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.

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.

Having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous.

A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.

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.

A mongrel or inferior dog.

The state of being curable; curableness.

Capable of being cured; admitting remedy.

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.

The office or employment of a curate.

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.

A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

To poison with curare.

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

A cuirass or breastplate.

One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.

A curacy.

Cure; healing.

Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.

One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.

of or pertaining to curator; as, curatorial duties.

The office of a curator.

A woman who cures.

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.

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

Having no curb or restraint.

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

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

See Courche.

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.

Pertaining to the Curculionide/, or weevil tribe.

A genus of plants of the order Scitamine/, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa).

The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluorescence.

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

The state of being curdy.

To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.

Destitute of curd.

Like curd; full of curd; coagulated.

A curate; a pardon.

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

Incapable of cure; incurable.

One who cures; a healer; a physician.

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.

To scrape with a curette.

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

The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself.