a small compartment.
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A snug or confined or secluded place; a small room or a snug space within a room.
Sucked by cubs.
To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.
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.
Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs).
The state of being a cub.
A curve of the third degree.
Shaped like or approximately like a cube.
Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.
In a cubical method.
The quality of being cubical.
A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.
Belonging to a chamber or bedroom.
Of the form of a cube.
The lowest course of stones in a building.
A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.
A movement or phase in post-impressionism (which see, below).
The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist.
A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand.
Having the measure of a cubit.
Having no cubs.
Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.
A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.
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.
Cuboid.
See Coca.
To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.
To cuckold.
Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking.
The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively.
The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.
A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.
a bee, parasitic in the larval stage in the nests of other bees, feeding either upon their food or larvae. They belong to the genera Nomada, Melecta, Epeolus, and others.
a bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees.
a common European arum (Arum maculatum) with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring, and is the source of a sagolike starch called arum.
A species of Ranunculus (Ranunculus bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup.
A species of Cardamine (Cardamine pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi).
A plant of the genus Arum (Arum maculatum); the European wake-robin.
A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her.
The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.
Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.
A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as certain concave and arched sepals or petals.
Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculid/).
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.
Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.
A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.
the type genus of the Cucurbitaceae.
a natural family of plants including the cucumber; melon; squash; and pumpkin.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.
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.
Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms.
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 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 clown; a low rustic; a dolt.
A close embrace.
holding close in a tender and afectionate manner.
inviting cuddling or hugging; as, a cuddlesome baby.
The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius).
To beat with a cudgel.
One who beats with a cudgel.
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.
A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.
The body.
A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping.
A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.
A name for a negro.
Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic language.
The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.
A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle The breastplate taken by itself.
Wearing a cuirass.
A soldier armed with a cuirass; especially, a soldier of the heaviest cavalry, wearing a cuirass only when in full dress.
Defensive armor for the thighs.
The kitchen or cooking department.
a contraction of cul-de-sac.
The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.
a genus that includes some plants usually placed in e.g. genus Dicksonia; terrestrial brackenlike ferns of tropical America, Malasia to Australia and Polynesia; also native in southwestern Europe and Atlantic islands.
One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
See Culrage.
A genus of mosquitoes of the family Culicidae, to which most of the North American species belong. Some members of this genus are exceedingly annoying, as Culex sollicitans, which breeds in enormous numbers in the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast, and Culex pipiens, the common house mosquito, breeding very widely in the fresh waters of North America. (For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes, see Anopheles, above). The yellow-fever mosquito is now placed in another genus, Stegomyia.
Like or pertaining to the Mosquito family (Culicid/). A culicid insect.
a family of insects comprising the mosquitoes.
Gnat-shaped.
In the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a kitchen or cooking.
Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art.
A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.
A strainer. See Colander.
One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market.
A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).
Gullibility.
Easily deceived; gullible.
The act of one who culls.
A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion.
Mean; base.
A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.
Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out.
To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive.
The state of being a cully.
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.
Top; summit; acme.
Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.
Pertaining to a culmen.
Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant.
Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.
The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
a type of women's trousers with wide legs cut loose and full so as to resemble a skirt.
Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.
The state of being culpable.
Expressing blame; censuring; reprehensory; inculpating.
Blameworthiness.
A shred; a fragment; a strip of wood.
One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.
Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper).
Attentive care; homage; worship.
Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.
A colter. See Colter.
Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.
A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.
Capable of being cultivated or tilled.
a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation.
Cultivable.
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