Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).
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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.
Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably.
Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.
Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.
The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
One who curtails.
The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.
To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies; as, a curtained alcove. Opposite of curtainless.
not provided with curtains; as, blank, curtainless windows stared back at her. Opposite of curtained.
A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.
The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.
Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic.
The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.
Same as Curtana.
Courteous.
the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands.
A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.
In a curt manner.
The quality of bing curt.
to perform a curtsy.
Of or pertaining to a chariot.
A Chilian burrowing rodent of the genus Spalacopus.
having a pronounced womanly shape; having a slender waist with prominent breasts and hips.
Bowed; bent; curved.
Bent in a regular form; curved.
The act of bending or crooking.
Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves.
The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve.
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
not straight; having or marked by curves. Opposite of straight.
The state of being curved.
To cause to curvet.
Having a curved or crooked tail.
Having bent ribs.
Having curved teeth.
Having a curved form.
An instrument for drawing curved lines.
Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.
The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
In a curvilinear manner.
Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.
Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.
A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
An arcograph.
A soft grass (Pennisetum typhoideum) found in all tropical regions, used as food for men and cattle in Central Africa.
The ringdove or wood pigeon.
The galeated curassow. See Curassow.
To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
furnished with a cushion or other device to reduce hardness.
A little cushion.
soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort.
Not furnished with a cushion.
Like a cushion; soft; pliable.
A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah.
not requiring strong efforts; easy; -- said of paid employment; as, He got a cushy job in a large company.
A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.
A kind of drinking cup.
To furnish with a cusp or cusps.
Ending in a point.
having cusps or points.
One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.
Ending in a point.
To make pointed or sharp.
Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf.
a decoration using cusps.
Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort.
A point; a sharp end.
stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; obstinate.
Disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy.
A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.
See Custodian.
Relating to custody or guardianship.
One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.
Office or duty of a custodian.
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