

CUPOLAID, adjective Having a cupola. [Not used.]

CUPPER, noun [from cup.] One who applies a cupping-glass; a scarifier.

CUPPING, participle present tense Applying a cupping-glass, with scarification; a drawing blood with a cupping-glass.

CUPREOUS, adjective [Latin , copper.] Coppery; consisting of copper; resembling copper, or partaking of its qualities.

CUPRIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , copper; to bear.] Producing or affording copper; as cupriferous silver.

CUR, noun A degenerate dog; and in reproach, a worthless man.

CURABLE, adjective [See Cure.] That may be healed or cured; admitting a remedy; as acurable wound or disease; a curable evil.

CURABLENESS, noun Possibility of being cured, healed or remedied.

CURACY, CURATESHIP, noun [See Cure and Curate.]

CURATE, noun [Latin , care. See Cure.]

1. A clergyman in the church of England, who is employed to perform divine service in the place of the incumbent, parson or vicar. He must be licenced by the bishop or ordinary, and having no fixed estate in the curacy, he may be removed at pleasure. But some curates are perpetual.

2. One employed to perform the duties of another.

CURACY, CURATESHIP noun [See Cure and Curate.]

1. The office or employment of a curate; the employment of a clergyman who represents the incumbent or beneficiary of a church, parson or vicar, and officiates in his stead.

2. A benefice held by license from the bishop.

CURATIVE, adjective Relating to the cure of diseases; tending to cure.

CURATOR, noun [Latin See Cure.]

1. One who hast he care and superintendence of any thing.

2. A guardian appointed by law.

3. Among the Romans, a trustee of the affairs and interests of a person emancipated or interdicted. Also, one appointed to regulate the price of merchandize in the cities, and to superintend the customs and tributes.

4. In the United Provinces, or Holland, the curator of a University superintends the affairs of the institution, the administration of the revenues, the conduct of the professors, etc.

CURB, noun

1. In the manege, a chain of iron made fast to the upper part of the branches of the bridle, in a hole called the eye, and running over the beard of the horse. It consists of three parts; the hook, fixed to the eye of the branch; the chain or links; and the two rings or mails.

2. Restraint; check; hindrance.

Religion should operate as an effectual curb to the passions.

3. A frame or a wall round the mouth of a well.

4. A hard and callous swelling on the hind part of the hock of a horses leg, attended with stiffness, and sometimes pain and lameness. A tumor on the inside of a horses hoof. A swelling beneath the elbow of a horses hoof.

CURB, verb transitive

1. To restrain; to guide and manage; as a horse.

2. To restrain; to check; to hold back; to confine; to keep in subjection; as, to curb the passions.

And wisely learn to curb thy sorrows wild.

3. To furnish or surround with a curb as a well.

4. To bend. [Not used.]

CURBED, participle passive Restrained; checked; kept in subjection; furnished with a curb.

CURBING, participle present tense Holding back; checking; restraining.

CURBING, noun A check.

CURD, noun [See Crystal.] The coagulated or thickened part of milk, which is formed into cheese, or, in some countries, eaten as common food. The word may sometimes perhaps be used for the coagulated part of any liquor.

CURD, verb transitive To cause to coagulate; to turn to curd

CURDLE, verb intransitive [sometimes written crudle. See Curd.]

1. To coagulate or concrete; to thicken, or change into curd. Milk curdles by a mixture of runnet.

2. To thicken; to congeal; as, the blood curdles in the veins.

CURDLE, verb transitive

1. To change into curd; to cause to thicken, coagulate, or concrete. Runnet or brandy curdles milk.

At Florence they curdle their milk with artichoke flowers.

2. To congeal or thicken. The recital curdled my blood.

CURDLED, participle passive Coagulated; congealed.

CURDLING, participle present tense Concreting; coagulating.

CURDY, adjective Like curd; full of curd; coagulated.

CURE, noun [Latin , to cure to take care, to prepare.]

1. A healing; the act of healing; restoration to health from disease, and to soundness from a wound. We say, a medicine will effect a cure

2. Remedy for disease; restorative; that which heals.

Colds, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure

3. The employment of a curate; the care of souls; spiritual charge.

CURE, verb transitive [Latin See the Noun.]

1. To heal, as a person diseased or a wounded limb; to restore to health, as the body, or to soundness, as a limb.

The child was cured from that very hour. Matthew 17:16.

2. To subdue, remove, destroy or put an end to; to heal, as a disease.

Christ gave his disciples power to cure diseases. Luke 9:1.

When the person and the disease are both mentioned, cure is followed by of before the disease. The physician cured the man of his fever.

3. To remedy; to remove an evil, and restore to a good state.

Patience will alleviate calamities, which cannot cure

4. To dry; to prepare for preservation; as, to cure hay; or to prepare by salt, or in any manner, so as to prevent speedy putrefaction; as, to cure fish or beef.

CURED, participle passive Healed; restored to health or soundness; removed, as a disease; remedied; dried, smoked, or otherwise prepared for preservation.

CURELESS, adjective That cannot be cured or healed; incurable; not admitting of a remedy; as a cureless disorder; a cureless ill.

CURER, noun A healer; a physician; one who heals.

CURFEW, noun

1. The ringing of a bell or bells at night, as a signal to the inhabitants to rake up their fires and retire to rest. This practice originated in England from an order of William the conqueror, who directed that at the ringing of the bell, at eight oclock, every one should put out his light and go to bed. This word is not used in America; although the practice of ringing a bell, at nine oclock, continues in many places, and is considered in New England, as a signal for people to retire from company to their own abodes; and in general, the signal is obeyed.

2. A cover for a fire; a fire-plate. [Not used.]

CURIALITY, noun [Latin , a court.] The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court. [Not used.]

CURING, participle present tense Healing; restoring to health or soundness; removing, as an evil; preparing for preservation.

CURIOLOGIC, adjective [Gr., propriety of speaking.] Designating a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture.

CURIOSITY, noun [Latin See Curious.]

1. A strong desire to see something novel, or to discover something unknown, either by research or inquiry; a desire to gratify the senses with a sight of what is new or unusual, or to gratify the mind with new discoveries; inquisitiveness. A mans curiosity leads him to view the ruins of Balbec, to investigate the origin of Homer, to discover the component parts of a mineral, or the motives of anothers actions.

2. Nicety; delicacy.

3. Accuracy; exactness; nice performance; curiousness; as the curiosity of workmanship.

4. A nice experiment; a thing unusual or worthy of curiosity

There hath been practiced a curiosity to set a tree on the north side of a walk and at a little height, to draw it through the wall, etc.

5. An object of curiosity; that which excites a desire of seeing, or deserves to be seen, as novel and extraordinary.

We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town.

[The first and last senses are chiefly used.]

CURIOSO, noun A curious person; a virtuoso.

CURIOUS, adjective [Latin , care. See Cure.]

1. Strongly desirous to see what is novel, or to discover what is unknown; solicitous to see or to know; inquisitive.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters, nor to pry into the concerns of your neighbors.

2. Habitually inquisitive; addicted to research or enquiry; as a man of a curious turn of mind; sometimes followed by after, and sometimes by of.

CURIOUS after things elegant and beautiful; curious of antiquities.

3. Accurate; careful not to mistake; solicitous to be correct.

Men were not curious what syllables or particles they used.

4. Careful; nice; solicitous in selection; difficult to please.

A temperate man is not curious of delicacies.

5. Nice; exact; subtile; made with care.

Both these senses embrace their objects--with a more curious discrimination.

6. Artful; nicely diligent.

Each ornament about her seemly lies, by curious chance, or careless art, composed.

7. Wrought with care and art; elegant; neat; finished; as a curious girdle; curious work Exodus 28:8 and 30.

8. Requiring care and nicety; as curious arts. Acts 19:19.

9. Rigid; severe; particular. [Little used.]

10. Rare; singular; a a curious fact.

CURIOUSLY, adverb

1. With nice inspection; inquisitively; attentively.

I saw nothing at first, but observing it more curiously the spots appeared.

2. With nice care and art; exactly; neatly; elegantly. Psalms 139:15.

3. In a singular manner; unusually.

CURIOUSNESS, noun

1. Fitness to excite curiosity; exactness of workmanship.

2. Singularity of contrivance.

3. Curiosity.

CURL, verb transitive

1. To turn, bend or form into ringlets; to crisp; as the hair.

2. To writhe; to twist; to coil; as a serpent.

3. To dress with curls.

The snaky locks that curled Megaera.

4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.

Seas would be pools, without the brushing air to curl the waves.

CURL, verb intransitive

1. To bend in contraction; to shrink into ringlets.

2. To rise in waves or undulation; to ripple; and particularly, to roll over at the summit; as a curling wave.

3. To rise in a winding current, and to roll over at the ends; as curling smoke.

4. To writhe; to twist itself.

Then round her slender waist he curled.

5. To shrink; to shrink back; to bend and sink. He curled down into a corner.

CURL, noun

1. A ringlet of hair, or any thing of a like form.

2. Undulation; a waving; sinuosity; flexure.

3. A winding int he grain of wood.

CURLED, participle passive Turned or formed into ringlets; crisped; twisted; undulated.

CURLEW, noun

1. An aquatic fowl of the genus Scolopax and the grallic order. It has a long bill; its color is diversified with ash and black; and the largest species spread more than three feet of wing. It frequents the sea shore in winter, and in summer, retires to the mountains.

2. A fowl, larger than a partridge, with longer legs, which frequents the corn-fields in Spain.

CURLINESS, noun A state of being curly.

CURLING, participle present tense Bending; twisting; forming into ringlets.

CURLY, adjective Having curls; tending to curl; full of ripples.

CURMUDGEON, noun An avaricious churlish fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.

CURMUDGEONLY, adjective Avaricious; covetous; niggardly; churlish.

CURRANT, noun [from Corinth.]

1. The fruit of a well known shrub belonging to the genus Ribes, of which Grossularia is now considered a species; the grossberry or gooseberry and the currant falling under the same genus. Currants are of various species and varieties; as the common red and white currants, and the black currant

2. A small kind of dried grape, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; used in cookery.

CURRENCY, noun [See Current.]

1. Literally, flowing, running or passing; a continued or uninterrupted course, like that of a stream; as the currency of time.

2. A continued course in public opinion, belief or reception; a passing from person to person, or from age to age; a, a report has had a long or general currency

3. A continual passing from hand to hand, as coin or bills of credit; circulation; as the currency of cents, or of English crowns; the currency of bank bills or treasury notes.

4. Fluency; readiness of utterance; but in this sense we generally use fluency.

5. General estimation; the rate at which any thing is generally valued.

He takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency and not after intrinsic value.

6. That which is current or in circulation, as a medium of trade. The word may be applied to coins, or to bills issued by authority. It is often applied to bank notes, and to notes issued by government.

CURRENT, adjective [Latin , to flow or run.]

1. Literally, flowing, running, passing. Hence, passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating; as current opinions; current coin. Hence, common, general or fashionable; generally received; popular; as the current notions of the day or age; current folly.

2. Established by common estimation; generally received; as the current value of coin.

3. Passable; that may be allowed or admitted.

4. Now passing; present in its course; as the current month or year.

CURRENT, noun

1. A flowing or passing; a stream; applied to fluids; as a current of water, or of air. The gulf stream is a remarkable current in the Atlantic. A current sets into the Mediterranean.

2. Course; progressive motion, or movement; continuation; as the current of time.

3. A connected series; successive course; as the current of events.

4. General or main course; as the current of opinion.

CURRENTLY, adjective In constant motion; with continued progression. Hence, commonly; generally; popularly; with general reception; as, the story is currently reported and believed.

CURRENTNESS, noun

1. Currency; circulation; general reception.

2. Fluency; easiness of pronunciation. [Not much used.]

CURRICLE, noun [Latin , to run.]

1. A chaise or carriage, with two wheels, drawn by two horses abreast.

2. A chariot. [Not in use.]

3. A course. [Not in use.]

CURRIED, participle passive [See Curry.] Dressed by currying; dressed as leather; cleaned; prepared.

CURRIER, noun [Latin See Curry.] A man who dresses and colors leather, after it is tanned.

CURRISH, adjective [See Cur.] Like a cur; having the qualities of a cur; brutal; malignant; snappish; snarling; churlish; intractable; quarrelsome.

CURRISHLY, adverb Like a cur; in a brutal manner.

CURRISHNESS, noun Moroseness; churlishness.

CURRY, verb transitive [Latin , to scrape; scrape, from cutting.]

1. To dress leather, after it is tanned; to soak, pare or scrape, cleanse, beat and color tanned hides, and prepare them for use.

2. To rub and clean with a comb; as, to curry a horse.

3. To scratch or claw; to tear, in quarrels.

By setting brother against brother, to claw and curry one another.

4. To rub or stroke; to make smooth; to tickle by flattery; to humor. But generally used in the phrase,

To curry favor, to seek or gain favor by flattery, caresses, kindness, or officious civilities. [Not elegant.]

CURRYING, participle present tense Scraping and dressing; cleaning; scratching.

CURSE, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive cursed or curst.

1. To utter a wish of evil against one; to imprecate evil upon; to call for mischief or injury to fall upon; to execrate.

Thou shalt not curse the ruler of thy people. Exodus 22:28.

Bless and curse not. Romans 12:14.

CURSE me this people, for they are too mighty for me. Numbers 22:6.

2. To injure; to subject to evil; to vex, harass or torment with great calamities.

On impious realms and barbarous kings impose thy plagues, and curse em with such sons as those.

3. To devote to evil.

CURSE, verb intransitive To utter imprecations; to affirm or deny with imprecations of divine vengeance.

Then began he to curse and to swear. Matthew 26:74.

CURSE, noun

1. Malediction; the expression of a wish of evil to another.

Shimei--who cured me with a grievous curse 1 Kings 2:8.

2. Imprecation of evil.

They entered into a curse and into an oath. Nehemiah 10:29.

3. Affliction; torment; great vexation.

I will make this city a curse to all nations. Jeremiah 26:6.

4. Condemnation; sentence of divine vengeance on sinners.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. Galatians 3:10.

5. Denunciation of evil.

The priest shall write all these curses in a book. Numbers 5:18.

CURSED, participle passive

1. Execrated; afflicted; vexed; tormented; blasted by a curse.

2. Devoted to destruction.

Thou art cursed from the earth. Genesis 4:11.

3. adjective Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.

4. adjective Vexatious; as a cursed quarrel; cursed thorns.

CURSEDLY, adverb In a cursed manner; enormously; miserably; in a manner to be cursed or detested. [A low word.]

CURSEDNESS, noun The state of being under a curse, or of being doomed to execration or to evil.

CURSER, noun One who curses, or utters a curse.

CURSHIP, noun [See Cur.] Dogship; meanness; ill-nature.

CURSING, participle present tense Execrating; imprecating evil on; denouncing evil; dooming to evil, misery, or vexation.

CURSING, noun Execration; the uttering of a curse; a dooming to vexation or misery.

CURSITOR, noun [Latin , to run.] In England, a clerk in the court of chancery, whose business is to make out original writs. In the statute 18 Edward III, the cursitors are called clerks of course. They are twenty four in number, and are a corporation among themselves. To each are assigned certain counties, to which he issue writs.

CURSIVE, adjective [See Course and Current.] Running; flowing. cursive hand is a running hand.

CURSORARY, adjective Cursory; hasty. [Not in use.]

CURSORILY, adjective [See Cursory.[ In a running or hasty manner; slightly; hastily; without attention; as, I read the paper cursorily

CURSORINESS, noun Slight view or attention.

CURSORY, adjective [Latin See Course.]

1. Running; hasty; slight; superficial; careless; not with close attention; as a cursory reading; a cursory view.

2. Running about; not stationary.

CURST, participle passive of curse. [See Cursed.]

CURST, adjective Hateful; detestable; froward; tormenting; vexatious; peevish; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling; a word however which can be hardly said to have a definite signification. It is applied to any thing vexatious. In some of its applications in old authors, ti appears to be the Dutch korst, crust, and to signify crusty, crabbed, surly.

CURSTNESS, noun Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.

CURT, adjective [Latin] Short. [Rarely used, and not elegant.]

CURTAIL, verb transitive [Latin , to cut; edge.] To shorten; to cut off the end or a part; as, to curtail words. Hence in a more general sense, to shorten in any manner; to abridge; to diminish; as, to curtail our privileges. It is followed by of before the thing shortened. His name was curtailed of three letters. We are curtailed of our rights.

CURTAILED, participle passive Cut short or shorter; abridged.

CURTAILING, participle present tense Cutting short or shorter; abridging.

CURTAILING, noun Abridgment; abbreviation.

CURTAIN, noun [Low Latin , in fortification. This word may be from the root of court, and from the sense of separating.]

1. A cloth hanging round a bed, or at a window, which may be contracted, spread or drawn aside at pleasure; intended for ornament, or for use. Also, the hangings about the ark, among the Israelites.

2. A cloth-hanging used in theaters, to conceal the stage from the spectators. This is raised or let down by cords. Hence the phrases, to drop the curtain to close the scene, to end; to raise the curtain or the curtain will rise, to denote the opening of the play. And to draw the curtain is to close it, to shut out the light or to conceal an object; or to open it and disclose the object. Behind the curtain in concealment, in secret.

3. In fortification, that part of the rampart which is between the flanks of two bastions, bordered with a parapet five feet high, behind which the soldiers stand to fire on the covered way and into the moat.

4. In scripture, tents; dwellings. Habakkuk 3:7.

CURTAIN, verb transitive To inclose with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

CURTAL, noun A horse with a docked tail.

CURTAL, adjective Short; abridged; brief.

CURTATE, adjective [Latin , to shorten.] The curtate distance, in astronomy, is the distance of a planet from the sun to that point, where a perpendicular let fall from the planet meets with the ecliptic. Or the interval between the sun or earth, and that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet, meets the ecliptic.

CURTATION, noun [See Curtate.] The interval between a planets distance from the sun and the curtate distance.

CURTILAGE, noun In law, a yard, garden, inclosure or field near and belonging to a messuage. [This is probably from court or the same radix.]

CURTLY, adverb Briefly. [Not in use.]

CURULE, adjective [Latin , a chariot.] Belonging to a chariot. The curule chair or seat, among the Romans, was a stool without a back, covered with leather, and so made as to be folded. It was conveyed in a chariot, and used by public officers.

CURVATED, adjective [See Curve.] Curved; bent in a regular form.

CURVATURE, noun [Latin See Curve.] A bending in a regular form; crookedness, or the manner of bending; flexure by which a curve is formed.

CURVE, adjective [Latin , bent, crooked; to bend, turn or wind.] Bending; crooked; inflected in a regular form, and forming part of a circle; as a curve line, which may be cut by a right line in more points than one. A curve line is that which is neither a straight line, nor composed of straight lines.

CURVE, noun A bending in a regular form, or without angles; that which is bent ; a flexure; part of a circle. In geometry, a line which may be cut by a right line in more points than one.

CURVE, verb transitive [Latin] To bend; to crook; to inflect.

CURVED, participle passive Bent; regularly inflected.

CURVET, noun

1. In the manege, a particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at one, equally advanced, and as his fore legs are falling, he raises his hind legs, so that all his lets are raised at once.

2. A prank; a frolic.

CURVET, verb intransitive

1. To leap; to bound; to spring and form a curvet

2. To leap and frisk.

CURVILINEAR, CURVILINEAL adjective [Latin , bent and a line.] Having a curve line; consisting of curve lines; bounded by curve lines; as a curvilinear figure.

CURVILINEAR, CURVILINEAL, adjective [Latin , bent and a line.] Having a curve line; consisting of curve lines; bounded by curve lines; as a curvilinear figure.

CURVILINEARITY, noun The state of being curvilinear, or of consisting in curve lines.

CURVING, participle present tense Bending in a regular form; crooked.

CURVITY, noun [Latin] A bending in a regular form; crookedness.

CUSHAT, noun The ring-dove or wood-pigeon.

CUSHION, noun

1. A pillow for a seat; a soft pad to be placed on a chair; a bag, stuffed with wool, hair or other soft material.

2. A bag of leather filled with sand, used by engravers to support the plate.

3. In gilding, a stuffing of fine tow or wool, covered by leather, on a board; used for receiving the leaves of gold from the paper, in order to its being cut into proper sizes and figures.

Ladys cushion a plant, a species of saxifraga.

Sea cushion sea pink or thrift, a species of Statice.

CUSHION, verb transitive To seat on a cushion

CUSHIONED, adjective Seated on a cushion; supported by cushions.

CUSHIONET, noun A little cushion.

CUSKIN, noun A kind of ivory cup. [Not in use.]

CUSP, noun [Latin , a point.] The point or horn of the moon or other luminary.

CUSPATED, adjective [Latin , a point.] Pointed; ending in a point.

CUSPIDAL, adjective Ending in a point.

CUSPIDATE, CUSPIDATED, adjective [Latin , a point.] Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a bristly point; as a cuspidate leaf.

CUSPIDATE, CUSPIDATED adjective [Latin , a point.] Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a bristly point; as a cuspidate leaf.

CUSTARD, noun A composition of milk and eggs, sweetened and baked or boiled, forming an agreeable kind of food.

CUSTODIAL, adjective [from custody.] Relating to custody or guardianship.

CUSTODY, noun [Latin , a watchman, a keeper. See Chaste.]

1. A keeping; a guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation or security.

Under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle. Numbers 3:36.

The prisoner was committed to the custody of the sheriff.

2. Imprisonment; confinement; restraint of liberty.

3. Defense from a foe; preservation; security.

There was prepared a fleet of thirty ships fro the custody of the narrow seas.

CUSTOM, noun [Latin]

1. Frequent or common use, or practice; a frequent repetition o the same act; hence, way; established manner; habitual practice.

The prists custom with the people was--- 1 Samuel 2:13.

We have no such custom 1 Corinthians 11:16.

The customs of the people are vain. Jeremiah 10:3.

2. A buying of goods; practice of frequenting a shop and purchasing or procuring to be done.

Let him have your custom but not your votes.

The shopkeeper has extensive custom or a good run of custom A mill or a manufacturer has extensive custom or little custom

3. In law, long established practice, or usage, which constitutes the unwritten law, and long consent to which gives it authority. Customs are general, which extend over a state or kingdom, and particular, which are limited to a city or district.

CUSTOM, verb intransitive

1. To make familiar. [See Accustom, which is the word used.]

2. To give custom to.

CUSTOM, noun Tribute, toll or tax; that is, cost or charge paid to the public.

Render custom to whom custom is due. Romans 13:7.

CUSTOMs, in the plural, the duties imposed by law on merchandize imported or exported. IN Great Britain and the United States, this word is limited to these species of duties.

CUSTOMABLE, adjective

1. Common; habitual; frequent.

2. Subject to the payment of the duties called customs.

CUSTOMABLENESS, noun Frequency; conformity to custom. [Little used.]

CUSTOMABLY, adverb According to custom; in a customary manner.

CUSTOMARILY, adverb [See Customary.] Habitually; commonly.

CUSTOMARINESS, noun Frequency; commonness; habitual use or practice.

CUSTOMARY, adjective

1. According to custom, or to established or common usage; as a customary dress; customary compliments.

2. Habitual; in common practice; as customary vices.

3. Holding by custom; as customary tenants, who are copyholders.

4. Held by custom; as a customary freehold.

CUSTOMARY, noun A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as the customary of the Normans.

CUSTOMED, adjective

1. Usual; common; to which we are accustomed. [See Accustomed.]

2. Furnished with customers.

CUSTOMER, noun

1. One who frequents any place of sale for the sake of purchasing goods; one who purchases goods or wares.

2. One who frequents or visits any place for procuring what he wants. We say, a mill has many customers. Hence a person who receives supplies is called a customer; the smith, the shoemaker and the tailor have their customers; and the coffee-house has its customers.

3. A toll-gatherer.

CUSTOS, noun [Latin] A keeper; as custos brevium, the principal clerk of the common pleas; custos rotulorum, keeper of the rolls and records of the sessions of the peace.

CUSTREL, noun A buckler-bearer. Also, a vessel for holding wine. [Not in use.]

CUT, verb transitive preterit tense and preposition cut [Latin , to thrust, to drive, to strike.]

1. To separate the parts of any body by an edged instrument, either by striking, as with an ax, or by sawing or rubbing; to make a gash, incision or notch, which separates the external part of a body, as to cut the flesh. It signifies also, to cut into pieces; to sever or divide; as, to cut timber in the forest. But when an entire separation of the body is intended, it is usually followed by off, down, asunder, in two, in pieces, or other word denoting such severance.

Ye shall not cut yourselves, that is, ye shall not gash your flesh. Deuteronomy 14:1.

2. To hew.

Thy servants can skill to cut timber. 2 Chronicles 2:8.

3. To carve, as meat; to carve or engrave in sculpture.

4. To divide; to cleave, by passing through; as, a ship cuts the briny deep.

5. To penetrate; to pierce; to affect deeply; as, a sarcasm cuts to the quick.

6. To divide, as a pack of cards; as, to cut and shuffle.

7. To intersect; to cross. One line cuts another at right angles. The ecliptic cuts the equator.

8. To castrate.

To cut across, to pass by a shorter course, so as to cut off an angle or distance.

To cut asunder, to cut into pieces; to divide; to sever.

He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. Psalms 129:4.

To cut down, to fell; to cause to fall by severing.

Ye shall cut down their groves. Exodus 34:13.

Hence, to depress; to abash; to humble; to shame; to silence; as, his eloquence cuts down the finest orator.

[This phrase is not elegant, but is in popular use.]

To cut off,

1. To separate one part from another; as, to cut off a finger, or an arm; to cut off the right hand figure; to cut off a letter or syllable.

2. To destroy; to extirpate; to put to death untimely.

Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord. 1 Kings 18:4.

Evil doers shall be cut off. Psalms 37:2.

3. To separate; to remove to a distance, or to prevent all intercourse. A man in another country or in prison is cut off from his country or his friends.

4. To interrupt; as, to cut off communication.

5. To separate; to remove; to take away; as, to cut off ten years of life.

6. To intercept; to hinder from return, or union. The troops were cut off from the ships.

7. To end; to finish; as, to cut off all controversy.

8. To prevent or preclude; as, to cut off all occasion of blame.

9. To preclude or shut out. The sinner cuts himself off from the benefits of Christianity.

10. To stop, interrupt or silence.

The judge cut off the counsel very short.

To cut on,

1. To hasten; to run or ride with the utmost speed; a vulgar phrase.

2.To urge or drive in striking; to quicken blows; to hasten.

To cut out,

1. To remove a part by cutting or carving; as, to cut out a piece from a board; to cut out the tongue. Hence,

2. To shape or form by cutting; as, to cut out a garment; to cut out an image; to cut out a wood into walks. Hence,

3. To scheme; to contrive; to prepare; as, to cut out word for another day. So we say, to strike out.

4. To shape; to adapt. He is no cut out for an author. [Not elegant.]

5. To debar. [Not common.]

6. To take the preference or precedence of; as, to cut out a prior judgment creditor.

7. To step in and take the place of, as in courting and dancing. [A vulgar phrase.]

8. To interfere as a horse, when the shoe of one foot beats off the skin of the pastern joint of another.

To cut short,

1. To hinder from proceeding by sudden interruption.

Achilles cut him short.

2. To shorten; to abridge; as, to cut short of provisions or pay; to cut the matter short.

To cut up,

1. To cut in pieces; as, to cut up beef.

2. To eradicate; to cut off; as, to cut up shrubs.

CUT, verb intransitive

1. To pass into or through and sever; to enter and divide the parts; as, an instrument cuts well.

2. To be severed by a cutting instrument; as, this fruit cuts easy or smooth.

3. To divide by passing.

The teeth are ready to cut

4. To perform a surgical operation by cutting, especially in lithotomy.

He saved lives by cutting for the stone.

5. To interfere, as a horse.

To cut in, to divide, or turn a card, for determining who are to play.

CUT, participle passive Gashed; divided; hewn; carved; intersected; pierced; deeply affected; castrated.

CUT and dry, prepared for use; a metaphor from hewn timber.

CUT, noun

1. The action of an edged instrument; a stroke or blow, as with an ax or sword.

2. A cleft; a gash; a notch; a wound; the opening made by an edged instrument, distinguished by its length from that made by perforation with a pointed instrument.

3. A stroke or blow with a whip.

4. A channel made by cutting or digging; a ditch; a groove; a furrow; a canal.

5. A part cut off from the rest; as a good cut of beef; a cut of timber. Also, any small piece or shred.

6. A lot made by cutting a stick; as, to draw cuts.

7. A near passage, by which an angle is cut off; a shorter cut

8. A picture cut or cared on wood or metal, and impressed from it.

9. The stamp on which a picture is carved, and by which it is impressed.

10. The act of dividing a pack of cards. Also, the right to divide; as, whose cut is it?

11. Manner in which a thing is cut; form; shape; fashion; as the cut of a garment; the cut of his beard.

12. A fool; a cully; a gelding. [Not in use.]

CUT and long tail, men of all kinds; a proverbial expression borrowed from dogs.

CUTANEOUS, adjective [See Cuticle.] Belonging to the skin, or cutis; existing on, or affecting the skin; as a cutaneous disease; cutaneous eruption.

CUTH, in Saxon, signifies known, or famous. Hence, Cuthwin, a famous conqueror; Cuthred, a famous or knowing counselor; Cuthbert, known bright, or famous for skill.

CUTICLE, noun [Latin , skin, the same as hide, which see.]

1. The scarf-skin; the thin exterior coat of the skin, which rises in a blister; a thin pellucid membrane covering the true skin.

2. The thin external covering of the bark of a plant.

3. A thin skin formed on the surface of liquor.

CUTICULAR, adjective Pertaining to the cuticle or external coat of the skin.

CUTLAS, noun [Latin , to cut.] A broad curving sword; a hanger; used by soldiers int he cavalry, by seamen, etc.

CUTLER, noun [Latin , a knife.] One whose occupation is to make knives and other cutting instruments.

CUTLERY, noun The business of making knives; or more generally, knives and other edged instruments in general.

CUTLET, noun A small piece of meat for cooking; as a veal cutlet

CUTPURSE, noun [cut and purse.] One who cuts purses for stealing them or their contents; a practice said to have been common when men wore purses at their girdles. One who steals from the person; a thief; a robber.

CUTTER, noun

1. One who cuts or hews.

2. An instrument that cuts; as a straw-cutter.

3. A fore tooth, that cuts meat, as distinguished from a grinder.

4. A small boat used by ships of war. Also, a vessel with one mast and a straight running bowsprit, which may be run in upon deck; rigged nearly like a sloop.

5. An officer int he exchequer that provides wood for the tallies.

6. A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.

CUTTING, participle present tense [See Cut.]

1. Dividing by an edged instrument; cleaving by the stroke or motion of an edged instrument, as by a knife, ax, or saw; hewing; carving; intersecting; piercing.

2. adjective Piercing the heart; wounding the feelings; deeply affecting with shame or remorse; pungent; piquant; satirical; as a cutting reflection.

CUTTING, noun

1. A separation or division; a piece cut off; a ship; as the cuttings of vines.

2. The operation of removing a stone from the bladder.

CUTTLE, CUTTLE-FISH, n.