The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.
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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.
To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.
The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.
Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity.
Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured.
Of or pertaining to culture.
To cultivate; to educate.
Under culture; cultivated.
Having no culture.
A cultivator.
Bad, worthless; no good.
A culverin.
A dovecote.
A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles.
A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree.
A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
Dovetail.
United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.
same as semen{2}; -- also spelled come.
An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.
Lying down; recumbent.
Trouble; embarrassment; distress.
a tributary of the Ohio River.
Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
Encumbrance.
Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there.
Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.
See Comfrey.
See Cuming.
A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.
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.
Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid.
A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.
A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde.
A sash for the waist; a girdle.
Same as Cumin.
See Kumquat.
To give or make a present to.
Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.
To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.
The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation.
One who accumulates; one who collects.
Full of heaps.
A form of cloud. See Cloud.
One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud.
To know. See Con.
The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.
Delay; procrastination.
Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.
One who delays or lingers.
All-powerful; omnipotent.
To con (a ship).
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.
Wedge-shaped wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.
Cuneiform.
A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.
The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.
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.
Same as cunnilingus.
Stimulation of the vulva or clitoris of one person by the tongue of another, for the purpose of giving sexual gratification.
Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
In a cunning manner; with cunning.
A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
Quality of being cunning; craft.
The female pudenda; specifically the vagina.
a genus of canids including the Asiatic wild dog.
To supply with cups of wine.
A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall.
A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.
Red poppy. See Cop-rose.
shaped like a cup.
One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.
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