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.

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.

A custodian.

A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.

To pay the customs of.

made specially for a specific purpose; -- of articles of manufacture. Contrasted with mass-produced, standardized.

Quality of being customable; conformity to custom.

Usually.

In a customary manner; habitually.

Quality of being customary.

A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans.

The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.

to make to specifications.

money collected under a tariff; a duty imposed on imported goods.

A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.

See Costrel.

See Customary.

Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.

a still inserted and interrupting the action.

That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.

A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit. A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.

same as cut-rate.

a price below the standard price.

same as cutaneous.

Of or pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration; cutaneous nerves; a cutaneous infection.

Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.

a reduction in quantity or rate; a reduction in the amount of an activity or the funding for an activity; as, cutbacks in government research funding increased unemployment among scientists; the recession caused a cutback in auto production.

See Cultch.

A hindu hall of justice.

Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.

Acuteness; cunning.

a natural family of New World botflies.

The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.

the outer body wall of an insect.

Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.

A waxy substance containing fatty acids, soaps, and resinous material which, combined with cellulose, forms a substance nearly impervious to water and constituting the cuticle in plants.

The conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork.

To change into cutin.

See Dermis.

variant spelling of cutlass.