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.

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.

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.

A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax.

a peculiar, long, thin, marine fish (Trichiurus lepturus) of the southern United States and West Indies, having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp daggerlike teeth; -- called also frostfish, saber fish, silver eel, and, improperly, swordfish; also, several related members of the genus Trichiurus. It is closely related to snake mackerel.

One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.

The business of a cutler.

A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.

The art of making edged tools or cutlery.

A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.

One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket

easy to cut or chew.

One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.

Murderous; cruel; barbarous.

Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.

In a cutting manner.

A knife.

A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

A short spoon.

A low stool.

The chief police officer of a large city.

The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.

An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larv/ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.

A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.

a genus of whale lice.

A salt of cyanic acid.

See Aurocyanide.

Having an azure color.

Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.

A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.

The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin.

One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium.

A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.

An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.

A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.

A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll.

Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood.

A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.

Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue.