The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.
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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.
One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. The place of assembly of one of these divisions. The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican. A member of a curia, esp. of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.
The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Pertaining to a court.
The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court.
A cuirass.
p. a. vb. n. of Cure.
Any curiosity{3} or article of virtu; any object esteemed for its unusual nature.
Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.
The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
A virtuoso.
Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
In a curious manner.
Carefulness; painstaking.
a radioactive transuranic element of atomic number 96, having an atomic weight of 247 for its most stable isotope (half-life 1.6 x 107 years). The chemical symbol is Cm.
A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).
State of being curled; curliness.
One who, or that which, curls.
A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
Some thing curled or spiral, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.
State of being curly.
The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.
With a curl, or curls.
Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
a shrubby clematis (Clematis ochreleuca) of eastern US having curly foliage.
Some thing curled or spiral, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. Same as curlicue.
An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes.
To coo.
any of several bluish black fruit-eating birds of Australia of the genus Strepera having a bell-like call.
A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
Running or moving rapidly.
In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.
A small or short course.
Same as curricula, plural of curriculum. This is used commonly in the same sense as curricula, and appears to have arisen due to an incorrect assumption that curricula is a Latin-derived singular word.
A brief biographical summary of the main points of a person's life, especially one's education and training, the jobs one has held, and other notable activities one has participated in, as well as other notable points such as honors one has received. It is prepared and used commonly by a person who is submitting an application for a job or position of responsibility. It is also called a vita or vitae, and is abbreviated CV.
See 2d 3d Curry.
One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned.
Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.
To flavor or cook with curry.
To comb with a currycomb.
An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.
In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.
One who curses.
The state of being a cur; one who is currish.
Moving about slightly.
A courier or runner.
A character used in cursive writing.
Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.
Cursory; hasty.
An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratita/. A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.
Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.
Running about; not stationary.
Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.
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