A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.
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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.
To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
To refine by means of a cupel.
The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.
As much as a cup will hold.
The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.
A passionate desire; love.
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 cup of tea.
One who performs the operation of cupping.
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.
Hollow; cuplike; also, full of cups, or small depressions.
Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.
one of the genera of cypress trees, the type genus of the Cupressaceae.
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.
Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver.
The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.
A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles.
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.
Copper.
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