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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.

Culvert

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

cum

same as semen{2}; -- also spelled come.

Cumacea

An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.

Cumber

Trouble; embarrassment; distress.

cumbersome

Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.

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.

Cumene

A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.

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.

Cumshaw

To give or make a present to.

Cumulate

To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

Cumulation

The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation.

Cumulus

One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud.

Cun

To know. See Con.

Cunabula

The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

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.

Cuneated Cuneate

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

Cunette

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

Cuniform Cuneiform

The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.

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.

cunnilingus

Stimulation of the vulva or clitoris of one person by the tongue of another, for the purpose of giving sexual gratification.

Cunning

Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.

cunningman

A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.

cunt

The female pudenda; specifically the vagina.

Cuon

a genus of canids including the Asiatic wild dog.

Cup

To supply with cups of wine.

Cup-gall

A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall.

Cup-moss

A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.

Cupbearer

One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.

Cupboard

To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

Cupel

To refine by means of a cupel.

Cupellation

The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.

Cupful

As much as a cup will hold.

Cupid

The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.

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.

Cupper

One who performs the operation of cupping.

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.

Cuppy

Hollow; cuplike; also, full of cups, or small depressions.

Cupreous

Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.

Cupressus

one of the genera of cypress trees, the type genus of the Cupressaceae.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Curability

The state of being curable; curableness.

Curable

Capable of being cured; admitting remedy.

Curacoa Cura/ao

A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with the peel from the sour orange, and sometimes with cinnamon and mace; -- first made at the island of Cura/cao in the Netherlands Antilles near Venezuela.

Curacy

The office or employment of a curate.

Curari Curare

A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (Strychnos 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.

Curassow

A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracid/.

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.

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.

curatorial

of or pertaining to curator; as, curatorial duties.

Curb

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.

curbed

held back from some action, especially by force. Opposite of unrestrained.

curbside

the edge of a sidewalk that borders a curb; as, policemen stood at intervals along the curbside

Curbstone

A stone set along a margin as a limit and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.

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.

Curcuma

A genus of plants of the order Scitamine/, 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

To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey

Curdle

To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.

Curdy

Like curd; full of curd; coagulated.

Cure

A curate; a pardon.

Cureall

A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea.

Curer

One who cures; a healer; a physician.

curettage

surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette; the act of scraping with a curette.

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