# dictionary

word: Cryptogamous
definition:
Cryptogamous

Cryptogamic

Cryptogamian

{ Cryp`to*ga"mi*an (kr?p`t?-g?"m?-an), Cryp`to*gam"ic (kr?p`t?-g?m"?k), Cryp*to"gam*ous (#) }
a.
Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.


word: Cryptogramma
definition:
Cryptogramma

Cryptogramma
n.
a genus sometimes placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Cryptogrammataceae.

Syn. -- genus Cryptogramma.


word: Cryptogrammataceae
definition:
Cryptogrammataceae

Cryptogrammataceae
n.
one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems.

Syn. -- family Cryptogrammataceae.


word: Cryptograph
definition:
Cryptograph

Cryp"to*graph
(-gr?f)
n.
[Gr. krypto`s hidden + -graph: cf. F.  cryptographe.]
Cipher; something written in cipher.
cryptograph
J. Earle.


word: Cryptographal
definition:
Cryptographal

Cryp*tog"ra*phal
(kr?p-t?g"r?-fal)
a.
Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical.
Boyle.


word: cryptographer
definition:
cryptographer

cryp*tog"ra*pher
(kr?p-t?g"r?-f?r)
n.
1.
One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.

2.
one who studies methods for encoding and decoding messages; one who studies cryptography.


word: Cryptographical
definition:
Cryptographical

Cryptographic

{ Cryp`to*graph"ic (kr?p`t?-gr?f"?k), Cryp`to*graph"ic*al (kr?p`t?-gr?f"?-kal), }
a.
Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.


word: Cryptography
definition:
Cryptography

Cryp*tog"ra*phy
(-f?)
n.
[Cf. F.  cryptographie.]
1.
The act or art of writing in code or secret characters; also, secret characters, codes or ciphers, or messages written in a secret code.

2.
The science which studies methods for encoding messages so that they can be read only by a person who knows the secret information required for decoding, called the key; it includes cryptanalysis, the science of decoding encrypted messages without possessing the proper key, and has several other branches; see for example steganography.


word: Cryptology
definition:
Cryptology

Cryp*tol"o*gy
(kr?p-t?l"?-j?)
n.
[Gr. krypto`s hidden + -logy.]
Secret or enigmatical language.
Johnson.


word: Cryptonym
definition:
Cryptonym

Cryp"to*nym
(kr?p"t?-n?m)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; secret + _;_;_;_; name.]
A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.


word: Cryptopine
definition:
Cryptopine

Cryp"to*pine
(kr?p"t?-p?n; 104)
n.
[Gr. krypto`s hidden + E. opium.]
(Chem.)
A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.


word: Crypturi
definition:
Crypturi

Cryp*tu"ri
(krĭp*tū"rī)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden + o'yra` tail.]
(Zool.)
An order of flying, dromæognathous birds, including the tinamous of South America. See Tinamou.


word: Crystal
definition:
Crystal

Crys"tal
(krĭs"tal)
n.
[OE. cristal, F.  cristal, L.  crystallum crystal, ice, fr. Gr. kry`stallos, fr. kry`os icy cold, frost; cf. AS. crystalla, fr. L.  crystallum; prob. akin to E.  crust.  See Crust, Raw.]
1.
(Chem. & Min.)
The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.

2.
The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian.

3.
A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass.

4.
The glass over the dial of a watch case.

5.
Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc.

The blue crystal of the seas.
Byron.

Blood crystal. See under Blood. -- Compound crystal. See under Compound. -- Iceland crystal, a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, brought from Iceland, and used in certain optical instruments, as the polariscope. -- Rock crystal, or Mountain crystal, any transparent crystal of quartz, particularly of limpid or colorless quartz.


word: Crystal₂
definition:
Crystal

Crys"tal
a.
Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline.

Through crystal walls each little mote will peep.
Shak.

By crystal streams that murmur through the meads.
Dryden.

The crystal pellets at the touch congeal,
And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail.
H. Brooks.


word: Crystalline
definition:
Crystalline

Crys"tal*line
(kr?s"tal-l?n or -l?n; 277)
a.
[L. crystallinus, from Gr. _;_;_;_;: cf. F.  cristallin. See Crystal.]
1.
Consisting, or made, of crystal.

Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline.
Shak.

2.
Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.

Their crystalline structure.
Whewell.

3.
Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.

4.
Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid.
crystalline
Milton.

Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens, which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those within it), in order to explain certain movements of the heavenly bodies. -- Crystalline lens (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.


word: Crystallite
definition:
Crystallite

Crys"tal*lite
(kr?s"tal-l?t)
n.
[See Crystal.]
(Min.)
A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.


word: Crystallizable
definition:
Crystallizable

Crys"tal*li`za*ble
(krĭs"tal*lī`zȧ*b'l)
a.
Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.


word: Crystallization
definition:
Crystallization

Crys`tal*li*za"tion
(krĭs`tal*lĭ*zā"shŭn)
n.
[Cf. F. cristallization.]
1.
(Chem. & Min.)
The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized; the formation of crystals.

2.
The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.

&hand_; The systems of crystallization are the several classes to which the forms are mathematically referable. They are most simply described according to the relative lengths and inclinations of certain assumed lines called axes; but the real distinction is the degree of symmetry characterizing them. 1. The Isometric system, or The Monometric system has the axes all equal, as in the cube, octahedron, etc. 2. The Tetragonal system, or The Dimetric system has a varying vertical axis, while the lateral are equal, as in the right square prism. 3. The Orthorhombic system, or The Trimetric system has the three axes unequal, as in the rectangular and rhombic prism.  In this system, the lateral axes are called, respectively, macrodiagonal and brachydiagonal. -- The preceding are erect forms, the axes intersecting at right angles.  The following are oblique. 4. The Monoclinic system, having one of the intersections oblique, as in the oblique rhombic prism. In this system, the lateral axes are called respectively, clinodiagonal and orthodiagonal. 5. The Triclinic system, having all the three intersections oblique, as in the oblique rhomboidal prism. There is also: 6. The Hexagonal system (one division of which is called Rhombohedral), in which there are three equal lateral axes, and a vertical axis of variable length, as in the hexagonal prism and the rhombohedron.

&hand_; The Diclinic system, sometimes recognized, with two oblique intersections, is only a variety of the Triclinic.


word: Crystallize
definition:
Crystallize

Crys"tal*lize
(krĭs"tal*līz)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Crystallized (-līzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crystallizing.]
[Cf. F.  cristalliser. See Crystal.]
To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.


word: crystallize
definition:
crystallize

crys"tal*lize
v. i.
To be converted into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction; to precipitate from a solution in the form of crystals.


word: crystallized
definition:
crystallized

crystallized
adj.
1.
smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.

Syn. -- candied, glacé, glacéed.

2.
caused to form into crystals; hence, in a crystalline form.


word: Crystallogenical
definition:
Crystallogenical

Crystallogenic

{ Crys`tal*lo*gen"ic (-l?-j?n"?k), Crys`tal*lo*gen"ic*al (-?-kal), }
a.
Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.


word: Crystallogeny
definition:
Crystallogeny

Crys`tal*log"e*ny
(kr?s`tal-l?j"?-n?)
n.
[Gr. kry`stallos crystal + root of gi`gnesqai to be born.]
The science which pertains to the production of crystals.


word: Crystallographer
definition:
Crystallographer

Crys`tal*log"ra*pher
(krĭs"tal*l&obreve_;g"rȧ*fẽr)
n.
One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.


word: Crystallographical
definition:
Crystallographical

Crystallographic

{ Crys`tal*lo*graph"ic (-l?-gr?f"?k), Crys`tal*lo*graph"ic*al (-?-kal), }
a.
[Cf. F. crystallographique.]
Pertaining to crystallography.


word: Crystallography
definition:
Crystallography

Crys`tal*log"ra*phy
(krĭs"tal*l&obreve_;g"rȧ*f&ybreve_;)
n.
[Gr. kry`stallos crystal + -graphy: cf. F.  cristallographie. See Crystal.]
1.
The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.

2.
A discourse or treatise on crystallization.


word: Crystalloid
definition:
Crystalloid

Crys"tal*loid
(krĭs"tal*loid)
a.
[Gr. kry`stallos crystal + -oid.]
Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.


word: Crystalloid₂
definition:
Crystalloid

Crys"tal*loid
n.
1.
(Chem.)
A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid.

2.
(Bot.)
One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also protein crystal.


word: Crystallology
definition:
Crystallology

Crys`tal*lol"o*gy
(krĭs`tal*l&obreve_;l"o̝*j&ybreve_;)
n.
[Gr. kry`stallos crystal + -logy.]
The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies.


word: Crystallomancy
definition:
Crystallomancy

Crys"tal*lo*man`cy
(-l?-m?n`s?)
n.
[Gr. kry`stallos crystal + -mancy.]
Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.


word: Crystallometry
definition:
Crystallometry

Crys`tal*lom"e*try
(-l?m"?-tr?)
n.
[Gr. kry`stallos crystal + -metry.]
The art of measuring crystals.


word: Crystallurgy
definition:
Crystallurgy

Crys"tal*lur`gy
(-l?r`j?)
n.
[Gr. kry`stallos crystal + 'e`rgon work.]
Crystallization.


word: CSA
definition:
CSA

CSA
prop. n.
acronym for the Confederate States of America.

Syn. -- Confederate States of America, the confederacy.


word: C-section
definition:
C-section

C-section
n.
contraction of caesarean section.

Syn. -- cesarean section, cesarian section, , cesarean, cesarian, caesarean.


word: Ctenocyst
definition:
Ctenocyst

Cte"no*cyst
(tē"no̝*sĭst)
n.
[Gr. ktei`s, kteno`s, comb + ky`stis bladder.]
(Zool.)
An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory.


word: Ctenoid
definition:
Ctenoid

Cte"noid
(tē"noid or tĕn"oid)
a.
(Zool.)
(a)
Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale
(b)
Pertaining to the Ctenoidei.
n. A ctenoidean.


word: Ctenoidean
definition:
Ctenoidean

Cte*noid"e*an
(te̝*noid"e̝*an)
a.
(Zool.)
Relating to the Ctenoidei.
n. One of the Ctenoidei.


word: Ctenoidei
definition:
Ctenoidei

Cte*noid"e*i
(-?-?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_;, _;_;_;_;, comb + -oid.]
(Zool.)
A group of fishes, established by Agassiz, characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial.


word: Ctenophora
definition:
Ctenophora

Cte*noph"o*ra
(t?-n?f"?-r?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. _;_;_;, _;_;_;, comb + _;_;_;_; to carry.]
(Zool.)
A phylum of invertebrates, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles.  They are commonly called the comb jellies, because the separate paddles somewhat resemble combs.  This phylum was formerly classified as a subdivision (class) within the Cœlenterata.


word: Ctenophorous
definition:
Ctenophorous

Ctenophoric

{ Cten`o*phor"ic (t?n`?-f?r"?k), Cte*noph"o*rous (t?-n?f"?-r?s), }
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Ctenophora.


word: Ctenostomata
definition:
Ctenostomata

Cten`o*stom"a*ta
(t?n`?-st?m"?-t?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_;, _;_;_;, comb + _;_;_;_;, -_;_;_; mouth.]
(Zool.)
A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles.


word: Cub
definition:
Cub

Cub
(kŭb)
n.
[Cf. Ir.  cuib cub, whelp, young dog, Ir. & Gael. cu dog; akin to E. hound.]
1.
A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.

2.
Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.

O, thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be
When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?
Shak.


word: Cub₂
definition:
Cub

Cub
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Cubbed (kŭbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cubbing.]
To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons.
Cubb'd
Dryden.


word: Cub₃
definition:
Cub

Cub
n.
[Cf. Cub a young animal.]
1.
A stall for cattle.
[Obs.]

I would rather have such . . . .in cub or kennel than in my closet or at my table.
Landor.

2.
A cupboard.
[Obs.]
Laud.


word: Cuba
definition:
Cuba

Cuba
(kū"bȧ)
prop. n.
1.
a country on the island of Cuba.

2.
the largest island in the West Indies.


word: Cuban
definition:
Cuban

Cu"ban
(kū"ban)
prop. a.
Of or pertaining to Cuba or its inhabitants.
n. A native or an inhabitant of Cuba.


word: Cubation
definition:
Cubation

Cu*ba"tion
(k?-b?"sh?n)
n.
[L. cubatio, fr. cubare to lie down.]
The act of lying down; a reclining.
[Obs.]


word: Cubatory
definition:
Cubatory

Cu"ba*to*ry
(k?"b?-t?-r?)
a.
[L. cubator he who lies down, fr.  cubare.]
Lying down; recumbent.
[R.]


word: Cubature
definition:
Cubature

Cu"ba*ture
(k?"b?-t?r; 135)
n.
[L.  cubus cube: cf. F.  cubature.  See Cube.]
The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.


word: Cubbridge-head
definition:
Cubbridge-head

Cub"bridge-head`
(k?b"r?jj-h?d)
n.
(Naut.)
A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.


word: Cubbyhole
definition:
Cubbyhole

Cubby

{ Cub"by (k?b"b?), Cub"by*hole` (-h?l`), }
n.
[See Cub a stall.]
A snug or confined or secluded place; a small room or a snug space within a room.

Syn. -- snuggery, snug.


word: Cubdrawn
definition:
Cubdrawn

Cub"*drawn`
(k?b"dr?n`)
a.
Sucked by cubs.
[R.]

This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch.
Shak.


word: Cube
definition:
Cube

Cube
(kūb)
n.
[F. cube, L.  cubus, fr. Gr. _;_;_;_; a cube, a cubical die.]
1.
(Geom.)
A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

2.
(Math.)
The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.

Cube ore (Min.), pharmacosiderite. It commonly crystallizes in cubes of a green color. -- Cube root. (Math.), the number or quantity which, multiplied into itself, and then into the product, produces the given cube; thus, 3 is the cube root of 27, for 3x3x3 = 27. -- Cube spar (Min.), anhydrite; anhydrous calcium sulphate.


word: Cube₂
definition:
Cube

Cube
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cubed (kūbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cubing.]
To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.


word: Cubeb
definition:
Cubeb

Cu"beb
(kū"bĕb)
n.
[F. cubèbe (cf. It.  cubebe, Pr., Sp., Pg., & NL.  cubeba), fr. Ar. kabābat.]
The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in (Med.), Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries.  The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.


word: cubebic
definition:
cubebic

cu*beb"ic
(k?-b?b"?k)
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs).


word: cubical
definition:
cubical

cube-shaped

cube-shaped cubical
adj.
Shaped like or approximately like a cube.

Syn. -- cubelike, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal.


word: Cubical
definition:
Cubical

Cubic

{ Cu"bic (k?"b?k), Cu"bic*al (-b?-kal), }
a.
[L.  cubicus, Gr. _;_;_;_;_;: cf. F. cubique. See Cube.]
1.
Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.

2.
(Crystallog.)
Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization.

Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. -- Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions. -- Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See Cube. -- Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.


word: Cubicle
definition:
Cubicle

Cu"bi*cle
(k?"b?-k'l)
n.
[L. cubiculum.]
A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.


word: Cubicular
definition:
Cubicular

Cu*bic"u*lar
(k?-??k"?-l?r)
a.
[L. cubicularis, fr. cubiculum a sleeping room, fr.  cubare to lie down.]
Belonging to a chamber or bedroom.
[Obs.]
Howell.


word: Cubilose
definition:
Cubilose

Cu"bi*lose`
(k?"b?-l?s`)
n.
[L.  cubile bed, nest.]
A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.


word: Cubism
definition:
Cubism

Cu"bism
(kū"bĭz'm)
n.
(Painting)
A movement or phase in post-impressionism (which see, below).
Cu"bist (#), n.


word: Cubit
definition:
Cubit

Cu"bit
(kū"bĭt)
n.
[L.  cubitum, cubitus; elbow, ell, cubit, fr. (because the elbow serves for leaning upon) cubare to lie down, recline; cf. Gr. ky`biton elbow, ky`ptein to bend, stoop, kyfo`s bent, stooping, humpbacked. Cf. Incumbent, Covey.]
1.
(Anat.)
The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist.
[Obs.]

2.
A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.

&hand_; The cubit varies in length in different countries, the Roman cubit being 17.47 inches, the Greek 18.20, the Hebrew somewhat longer, and the English 18 inches.


word: Cubital
definition:
Cubital

Cu"bit*al
(k?"b?t-al)
a.
[L.  cubitalis.]
1.
Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle.

2.
Of the length of a cubit.
Sir. T. Browne.


word: Cuboid
definition:
Cuboid

Cu"boid
(k?"boid)
a.
[Cube + -oid: cf. Gr. _;_;_;.]
(Anat.)
Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot.
n. (Anat.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.


word: Cubo-octahedral
definition:
Cubo-octahedral

Cu`bo-oc`ta*he"dral
(k?`b?-?k`t?-h?dral)
a.
Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.


word: Cubo-octahedron
definition:
Cubo-octahedron

Cu`bo-oc`ta*he"dron
(-dr?n)
n.
(Crystallog.)
A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.


word: Cucking stool
definition:
Cucking stool

Cuck"ing stool`
(k_;k"_;ng st_;_;l`)
[Cf. AS. scealfingst&omacrl, a word of similar meaning, allied to scealfor a diver, mergus avis; or possibly from F. coquine a hussy, slut, jade, f. of coquin, OE.  cokin, a rascal; or cf. Icel. k_;ka to dung, k_;kr dung, the name being given as to a disgracing or infamous punishment.]
A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool.
Sir. W. Scott.


word: Cuckold
definition:
Cuckold

Cuck"old
(k?k"?ld)
n.
[OE. kukeweld, cokewold, cokold, fr. OF.  coucoul, cucuault, the last syllable being modified by the OE. suffix -wold (see Herald); cf. F. cocu a cuckold, formerly also, a cuckoo, and L.  cuculus a cuckoo. The word alludes to the habit of the female cuckoo, who lays her eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.]
1.
A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
Shak.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).
(b)
The cowfish.


word: Cuckold₂
definition:
Cuckold

Cuck"old
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cuckolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Cuckolding.]
To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.
Shak.


word: Cuckold's knot
definition:
Cuckold's knot

Cuck"old's knot`
(k?k"?ldz n?t`)
(Naut.)
A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.


word: Cuckoo
definition:
Cuckoo

Cuck"oo
(kŏk"ō)
n.
[OE. coccou, cukkow, F.  coucou, prob. of imitative origin; cf. L.  cuculus, Gr. _;_;_;_;, Skr. k_;ki_;a, G. kuckuk, D. koekoek.]
(Zool.)
A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.

&hand_; The European cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) builds no nest of its own, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.  The American yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus Americanus) and the black-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus erythrophthalmus) build their own nests.

Cuckoo clock, a clock so constructed that at the time for striking it gives forth sounds resembling the cry of the cuckoo. -- Cuckoo dove (Zool.), a long-tailed pigeon of the genus Macropygia.  Many species inhabit the East Indies. -- Cuckoo fish (Zool.), the European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus). The name probably alludes to the sound that it utters. -- Cuckoo falcon (Zool.), any falcon of the genus Baza.  The genus inhabits Africa and the East Indies. -- Cuckoo maid (Zool.), the wryneck; -- called also cuckoo mate. -- Cuckoo ray (Zool.), a British ray (Raia miraletus). -- Cuckoo spit, or Cuckoo spittle. (a) A frothy secretion found upon plants, exuded by the larvae of certain insects, for concealment; -- called also toad spittle and frog spit. (b) (Zool.) A small hemipterous insect, the larva of which, living on grass and the leaves of plants, exudes this secretion. The insects belong to Aphrophora, Helochara, and allied genera. -- Ground cuckoo, the chaparral cock.


word: cuckoo bee
definition:
cuckoo bee

cuckoo bee
n.
(Zool.)
a bee, parasitic in the larval stage in the nests of other bees, feeding either upon their food or larvae. They belong to the genera Nomada, Melecta, Epeolus, and others.


word: cuckoo-pint
definition:
cuckoo-pint

cuckoopint

cuck"oo*pint`, cuck"oo-pint`
n.
a common European arum (Arum maculatum) with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring, and is the source of a sagolike starch called arum.

Syn. -- cuckoopint, lords and ladies, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum.


word: Cuckoobud
definition:
Cuckoobud

Cuck"oo*bud"
(k??k"??-b?d`)
n.
(Bot.)
A species of Ranunculus (Ranunculus bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup.
Shak.


word: Cuckooflower
definition:
Cuckooflower

Cuck"oo*flow`er
(-flou`?r)
n.
(Bot.)
A species of Cardamine (Cardamine pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi).


word: Cuckoopint
definition:
Cuckoopint

Cuck"oo*pint`
(-p?nt`)
n.
(Bot.)
A plant of the genus Arum (Arum maculatum); the European wake-robin.


word: Cucquean
definition:
Cucquean

Cuc"quean`
(k?k"kw?n`)
n.
[Cuckold + quean.]
A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her.
[Obs.]


word: Cucujo
definition:
Cucujo

Cu*cu"jo
(k??-k??"h?)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.


word: Cucullated
definition:
Cucullated

Cucullate

{ Cu"cul*late (k?"k?l-l?t or k?-k?l"l?t), Cu"cul*la`ted (-l?`t?d or -l?-t?d), }
a.
[LL. cullatus, fr. L.  cucullus a cap, hood. See Cowl a hood.]
1.
Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
(Bot.)
Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.

3.
(Zool.)
(a)
Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects.
(b)
Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.


word: Cucullus
definition:
Cucullus

Cu*cul"lus
(?)
n.
pl. Cuculli (#)
[L., a hood.]
1.
(Bot.)
A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as certain concave and arched sepals or petals.

2.
(Zool.)
A color marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood.


word: Cuculoid
definition:
Cuculoid

Cu"cu*loid
(k?k?-loid)
a.
[L.cuculus a cuckoo + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidæ).


word: Cucumber
definition:
Cucumber

Cu"cum*ber
(k?`k?m-b?r, formerly kou"k?m-b?r)
n.
[OE. cucumer, cocumber, cucumber, fr. L. cucmis, gen.cucumeris; cf. OF. cocombre,F. concombre.]
(Bot.)
A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below.

Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus Colocynthis syn. Cucumis Colocynthis. See Colocynth. -- Cucumber beetle. (Zool.) (a) A small, black flea-beetle (Crepidodera cucumeris), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines. (b) The squash beetle. -- Cucumber tree. (a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus Magnolia (Magnolia acuminata), so called from a slight resemblance of its young fruit to a small cucumber. (b) An East Indian plant (Averrhoa Bilimbi) which produces the fruit known as bilimbi. -- Jamaica cucumber, Jerusalem cucumber, the prickly-fruited gherkin (Cucumis Anguria). -- Snake cucumber, a species (Cucumis flexuosus) remarkable for its long, curiously-shaped fruit. -- Squirting cucumber, a plant (Ecbalium Elaterium) whose small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium. -- Star cucumber, a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.


word: Cucumiform
definition:
Cucumiform

Cu*cu"mi*form
(k?-k?"m?-f?rm)
a.
[L. cucumis cucumber + -form.]
Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.


word: Cucumis
definition:
Cucumis

Cu"cu*mis
(k?k?--m?s)
n.
[L., cucumber.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.


word: Cucurbite
definition:
Cucurbite

Cucurbit

{ Cu*cur"bit Cu*cur"bite }
(k&uuptack_;*kûr"bĭt)
n.
[L.  cucurbita a gourd: cf. F. cucurbite. See Gourd.]
(Chem.)
A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.


word: Cucurbitaceae
definition:
Cucurbitaceae

Cucurbitaceae
n.
a natural family of plants including the cucumber; melon; squash; and pumpkin.

Syn. -- family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family.


word: Cucurbitaceous
definition:
Cucurbitaceous

Cu*cur`bi*ta"ceous
(-bĭ*tā"shŭs)
a.
[Cf. F. cucurbitacé.]
(Bot.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.


word: Cucurbitive
definition:
Cucurbitive

Cu*cur"bi*tive
(k?-k?r"b?-t?v)
a.
Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms.


word: Cud
definition:
Cud

Cud
(kŭd)
n.
[AS. cudu, cwudu,cwidu,cweodo, of uncertain origin; cf, G. köder bait, Icel. kviðr womb, Goth. qiþus. Cf. Quid.]
1.
That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
Levit. xi. 3

2.
A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.
[Low]

3.
The first stomach of ruminating beasts.
Crabb.

To chew the cud, to ruminate; to meditate; used with of; as, to chew the cud of bitter memories.

Chewed the thrice turned cud of wrath.
Tennyson.


word: Cudbear
definition:
Cudbear

Cud"bear`
(k?d"b?r`)
n.
[Also cudbeard, corrupted fr. the name of Dr. Cuthbert Gordon, a Scotchman, who first brought it into notice.]
1.
A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea.
Ure.

2.
(Bot.)
A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained.


word: Cudden
definition:
Cudden

Cud"den
(k?d"d'n)
n.
[For sense 1, cf. Scot. cuddy an ass; for sense 2, see 3d Cuddy.]
1.
A clown; a low rustic; a dolt.
[Obs.]

The slavering cudden, propped upon his staff.
Dryden.

2.
(Zool.)
The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy.


word: Cuddle
definition:
Cuddle

Cud"dle
(kŭd"d'l)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Cuddled (-d'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cuddling (-dlĭng).]
[Prob. for couthle, fr. couth known; cf. OE. kuþþen to cuddle, or cuðlechen to make friends with. SeeCouth, Uncouth, Can.]
To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.

She cuddles low beneath the brake;
Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly.
Prior.


word: cuddling
definition:
cuddling

cuddling
n.
1.
holding close in a tender and afectionate manner.

2.
lying closely together while caressing; nestling together.

3.
foreplay without contact with the genital organs.
[slang]

Syn. -- caressing, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling.


word: Cuddy
definition:
Cuddy

Cud"dy
(-d?)
n.
[See Cudden. ]
1.
An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
[Scot.]

2.
A blockhead; a lout.
Hood.

3.
(Mech.)
A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
Knight.


word: Cuddy₂
definition:
Cuddy

Cud"dy
(k?d"d?)
n.
[Prob. a contraction fr. D. kajuit cabin: cf. F.cahute hut.]
(Naut.)
A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.


word: Cuddy₃
definition:
Cuddy

Cud"dy
n.
[Scot.; cf. Gael. cudaig, cudainn, or E.cuttlefish, or cod, codfish.]
(Zool)
The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius).
[Written also cudden.]


word: Cudgel
definition:
Cudgel

Cudg"el
(k?j"?l)
n.
[OE. kuggel; cf. G. keule club (with a round end), kugel ball, or perh. W. cogyl cudgel, or D. cudse, kuds, cudgel.]
A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.

He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs.
Bunyan.

Cudgel play, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels. -- To cross the cudgels, to forbear or give up the contest; -- a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay one cudgel over another when the contest is ended. -- To take up cudgels for, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something).


word: Cudgel₂
definition:
Cudgel

Cudg"el
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cudgeled or Cudgelled (-_;ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cudgeling or cudgelling.]
To beat with a cudgel.

An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog.
Shak.

To cudgel one's brains, to exercise one's wits.


word: Cudweed
definition:
Cudweed

Cud"weed`
(k?d"w?d`)
n.
[Apparently fr.  cud + weed, but perh. a corruption of cottonweed; or of cut weed, so called from its use as an application to cuts and chafings.]
(Bot.)
A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.


word: Cue
definition:
Cue

Cue
(kū)
n.
[ OF. coue, coe, F. queue, fr. L. coda, cauda, tail. Cf. Caudal, Coward, Queue.]
1.
The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.

2.
The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword.

When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.
Shak.

3.
A hint or intimation.

Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house.
Swift.

4.
The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.

Were it my cueto fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter.
Shak.

5.
Humor; temper of mind.
[Colloq.]
Dickens.

6.
A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.


word: Cue₃
definition:
Cue

Cue
n.
[From q, an abbreviation for quadrans a farthing.]
A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.
[Obs.]

&hand_; The term was formerly current in the English universities, the letter q being the mark in the buttery books to denote such a portion.  Nares.

Hast thou worn
Gowns in the university, tossed logic,
Sucked philosophy, eat cues?
Old Play.


word: Cuerpo
definition:
Cuerpo

Cuer"po
(kwẽr"po̝)
n.
[Sp. cuerpo, fr. L. corpus body. See Corpse.]
The body.
dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena! (1996)

In cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered.

Exposed in cuerpo to their rage.
Hudibras.


word: Cuesta
definition:
Cuesta

Cues"ta
(?)
n.
[Sp.]
A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping.
[Southwestern U. S.]


word: Cuff
definition:
Cuff

Cuff
(k?f)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cuffed (k_;ft); p. pr. & vb. n. Cuffing.]
[Cf. Sw. kuffa to knock, push,kufva to check, subdue, and E. cow, v. t. ]
1.
To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.

I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
Shak.

They with their quills did all the hurt they could,
And cuffed the tender chickens from their food.
Dryden.

2.
To buffet.
Cuffed
Tennyson.


word: Cuff₂
definition:
Cuff

Cuff
v. i.
To fight; to scuffle; to box.

While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.
Dryden.


word: Cuff₃
definition:
Cuff

Cuff
n.
A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.

Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies;
Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff.
Spenser.

Many a bitter kick and cuff.
Hudibras.


word: Cuff₄
definition:
Cuff

Cuff
n.
[Perh. from F. coiffe headdress, hood, or coif; as if the cuff were a cap for the hand. Cf. Coif.]

1.
The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.

He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band, short cuffs, and a peaked beard.
Arbuthnot.

2.
Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.


word: Cufic
definition:
Cufic

Cu"fic
(k?`f?k)
a.
[So called from the town of Cufa, in the province of Bagdad.]
Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic language.
[Written also Kufic.]


word: Cui bono
definition:
Cui bono

Cui` bo"no
(?)
[L.]
Lit., for whose benefit; incorrectly understood, it came to be used in the sense, of what good or use; and hence, (what) purpose; object; specif., the ultimate object of life.


word: Cuinage
definition:
Cuinage

Cuin"age
(kw?n`?j)
n.
[Corrupted fr. coinage.]
The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.


word: Cuirass
definition:
Cuirass

Cui*rass"
(kwe̝*rȧs", or kwē"răs; 277)
n.
pl. Cuirasses(-ĕz)
[F.cuirasse, orig., a breastplate of leather, for OF. cuirée, cuirie influenced by It. corazza, or Sp. coraza, fr. an assumed LL. coriacea, fr. L. coriaceus, adj., of leather, fr. corium leather, hide; akin to Gr. cho`rion intestinal membrane, OSlav. skora hide, Lith. skura hide, leather. Cf. Coriaceous.]
1.
(a)
A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle
(b)
The breastplate taken by itself.

&hand_; The cuirass covered the body before and behind. It consisted of two parts, a breast- and backpiece of iron fastened together by means of straps and buckles or other like contrivances. It was originally, as the name imports, made of leather, but afterward of metal.
Grose.

2.
(Zool)
An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.


word: Cuirassed
definition:
Cuirassed

Cui*rassed"
(kwe̝*rȧst" or kwē"răst)
a.
1.
Wearing a cuirass.

2.
(Zool)
Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; -- said of certain fishes.


word: Cuirassier
definition:
Cuirassier

Cui`ras*sier"
(kw?`r?s-s?r")
n.
[F. cuirassier. See Curass.]
(Mil.)
A soldier armed with a cuirass; especially, a soldier of the heaviest cavalry, wearing a cuirass only when in full dress.
Milton.


word: Cuir bouilli
definition:
Cuir bouilli

Cuir" bou`illi"
(?)
[F.]
In decorative art, boiled leather, fitted by the process to receive impressed patterns, like those produced by chasing metal, and to retain the impression permanently.


word: Cuish
definition:
Cuish

Cuish
(kw?s)
n.
[F. cuisse thigh, fr. L. coxa hip: cf. F. cuissard, OF, cuissot, armor for the thigh, cuish. Cf. Hough.]
Defensive armor for the thighs.
[ Written also cuisse, and quish.]


word: Cuisine
definition:
Cuisine

Cui`sine"
(kw?`z?n")
n.
[F., fr. L. coquina kitchen, fr. coquere to cook. See Kitchen.]
1.
The kitchen or cooking department.

2.
Manner or style of cooking.


word: Culasse
definition:
Culasse

Cu`lasse"
(ku`l?s")
n.
[F., fr. cul back.]
The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.


word: Culcita
definition:
Culcita

Culcita
n.
a genus that includes some plants usually placed in e.g. genus Dicksonia; terrestrial brackenlike ferns of tropical America, Malasia to Australia and Polynesia; also native in southwestern Europe and Atlantic islands.

Syn. -- genus Culcita.


word: Culdee
definition:
Culdee

Cul*dee"
(k_;l-d_;" or k_;l"d_;)
n.
[ Prob. fr. Gael.cuilteach; cf. Ir. ceilede.]
One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

The pure Culdees
Were Albyn's earliest priests of God.
Campbell.


word: Cul-de-sac
definition:
Cul-de-sac

Cul`-de-sac"
(ku`de-s?k" or kul`de-s?k")
n.
pl. Culs-de-sac (ku`- or kulz`-).
[ F., lit., bottom of a bag.]

1.
A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.

2.
(Mil.)
a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front.

3.
(Anat.)
Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.


word: Culex
definition:
Culex

Cu"lex
(?)
n.
[L., a gnat.]
(Zool.)
A genus of mosquitoes of the family Culicidae, to which most of the North American species belong.  Some members of this genus are exceedingly annoying, as Culex sollicitans, which breeds in enormous numbers in the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast, and Culex pipiens, the common house mosquito, breeding very widely in the fresh waters of North America. (For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes, see Anopheles, above).  The yellow-fever mosquito is now placed in another genus, Stegomyia.
This genus formerly (ca. 1900) included the gnat as well as the mosquito.


word: Culicid
definition:
Culicid

Cu"li*cid
(?)
a.
[L. culex, -icis, gnat.]
(Zool.)
Like or pertaining to the Mosquito family (Culicidæ).
n. A culicid insect.


word: Culiciform
definition:
Culiciform

Cu*lic"i*form
(k?-l?s"i-f?rm)
a.
[L. culex a gnat + -form:cf. F. culiciforme.]
(Zool.)
Gnat-shaped.


word: Culinarily
definition:
Culinarily

Cu"li*na*ri*ly
(k?`l?-n?-r?-l?)
adv.
In the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a kitchen or cooking.


word: Culinary
definition:
Culinary

Cu"li*na*ry
(k?"l?-n?-r?)
a.
[L. culinarius, fr. culina kitchen, perh. akin to carbo coal: cf. F. culinare.]
Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art.


word: Cull
definition:
Cull

Cull
(k?l)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Culled (k?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Culling.]
[OE.cullen, OF. cuillir, coillir, F.cueillir, to gather, pluck, pick, fr. L. colligere. See Coil, v. t., and cf. Collect.]
To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

From his herd he culls,
For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls.
Dryden.

Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled.
Tennyson.


word: Culler
definition:
Culler

Cull"er
(k?l"?r)
n.
One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market.


word: Cullet₂
definition:
Cullet

Cul"let
n.
[A dim. from F. cul back.]
A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).


word: Cullibility
definition:
Cullibility

Cul`li*bil"i*ty
(-l?-b?l"?-ty)
n.
[From cully to trick, cheat.]
Gullibility.
[R.]
Swift.


word: Culling
definition:
Culling

Cull"ing
(k?l"?ng)
n.
1.
The act of one who culls.

2.
pl.
Anything separated or selected from a mass.


word: Cullion
definition:
Cullion

Cul"lion
(k?l"y?n)
n.
[OF. couillon, coillon, F. co_;on, a vile fellow, coward, dupe, from OF. couillon, coillon, testicle, fr. il the scrotum, fr. L. coleus a leather bag, the scrotum.]
A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion.
cullions
Shak.


word: Cullis
definition:
Cullis

Cul"lis
(k_;l"l_;s)
n.
[OF. coleïs, F. coulis, fr. OF. & F. couler to strain, to flow, fr. L. colare to filter, strain; cf. LL. coladicium. Cf. Colander.]
A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly.
[Obs.]

When I am exellent at caudles
And cullises . . . you shall be welcome to me.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Cullis₂
definition:
Cullis

Cul"lis
n.
pl. Cullises (-_;z).
[F.coulisse groove, fr. the same source as E. cullis broth.]
(Arch.)
A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.


word: Culls
definition:
Culls

Culls
(k?lz)
n. pl.
[From Cull,, v. t.]
1.
Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out.

2.
Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked.


word: Cully
definition:
Cully

Cul"ly
(k?l"l?)
n.
pl. Cullies (-l_;z).
[Abbrev. fr. cullion.]
A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull.

I have learned that . . . I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess.
Addison.


word: Cully₂
definition:
Cully

Cul"ly
v. t.
[See Cully,n., and cf. D. kullen to cheat, gull.]
To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive.
cully
Pomfret.


word: Cullyism
definition:
Cullyism

Cul"ly*ism
(-?z'm)
n.
The state of being a cully.

Less frequent instances of eminent cullyism.
Spectator.


word: Culm
definition:
Culm

Culm
(kŭlm)
n.
[L. culmus stalk, stem; akin to calamus. SeeHalm.]
(Bot.)
The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.


word: Culm₂
definition:
Culm

Culm
n.
[Perh. from W. cwlm knot or tie, applied to this species of coal, which is much found in balls or knots in some parts of Wales: cf. OE. culme smoke, soot.]
(Min.)
(a)
Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses.
(b)
The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.
 Raymond.


word: Culmen
definition:
Culmen

Cul"men
(k?l"m?n)
n.
[L., fr. cellere (in comp.) to impel; cf. celsus pushed upward, lofty.]
1.
Top; summit; acme.
R. North.

2.
(Zool.)
The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.


word: Culmiferous
definition:
Culmiferous

Cul*mif"er*ous
(k?l-m?f"?r-?s)
a.
[L. culmus stalk or stem + -ferous: cf. F. culmifère.]
Having jointed stems or culms.


word: Culmiferous₂
definition:
Culmiferous

Cul*mif"er*ous
(kŭl*mĭf"ẽr*ŭs)
a.
[2d culm + -ferous.]
(Min.)
Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.


word: Culminant
definition:
Culminant

Cul"mi*nant
(-nant)
a.
Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant.
[R.]


word: Culminate
definition:
Culminate

Cul"mi*nate
(kŭl"mĭ*nāt)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Culminated (-nā`tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Culminating (-nā`tĭng.]
[L. cuimen top or ridge. See Column.]
1.
To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

As when his beams at noon
Culminate from the equator.
Milton.

2.
To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.

The reptile race culminated in the secondary era.
Dana.

The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating.
Motley.


word: Culminate₂
definition:
Culminate

Cul"mi*nate
(kŭl"mĭ*na̝t)
a.
Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.
Dana.


word: Culmination
definition:
Culmination

Cul"mi*na"tion
(kŭl`m?-n?"sh?n)
n.
[Cf. F.culmination]
1.
The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.

2.
Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.


word: culottes
definition:
culottes

culottes
n. pl.
a type of women's trousers with wide legs cut loose and full so as to resemble a skirt.

Syn. -- culotte.


word: Culpa
definition:
Culpa

Cul"pa
(kŭl"pȧ)
n.
[L.]
(Law)
Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.
Wharton.


word: Culpability
definition:
Culpability

Cul`pa*bil"i*ty
(k?l`p?-b?l`?-t?)
n.
pl. Culpabilities (-t_;z).
[Cf. F. culpabilité.]
The state of being culpable.


word: Culpable
definition:
Culpable

Cul"pa*ble
(k?l"p?-b'l)
a.
[OE. culpable, coulpable, coupable, F. coupable, formerly also coupable, formerly also coulpable, culpable, fr. L. culpabilis, fr. culpare to blame, fr. culpa fault.]

1.
Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
State Trials (1413).

If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures.
Sharp.

2.
Guilty; as, culpable of a crime.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Culpatory
definition:
Culpatory

Cul"pa*to*ry
(-t?-r?)
a.
Expressing blame; censuring; reprehensory; inculpating.

Adjectives . . . commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense.
Walpole.


word: Culpe
definition:
Culpe

Culpe
(kŭlp)
n.
[F. coulpe, fr.L.culpa.]
Blameworthiness.
[Obs.]

Banished out of the realme . . . without culpe.
E. Hall.


word: Culpon
definition:
Culpon

Cul"pon
(kŭl"p&obreve_;n)
n.
[See Coupon.]
A shred; a fragment; a strip of wood.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Culprit
definition:
Culprit

Cul"prit
(kŭl"pr?t)
n.
[Prob. corrupted for culpate, fr. Law Latin culpatus the accused, p. p. of L. culpare to blame. See Culpable.]
1.
One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.

An author is in the condition of a culprit; the public are his judges.
Prior.

2.
One quilty of a fault; a criminal.


word: Culrage
definition:
Culrage

Cul"rage
(k?l"r?j)
n.
[OE. culrage, culrache; prob. fr. F. cul the buttok + F. & E. rage; F. curage.]
(Bot.)
Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper).


word: Cult
definition:
Cult

Cult
(kŭlt)
n.
[F. culte, L. cultus care, culture, fr. colere to cultivate. Cf. Cultus.]
1.
Attentive care; homage; worship.

Every one is convinced of the reality of a better self, and of the cult or homage which is due to it.
Shaftesbury.

2.
A system of religious belief and worship.

That which was the religion of Moses is the ceremonial or cult of the religion of Christ.
Coleridge.

3.
A system of intense religious veneration of a particular person, idea, or object, especially one considered spurious or irrational by traditional religious bodies; as, the Moonie cult.

4.
The group of individuals who adhere to a cult (senses 2 or 3).

5.
A strong devotion or interest in a particular person, idea or thing without religious associations, or the people holding such an interest; as, the cult of James Dean; the cult of personality in totalitarian societies.


word: Cultch
definition:
Cultch

Cultch
(k?lch; 224)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.
[Also written cutch.]

2.
Young or seed oysters together with the shells and other objects to which they are usually attached.

3.
Rubbish; débris; refuse.


word: Cultirostral
definition:
Cultirostral

Cul`ti*ros"tral
(-t?-r?s"tral)
a.
[See Cultirostres.]
(Zool.)
Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.


word: Cultirostres
definition:
Cultirostres

Cul`ti*ros"tres
(-tr?z)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. culter colter of a plow, knife + rostrum bill.]
(Zool.)
A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.


word: Cultivable
definition:
Cultivable

Cul"ti*va*ble
(k?l"t?-v?-b'l)
a.
[Cf. F. cultivable.]
Capable of being cultivated or tilled.
Todd.


word: cultivar
definition:
cultivar

cultivar
n.
a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation.


word: Cultivate
definition:
Cultivate

Cul"ti*vate
(k?l"t?-v?t)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cultivated (-v?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Cultivating (-v?`-t?ng).]
[LL. cultivatus, p. p. of cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p. p. of colere to till, cultivate. Cf. Colony.]
1.
To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.

2.
To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.

Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature.
Wordsworth.

3.
To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.

I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly.
Burke.

4.
To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.

To cultivate the wild, licentious savage.
Addison.

The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end.
Tillotson.

5.
To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.


word: cultivated
definition:
cultivated

cultivated
adj.
1.
marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.

Syn. -- civilized, cultured, genteel, polite.

2.
used for raising crops; -- of land or soil.


word: Cultivation
definition:
Cultivation

Cul`ti*va"tion
(k?l`t?-v?"sh?n)
n.
[Cf. F. cultivation.]
1.
The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

2.
Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care.

3.
The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.

Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians.
Hallam.


word: Cultivator
definition:
Cultivator

Cul"ti*va`tor
(k?l"t?-v?`t?r)
n.
[Cf. F. cultivateur.]

1.
One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature.
Whewell.

2.
An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles.

&hand_; In a broader signification it includes any complex implement for pulverizing or stirring the surface of the soil, as harrows, grubbers, horse hoes, etc.


word: Cultrated
definition:
Cultrated

Cultrate

{ Cul"trate (k?l"tr?t), Cul"tra*ted (-tr?-t?d), }
a.
[L. cultratus knife-shaped, fromculter, cultri, knife.]
(Bot. & Zool.)
Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.


word: Cultriform
definition:
Cultriform

Cul"tri*form
(-tr?-f?rm)
a.
[L. culter, cultri, knife + -form.]
(Bot. & Zool.)
Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.


word: Cultrivorous
definition:
Cultrivorous

Cul*triv"o*rous
(k?l-tr?b"?-r?s)
a.
[L. culter, cultri, knife + vorare to devour.]
Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity.
Dunglison.


word: Culturable
definition:
Culturable

Cul"tur*a*ble
(k?l"t?r-?-b'l; 135)
a.
Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured.
London Spectator.


word: Culture
definition:
Culture

Cul"ture
(k?l"t?r; 135)
n.
[F. culture, L. cultura, fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf. Colony.]
1.
The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

2.
The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.

If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Pepe.

3.
The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.

What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture.
J. C. Shairp.

The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture.
Tylor.

4.
(Biol.)
(a)
The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular organisms) in artificial media or under artificial conditions.
(b)
The collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation.
The growth of cells obtained from multicellular animals or plants in artificial media is called tissue culture.

&hand_; The word is used adjectively with the above senses in many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture, etc.

5.
(Cartography)
Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels.

Culture fluid, Culture medium a fluid in which microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of study or as a means of modifying their virulence.  If the fluid is gelled by, for example, the use of agar, it then is called, depending on the vessel in which the gelled medium is contained, a plate, a slant, or a stab.


word: Culture₂
definition:
Culture

Cul"ture
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cultured (-t?rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. Culturing.]
To cultivate; to educate.

They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured.
Usher.


word: Cultured
definition:
Cultured

Cul"tured
(k?l"t?rd)
a.
1.
Under culture; cultivated.
Cultured
Shenstone.

2.
Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.

The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments.
I. Taylor.

The cunning hand and cultured brain.
Whittier.


word: Culture features
definition:
Culture features

Culture features
(Surv.)
The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.


word: Culture myth
definition:
Culture myth

Culture myth
A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.


word: Culturist
definition:
Culturist

Cul"tur*ist
n.
1.
A cultivator.

2.
One who is an advocate of culture.

The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not_;) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man.
J. C. Shairp


word: Cultus
definition:
Cultus

Cul"tus
(k?l"t?s)
n. sing. & pl.
E. pl. Cultuses (-_;z).
[L., cultivation, culture.  See Cult.]
Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development.  Cf. Cult, 2.


word: Cultus₂
definition:
Cultus

Cul"tus
(?)
a.
[See Cultus cod.]
Bad, worthless; no good.
[Northwestern U. S.]
“A bad horse, cultus [no good] !” he said, beating it with his whip.
F. H. Balch.


word: Cultus cod
definition:
Cultus cod

Cul"tus cod`
(k?d`)
[Chinook cultus of little worth.]
(Zool.)
See Cod, and Buffalo cod, under Buffalo.


word: Culver₂
definition:
Culver

Cul"ver
n.
[Abbrev. fr. Culverin.]
A culverin.

Falcon and culver on each tower
Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Culverin
definition:
Culverin

Cul"ver*in
(k?l"v?r-?n)
n.
[F. coulevrine, prop. fem. of couleuvrin like a serpent, fr. couleuvre adder, fr. L. coluber, colubra.]
A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles.

Trump, and drum, and roaring culverin.
Macaulay.


word: Culverkey
definition:
Culverkey

Cul"ver*key`
(-k?`)
n.
1.
A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree.
Wright.

2.
An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans).
[Obs.]

A girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands.
Walton.


word: Culver's root
definition:
Culver's root

Culver's physic

{ Cul"ver's phys"ic (?), or Cul"ver's root` (?) }
[So called after a Dr. Culver, who used it.]
(Bot.)
The root of a handsome erect herb (Leptandra Virginica syn. Veronica Virginica) common in most moist woods of North America , used as an active cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.


word: Culvert
definition:
Culvert

Cul"vert
(k?l"v?rt)
n.
[Prob. from OF. coulouere, F. couloir, channel, gutter, gallery, fr. couler to flow. See Cullis.]
A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.


word: cum
definition:
cum

cum
(kŭm; kŏm)
prep.
[L. with prep.]
with; together with; along with; as, I work at home in an office-cum-bedroom.


word: Cumacea
definition:
Cumacea

Cu*ma"ce*a
(k?-m?"sh?-? or -s?-?)
n. pl.
[NL.]
(Zool.)
An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.


word: Cumber
definition:
Cumber

Cum"ber
(k?m"b?r)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cumbered (-b?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cumbering.]
[OE. combren, cumbren,OF. combrer to hinder, from LL. cumbrus a heap, fr. L. cumulus; cf. Skr. _;_; to increase, grow strong. Cf. Cumulate.]
To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.

Why asks he what avails him not in fight,
And would but cumber and retard his flight?
Dryden.

Martha was cumbered about much serving.
Luke x. 40.

Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
 Luke xiii. 7.

The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory.
Locke.


word: Cumber₂
definition:
Cumber

Cum"ber
(k?m"b?r)
n.
[Cf. encombre hindrance, impediment. See Cuber,v.]
Trouble; embarrassment; distress.
[Obs.]
[Written also comber.]

A place of much distraction and cumber.
 Sir H. Wotton.

Sage counsel in cumber.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Cumberland River
definition:
Cumberland River

Cumberland

Cumberland, Cumberland River
prop. n.
a tributary of the Ohio River.

Syn. -- .


word: cumbersome
definition:
cumbersome

cum"ber*some
(k_;m"b_;r-s_;m)
a.
1.
Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.

To perform a cumbersome obedience.
Sir. P. Sidney.

2.
Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine.

He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering, cumbersome, circuitous.
I. Taylor.


word: Cumbrance
definition:
Cumbrance

Cum"brance
(k?m"brans)
n.
Encumbrance.
[Obs.]

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare.
Milton.


word: Cumbrian
definition:
Cumbrian

Cum"bri*an
(k?m"br?-an)
a.
Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there.

Cumbrian system (Geol.), the slate or graywacke system of rocks, now included in the Cambrian or Silurian system; -- so called because most prominent at Cumberland.


word: Cumbrous
definition:
Cumbrous

Cum"brous
(k?m"br?s)
a.
1.
Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.

He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight.
Swift.

That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively.
De Quincey.

2.
Giving trouble; vexatious.
[Obs.]

A clud of cumbrous gnats.
Spenser.


word: Cumene
definition:
Cumene

Cu"mene
(k?"m?n)
n.
[From Cumin.]
(Chem.)
A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.


word: Cumidine
definition:
Cumidine

Cu"mi*dine
(k?"m?-d?n or -d?n)
n.
[From Cumin.]
(Chem.)
A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.


word: Cumin
definition:
Cumin

Cum"in
(k?m"?n)
n.
[OE.comin, AS. cymen, fr. L. cuminum, Gr. _;_;_;_;_;_;_;; of Semitic origin, cf. Ar. kamm_;n, Heb. kamm_;n; cf. OF. comin, F. cumin. Cf. Kummel.]
(Bot.)
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.
[Written also cummin.]

Rank-smelling rue, and cumin good for eyes.
Spenser.

Black cumin (Bot.), a plant (Nigella sativa) with pungent seeds, used by the Afghans, etc.


word: Cuminic
definition:
Cuminic

Cu*min"ic
(k?-m?n"?k)
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid.

Cuminic acid (Chem.), white crystalline substance, C3H7.C6H4.CO2H, obtained from oil of caraway.


word: Cuminol
definition:
Cuminol

Cu"mi*nol
(-n?l)
n.
[Cuminic + L. oleum.]
A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde.


word: Cummerbund
definition:
Cummerbund

Cum"mer*bund`
(?)
n.
[Written also kummerbund, cummerband, etc.]
[Hind. kamarband, fr. Per. Kamar loins + band fastening.]
A sash for the waist; a girdle.
[India]


word: Cumshaw
definition:
Cumshaw

Cum"shaw
(k?m"sha)
n.
[Chin. kom-tsie.]
A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton.
 S. Wells Williams.


word: Cumu-cirro-stratus
definition:
Cumu-cirro-stratus

Cu"mu-cir`ro-stra"tus
(k?`m?-s?r`r?-str?"t?s)
n.
(Meteor.)
Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.


word: Cumulate
definition:
Cumulate

Cu"mu*late
(k?"m?-l?t)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cumulated (-l?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Cumulating (-l?`t?ng).]
[L. cumulatus, p. p. of cumulare to heap up, fr. cumulus a heap. See Cumber.]
To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

Shoals of shells, bedded and cumulated heap upon heap.
Woodward.


word: Cumulation
definition:
Cumulation

Cu`mu*la"tion
(k?`m?-l?"sh?n)
n.
[Cf. F. cumulation.]
The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation.


word: Cumulative
definition:
Cumulative

Cu"mu*la*tive
(k?"m?-l?-t?v)
a.
[Cf. F. cumulatif.]

1.
Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
cumulative
Bacon

2.
Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.

The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative.
Trench.

3.
(Law)
(a)
Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.
(b)
Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.
Bouvier. Wharton.

Cumulative action (Med.), that action of certain drugs, by virtue of which they produce, when administered in small doses repeated at considerable intervals, the same effect as if given in a single large dose. -- Cumulative poison, a poison the action of which is cumulative. -- Cumulative vote or Cumulative system of voting (Politics), that system which allows to each voter as many votes as there are persons to be voted for, and permits him to accumulate these votes upon one person, or to distribute them among the candidates as he pleases.


word: Cumulostratus
definition:
Cumulostratus

Cu"mu*lo*stra"tus
(kū"m&uuptack_;*lo̝*strā"tŭs)
n.
(Meteor.)
A form of cloud. See Cloud.


word: Cumulus
definition:
Cumulus

Cu"mu*lus
(kū"m&uuptack_;*lŭs)
n.
pl. Cumuli (-lī).
[L., a heap. See Cumber.]
(Meteor.)
One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud.


word: Cunabula
definition:
Cunabula

Cu*nab"u*la
(k&uuptack_;*năb"&uuptack_;*lȧ)
n. pl.
[L., a cradle, earliest abode, fr. cunae cradle.]
1.
The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

2.
(Bibliography)
The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.


word: Cunctation
definition:
Cunctation

Cunc*ta"tion
(k?nk-t?"sh?n)
n.
[L. cunctatio, fr. cunctari, p. p. cunctatus, to delay.]
Delay; procrastination.
[R.]
Carlyle.


word: Cunctator
definition:
Cunctator

Cunc*ta"tor
(k?nk-t?"t?r)
n.
[L., lit., a delayer; -- applied as a surname to Q. Fabius Maximus.]
One who delays or lingers.
[R.]


word: Cunctipotent
definition:
Cunctipotent

Cunc*tip"o*tent
(k?nk-t?p"?-tent)
a.
[L. cunctipotens; cunctus all + potens powerful.]
All-powerful; omnipotent.
[R]
cunctipotent
Neale (Trans. Rhythm of St. Bernard).


word: Cundurango
definition:
Cundurango

Cun`du*ran"go
(k?n`d?-r?n"g?)
n.
(Med.)
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.
[Written also condurango.]


word: Cuneated
definition:
Cuneated

Cuneate

{ Cu"ne*ate (k?"n?-?t), Cu"ne*a`ted (-?`tEd), }
a.
[L.cuneatus, fr. cuneus a wege SeeCoin.]
Wedge-shaped
(Bot.)
wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.


word: Cuniform
definition:
Cuniform

Cuneiform

{ Cu*ne"i*form (k?-n?"?-f?rm), Cu"ni*form (k?"n?-f?rm), }
a.
[L. cuneus a wedge + -form: cf. F. cunei-forme. See Coin.]
1.
Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.

2.
Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them.
cuneiform
Rawlinson.


word: Cuniform₂
definition:
Cuniform

Cuneiform

{ Cu*ne"i*form, Cu"ni*form  }
n.
1.
The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.
I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

2.
(Anat.)
(a)
One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.
(b)
One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.


word: Cunette
definition:
Cunette

Cu*nette"
(k&uuptack_;*nĕt")
n.
[F.]
(Fort.)
A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.


word: Cunner
definition:
Cunner

Cun"ner
(kŭn"nẽr)
n.
[Cf. Conner.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer.
[Written also conner.]
(b)
A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.


word: cunnilingus
definition:
cunnilingus

cun`ni*lin"gus
n.
[NL., fr. L. cunnus vulva + lingere to lick.]
Stimulation of the vulva or clitoris of one person by the tongue of another, for the purpose of giving sexual gratification.

Syn. -- cunnilinctus.


word: Cunning
definition:
Cunning

Cun"ning
(kŭn"nĭng)
a.
[AS. cunnan to know, to be able. See 1st Con, Can.]
1.
Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
cunning
 Ex. xxxviii. 23.

“Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
Shak.

Esau was a cunning hunter.
Gen xxv. 27.

2.
Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.

Over them Arachne high did lift
Her cunning web.
Spenser.

3.
Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.

They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.
South.

4.
Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
[Colloq. U.S.]
Barlett.


word: Cunning₂
definition:
Cunning

Cun"ning
n.
[AS. cunnung trial, or Icel. kunnandi knowledge. See Cunning, a.]
1.
Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
[Archaic]

Let my right hand forget her cunning.
Ps. cxxxvii. 5.

A carpenter's desert
Stands more in cunning than in power.
Chapman.

2.
The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.

Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.
Locke.

We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom.
Bacon.


word: cunningman
definition:
cunningman

cun"ning*man`
(-m?n`)
n.
A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
[Obs.]
Hudibras.


word: cunt
definition:
cunt

cunt
n.
1.
The female pudenda; specifically the vagina.
[vulgar slang]

2.
A woman; -- usually used derogatorily and considered obscene.


word: Cuon
definition:
Cuon

Cuon
prop. n.
a genus of canids including the Asiatic wild dog.

Syn. -- Cyon, genus Cuon, genus Cyon.


word: Cup
definition:
Cup

Cup
(kŭp)
n.
[AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa tub, cask; cf. also Gr. ky`ph hut, Skr. kūpa pit, hollow, OSlav.  kupa cup. Cf. Coop, Cupola, Cowl a water vessel, and Cob, Coif, Cop.]
1.
A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.

2.
The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.

Give me a cup of sack, boy.
Shak.

3.
pl.
Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.

Thence from cups to civil broils.
Milton.

4.
That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.

O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
Matt. xxvi. 39.

5.
Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.

The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
Shenstone.

6.
(Med.)
A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.

Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. Milman. -- Cup and can, familiar companions. -- Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping. -- To be in one's cups, to be drunk.


word: Cup₂
definition:
Cup

Cup
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cupped (kŭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupping.]
1.
To supply with cups of wine.
[R.]

Cup us, till the world go round.
Shak.

2.
(Surg.)
To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.

3.
(Mech.)
To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.


word: Cupbearer
definition:
Cupbearer

Cup"bear`er
(-bâr`ẽr)
n.
1.
One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.

2.
(Antiq.)
One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master.
cupbearer
Neh. i. 11.


word: Cupboard
definition:
Cupboard

Cup"board
(kŭb"bẽrd)
n.
[Cup + board.]
1.
A board or shelf for cups and dishes.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

2.
A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.

Cupboard love, interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard.  “A cupboard love is seldom true.” Poor Robin. [Colloq.] -- To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [Colloq.] “My stomach cries cupboard.” W. Irving.


word: Cupel
definition:
Cupel

Cu"pel
(kū"pĕl)
n.
[LL. cupella cup (cf. L. cupella, small cask, dim. of cupa) : cf. F. coupelle. See Cup, and cf. Coblet.]
A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).
[Written also coppel.]

Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.


word: Cupel₂
definition:
Cupel

Cu*pel"
(k&uuptack_;*pĕl")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cupelled (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupelling.]
To refine by means of a cupel.


word: Cupellation
definition:
Cupellation

Cu`pel*la"tion
(kū`pĕl*lā"shŭn)
n.
[See Cupel.]
The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.

&hand_; The process consist in exposing the cupel containing the metal to be assayed or refined to a hot blast, by which the lead, copper, tin, etc., are oxidized, dissolved, and carried down into the porous cupel, leaving the unoxidizable precious metal. If lead is not already present in the alloy it must be added before cupellation.


word: Cupid
definition:
Cupid

Cu"pid
(k?"p?d)
n.
[L.Cupido, fr. cupido desire, desire of love, fr. cupidus. See Cupidity.]
(Rom. Myth.)
The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.

Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids.
Shak.


word: Cupidity
definition:
Cupidity

Cu*pid"i*ty
(k?-p?d"?-t?)
n.
[F. cupidite, L. cupiditas, fr. cupidus longing, desiring, fr. cupere to long for, desire. See Covet.]
1.
A passionate desire; love.
[Obs.]

2.
Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness

With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael.
Prescott.


word: Cupola
definition:
Cupola

Cu"po*la
(k?"p?-l?)
n.
pl. Cupolas (-l_;z).
[It. cupola, LL. cupula, cuppula (cf. L. cupula little tub). fr. cupa, cuppa, cup; cf. L. cupa tub. So called on account of its resemblance to a cup turned over. See Cup, and cf. Cupule.]
1.
(Arch.)
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.

2.
A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.

3.
A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.

4.
A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.

5.
(Anat.)
The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.


word: Cupping
definition:
Cupping

Cup"ping
(k?p"p?ng)
n.
(Med.)
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.

Cupping glass, a glass cup in which a partial vacuum is produced by heat, in the process of cupping. -- Dry cupping, the application of a cupping instrument without scarification, to draw blood to the surface, produce counter irritation, etc. -- Wet cupping, the operation of drawing blood by the application of a cupping instrument after scarification.


word: Cuppy
definition:
Cuppy

Cup"py
(?)
a.
1.
Hollow; cuplike; also, full of cups, or small depressions.

2.
Characterized by cup shakes; -- said of timber.


word: Cupreous
definition:
Cupreous

Cu"pre*ous
(k?"pr?-?s)
a.
[L. cupreus, fr.  cuprum.]
Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.


word: Cupressus
definition:
Cupressus

Cupressus
n.
one of the genera of cypress trees, the type genus of the Cupressaceae.

Syn. -- genus Cupressus.


word: Cupric
definition:
Cupric

Cu"pric
(k?"pr?k)
a.
[From Cuprum.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Cupriferous
definition:
Cupriferous

Cu*prif"er*ous
(k?-pr?f"?r-?s)
a.
[Cuprum + -ferous.]
Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver.


word: Cuprite
definition:
Cuprite

Cu"prite
(k?"pr?t)
n.
(Min.)
The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.


word: Cuproid
definition:
Cuproid

Cu"proid
(k?"proid)
n.
[Cuprum + -oid.]
(Crystalloq.)
A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles.


word: Cuprous
definition:
Cuprous

Cu"prous
(k?"pr?s)
a.
[From Cuprum.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Cup shake
definition:
Cup shake

Cup shake
(Forestry)
A shake or fissure between the annual rings of a tree, found oftenest near the roots.


word: Cupule
definition:
Cupule

Cu"pule
(k?"p?l)
n.
[See Cupola.]
1.
(Bot.)
A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.

2.
(Zool.)
A sucker or acetabulum.


word: Cupuliferous
definition:
Cupuliferous

Cu`pu*lif"er*ous
(k?`p?-l?f"?r-?s)
a.
[Cupule + -ferous: cf. F. cupulifère.]
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.


word: Cur
definition:
Cur

Cur
(kûr)
n.
[OE. curre, kur; cf. dial. Sw. kurre dog, OD.  korre watchdog, and Icel. kurra to murmur, grumble, Sw. kurra to rumble, croak, Dan. kurre to coo, whirr; prob. of imitative origin.]
1.
A mongrel or inferior dog.

They . . . like to village curs,
Bark when their fellows do.
 Shak.

2.
A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt.

What would you have, you curs,
That like nor peace nor war?
Shak.


word: Curable
definition:
Curable

Cur"a*ble
(k?r"?-b'l)
a.
[Cf. F. curable. See Cure, v. t.]
Capable of being cured; admitting remedy.
Curable
Harvey.
Cur"a*ble*ness, n. -- Cur`a*bly, adv.


word: Curacoa
definition:
Curacoa

Curaçao

{ Cu`ra*çao", Cu`ra*çoa", }
(k??`r?-s?")
n.
A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with the peel from the sour orange, and sometimes with cinnamon and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaçcao in the Netherlands Antilles near Venezuela.


word: Curacy
definition:
Curacy

Cu"ra*cy
(k?"r?-s?)
n.
pl. Curacies (-s_;z).
[See Cure, Curate.]
The office or employment of a curate.


word: Curari
definition:
Curari

Curare

{ Cu*ra"re Cu*ra"ri }
(k?-r?"r?)
n.
[Native name. Cf. Wourall.]
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.
[Written also urari, woorali, woorari, etc.]


word: Curarine
definition:
Curarine

Cu"ra*rine
(k?"r?-r?n or k?-r?"r?n; 104)
n.
(Chem.)
A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.


word: Curassow
definition:
Curassow

Cu*ras"sow
(k?-r?s"s?)
n.
[Native name in Brazil.]
(Zool.)
A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidæ.

&hand_; The crested curassow (Crax alector) is black, and about the size of a small hen-turkey, with an erectile crest of curled feathers. It ranges from Mexico to Brazil. The galeated curassow or cushew bird (Ourax Pauxi) is similar in size, and has a large, hollow, blue, pear-shaped protuberance on the head.


word: Curate
definition:
Curate

Cu"rate
(kū"ra̝t)
n.
[LL. curatus, prop., one who is charged with the care (L. cura) of souls. See Cure, n., and cf. Curé]
One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.
Hook.

All this the good old man performed alone,
He spared no pains, for curate he had none.
Dryden.


word: Curative
definition:
Curative

Cur"a*tive
(k?r"?-t?v)
a.
[Cf. F.curatif. See Cure, v. t.]
Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.
Arbuthnot.


word: Curator
definition:
Curator

Cu*ra"tor
(k?-r?"t?r)
n.
[L., fr. curare to take care of, fr. cura care.]
1.
One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.

2.
One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.


word: Curatrix
definition:
Curatrix

Cu*ra"trix
(-tr?ks)
n.
[L.]
1.
A woman who cures.

2.
A woman who is a guardian or custodian.
Burrill.


word: Curb
definition:
Curb

Curb
(kûrb)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Curbed (kûrbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curbing.]
[F. courber to bend, curve, L.curvare, fr. curvus bent, curved; cf. Gr. kyrto`s curved. Cf. Curve.]
1.
To bend or curve.
[Obs.]

Crooked and curbed lines.
Holland.

2.
To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.

Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed.
Milton.

Where pinching want must curb thy warm desires.
Prior.

3.
To furnish with a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.


word: Curb₂
definition:
Curb

Curb
v. i.
To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
[Obs.]

Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,
Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
Shak.


word: Curb₃
definition:
Curb

Curb
n.
1.
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.

He that before ran in the pastures wild
Felt the stiff curb control his angry jaws.
Drayton.

By these men, religion,that should be
The curb, is made the spur of tyranny.
Denham.

2.
(Arch.)
An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.

3.
A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.

4.
A curbstone.

5.
(Far.)
A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
James Law.

Curb bit, a stiff bit having branches by which a leverage is obtained upon the jaws of horse. Knight. -- Curb pins (Horology), the pins on the regulator which restrain the hairspring. -- Curb plate (Arch.), a plate serving the purpose of a curb. -- Deck curb. See under Deck.


word: curbed
definition:
curbed

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

Syn. -- checked, restrained.


word: Curb roof
definition:
Curb roof

Curb" roof`
(r??f`)
A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.


word: curbside
definition:
curbside

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


word: Curbstone
definition:
Curbstone

Curb"stone`
(k?rb"st?n`)
n.
A stone set along a margin as a limit and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.

Curbstone broker. See under Broker.


word: Curculio
definition:
Curculio

Cur*cu"li*o
(k?r-r?"l?-?)
n.
pl. Curculios (-_;z).
[L., a grain weevil.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Curculionidous
definition:
Curculionidous

Cur`cu*li*on"i*dous
(k?r`-k?-l?-?n"?-d?s)
a.
(Zool.)
Pertaining to the Curculionideæ, or weevil tribe.


word: Curcuma
definition:
Curcuma

Cur"cu*ma
(k?r"k?-m?)
n.
[Cf. F., It., & Sp. curcuma; all fr. Ar. kurkum. Cf. Turmeric.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants of the order Scitamineæ, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa).

Curcuma paper. (Chem.) See Turmeric paper, under Turmeric.


word: Curcumin
definition:
Curcumin

Cur"cu*min
(-m?n)
n.
(Chem.)
The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluorescence.

&hand_; It possesses acid properties and with alkalies forms brownish salts. This change in color from yellow to brown is the characteristic reaction of tumeric paper. See Turmeric paper, under Turmeric.


word: Curd
definition:
Curd

Curd
(kûrd)
n.
[Of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. gruth, Ir, gruth, cruth, curd, cruthaim I milk.]
[Sometimes written crud.]
1.
The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese.

Curds and cream, the flower of country fare.
Dryden.

2.
The coagulated part of any liquid.

3.
The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower.

Broccoli should be cut while the curd, as the flowering mass is termed, is entire.
R. Thompson.

Cauliflowers should be cut for use while the head, or curd, is still close and compact.
F. Burr.


word: Curd₂
definition:
Curd

Curd
(kûrd)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Curded; p. pr. & vb. n. Curding.]
To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.

Does it curd thy blood
To say I am thy mother?
Shak.


word: Curdle
definition:
Curdle

Cur"dle
(kûr"d'l)
v. i.
[From Curd.]
[Sometimes written crudle and cruddle.]
1.
To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
Thomson.

2.
To thicken; to congeal.

Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold.
Southey.


word: Curdle₂
definition:
Curdle

Cur"dle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Curdled (-d'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Curdling (-dlĭng).]
1.
To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.
curdle
Boyle.

2.
To congeal or thicken.

My chill blood is curdled in my veins.
Dryden.


word: Cure
definition:
Cure

Cure
(kūr)
n.
[OF, cure care, F., also, cure, healing, cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is not related to care.]
1.
Care, heed, or attention.
[Obs.]

Of study took he most cure and most heed.
Chaucer.

Vicarages of greatcure, but small value.
Fuller.

2.
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.

The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
Spelman.

3.
Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

4.
Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.

Past hope! pastcure! past help.
Shak.

I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
Luke xii. 32.

5.
Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.

Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
Dryden.

The proper cure of such prejudices.
Bp. Hurd.


word: Cure₂
definition:
Cure

Cure
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cured (kūrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curing.]
[OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr.  cura. See Cure,.]
1.
To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.

The child was cured from that very hour.
Matt. xvii. 18.

2.
To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.

To cure this deadly grief.
Shak.

Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases.
Luke ix. 1.

3.
To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.
Swift.

4.
To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.


word: Cure₃
definition:
Cure

Cure
v. i.
1.
To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
[Obs.]

2.
To restore health; to effect a cure.

Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
Is able with the change to kill and cure.
Shak.

3.
To become healed.

One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
Shak.


word: Cureless
definition:
Cureless

Cure"less
a.
Incapable of cure; incurable.

With patience undergo
A cureless ill, since fate will have it so.
Dryden.


word: Curer
definition:
Curer

Cur"er
(-?r)
n.
1.
One who cures; a healer; a physician.

2.
One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.


word: curettage
definition:
curettage

cu`ret*tage"
(kū`rĕ*täzh" or kū*rĕt"a̝j)
n.
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.

Syn. -- curettement.


word: Curette
definition:
Curette

Cu*rette"
(k&usdot_;*rĕt")
n.
[F., fr. curer to cleanse.]
(Med.)
A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.


word: Curette₂
definition:
Curette

Cu*rette"
(k&usdot_;*rĕt")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Curetted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Curetting.]
(Med.)
To scrape with a curette.


word: curettement
definition:
curettement

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

Syn. -- curettage.


word: Curfew
definition:
Curfew

Cur"few
(kûr"fū)
n.
[OE. courfew, curfu, fr. OF. cuevrefu, covrefeu, F. couvre-feu; covrir to cover + feu fire, fr. L. focus fireplace, hearth. See Cover, and Focus.]
1.
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.

He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock.
Shak.

The village curfew, as it tolled profound.
Campbell.

2.
A utensil for covering the fire.
[Obs.]

For pans, pots, curfews, counters and the like.
Bacon.


word: Curia
definition:
Curia

Cu"ri*a
(k?"r?-?)
n.
pl. Curle (-_;).
[L.]
1.
(Rom. Antiq.)
(a)
One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
(b)
The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
(c)
The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.

2.
(Middle Ages)
The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
Burrill.

3.
(Law)
Any court of justice.

4.
The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.


word: Curial
definition:
Curial

Cu"ri*al
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican.
n. A member of a curia, esp. of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.


word: Curialism
definition:
Curialism

Cu"ri*a*lism
(kū"rĭ*ȧ*lĭ?z'm)
n.
The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Gladstone.


word: Curialist
definition:
Curialist

Cu"ri*a*list
(k?"r?-?-l?st)
n.
One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Shipley.


word: Curialistic
definition:
Curialistic

Cu`ri*a*lis"tic
(-l?s"t?k)
a.
[L.curialis belonging to the imperial court, fr. curia, LL., also, counselors and retinue of a king.]
1.
Pertaining to a court.

2.
Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.


word: Curiality
definition:
Curiality

Cu`ri*al"i*ty
(-?l"?-t?)
n.
[Cf. LL. curialitas courtesy, fr. curialis.]
The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Curing
definition:
Curing

Cur"ing
(k?r"?ng)
p. a. & vb. n. of Cure.

Curing house, a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.


word: Curio
definition:
Curio

Cu"ri*o
(k?"r?-?)
n.
pl. Curios (-_;z).
[Abbreviation of curiosity.]
Any curiosity{3} or article of virtu; any object esteemed for its unusual nature.

The busy world, which does not hunt poets as collectors hunt for curios.
F. Harrison.


word: Curiologic
definition:
Curiologic

Cu`ri*o*log"ic
(-?-l?j"?k)
a.
[Gr. kyriologiko`s speaking literally (applied to curiologic hieroglyphics); ky`rios authoritative, proper + lo`gos word, thought. Cf. Cyriologic.]
Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.


word: Curiosity
definition:
Curiosity

Cu`ri*os"i*ty
(kū`rĭ*&obreve_;s"ĭ*t&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Curiosities (-tĭz).
[OE. curiouste, curiosite, OF. curioseté, curiosité, F.  curiosité, fr. L. curiositas, fr. curiosus. See Curious, and cf. Curio.]
1.
The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity.
Shak.

A screen accurately cut in tapiary work . . . with great curiosity.
Evelin.

2.
Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.
Milton.

3.
That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.

We took a ramble together to see the curiosities of this great town.
Addison.

There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc.
Bacon.


word: Curioso
definition:
Curioso

Cu`ri*o"so
(k??`r?-?"z? or k?`r?-?"s?)
n.
pl. Curiosos (-z_;z or -s_;z).
[It. See Curious.]
A virtuoso.


word: Curious
definition:
Curious

Cu"ri*ous
(k?"r?-?s)
a.
[OF. curios, curius, F. curieux, L. curiosus careful, inquisitive, fr. cura care. See Cure.]
1.
Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
[Obs.]

Little curious in her clothes.
Fuller.

How shall we,
If he be curious, work upon his faith?
Beau. & Fl.

2.
Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.

To devise curious works.
Ex. xxxv. 32

His body couched in a curious bed.
Shak.

3.
Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.

It is a pity a gentleman so very curious after things that were elegant and beautiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history.
Woodward.

4.
Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
curious
Shak.

A multitude of curious analogies.
Macaulay.

Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
E. A. Poe.

Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results.
C. J. Smith.

Curious arts, magic. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them. Acts xix. 19.


word: Curiousness
definition:
Curiousness

Cu"ri*ous*ness
n.
1.
Carefulness; painstaking.
[Obs.]

My father's care
With curiousness and cost did train me up.
 Massinger.

2.
The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.

3.
Inquisitiveness; curiosity.


word: curium
definition:
curium

curium
n.
[after Pierre and Marie Curie.]
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.
It was first prepared in 1944 by helium-ion bombardment of plutonium in a cyclotron by Glenn Seaborg and colleagues in California.  It has never been detected in nature, though minute quantities may exist in uranium deposits as a consequence of the neutron flux there.

Syn. -- Cm, atomic number 96.


word: Curl
definition:
Curl

Curl
(kûrl)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Curled (kûrld); p. pr. & vb. n. Curling.]
[Akin to D. krullen, Dan. krölle, dial. Sw.  krulla to curl, crisp; possibly akin to E. crook. Cf. Curl, n., Cruller.]
1.
To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
Cascoigne.

2.
To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.

Of his tortuous train,
Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.
Milton.

3.
To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.

Thicker than the snaky locks
That curledMegæra.
Milton.

Curling with metaphors a plain intention.
Herbert.

4.
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.

Seas would be pools without the brushing air
To curl the waves.
Dryden.

5.
(Hat Making)
To shape (the brim) into a curve.


word: Curl₂
definition:
Curl

Curl
v. i.
1.
To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.

Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature.
Shak.

2.
To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
Cirling
Dryden.

Then round her slender waist he curled.
Dryden.

Curling smokes from village tops are seen.
Pope.

Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.
Byron.

He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor.
Bret Harte.

3.
To play at the game called curling.
[Scot.]


word: Curl₃
definition:
Curl

Curl
(kûrl)
n.
[Akin to D. krul, Dan. krölle. See Curl, v. ]
1.
A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.

Under a coronet, his flowing hair
In curls on either cheek played.
Milton.

2.
An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.

If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes.
Sir I. Newton.

3.
A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.

Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.


word: Curled
definition:
Curled

Curled
(kûrld)
a.
Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).

Curled hair (Com.), the hair of the manes and tails of horses, prepared for upholstery purposes. McElrath.


word: Curler
definition:
Curler

Curl"er
(kûrl"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, curls.

2.
A player at the game called curling.
Burns.

3.
A small cylindrical object sometimes having a clamping attachment, around which hair is wound so as to produce curls; as, she slept all night with a head full of curlers.

4.
an electrical appliance with a handle and a metal rod-shaped tip which is heated and around which hair is wound, to produce  curls in the hair; -- called also curling iron.


word: Curlew
definition:
Curlew

Cur"lew
(kûr"lū)
n.
[F. courlieu, corlieu, courlis; perh. of imitative origin, but cf. OF. corlieus courier; L. currere to run + levis light.]
(Zool.)
A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

&hand_; The common European curlew is Numenius arquatus. The long-billed (Numenius longirostris), the Hudsonian (Numenius Hudsonicus), and the Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis, are American species.  The name is said to imitate the note of the European species.

Curlew Jack (Zool.) the whimbrel or lesser curlew. -- Curlew sandpiper (Zool.), a sandpiper (Tringa ferruginea or Tringa subarquata), common in Europe, rare in America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved bill. See Illustation in Appendix.


word: curlicue
definition:
curlicue

curl"i*cue
(k?rl"?-k?)
n.
[Cf. F.  caracole.]
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.
[Sometimes  written curlycue or carlicue.]
[ Colloq. U.S.]


word: Curling
definition:
Curling

Curl"ing
n.
1.
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.

2.
A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.

Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his partner, which has been well laid before, or to strike off that of his antagonist.
Pennant (Tour in Scotland. 1772).

Curling irons, Curling tong, an instrument for curling the hair; -- commonly heated when used.  Called also curler{4}.


word: curlycue
definition:
curlycue

curl"y*cue
(k?rl"?-k?)
n.
[Cf. F.  caracole.]
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.
[Sometimes written carlicue.]
[ Colloq. U.S.]

To cut a curlycue, to make a flourish; to cut a caper.

I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot.
McClintock.


word: curly-heads
definition:
curly-heads

curly-heads
n.
a shrubby clematis (Clematis ochreleuca) of eastern US having curly foliage.

Syn. -- Clematis ochreleuca.


word: Curmudgeon
definition:
Curmudgeon

Cur*mudg"eon
(k?r-m?j"?n)
n.
[OE. cornmudgin, where -mudgin is prob. from OF. muchier, mucier, F. musser to hide; of uncertain origin; cf. OE. muchares skulking thieves, E. miche, micher.]
An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.

A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro.
W. Irving.


word: Curmudgeonly
definition:
Curmudgeonly

Cur*mudg"eon*ly
a.
Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.


word: Curmurring
definition:
Curmurring

Cur*mur"ring
(k?r-m?r"r?ng)
n.
Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes.
[Scot.]
Burns.


word: Curr
definition:
Curr

Curr
(kûr)
v. i.
[Prob. imitative.]
To coo.
[Scot.]

The owlets hoot, the owlets curr.
Wordsworth.


word: Currant
definition:
Currant

Cur"rant
(k?r"rant)
n.
[F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name from its resemblance to that grape.]

1.
A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.

2.
The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

3.
(Bot.)
A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.

Black currant,a shrub or bush (Ribes nigrum and Ribes floridum) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. -- Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry. -- Currant borer (Zool.), the larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth (Ægeria tipuliformis) and a longicorn beetle (Psenocerus supernotatus). -- Currant worm (Zool.), an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant.  The most injurious are the currant sawfly (Nematus ventricosus), introduced from Europe, and the spanworm (Eufitchia ribearia).  The fruit worms are the larva of a fly (Epochra Canadensis), and a spanworm (Eupithecia). -- Flowering currant, Missouri currant, a species of Ribes (Ribes aureum), having showy yellow flowers.


word: currawong
definition:
currawong

cur"ra*wong
(kûr"ȧ*w&obreve_;ng)
n.
any of several bluish black fruit-eating birds of Australia of the genus Strepera having a bell-like call.

Syn. -- bell magpie.


word: Currency
definition:
Currency

Cur"ren*cy
(k?r"r?n-c?)
n.
pl. Currencies (-s_;z).
[Cf. LL. currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of currere to run. See Current.]
1.
A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
[Obs.]
Ayliffe.

2.
The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.

3.
That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.

4.
Fluency; readiness of utterance.
[Obs.]

5.
Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

He . . . takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value.
Bacon.

The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful.
W. Irving.


word: Current
definition:
Current

Cur"rent
(k?r"rent)
a.
[OE. currant, OF. curant, corant, p. pr. of curre, corre, F.  courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. akin to E.  horse. Cf.  Course, Concur, Courant, Coranto.]
1.
Running or moving rapidly.
[Archaic]

Like the current fire, that renneth
Upon a cord.
Gower.

To chase a creature that was current then
In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
Tennyson.

2.
Now passing, as time; as, the current month.

3.
Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.

That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
Arbuthnot.

Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.
Shak.

His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him.
Grew.

4.
Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

5.
Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.

O Buckingham, now do I play the touch
To try if thou be current gold indeed.
Shak.

Account current. See under Account. -- Current money, lawful money. Abbott.


word: Current₂
definition:
Current

Cur"rent
n.
[Cf. F. courant. See Current, a. ]

1.
A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.

Two such silver currents, when they join,
Do glorify the banks that bound them in.
Shak.

The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know.
Nichol.

2.
General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.

Current meter, an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents. -- Current mill, a mill driven by a current wheel. -- Current wheel, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide.


word: Currently
definition:
Currently

Cur"rent*ly
adv.
In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.


word: Currentness
definition:
Currentness

Cur"rent*ness
n.
1.
The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.

2.
Easiness of pronunciation; fluency.
[Obs.]

When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness?
Camden.


word: Curricle
definition:
Curricle

Cur"ri*cle
(k?r"r?-k'l)
n.
[L.curriculum a running, a race course, fr. currere to run. See Current, and cf. Curriculum.]
1.
A small or short course.

Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.


word: curriculae
definition:
curriculae

cur*ric"u*lae
(kŭr*rĭk"ū*lē)
n. pl.
[Presumably a pseudo-Latinate coinage based on curricula. See Curriculum.]
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.
[Ungrammatical]


word: Curriculum
definition:
Curriculum

Cur*ric"u*lum
(k?r-r?k"?-l?m)
n.
pl. E. Curriculums  (-l_;mz), L. Curricula (-lȧ).
[L. See Curricle.]

1.
A race course; a place for running.

2.
A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.


word: curriculum vitae
definition:
curriculum vitae

cur*ric"u*lum vi"tae
(kŭr*rĭk"ū*lŭm vī"tē, kŭr*rĭk"ū*lŭm vī"tī)
n.
pl. curricula vitae  (-lȧ).
[L.  the course of one's life or career.  See Curriculum.]
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.


word: Curried
definition:
Curried

Cur"ried
(-r_;d)
p. a.
[See Curry, v. t., and Curry, n.]

1.
Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.

2.
Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc.


word: Currier
definition:
Currier

Cur"ri*er
(k?"r?-?r)
n.
[From 1st Curry.]
One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned.


word: Currish
definition:
Currish

Cur"rish
(k?r"r?sh)
a.
[From Cur.]
Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.

Thy currish spirit
Governed a wolf.
Shak.

Some currish plot, -- some trick.
Lockhart.


word: Curry
definition:
Curry

Cur"ry
(k?r"r?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Curried (-r?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Currying.]
[OE. curraien, curreien, OF. cunreer, correier, to prepare, arrange, furnish, curry (a horse), F. corroyer to curry (leather) (cf. OF. conrei, conroi, order, arrangement, LL. conredium); cor- (L.com-) + roi, rei, arrangement, order; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. ready. See Ready, Greith, and cf. Corody, Array.]
1.
To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

2.
To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.

Your short horse is soon curried.
Beau. & FL.

3.
To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.

I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely.
Beau. & FL.

To curry favor, to seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See Favor, n.


word: Curry₂
definition:
Curry

Cur"ry
n.
[Tamil kari.]
[Written also currie.]

1.
(Cookery)
A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.

2.
A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.

Curry powder (Cookery), a condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc.


word: Currycomb
definition:
Currycomb

Cur"ry*comb`
(k?r"r?-k?m`)
n.
A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.


word: Curse
definition:
Curse

Curse
(k?rs)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cursed (k?rst) or Curst; p. pr. & vb. n. Cursing.]
[AS. cursian, corsian, perh. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. korse to make the sign of the cross, Sw. korsa, fr. Dan. & Sw. kors cross, Icel kross, all these Scand. words coming fr. OF.  crois, croiz, fr. L. crux cross. Cf. Cross.]
1.
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

Thou shalt not . . . curse the ruler of thy people.
Ex. xxii. 28.

Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed.
Shak.

2.
To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

On impious realms and barbarous kings impose
Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those.
Pope.

To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell.


word: Curse₂
definition:
Curse

Curse
v. i.
To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.

Then began he to curse and to swear.
Matt. xxi. 74.

His spirits hear me,
And yet I need must curse.
Shak.


word: Curse₃
definition:
Curse

Curse
n.
[AS. curs. See Curse, v. t.]
1.
An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.

Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
Shak.

2.
Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.

 The priest shall write these curses in a book.
Num. v. 23.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
Old Proverb.

3.
The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.
Shak.

All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget,
Is propagated curse.
Milton.

The curse of Scotland (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds. -- Not worth a curse. See under Cress.


word: Cursed
definition:
Cursed

Curs"ed
(k?rs"?d)
a.
Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.

Let us fly this cursed place.
Milton.

This cursed quarrel be no more renewed.
Dryden.


word: Cursedly
definition:
Cursedly

Curs"ed*ly
adv.
In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
[Low]


word: Cursedness
definition:
Cursedness

Curs"ed*ness
n.
1.
The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.

2.
Wickedness; sin; cursing.
Chaucer.

3.
Shrewishness.
cursedness
Chaucer.


word: Curship
definition:
Curship

Cur"ship
(k?r"sh?p)
n.
[Cur +-ship.]
The state of being a cur; one who is currish.
[Jocose]

How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship!
Hudibras.


word: Cursitating
definition:
Cursitating

Cur"si*ta`ting
(k?r"s?-t?`t?ng)
a.
[See Cursitor.]
Moving about slightly.
[R.]
H. Bushnell.


word: Cursitor
definition:
Cursitor

Cur"si*tor
(k?r"s?-t?r)
n.
[LL. cursitor, equiv. to L. cursor, fr. cursare to run hither and thither, fr. currere to run. See Current, and cf. Cursor.]
1.
A courier or runner.
[Obs.]
Cursitors
Holland.

2.
(Eng.Law)
An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs.


word: Cursive
definition:
Cursive

Cur"sive
(k?r"s?v)
a.
[LL. cursivus: cf. F. cursif See Cursitor.]
Running; flowing.

Cursive hand,a running handwriting.


word: Cursive₂
definition:
Cursive

Cur"sive
n.
1.
A character used in cursive writing.

2.
A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial.
Shipley.


word: Cursor
definition:
Cursor

Cur"sor
(k?r"s?r)
n.
[L., a runner. See Cursitor.]
Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.


word: Cursorary
definition:
Cursorary

Cur"so*ra*ry
(-s?-r?-r?)
a.
Cursory; hasty.
[Obs.]

With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles.
Shak.


word: Cursores
definition:
Cursores

Cur*so"res
(k?r-s?"rEz)
n. pl.
[L. cursor, pl. cursores, a runner.]
(Zool.)
(a)
An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaæ.
(b)
A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.


word: Cursorial
definition:
Cursorial

Cur*so"ri*al
(k?r-s?"r?-al)
a.
(Zool.)
(a)
Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.
(b)
Of or pertaining to the Cursores.


word: Cursoriness
definition:
Cursoriness

Cur"so*ri*ness
n.
The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.


word: Cursory
definition:
Cursory

Cur"so*ry
(k?r"s?-r?)
a.
[L. cursorius, fr. cursor. See Cursor.]
1.
Running about; not stationary.
[Obs.]

2.
Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.

Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner.
Hallam.


word: Curst₂
definition:
Curst

Curst
a.
[SeeCurse.]
Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.
[Obs.]

Though his mind
 Be ne'er so curst, his tonque is kind.
Crashaw.


word: Curstfully
definition:
Curstfully

Curst"ful*ly
(-f&usdot_;l*l&ybreve_;)
adv.
Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably.
[Obs.]
Curstfully
Marston.


word: Curstness
definition:
Curstness

Curst"ness
(kûrst"nĕs)
n.
Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Curt
definition:
Curt

Curt
(kŭrt)
a.
[L. curtus; cf. Skr. kart to cut. Cf. Curtail.]
Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.

The curt, yet comprehensive reply.
W. Irving.


word: Curtail
definition:
Curtail

Cur*tail"
(kŭr*tāl")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Curtailed (-tāld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Curtailing.]
[See Curtal.]
To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.

I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion.
Shak.

Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been doubled.
Macaulay.


word: Curtail₂
definition:
Curtail

Cur"tail
(k?r"t?l)
n.
The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.


word: Curtail dog
definition:
Curtail dog

Cur"tail dog`
(d&obreve_;g`; 115)
A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting.

Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.
Shak.


word: Curtailment
definition:
Curtailment

Cur*tail"ment
(k?r-t?l"ment)
n.
The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.
Bancroft.


word: Curtain
definition:
Curtain

Cur"tain
(kûr"tĭn; 48)
n.
[OE.cortin, curtin,fr. OF. cortine, curtine, F. courtine, LL. cortina, curtian (in senses 1 and 2), also, small court, small inclosure surrounded by walls, from cortis court. See Court.]

1.
A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

2.
(Fort.)
That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

3.
(Arch.)
That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

4.
A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Behind the curtain, in concealment; in secret. -- Curtain lecture, a querulous lecture given by a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. Jerrold.
[1913 Webster]
A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. W. Irving.
-- The curtain falls, the performance closes. -- The curtain rises, the performance begins. -- To draw the curtain, to close it over an object, or to remove it; hence: (a) To hide or to disclose an object. (b) To commence or close a performance. -- To drop the curtain, to end the tale, or close the performance.


word: Curtain₂
definition:
Curtain

Cur"tain
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Curtained (kûr"tĭnd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Curtaining.]
To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

So when the sun in bed
Curtained with cloudy red.
Milton.


word: curtained
definition:
curtained

curtained
(kûr"tĭnd; 48)
adj.
furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies; as, a curtained alcove.  Opposite of curtainless.


word: curtainless
definition:
curtainless

curtainless
adj.
not provided with curtains; as, blank, curtainless windows stared back at her.  Opposite of curtained.

Syn. -- uncurtained.


word: Curtal
definition:
Curtal

Cur"tal
(kûr"tal)
a.
[OF. courtault, F. courtaud, having a docked tail (cf. It. cortaldo), fr. court short, L. curtus. See Curt, and Curtail.]
Curt; brief; laconic.

Essays and curtal aphorisms.
Milton.

Curtal dog. See Curtail dog.


word: Curtelasse
definition:
Curtelasse

Curtle ax

Curtal ax

{ Cur"tal ax` (?ks`), Cur"tle ax`, Curte"lasse (k?rt"las) }
A corruption of Cutlass.


word: Curtal friar
definition:
Curtal friar

Cur"tal fri`ar
(fr?`?r)
A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Curtana
definition:
Curtana

Cur*ta"na
(k?r-t?"n?)
n.
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.


word: Curtate
definition:
Curtate

Cur"tate
(k?r"t?t)
a.
[L. curtatus, p. p. of curtare to shorten, fr. curtus. See Curt.]
(Astron.)
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.

Curtate cycloid. (Math.) See Cycloid.


word: Curtation
definition:
Curtation

Cur*ta"tion
(k?r-t?"sh?n)
n.
(Astron.)
The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.


word: Curtesy
definition:
Curtesy

Cur"te*sy
(k?r"t?-s?)
n.
pl. Curtesies (-s_;z).
[Either fr. courlesy, the lands being held as it were by favor; or fr. court  (LL. curtis), the husband being regarded as holding the lands as a vassal of the court. See Court, Courtesy.]
(Law)
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.
Mozley & W.


word: Curtilage
definition:
Curtilage

Cur"ti*lage
(k_;r"t_;-l_;j)
n.
[OF. cortillage, curtillage, fr. cortil court, courtyard, LL. cortis court. See Court.]
(Law)
A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.
Burrill.


word: curtsy
definition:
curtsy

curtsey

curt"sey, curt"sy
(kûrt"s&ybreve_;)
n.
An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees.  Same as 2nd Courtesy, n..

Syn. -- curtsy; courtesy.


word: Curule
definition:
Curule

Cu"rule
(kū"r&usuml_;l)
a.
[L. curulis, fr. currus a chariot: cf. F. curule.]
1.
Of or pertaining to a chariot.

2.
(Rom. Antiq.)
Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.

&hand_; The curule chair was usually shaped like a camp stool, and provided with curved legs. It was at first ornamented with ivory, and later sometimes made of ivory and inlaid with gold.

Curule dignity right of sitting in the curule chair.


word: Cururo
definition:
Cururo

Cu*ru"ro
(k??-r??"r?)
n.
[Chilian name.]
(Zool.)
A Chilian burrowing rodent of the genus Spalacopus.


word: curvaceous
definition:
curvaceous

curvaceous
adj.
having a pronounced womanly shape; having a slender waist with prominent breasts and hips.
[chiefly dialect]

Syn. -- bosomy, buxom, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous.


word: Curvant
definition:
Curvant

Curval

{ Cur"val (k?r"val), Cur"vant (-vant) }
a.
[L. curvans, p. pr. ]
(Her.)
Bowed; bent; curved.


word: Curvated
definition:
Curvated

Curvate

{ Cur"vate (k?r"v?t), Cur"va*ted (-v?-t?d), }
a.
[L. curvatus p. p. of curvare to curve, fr.  curvus. See Curve.]
Bent in a regular form; curved.


word: Curvative
definition:
Curvative

Cur"va*tive
(k?r"v?-t?v)
a.
(Bot.)
Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves.
Henslow.


word: Curvature
definition:
Curvature

Cur"va*ture
(k?r"v?-t?r; 135)
n.
[L. curvatura. See Curvate.]
1.
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.
Cowper.

The elegant curvature of their fronds.
Darwin.

2.
(Math.)
The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point.

Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form. -- Absolute curvature. See under Absolute. -- Angle of curvature (Geom.), one that expresses the amount of curvature of a curve. -- Chord of curvature. See under Chord. -- Circle of curvature. See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle. -- Curvature of the spine (Med.), an abnormal curving of the spine, especially in a lateral direction. -- Radius of curvature, the radius of the circle of curvature, or osculatory circle, at any point of a curve.


word: Curve
definition:
Curve

Curve
(kûrv)
a.
[L. curvus bent, curved. See Cirb.]
Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.


word: Curve₂
definition:
Curve

Curve
n.
[See Curve, a., Cirb.]
1.
A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.

2.
(Geom.)
A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.

Axis of a curve. See under Axis. -- Curve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone. -- Curve tracing (Math.), the process of determining the shape, location, singular points, and other peculiarities of a curve from its equation. -- Plane curve (Geom.), a curve such that when a plane passes through three points of the curve, it passes through all the other points of the curve. Any other curve is called a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve.


word: Curve₃
definition:
Curve

Curve
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Curved (kûrvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curving.]
[L. curvare., fr. curvus. See Curve, a., Curb.]
To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.


word: Curve₄
definition:
Curve

Curve
v. i.
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.


word: curved
definition:
curved

curved
adj.
1.
not straight; having or marked by curves.  Opposite of straight.
[Narrower terms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed; falcate, sickle-shaped; flexuous; incurvate, incurved: recurved, recurvate; semicircular: serpentine, snaky: sinuate, sinuous, wavy: sinusoidal]

Syn. -- curving.

2.
(Botany)
curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk; -- of a plant ovule.  Opposite of orthotropous.

Syn. -- campylotropous.


word: Curvet
definition:
Curvet

Cur"vet
(kûr"v?t or  kûr-v?t"; 277)
n.
[OE. corvet, It.corvetta: cf. F. courbette. See Curve, and cf. Corvetto.]
1.
(Man.)
A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.

2.
A prank; a frolic.


word: Curvet₂
definition:
Curvet

Cur"vet
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Curveted or -vetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Curveting or -vetting.]
[Cf. It. corvettare. See Curvet, n.]
1.
To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.
curvet
Drayton.

2.
To leap and frisk; to frolic.
Shak.


word: Curvicaudate
definition:
Curvicaudate

Cur`vi*cau"date
(k?r`v?-k?"d?t)
a.
[L. curvus bent + E. caudate.]
(Zool.)
Having a curved or crooked tail.


word: Curvicostate
definition:
Curvicostate

Cur`vi*cos"tate
(k?r`v?-k?s"t?t)
a.
[L. curvus + E. costate.]
(Bot.)
Having bent ribs.


word: Curvilinear
definition:
Curvilinear

Curvilineal

{ Cur`vi*lin"e*al (-al), Cur`vi*lin"e*ar (-?r), }
a.
[L. curvus bent + E. lineal, linear.]
Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.


word: Curvilinearity
definition:
Curvilinearity

Cur`vi*lin`e*ar"i*ty
(-?r"?-t?)
n.
The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.


word: Curvinerved
definition:
Curvinerved

Cur"vi*nerved`
(-n?rvd`)
a.
[L. curvus bent + E. nerve. ]
(Bot.)
Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.


word: Curvirostral
definition:
Curvirostral

Cur`vi*ros"tral
(-r?s"tral)
a.
[L. curvus + E. rostral.]
(Zool.)
Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.


word: Curvirostres
definition:
Curvirostres

Cur"vi*ros"tres
(-r?s"tr?z)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. curvus curved + rostrum beak, rostrum.]
(Zool.)
A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.


word: Curviserial
definition:
Curviserial

Cur`vi*se"ri*al
(-s?"r?-al)
a.
[L. curvus bent + E. serial.]
(Bot.)
Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.


word: Curvity
definition:
Curvity

Cur"vi*ty
(k?r"v?-y?)
n.
[L. curvitas, from curvus bent: cf. F. curvité.]
The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
Holder.


word: Cuscus
definition:
Cuscus

Cus"cus
(?)
n.
[The same word as Couscous, fr. F. couscous couscous, Ar. kuskus.]
(Bot.)
A soft grass (Pennisetum typhoideum) found in all tropical regions, used as food for men and cattle in Central Africa.


word: Cushat
definition:
Cushat

Cush"at
(k??sh"?t)
n.
[AS. cusceote.]
(Zool.)
The ringdove or wood pigeon.

Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Cushion
definition:
Cushion

Cush"ion
(k??sh"?n)
n.
[OE. cuischun, quisshen, OF. coissin, cuissin, F.  coussin, fr. (assumed) LL. culcitinum, dim. of L. culcita cushion, mattress, pillow. See Quilt, and cf. Counterpoint a coverlet.]
1.
A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.

Two cushions stuffed with straw, the seat to raise.
Dryden.

2.
Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use
(a)
a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf
(b)
a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston
(c)
the elastic edge of a billiard table.

3.
A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.
Halliwell.

Cushion capital.(Arch.) A capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature. (b) A name given to a form of capital, much used in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces. -- Cushion star (Zool.) a pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; -- so called from its form.


word: Cushion₂
definition:
Cushion

Cush"ion
(kŏsh"ŭn)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cushioned (-ŭnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cushioning.]
1.
To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.

Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity.
Bolingbroke.

2.
To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.

3.
To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

Cushioned hammer, a dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke.


word: cushioned
definition:
cushioned

cushioned
(kŏsh"ŭnd)
adj.
1.
furnished with a cushion or other device to reduce hardness.

Syn. -- cushiony, padded.

2.
having the severity reduced; having the unpleasant effects mitigated.

3.
protected against shock by adding soft padding or other device to reduce deceleration in a collision.

Syn. -- cushioned.


word: Cushionet
definition:
Cushionet

Cush"ion*et
(kŏsh"ŭn*ĕt)
n.
[OF. coissinet, F. coussinet. See Cushion, and cf. Coussinet.]
A little cushion.


word: cushioning
definition:
cushioning

cushioning
n.
soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort.

Syn. -- padding.


word: Cushionless
definition:
Cushionless

Cush"ion*less
a.
Not furnished with a cushion.

Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews.
Hawthorne.


word: Cushion tire
definition:
Cushion tire

Cushion tire
A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside.


word: Cushiony
definition:
Cushiony

Cush"ion*y
(-&ybreve_;)
a.
Like a cushion; soft; pliable.

A flat and cushiony nose.
Dickens.


word: cushy
definition:
cushy

cushy
(kŏsh"&ybreve_;)
adj.
not requiring strong efforts; easy; -- said of paid employment; as, He got a cushy job in a large company.
[informal]

Syn. -- soft.


word: Cusk
definition:
Cusk

Cusk
(kŭsk)
n.
(Zool.)
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.


word: Cusp
definition:
Cusp

Cusp
(kŭsp)
n.
[L. cuspis, -idis, point, pointed end.]

1.
(Arch.)
A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.

2.
(Astrol.)
The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc.

3.
(Astron)
The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

4.
(Math.)
A multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent.

5.
(Anat.)
A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth.

6.
(Bot.)
A sharp and rigid point.


word: Cusp₂
definition:
Cusp

Cusp
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cusped (kŭspt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cusping.]
To furnish with a cusp or cusps.


word: cusped
definition:
cusped

cuspate

cuspate cusped
adj.
having cusps or points.

Syn. -- cuspated, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated.


word: Cuspid
definition:
Cuspid

Cus"pid
(kŭs"pĭd)
n.
[See Cusp.]
(Anat.)
One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.


word: Cuspidated
definition:
Cuspidated

Cuspidate

{ Cus"pi*date (k?s"p?-d?t), Cus"pi*da`ted (-d?`t?d), }
a.
[L. cuspidatus, p. p. of cuspidare to make pointed, fr. cuspis. See Cusp.]
Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf.


word: Cuspidor
definition:
Cuspidor

Cus"pi*dor
(-d?r)
n.
[Pg. cuspideria, fr. cuspir to spit.]
Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort.


word: cussed
definition:
cussed

cus"sed
(cŭs"ĕd)
adj.
stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; obstinate.
[Slang or Colloq., U. S.]
[Narrower terms: unregenerate (vs. regenerate), unregenerated]

Syn. -- obdurate, obstinate, perverse, unrepentant.


word: Cussedness
definition:
Cussedness

Cuss"ed*ness
(cŭs"ĕd*nĕs)
n.
[Cussed (for cursed) + -ness.]
Disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy.
[Slang or Colloq., U. S.]

In her opinion it was all pure “cussedness.”
Mrs. Humphry Ward.

Disputatiousness and perversity (what the Americans call “cussedness”).
James Bryce.


word: Custard
definition:
Custard

Cus"tard
(kŭs"tẽrd)
n.
[Prob. the same word as OE. crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L. crustatus covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta crust; cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde. See Crust, and cf. Crustated.]
A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.

Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona (Anona squamosa, Anona reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] Shak.


word: Custodial
definition:
Custodial

Cus*to"di*al
(k?s-t?"d?-al)
a.
[Cf. F. custodial, fr. L. custodia. See Custody.]
Relating to custody or guardianship.


word: Custodian
definition:
Custodian

Cus*to"di*an
(k?s-t?"d?-an)
n.
[From Custody.]
One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.


word: Custody
definition:
Custody

Cus"to*dy
(k?s"t?-d?)
n.
[L.  custodia, fr. custos guard; prob. akin to Gr. _;_;_;_;_;_; to hide, and E. hide. Seee Hide to cover.]
1.
A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.

A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas.
Bacon.

2.
Judicial or penal safe-keeping.

Jailer, take him to thy custody.
Shak.

3.
State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.

What pease will be given
To us enslaved, but custody severe,
And stripes and arbitrary punishment?
Milton.


word: Custom
definition:
Custom

Cus"tom
(kŭs"tŭm)
n.
[OF. custume, costume, Anglo-Norman coustome, F.  coutume, fr. (assumed) LL. consuetumen custom, habit, fr. L. consuetudo, -dinis, fr. consuescere to accustom, verb inchoative fr. consuere to be accustomed; con- + suere to be accustomed, prob. originally, to make one's own, fr. the root of suus one's own; akin to E.  so, adv. Cf. Consuetude, Costume.]

1.
Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.

And teach customs which are not lawful.
Acts xvi. 21.

Moved beyond his custom, Gama said.
Tennyson.

A custom
More honored in the breach than the observance.
Shak.

2.
Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.

Let him have your custom, but not your votes.
Addison.

3.
(Law)
Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.

&hand_; Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom.
Wharton.

4.
Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
[Obs.]

Age can not wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
Shak.

Custom of merchants, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated. -- General customs, those which extend over a state or kingdom. -- Particular customs, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.


word: Custom₂
definition:
Custom

Cus"tom
v. t.
[Cf. OF.  costumer. Cf. Accustom.]

1.
To make familiar; to accustom.
[Obs.]
Gray.

2.
To supply with customers.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Custom₄
definition:
Custom

Cus"tom
n.
[OF.  coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the usual tax. See 1st Custom.]
1.
The customary toll, tax, or tribute.

Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom.
Rom. xiii. 7.

2.
pl.
Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.


word: Customable
definition:
Customable

Cus"tom*a*ble
(-ȧ*b'l)
a.
[Cf. OF. coustumable.]

1.
Customary.
[Obs.]
Sir T. More.

2.
Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.


word: Customary
definition:
Customary

Cus"tom*a*ry
(kŭs"tŭm*a̝*r&ybreve_;)
a.
[CF. OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See Custom, and cf. Customer.]

1.
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.

Even now I met him
With customary compliment.
Shak.

A formal customary attendance upon the offices.
South.

2.
(Law)
Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.


word: Customary₂
definition:
Customary

Cus"tom*a*ry
n.
[OF. coustumier, F.  coutumier.]
A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans.
Cowell.


word: Customer
definition:
Customer

Cus"tom*er
(kŭs"tŭm*ẽr)
n.
[A doublet of customary, a.: cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See Custom.]

1.
One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.
[Obs.]

The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths.
Hakluyt.

2.
One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.

He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it.
Goldsmith.

3.
A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.
J. A. H. Murray.

4.
A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer.
[Colloq.]
Dickens.

5.
A lewd woman.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Customhouse
definition:
Customhouse

Cus"tom*house"
(-hous`)
n.
The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.

Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.


word: customize
definition:
customize

customize
v.
1.
to make to specifications.

Syn. -- custom-make, taylor-make.

2.
to make according to requirements.

Syn. -- customise.


word: custom-made
definition:
custom-made

custom-made
adj.
1.
made specially for a specific purpose; -- of articles of manufacture.  Contrasted with mass-produced, standardized.

Syn. -- made-to-order.

2.
made or tailored to fit a specific person; -- of clothing.  Contrasted with off-the-rack, ready-to-wear.
a custom-made suit

Syn. -- made-to-order.


word: customs
definition:
customs

customs
n. pl.
1.
money collected under a tariff; a duty imposed on imported goods.

Syn. -- customs duty, custom, impost.

2.
the government department administering the collection of import tariffs.  Used with as singular verb.

3.
that area within an airport, sea port, or other border station where freight or the baggage of travellers is checked for dutiable materials or contraband; as, it took an hour to get through customs.


word: Custos
definition:
Custos

Cus"tos
(kŭs"t&obreve_;s)
n.
pl. Custodes (kŭs*t&omacr"dēz).
[L.]
A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.
[Obs.]

Custos rotulorum (r&obreve_;t`&uuptack_;*l&omacr"rŭm) [LL., keeper of the rolls] (Eng. Law), the principal justice of the peace in a county, who is also keeper of the rolls and records of the sessions of the peace.


word: Custrel
definition:
Custrel

Cus"trel
(kŭs"trel)
n.
[OF. coustillier. See Coistril.]
An armor-bearer to a knight.
[Obs.]


word: Cut
definition:
Cut

Cut
(kŭt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cut; p. pr. & vb. n. Cutting.]
[OE. cutten, kitten, ketten; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. cwtau to shorten, curtail, dock, cwta bobtailed, cwt tail, skirt, Gael.  cutaich to shorten, curtail, dock, cutach short, docked, cut a bobtail, piece, Ir. cut a short tail, cutach bobtailed. Cf. Coot.]
1.
To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.

You must cut this flesh from off his breast.
Shak.

Before the whistling winds the vessels fly,
With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way.
Pope.

2.
To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.

Thy servants can skill to cut timer.
2. Chron. ii. 8

3.
To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.

4.
To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.

5.
To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.

Why should a man. whose blood is warm within,
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Shak.

Loopholes cut through thickest shade.
Milton.

6.
To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.

The man was cut to the heart.
Addison.

7.
To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.

8.
To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.
[Colloq.]

9.
To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.
[Colloq.]

An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.
Thomas Hamilton.

10.
(Cricket)
To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.

11.
(Billiards, etc.)
To drive (an object ball) to either side by hitting it fine on the other side with the cue ball or another object ball.

12.
(Lawn Tennis, etc.)
To strike (a ball) with the  racket inclined or struck across the ball so as to put a certain spin on the ball.

13.
(Croquet)
To drive (a ball) to one side by hitting with another ball.

To cut a caper. See under Caper. -- To cut the cards, to divide a pack of cards into portions, in order to determine the deal or the trump, or to change the cards to be dealt. -- To cut both ways, to have effects both advantageous and disadvantageous. -- To cut corners, to deliberately do an incomplete or imperfect job in order to save time or money. -- To cut a dash or To cut a figure, to make a display of oneself; to give a conspicuous impression. [Colloq.] -- To cut down. (a) To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to prostrate. “Timber . . . cut down in the mountains of Cilicia.” Knolles. (b) To put down; to abash; to humble. [Obs] “So great is his natural eloquence, that he cuts down the finest orator.” Addison (c) To lessen; to retrench; to curtail; as, to cut down expenses. (d) (Naut.) To raze; as, to cut down a frigate into a sloop. -- To cut the knot or To cut the Gordian knot, to dispose of a difficulty summarily; to solve it by prompt, arbitrary action, rather than by skill or patience. -- To cut lots, to determine lots by cuttings cards; to draw lots. -- To cut off. (a) To sever; to separate.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
I would to God, . . . 
The king had cut off my brother's. Shak.
(b) To put an untimely death; to put an end to; to destroy. “Irenæus was likewise cut off by martyrdom.” Addison. (c) To interrupt; as, to cut off communication; to cut off (the flow of) steam from (the boiler to) a steam engine. (d) To intercept; as,, to cut off an enemy's retreat. (e) To end; to finish; as, to cut off further debate. -- To cut out. (a) To remove by cutting or carving; as, to cut out a piece from a board. (b) To shape or form by cutting; as, to cut out a garment. “ A large forest cut out into walks.” Addison. (c) To scheme; to contrive; to prepare; as, to cut out work for another day. “Every man had cut out a place for himself.” Addison. (d) To step in and take the place of; to supplant; as, to cut out a rival. [Colloq.] (e) To debar. “I am cut out from anything but common acknowledgments.” Pope. (f) To seize and carry off (a vessel) from a harbor, or from under the guns of an enemy. (g) to separate from the midst of a number; as, to cut out a steer from a herd; to cut out a car from a train. (h) to discontinue; as, to cut out smoking. -- To cut to pieces. (a) To cut into pieces; as, to cut cloth to pieces. (b) To slaughter; as, to cut an army to pieces. -- To cut a play (Drama), to shorten it by leaving out passages, to adapt it for the stage. -- To cut rates (Railroads, etc.), to reduce the charges for transportation below the rates established between competing lines. -- To cut short, to arrest or check abruptly; to bring to a sudden termination. “Achilles cut him short, and thus replied.” Dryden. -- To cut stick, to make off clandestinely or precipitately. [Slang] -- To cut teeth, to put forth teeth; to have the teeth pierce through the gum and appear. -- To have cut one's eyeteeth, to be sharp and knowing. [Colloq.] -- To cut one's wisdom teeth, to come to years of discretion. -- To cut under, to undersell; as, to cut under a competitor in trade; more commonly referred to as undercut. -- To cut up. (a) To cut to pieces; as, to cut up an animal, or bushes. (b) To damage or destroy; to injure; to wound; as, to cut up a book or its author by severe criticism.  “This doctrine cuts up all government by the roots.” Locke. (c) To afflict; to discourage; to demoralize; as, the death of his friend cut him up terribly. [Colloq.] Thackeray.


word: Cut₂
definition:
Cut

Cut
(kŭt)
v. i.
1.
To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

2.
To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese.
Holmes.

3.
To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.

He saved the lives of thousands by his manner of cutting for the stone.
Pope.

4.
To make a stroke with a whip.

5.
To interfere, as a horse.

6.
To move or make off quickly.
[Colloq.]

7.
To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.

To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct way; as, to cut across a field. -- To cut and run, to make off suddenly and quickly; -- from the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to raise the anchor. [Colloq.] -- To cut in or To cut into, to interrupt; to join in anything suddenly. -- To cut up. (a) To play pranks. [Colloq.] (b) To divide into portions well or ill; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. [Slang.] “When I die, may I cut up as well as Morgan Pendennis.”
Thackeray.


word: Cut₃
definition:
Cut

Cut
n.
1.
An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.

2.
A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.

3.
That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.

Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, snapped his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
W. Irving.

4.
A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.

This great cut or ditch Secostris . . . purposed to have made a great deal wider and deeper.
Knolles.

5.
The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.

6.
A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.

It should be understood, moreover, . . . that the group are not arbitrary cuts, but natural groups or types.
Dana.

7.
An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.

8.
(a)
The act of dividing a pack cards.
(b)
The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?

9.
Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut.
Shak.

10.
A common work horse; a gelding.
[Obs.]

He'll buy me a cut, forth for to ride.
Beau. & Fl.

11.
The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
[College Cant]

12.
A skein of yarn.
Wright.

13.
(Lawn Tennis, etc.)
A slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin so given to the ball.

14.
(Cricket)
A stroke on the off side between point and the wicket; also, one who plays this stroke.

A cut in rates (Railroad), a reduction in fare, freight charges, etc., below the established rates. -- A short cut, a cross route which shortens the way and cuts off a circuitous passage. -- The cut of one's jib, the general appearance of a person. [Colloq.] -- To draw cuts, to draw lots, as of paper, etc., cut unequal lengths.
[1913 Webster]
Now draweth cut . . . 
The which that hath the shortest shall begin. Chaucer.


word: Cut₄
definition:
Cut

Cut
(kŭt)
a.
1.
Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.

2.
Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.

3.
Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
[Slang]

Cut and dried, prepered beforehand; not spontaneous. -- Cut glass, glass having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures. -- Cut nail, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail. -- Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry.


word: cutaneous
definition:
cutaneous

cu*ta"ne*ous
(k&uuptack_;*tā"ne̝*ŭs)
a.
[Cf. F. cutané, fr. L.  cutis skin. See Cuticle.]
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.


word: Cutaway
definition:
Cutaway

Cut"a*way`
(kŭt"ȧ*wā`)
a.
Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.

Cutaway coat, a coat whose skirts are cut away in front so as not to meet at the bottom.


word: cutback
definition:
cutback

cutback
n.
1.
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.

2.
a return to an earlier scene or story line in a novel, movie, etc.

3.
(Sports)
a sudden switching of directions of a running football player, a surfboarder, etc.


word: Cute
definition:
Cute

Cute
(kūt)
a.
[An abbrev. of acute.]
1.
Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.
[Colloq.]

2.
pleasantly attractive, in a delicate way; -- said of children, young ladies, pet animals and some objects, but seldom of adults; as, a cute child; a cute kitten; a cute little house; a cute statue.

3.
smart-alecky or impertinent; as, a cute remark.

4.
affectedly clever.
RHUD


word: Cuterebridae
definition:
Cuterebridae

Cuterebridae
n.
a natural family of New World botflies.

Syn. -- family Cuterebridae.


word: Cutgrass
definition:
Cutgrass

Cut"grass`
(kŭt"grȧs`)
A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.


word: Cuticle
definition:
Cuticle

Cu"ti*cle
(kū"tĭ*k'l)
n.
[L. cuticula, dim. of cutis skin; akin to E. hide skin of an animal.]
1.
(Anat.)
The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.

2.
(Bot.)
The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.

3.
A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.


word: Cuticular
definition:
Cuticular

Cu*tic"u*lar
(k&uuptack_;*tĭk"&uuptack_;*lẽr)
a.
Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.


word: cut-in
definition:
cut-in

cut-in
n.
1.
(film)
a still inserted and interrupting the action.

Syn. -- insert.

2.
(broadcasting)
a local announcement inserted into a network broadcast.

Syn. -- insert.


word: Cutin
definition:
Cutin

Cu"tin
(kū"tĭn)
n.
[L. cutis skin, outside.]
(Plant Physiol.)
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.


word: Cutinization
definition:
Cutinization

Cu`tin*i*za"tion
(k?`t?n-?-z?"sh?n)
n.
(Bot.)
The conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork.


word: Cutlass
definition:
Cutlass

Cut"lass
(kŭt"las)
n.
pl. Cutlasses (-ĕz).
[F. coutelas (cf. It. coltellaccio), augm. fr. L. cuttellus a small knife, dim. of culter knife. See Colter, and cf. Curtal ax.]
A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax.


word: cutlassfish
definition:
cutlassfish

cutlass fish

cutlass fish, cutlassfish
n.
1.
(Zool.)
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.

Syn. -- frost fish, frostfish, hairtail.


word: Cutler
definition:
Cutler

Cut"ler
(kŭt"lẽr)
n.
[OE. coteler, F. coutelier, LL. cultellarius, fr. L. cultellus. See Cutlass.]
One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.


word: Cutlery
definition:
Cutlery

Cut"ler*y
(kŭt"lẽr*&ybreve_;)
n.
1.
The business of a cutler.

2.
Edged or cutting instruments, collectively, especially knives for cutting food.

3.
eating utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.


word: Cutlet
definition:
Cutlet

Cut"let
(kŭt"lĕt)
n.
[F. côtelette, prop., little rib, dim. of côte rib, fr. L.  costa. See Coast.]
A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.


word: Cutling
definition:
Cutling

Cut"ling
(kŭt"lĭng)
n.
[Cf. Cuttle a knife.]
The art of making edged tools or cutlery.
[Obs.]
Milton.


word: Cut-off
definition:
Cut-off

Cut"-off`
(kŭt"&obreve_;f`; 115)
n.
1.
That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.

2.
(Mach.)
(a)
The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in.  See Expansion gear, under Expansion.
(b)
Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.


word: Cutose
definition:
Cutose

Cu"tose
(kū"t&omacrs)
n.
[L.  cutis skin.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Cut-out
definition:
Cut-out

Cut"-out`
(kŭt"out`)
n.
(a)
1.
(Telegraphy)
A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.
(b)
(Elec.)
A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.

2.
Something cut out from another object, especially a piece of thick paper or cardboard with a picture on it (as of a person or other object), embedded in a larger sheet of paper and having perforations around the edges of the figure to allow easy removal from the larger sheet.

3.
A valve in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine which, when activated, permits the exhaust gases to bypass the muffler.


word: cut-price
definition:
cut-price

cut-price
adj. prenom.
same as cut-rate.
[Chiefly British]

Syn. -- cut-rate(prenominal).


word: Cutpurse
definition:
Cutpurse

Cut"purse`
(kŭt"pûrs`)
n.
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

To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse.
Shak.


word: cut-rate
definition:
cut-rate

cut-rate
adj.
1.
offering goods or services at less than standard price or rate; as, cut-rate store.

Syn. -- cut-price(prenominal).

2.
costing less than standard price.

Syn. -- bargain-priced, cut-price, dirt-cheap.


word: cut-rate₂
definition:
cut-rate

cut-rate
n.
a price below the standard price.

Syn. -- bargain rate, cheapness, cut rate, cut price.


word: Cutter
definition:
Cutter

Cut"ter
(kŭt"tẽr)
n.
1.
One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.

2.
That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.

3.
A fore tooth; an incisor.
Ray.

4.
(Naut.)
(a)
A boat used by ships of war.
(b)
A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop.  A cutter is narrower and deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.
(c)
In the United States, a sailing vessel with one mast and a bowsprit, setting one or two headsails.  In Great Britain and Europe, a cutter sets two headsails, with or without a bowsprit.
(d)
A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter.

5.
A small, light one-horse sleigh.

6.
An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.

7.
A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
[Obs.]

8.
A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.

Cutter bar. (Mach.) (a) A bar which carries a cutter or cutting tool, as in a boring machine. (b) The bar to which the triangular knives of a harvester are attached. -- Cutter head (Mach.), a rotating head, which itself forms a cutter, or a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine. Knight.


word: Cutthroat₂
definition:
Cutthroat

Cut"throat`
a.
1.
Murderous; cruel; barbarous.

2.
Ruthless; conducted without restraint; as, cutthroat competition.


word: Cutting
definition:
Cutting

Cut"ting
(kŭt"tĭng)
n.
1.
The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.

2.
Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.


word: Cutting₂
definition:
Cutting

Cut"ting
a.
1.
Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.

2.
Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

3.
Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply; a cutting remark.


word: Cuttle
definition:
Cuttle

Cut"tle
(k?t"t'l)
n.
[OF. cultel, coltel, coutel, fr. L. cultellus. See Cutlass.]
A knife.
[Obs.]
Bale.


word: Cuttlefish
definition:
Cuttlefish

Cuttle

{ Cut"tle (kŭt"t'l), Cut"tle*fish` (-fĭsh`), }
n.
[OE. codule, AS. cudele; akin to G. kuttelfish; cf. G. kötel, D. keutel, dirt from the guts, G. kuttel bowels, entrails. AS. cwiþ womb, Goth. qiþus belly, womb.]
1.
(Zool.)
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.

&hand_; It has an ink bag, opening into the siphon, from which, when pursued, it throws out a dark liquid that clouds the water, enabling it to escape observation.

2.
A foul-mouthed fellow.
cuttle
Shak.


word: Cuttle bone
definition:
Cuttle bone

Cut"tle bone`
(b&omacrn`)
The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.


word: Cuttoo plate
definition:
Cuttoo plate

Cut*too" plate`
(k?t-t??" pl?t`)
A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.


word: Cutty
definition:
Cutty

Cut"ty
(kŭt"t&ybreve_;)
a.
[Cf. Ir. & Gael. cut a short tail, cutach bobtailed. See Cut.]
Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
[Scot.]


word: Cutty₂
definition:
Cutty

Cut"ty
(k?t"t?)
n.
[Scotch.]
1.
A short spoon.

2.
A short tobacco pipe.
Ramsay.

3.
A light or unchaste woman.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Cuttystool
definition:
Cuttystool

Cut"ty*stool`
(-stōl`)
n.
1.
A low stool.
[Scot.]

2.
A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.


word: Cutwal
definition:
Cutwal

Cut"wal
(kŭt"w&asuml_;l)
n.
[Per. kotwāl.]
The chief police officer of a large city.
[East Indies]


word: Cutwater
definition:
Cutwater

Cut"wa`ter
(kŭt"w&asuml_;`tẽr)
n.
(Naut.)
1.
The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.

2.
A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.

3.
(Zool.)
A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.


word: Cutwork
definition:
Cutwork

Cut"work`
(kŭt"wûrk`)
n.
(Fine Arts)
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.


word: Cutworm
definition:
Cutworm

Cut"worm`
(-w?rm`)
n.
(Zool.)
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 larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.


word: Cuvette
definition:
Cuvette

Cu*vette"
(k?-w?t")
n.
[F., dim. of cuve a tub.]

1.
A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

2.
(Fort.)
A cunette.


word: C.V.
definition:
C.V.

CV

CV, C.V.
(sē`vē")
n.
Same as curriculum vitae; -- a commonly used initialism.
[initialism]


word: Cyamelide
definition:
Cyamelide

Cy*am"e*lide
(si̝*ăm"e̝*lĭd or -līd; 104)
n.
(Chem.)
A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.


word: Cyamellone
definition:
Cyamellone

Cy*am"el*lone
(si̝*ăm"ĕl*l&omacrn)
n.
(Chem)
A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.


word: Cyanate
definition:
Cyanate

Cy"a*nate
(s?"?-n?t)
n.
[Cf. F.  cuanate. See Cyanic.]
(Chem.)
A salt of cyanic acid.

Ammonium cyanate (Chem.), a remarkable white crystalline substance, NH4.O.CN, which passes, on standing, to the organic compound, urea, CO.(NH2)2.


word: Cyanic
definition:
Cyanic

Cy*an"ic
(s?-?n"?k)
a.
[Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance: cf. F. cyanique. Cf. Kyanite.]
1.
Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.

2.
Of or pertaining to a blue color.

Cyanic acid (Chem.), an acid, HOCN, derived from cyanogen, well known in its salts, but never isolated in the free state. -- Cyanic colors (Bot.), those colors (of flowers) having some tinge of blue; -- opposed to xanthic colors. A color of either series may pass into red or white, but not into the opposing color. Red and pure white are more common among flowers of cyanic tendency than in those of the other class.


word: Cyanide
definition:
Cyanide

Cy"a*nide
(s?"?-n?d or -n?d; 104)
n.
[Cf. F. cyanide. See Cyanic.]
(Chem.)
A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.


word: Cyanin
definition:
Cyanin

Cy"a*nin
(s?"?-n?n)
n.
[See Cyanic.]
(Chem.)
The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin.


word: Cyanine
definition:
Cyanine

Cy"a*nine
(s?"?-n?n or -n?n; 104)
n.
(Chem.)
One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.


word: Cyanite
definition:
Cyanite

Cy"a*nite
(-n?t)
n.
[See Cyanic.]
(Min.)
A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium.
[Written also kyanite.]


word: cyanobacteria
definition:
cyanobacteria

cyanobacterium

cyanobacterium
pl. cyanobacteria
[from the pigment phycocyanin.]
any of a group of photosynthetic autotrophic prokaryotic microorganisms possessing characteristics of both bacteria and plants.  When classed as bacteria, they are assigned to the Cyanobacteria; when classed as plants, they are assigned to the Cyanophyta.  They were earlier named blue-green algae, a term less used now in technical discussions.  Since the chlorophyll within the cyanobacteria is diffused throughout the cell, rather than being contained in chloroplasts, they are no longer thought of as true plants.


word: Cyanogen
definition:
Cyanogen

Cy*an"o*gen
(s?-?n"?-j?n)
n.
[Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + -gen: cf. F.  cyanogène. So called because it produced blue dyes.]
(Chem.)
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.

&hand_; Cyanogen is found in the commercial substances, potassium cyanide, or prussiate of potash, yellow prussiate of potash, Prussian blue, Turnbull's blue, prussic acid, etc.


word: Cyanometer
definition:
Cyanometer

Cy`a*nom"e*ter
(s?`?-n?m"?-t?r)
n.
[Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + -meter: cf. F. cyanomètre.]
An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.


word: Cyanopathy
definition:
Cyanopathy

Cy`a*nop"a*thy
(-n?p"?-th?)
n.
[Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + pa`qos affection.]
(Med.)
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.


word: Cyanophyll
definition:
Cyanophyll

Cy*an"o*phyll
(s?-?n"?-f?l)
n.
[Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + fy`llon leaf.]
(Bot.)
A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll.


word: Cyanosed
definition:
Cyanosed

Cy"a*nosed
(s?"?-n?st)
a.
[See Cyanic.]
Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient aëration of the blood.


word: Cyanosis
definition:
Cyanosis

Cy`a*no"sis
(s?`?-n?"s?s)
n.
[NL. See Cyanic.]
(Med.)
A condition in which, from insufficient aëration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.


word: Cyanosite
definition:
Cyanosite

Cy*an"o*site
(s?-?n"?-s?t)
n.
[See Cyanic.]
(Min.)
Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue.


word: Cyanotic
definition:
Cyanotic

Cy`a*not"ic
(s?`?-n?t"?k)
a.
(Med.)
Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin.


word: Cyanotype
definition:
Cyanotype

Cy*an"o*type
(s?-?n"?-t?p)
n.
[Cyanide + -type.]
A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.


word: Cyanuric
definition:
Cyanuric

Cy`a*nu"ric
(s?`?-n?"r?k)
a.
[Cyanic + uric: Cf. F. cyanurique.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids.


word: Cyanuric acid
definition:
Cyanuric acid

Cyanuric acid
(Chem.)
an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide.


word: Cyathiform
definition:
Cyathiform

Cy*ath"i*form
(s?-?th"?-f?rm)
a.
[L. cyathus a cup (Gr, ky`aqos) -form:cf. F.  cyathiforme.]
In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.


word: Cyatholith
definition:
Cyatholith

Cy*ath"olith
(s?-?th"?-l?th)
n.
[Gr. ky`aqos a cup + -lith.]
(Biol.)
A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from 1/6000 to 1/8000 of an inch.


word: Cyathophylloid
definition:
Cyathophylloid

Cy`a*tho*phyl"loid
(s?`?-th?-f?l"loid)
a.
[NL. cyathophyllum, fr. Gr. ky`aqos a cup + fy`llon a leaf.]
(Paleon.)
Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidæ.


word: Cyathophylloid₂
definition:
Cyathophylloid

Cy`a*tho*phyl"loid
n.
(Paleon.)
A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidæ; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.


word: Cycadaceae
definition:
Cycadaceae

Cycadaceae
n.
a natural family of ancient palmlike plants closely related to ferns in that fertilization is by means of spermatozoids.

Syn. -- family Cycadaceae, cycad family.


word: Cycadaceous
definition:
Cycadaceous

Cyc`a*da"ceous
(s?k`?-d?"sh?s or  s?`k?-)
a.
(Bot.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.


word: Cycadales
definition:
Cycadales

Cycadales
n.
an order of primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms.

Syn. -- order Cycadales.


word: Cycadofilicales
definition:
Cycadofilicales

Cycadofilicales
n.
an order of fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the Devonian: seed ferns.

Syn. -- order Cycadofilicales, Lyginopteridales, order Lyginopteridales.


word: Cycadopsida
definition:
Cycadopsida

Cycadophytina

Cycadophyta

Cycadophyta, Cycadophytina, Cycadopsida
n.
a class or subdivision of plants comprising palmlike gymnosperms: it includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta).

Syn. -- class Cycadopsida, subdivision Cycadophytina, subdivision Cycadophyta.


word: Cycas
definition:
Cycas

Cy"cas
(s?"k?s)
n.
[Of uncertain origin. Linnæus derives it from one of the “obscure Greek words.”]
(Bot.)
A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.


word: Cyclades
definition:
Cyclades

Cyclades
n.
1.
the pre-Mycenaean civilization on the Cyclades islands in the S Aegean sea.

Syn. -- Cycladic civilization, Cycladic culture.

2.
an archipelago consisting of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean sea.


word: Cyclamen
definition:
Cyclamen

Cyc"la*men
(s?k"l?-m?n)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. kykla`minos, kyklami`s.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.


word: Cyclamin
definition:
Cyclamin

Cyc"la*min
(-m?n)
n.
A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europæum.


word: Cyclas
definition:
Cyclas

Cy"clas
(s?"kl?s)
n.
[Cf. Ciclatoun.]
A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.


word: Cycle
definition:
Cycle

Cy"cle
(s?"k'l)
n.
[F. ycle, LL. cyclus, fr. Gr. ky`klos ring or circle, cycle; akin to Skr. cakra wheel, circle. See Wheel.]
1.
An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
Milton.

2.
An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.

Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.
Burke.

3.
An age; a long period of time.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
Tennyson.

4.
An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
[Obs.]

We . . . present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year.
Evelyn.

5.
The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.

6.
(Bot.)
One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
Gray.

7.
A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.

8.
A motorcycle.

9.
(Thermodynamics)
A series of operations in which heat is imparted to (or taken away from) a working substance which by its expansion gives up a part of its internal energy in the form of mechanical work (or being compressed increases its internal energy) and is again brought back to its original state.

10.
(Technology)
A complete positive and negative, or forward and reverse, action of any periodic process, such as a vibration, an electric field oscillation, or a current alternation; one period.
Hence:
(Elec.)
A complete positive and negative wave of an alternating current. The number of cycles (per second) is a measure of the frequency of an alternating current.

Calippic cycle, a period of 76 years, or four Metonic cycles; -- so called from Calippus, who proposed it as an improvement on the Metonic cycle. -- Cycle of eclipses, a period of about 6,586 days, the time of revolution of the moon's node; -- called Saros by the Chaldeans. -- Cycle of indiction, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors. -- Cycle of the moon, or Metonic cycle, a period of 19 years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon returns to the same day of the year; -- so called from Meton, who first proposed it. -- Cycle of the sun, Solar cycle, a period of 28 years, at the end of which time the days of the month return to the same days of the week. The dominical or Sunday letter follows the same order; hence the solar cycle is also called the cycle of the Sunday letter. In the Gregorian calendar the solar cycle is in general interrupted at the end of the century.


word: Cycle₂
definition:
Cycle

Cy"cle
(s?"k'l)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Cycled. (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cycling (-kl_;ng).]
1.
To pass through a cycle{2} of changes; to recur in cycles.
Tennyson. Darwin.

2.
To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.


word: Cyclical
definition:
Cyclical

Cyclic

{ Cyc"lic (s?k"l?k or s?"kl?k), Cyc"lic*al (s?k"l?-kal), }
a.
[Cf. F.  cycluque, Gr. kykliko`s, fr. ky`klos See Cycle.]
1.
Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
Coleridge.

2.
(Chemistry)
Having atoms bonded to form a ring structure.  Opposite of acyclic.
Used most commonly in respect to organic compounds.
[Narrower terms: bicyclic; heterocyclic; homocyclic, isocyclic]

Syn. --  closed-chain, closed-ring.

3.
Recurring in cycles{2}; having a pattern that repeats at approximately equal intervals; periodic.  Opposite of noncyclic.
[Narrower terms: alternate(prenominal), alternating(prenominal); alternate(prenominal), every other(prenominal), every second(prenominal); alternating(prenominal), oscillating(prenominal); biyearly; circadian  exhibiting 24-hour periodicity); circular; daily, diurnal; fortnightly, biweekly; hourly; midweek, midweekly; seasonal; semestral, semestrial; semiannual, biannual, biyearly; semiweekly, biweekly; weekly; annual, yearly; biennial; bimonthly, bimestrial; half-hourly; half-yearly; monthly; tertian, alternate(prenominal); triennial]

4.
Marked by repeated cycles{2}.

Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a single subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. Milman.


word: cyclide
definition:
cyclide

cy"clide
(s?"kl?d)
n.
[Gr. ky`klos circle.]
(Geom.)
A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides.


word: Cycling
definition:
Cycling

Cy"cling
(s?"kl?ng)
n.
The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.


word: Cyclo-
definition:
Cyclo-

Cy"clo-
(s?"kl?-)
[Gr. ky`klos circle, wheel.]
A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel.


word: Cyclobranchiate
definition:
Cyclobranchiate

Cy`clo*bran"chi*ate
(s?`kl?-br?n"k?-?t)
a.
[Cyclo- + branchiate.]
(Zool)
Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.


word: Cycloganoid
definition:
Cycloganoid

Cy`clo*ga"noid
(s?`kl?-g?"noid or -g?n"oid)
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei.


word: Cycloganoidei
definition:
Cycloganoidei

Cy`clo*ga*noi"de*i
(s?"kl?-g?-noi"d?-?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. ky`klos circle + NL. ganoidei. See Ganoid.]
(Zool.)
An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example.


word: Cycloid
definition:
Cycloid

Cy"cloid
(s?"kloid)
n.
[Cyclo- + -oid: cf. F. cycloïde.]
(Geom.)
A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.

&hand_; The common cycloid is the curve described when the generating point (p) is on the circumference of the generating circle; the curtate cycloid, when that point lies without the circumference; the prolate or inflected cycloid, when the generating point (p) lies within that circumference.


word: Cycloid₂
definition:
Cycloid

Cy"cloid
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei.

Cycloid scale (Zool.), a fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin.


word: Cycloidal
definition:
Cycloidal

Cy*cloid"al
(-al)
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.

Cycloidal engine. See Geometric lathe.


word: Cycloidei
definition:
Cycloidei

Cy*cloi"de*i
(s?-kloi"d?-?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. ky`klos circle + -oid.]
(Zool.)
An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial.


word: Cyclometer
definition:
Cyclometer

Cy*clom"e*ter
(s?-kl?m"?-t?r)
n.
[Cyclo-  + -meter.]
A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.


word: Cyclometry
definition:
Cyclometry

Cy*clom"e*try
(-tr?)
n.
[Cyclo- + -metry: cf. F. cyclométrie.]
(Geom.)
The art of measuring circles.


word: Cyclone
definition:
Cyclone

Cy"clone
(s?"kl?n)
n.
[Gr._;_;_;_;_; moving in a circle, p. pr. of _;_;_;_;_;, fr. ky`klos circle.]
1.
(Meteor.)
A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.

&hand_; The atmospheric disturbance usually accompanying a cyclone, marked by an onward moving area of high pressure, is called an anticyclone.

2.
(Meteor.)
In general, a condition of the atmosphere characterized by a central area of pressure much lower than that of surrounding areas, and a system of winds blowing inward and around (clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the northern); -- called also a low-area storm. It is attended by high temperature, moist air, abundant precipitation, and clouded sky. The term includes the hurricane, typhoon, and tropical storms; it should not be applied to the moderate disturbances attending ordinary areas of low pressure nor to tornadoes, waterspouts, or “twisters,” in which the vertical motion is more important than the horizontal.

3.
A tornado. See above, and Tornado.
[Middle U. S.]


word: Cyclone pit
definition:
Cyclone pit

Cyclone cellar

{ Cyclone cellar or Cyclone pit  }
A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado.
[Middle U. S.]


word: Cyclonoscope
definition:
Cyclonoscope

Cy*clo"no*scope
(?)
n.
[Cyclone + -scope.]
An apparatus to assist in locating the center of a cyclone.


word: Cyclopean
definition:
Cyclopean

Cy`clo*pe"an
(s?`kl?-p?"an)
a.
[L. Cyclopeus, Gr. _;_;_;_;_;, fr. _;_;_;_;_; Cyclops: cf. F. cyclopeen.]
Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.


word: Cyclopaedia
definition:
Cyclopaedia

Cyclopedia

{ Cy`clo*pe"di*a Cy`clo*pæ"di*a }
(s?`kl?-p?"d?-?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. ky`klos circle + paidei`a the bringing up of a child, education, erudition, fr. paidey`ein to bring up a child. See Cycle, and cf. Encyclopedia, Pedagogue.]
1.
The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.

2.
Hence:
A work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics; an encyclopedia.  See Encyclopedia.


word: Cyclopedic
definition:
Cyclopedic

Cy`clo*ped"ic
(s?`kl?-p?d"?k or  -p?"d?k)
a.
Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.


word: Cyclophorus
definition:
Cyclophorus

Cyclophorus
n.
a genus of tropical Old World ferns having closely crowded circular sori and no indusia.

Syn. -- genus Cyclophorus.


word: Cyclopic
definition:
Cyclopic

Cy*clop"ic
(s?-kl?p"?k)
a.
[Gr. _;_;_;_;_;, fr. _;_;_;_;.]
Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean.


word: cyclopropane
definition:
cyclopropane

cyclopropane
n.
a colorless flammable gas (C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.


word: Cyclops
definition:
Cyclops

Cy"clops
(s?"kl?ps)
n. sing. & pl.
[L. Cyclops, Gr. Ky`klwps (strictly round-eyed), pl. Ky`klwpes; ky`klos circle + 'w`ps eye.]
1.
(Gr. Myth.)
One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.

&hand_; Pope, in his translation of the “Odyssey,” uniformly spells this word Cyclop, when used in the singular.

2.
(Zool.)
A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.

3.
A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.


word: Cyclopteridae
definition:
Cyclopteridae

Cyclopteridae
n.
a natural family comprising the lumpfishes.

Syn. -- family Cyclopteridae.


word: Cyclopterus
definition:
Cyclopterus

Cyclopterus
n.
the type genus of the Cyclopteridae, consisting of lumpfishes.  It includes Cyclopterus lumpus of the North Atlantic.

Syn. -- genus Cyclopterus.


word: Cyclorama
definition:
Cyclorama

Cy`clo*ra"ma
(s?`kl?-r?"m?  or -r?"m?)
n.
[Cyclo- + Gr. "o`rama sight, spectacle.]
A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.


word: Cycloscope
definition:
Cycloscope

Cy"clo*scope
(s?"kl?-sk?p)
n.
[Cyclo- + -scope.]
A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine.
Knight.


word: Cyclosis
definition:
Cyclosis

Cy*clo"sis
(s?-kl?"s?s)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ky`klwsis circulation, from kykloy^n. See Cyclone.]
(Bot.)
The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.


word: Cyclosorus
definition:
Cyclosorus

Cyclosorus
n.
a small genus of terrestrial ferns of tropical and subtropical southern hemisphere.

Syn. -- genus Cyclosorus.


word: Cyclosporeae
definition:
Cyclosporeae

Cyclosporeae
n.
in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales.

Syn. -- class Cyclosporeae.


word: cyclosporine
definition:
cyclosporine

cyclosporin

cyclosporin, cyclosporine
n.
a chemical substance produced by some soil fungi, which suppresses the cellular immune response by inhibiting T cell activation, and has been used in medicine to reduce foreign tissue rejection, especially subsequent to organ transplant surgery.


word: Cyclostoma
definition:
Cyclostoma

Cyclostomata

&VerbarCy`clo*stom"a*ta (s?`kl?-st?m"?-t?), &VerbarCy*clos"to*ma (s?-kl?s"t?-m?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. ky`klos circle + sto`ma, -atos mouth.]
(Zool.)
A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures.


word: Cyclostomous
definition:
Cyclostomous

Cyclostome

{ Cy"clo*stome (s?"kl?-st?m), Cy*clos"to*mous (s?-kl?s"t?-m?s) }
a.
(Zool.)
Pertaining to the Cyclostomi.


word: Cyclostomi
definition:
Cyclostomi

Cy*clos"to*mi
(s?-kl?s"t?-m?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Cyclostomata.]
(Zool.)
A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.


word: Cyclostylar
definition:
Cyclostylar

Cy`clo*sty"lar
(s?`kl?-st?"?r)
a.
[Cyclo- + Gr. sty^los column.]
Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within.
Weale.


word: Cyclostyle
definition:
Cyclostyle

Cy"clo*style
(s?"kl?-st?l)
n.
[Cyclo + style.]
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.


word: cyclotron
definition:
cyclotron

cyclotron
n.
a particle accelerator that 
imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles; it is used in investigations in nuclear physics and particle physics.


word: Cycnoches
definition:
Cycnoches

Cycnoches
n.
a genus of epiphytic or terrestrial tropical American orchids.

Syn. -- genus Cycnoches.


word: Cydippidea
definition:
Cydippidea

Cydippida

Cydippida, Cydippidea
n.
an order of ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles.

Syn. -- order Cydippida, Cydippidea, order Cydippidea, Cydippea, order Cydippea.


word: Cydonin
definition:
Cydonin

Cy*do"nin
(s?-d?"n?n)
n.
(Chem.)
A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.


word: Cygnet
definition:
Cygnet

Cyg"net
(sĭg"nĕt)
n.
[Dim. of F. cygne swan, L. cycnus. cygnus, fr. Gr. ky`klos: but F. cygne seems to be an etymological spelling of OF. cisne, fr. LL. cecinus, cicinus, perh. ultimately also fr. Gr. ky`klos.]
(Zool.)
A young swan.
Shak.


word: Cygnus
definition:
Cygnus

Cyg"nus
(s?g"n?s)
n.
[L., a swan.]
(Astron.)
A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan.


word: Cylinder
definition:
Cylinder

Cyl"in*der
(s?l"?n-d?r)
n.
[F. cylindre, OF. cilindre, L. cylindrus, fr. Gr. ky`lindros, fr. kyli`ndein, kyli`ein, to roll. Cf. Calender the machine.]

1.
(Geom.)
(a)
A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
(b)
The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.

2.
Any hollow body of cylindrical form
(a)
The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
(b)
The barrel of an air or other pump.
(c)
(Print.)
The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
(d)
The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.

3.
The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.

Cylinder axis. (Anat.) See Axis cylinder, under Axis. -- Cylinder engine (Paper Making), a machine in which a cylinder takes up the pulp and delivers it in a continuous sheet to the dryers. -- Cylinder escapement. See Escapement. -- Cylinder glass. See Glass. -- Cylinder mill. See Roller mill. -- Cylinder press. See Press.


word: Cylindraceous
definition:
Cylindraceous

Cyl`in*dra"ceous
(-dr?"sh?s)
a.
[Cf. F. cylyndracé]
Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form.


word: Cylindrical
definition:
Cylindrical

Cylindric

{ Cy*lin"dric (s?-l?n"dr?k), Cy*lin"dric*al (-dr?-kal), }
a.
[Gr. kylindriko`s, from ky`lindros cylinder: cf. F. cylindrique.]
Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.

Cylindrical lens, a lens having one, or more than one, cylindrical surface. -- Cylindric surface or Cylindrical surface,  (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line that moves according to any law, but so as to be constantly parallel to a given line. -- Cylindrical vault. (Arch.) See under Vault, n.


word: cylindricality
definition:
cylindricality

cylindricality
n.
1.
the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder.

Syn. -- cylindricalness; cylindricity.


word: cylindrically
definition:
cylindrically

cy*lin"dric*al*ly
(s?-l?n"dr?-kal-l?)
adv.
In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.


word: cylindricalness
definition:
cylindricalness

cylindricalness
n.
1.
the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder.

Syn. -- cylindricality; cylindricity.


word: cylindricity
definition:
cylindricity

cyl*`in*dric"i*ty
(s?l`?n-dr?s"?-t?)
n.
The quality or condition of being cylindrical.


word: Cylindriform
definition:
Cylindriform

Cy*lin"dri*form
(s?-l?n"dr?-f?rm)
a.
[L. cylindrus (Gr. ky`lindros) cylinder + -form: cf. F. cylindriforme.]
Having the form of a cylinder.


word: Cylindroid
definition:
Cylindroid

Cyl"in*droid
(s?l"?n-droid)
n.
[Gr. ky`lindros cylinder + -oid: cf. F. cylindroïde.]
1.
A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical.

2.
(Geom.)
A certain surface of the third degree, described by a moving straight line; -- used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and also the forces acting on the body.


word: Cylindrometric
definition:
Cylindrometric

Cy*lin`dro*met"ric
(s?-l?n`dr?-m?t"r?k)
a.
[Gr. ky`lindros + me`tron measure.]
Belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders.


word: Cyma
definition:
Cyma

Cy"ma
(sī"mȧ)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ky^ma See Cyme]

1.
(Arch.)
A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.

2.
(Bot.)
A cyme. See Cyme.

Cyma recta, or Cyma, a cyma, hollow in its upper part and swelling below. -- Cyma reversa, or Cyma Ogee, a cyma swelling out on the upper part and hollow below.


word: Cymar
definition:
Cymar

Cy*mar"
(s?-m?r")
n.
[F. simarre. See Chimere.]
A slight covering; a scarf. See Simar.

Her body shaded with a light cymar.
Dryden.


word: Cymatium
definition:
Cymatium

Cy*ma"ti*um
(s?-m?"sh?-?m)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;_;_;_;_;, dim. of _;_;_;_; a wave.]
(Arch.)
A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.


word: Cymbal
definition:
Cymbal

Cym"bal
(s?m"bal)
n.
[OE. cimbale, simbale, OF. cimbale, F.  cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr. Gr. ky`mbalon, fr. ky`mbh, ky`mbos, anything hollow, hollow vessel, basin, akin to Skr. kubha pot. Cf. Chime.]
1.
A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.

2.
A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.

&hand_; In orchestras, one cymbal is commonly attached to the bass drum, and the other heid in the drummer's left hand, while his right hand uses the drumstick.

3.
A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.


word: Cymbiform
definition:
Cymbiform

Cym"bi*form
(s?m"b?-f?rm)
a.
[L. cymba boat (Gr. _;_;_;_;) + -form: cf. F. cymbiforme.]
Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.


word: Cymbium
definition:
Cymbium

Cym"bi*um
(s?m"b?-?m)
n.
[L., a small cup, fr. Gr. _;_;_;_;.]
(Zool.)
A genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola.


word: Cyme
definition:
Cyme

Cyme
(s?m)
n.
[L. cyma the young sprount of a cabbage, fr. Gr. _;_;_;, prop., anything swollen, hence also cyme, wave, fr. _;_;_; to be pregnant.]
(Bot.)
A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.


word: Cymene
definition:
Cymene

Cy"mene
(s?"m?n)
n.
(Chem.)
A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.


word: Cymidine
definition:
Cymidine

Cy"mi*dine
( s?"m?-d?n or -d?n; 104)
n.
(Chem.)
A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene.


word: Cymbling
definition:
Cymbling

Cymling

{ Cym"ling, Cymb"ling (s?m"l?ng) }
n.
A scalloped or “pattypan” variety of summer squash.


word: Cymogene
definition:
Cymogene

Cy"mo*gene
(s?"m?-j?n)
n.
(Chem.)
A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures.


word: Cymograph
definition:
Cymograph

Cy"mo*graph
(?)
n.
[Cyma + -graph.]
(a)
An instrument for making tracings of the outline or contour of profiles, moldings, etc.
(b)
Var. of Kymograph.
Cy`mo*graph"ic (#), a.


word: Cymometer
definition:
Cymometer

Cy*mom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wave -meter.]
An instrument for exhibiting and measuring wave motion
specif.
(Elec.)
an instrument for determining the frequency of electic wave oscillations, esp. in connection with wireless telegraphy.


word: Cymophane
definition:
Cymophane

Cym"o*phane
(s?m"?-f?n or s?"m?-)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_; wave + _;_;_; To appear: cf. F. cymophane. So named in allusion to a peculiar opalescence often seen in it.]
(Min.)
See Chrysoberyl.


word: Cymophanous
definition:
Cymophanous

Cy*moph"a*nous
(s?-m?f"?-n?s or s?-)
a.
Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.


word: Cymoscope
definition:
Cymoscope

Cy"mo*scope
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; wave + -scope.]
(Elec.)
Any device for detecting the presence of electric waves. The influence of electric waves on the resistance of a particular kind of electric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes.


word: Cymous
definition:
Cymous

Cymose

{ Cy"mose (s?"m?s; 277), Cy"mous (s?"m?s), }
a.
[L. cymosus full of shoots: cf. FF. cymeux. See Cyme.]
(Bot.)
Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.


word: Cymric
definition:
Cymric

Cym"ric
(k?m"r?k)
a.
[W. Cymru Wales.]
Welsh.
n. The Welsh language.
[Written also Kymric.]


word: Cymry
definition:
Cymry

Cym"ry
(-r?)
n.
[W., pl.]
A collective term for the Welsh race; -- so called by themselves .
[Written also Cymri, Cwmry, Kymry, etc.]


word: Cymule
definition:
Cymule

Cy"mule
(s?"m?l)
n.
[Cf. L. cymula a tender sprout, dim. of cyna. See Cyme.]
(Bot.)
A small cyme, or one of very few flowers.


word: Cynanche
definition:
Cynanche

Cy*nan"che
(s?-n?n"k?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;_;_;_;_; a dog's collar, a bad kind of sore throat. Cf. Quinsy.]
(Med.)
Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.


word: Cynanthropy
definition:
Cynanthropy

Cy*nan"thro*py
(s?-n?n"thr?-p?)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_;_; of a dog-man; _;_;_;_;, _;_;_;, dog + _;_;_;_;_; man: cf. F. cynanthropie.]
(Med.)
A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.


word: Cynarctomachy
definition:
Cynarctomachy

Cyn`arc*tom"a*chy
(s?n`?rk-t?m"?-k?)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_;, _;_;_;_;, dog + _;_;_; bear + _;_;_; fight.]
Bear baiting with a dog.
Hudibras.


word: Cynarrhodium
definition:
Cynarrhodium

Cyn`ar*rho"di*um
(s?n`?r-r?"d?-?m)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _;_;_;_;_; dog-rose; _;_;_;_;, _;_;_;, dog + _;_;_; rose.]
(Bot.)
A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.


word: Cynegetics
definition:
Cynegetics

Cyn`e*get"ics
(sĭn`e̝*jĕt"ĭks)
n.
[Gr. kynhgetikh` (sc. te`chnh art), fr. kynhge`ths hunter; ky`wn, kyno`s, dog + _;_;_; to lead.]
The art of hunting with dogs.


word: Cynical
definition:
Cynical

Cynic

{ Cyn"ic (sĭn"ĭk), Cyn"ic*al (-ĭ*kal), }
a.
[L. cynicus of the sect of Cynics, fr. Gr. kyniko`s, prop., dog-like, fr. ky`wn, kyno`s, dog. See Hound.]
1.
Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.
I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received.
Johnson.

2.
Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle.

3.
Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.

4.
Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; believing the worst of human nature and motives; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; having a sneering disbelief in the selflessness of others; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.

Syn. -- misanthropic, misanthropical.

&hand_; In prose, cynical is used rather than cynic, in the senses 1 and 4.

Cynic spasm (Med.), a convulsive contraction of the muscles of one side of the face, producing a sort of grin, suggesting certain movements in the upper lip of a dog.


word: Cynic
definition:
Cynic

Cyn"ic
n.
(Gr. Philos)
1.
One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.

2.
One who holds views resembling those of the Cynics; a snarler; a misanthrope; particularly, a person who believes that human conduct is directed, either consciously or unconsciously, wholly by self-interest or self-indulgence, and that appearances to the contrary are superficial and untrustworthy.

He could obtain from one morose cynic, whose opinion it was impossible to despise, scarcely any not acidulated with scorn.
Macaulay.


word: Cynicism
definition:
Cynicism

Cyn"i*cism
(sĭn"ĭ*sĭz'm)
n.
The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opinions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions.


word: Cynocephalus
definition:
Cynocephalus

Cynocephalus
n.
the type genus of the family Cynocephalidae.

Syn. -- genus Cynocephalus.


word: Cynodon
definition:
Cynodon

Cynodon
n.
a genus of creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa.

Syn. -- genus Cynodon.


word: Cynodontia
definition:
Cynodontia

Cynodontia
n.
a division of Triassic Therapsida comprising small carnivorous reptiles often with mammallike teeth.

Syn. -- division Cynodontia.


word: Cynoglossidae
definition:
Cynoglossidae

Cynoglossidae
n.
a natural family of fish including the tonguefishes.

Syn. -- family Cynoglossidae.


word: Cynoidea
definition:
Cynoidea

Cy*noi"de*a
(s?-noi"d?-a)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_;, _;_;_;, a dog + -oid.]
(Zool.)
A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes.


word: Cynorexia
definition:
Cynorexia

Cyn`o*rex"i*a
(s?n`?-r?ks"?-?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_;_;, _;_;_;, dog + _;_;_;_;_; appetite. ]
(Med.)
A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.


word: Cynoscephalae
definition:
Cynoscephalae

Cynoscephalae
n.
1.
the battle that ended the second Macedonian War (197 BC); the Romans defeated King Philip of Macedon.

Syn. -- battle of Cynoscephalae.


word: Cynosure
definition:
Cynosure

Cy"no*sure
(s?"n?-sh?r or s?n"?-sh?r; 277)
n.
[L. Cynosura theconstellation Cynosure, Gr. _;_;_;_;_; dog's tail, the constellation Cynosure; _;_;_;_;, _;_;_;_;, dog + o'yra` tail. SeeCynic.]
1.
The constellation of the Lesser Bear (Ursa Minor), to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.

2.
That which serves to direct.
Southey.

3.
Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.

Where perhaps some beauty lies,
The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
Milton.


word: Cynthia
definition:
Cynthia

Cynthia
n.
(Classical mythology)
the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon; daughter of Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with Roman Diana.

Syn. -- Artemis.


word: Cyperaceous
definition:
Cyperaceous

Cyp`er*a"ceous
(s?p`?r-?"sh?s or s?`p?r-)
a.
(Bot.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of plants of which the sedge is the type.


word: Cyperus
definition:
Cyperus

Cyp"e*rus
(s?p"?-r?s)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _;_;_;_; sedge.]
(Bot.)
A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus.


word: Cyphonautes
definition:
Cyphonautes

Cyph`o*nau"tes
(s?f`?-n?"t?z)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_; bent + _;_;_;_; sailor.]
(Zool.)
The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa.


word: Cyphonism
definition:
Cyphonism

Cyph"o*nism
(s?f`?-n?z'm or s_;"f_;-)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_;, fr. _;_;_;_; a crooked piece of wood, a sort of pillory, fr. _;_;_; bent, stooping.]
A punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. It is still in use among some Oriental nations.


word: Cypraea
definition:
Cypraea

Cy*præ"a
(s?-pr?"?)
n.
[NL.; cf. Gr. _;_;_;_; a name of Venus.]
(Zool.)
A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie.


word: Cypraeidae
definition:
Cypraeidae

Cypraeidae
n.
a natural family of marine gastropods comprising the cowries.

Syn. -- family Cypraeidae.


word: cypre
definition:
cypre

cypre
n.
a large tropical American tree (Cordia alliodora) grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood.

Syn. -- Spanish elm, Equador laurel, salmwood, princewood, Cordia alliodora.


word: Cypres
definition:
Cypres

Cy`pres"
(s?`pr?"  or s?`pr?s")
n.
[OF., nearly.]
(Law)
A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.
Mozley & W.


word: Cypress
definition:
Cypress

Cy"press
(s?"pr?s)
n.
pl. Cypresses (-_;z).
[OE. cipres, cipresse, OF. cipres, F.  cypr_;s, L.  cupressus, cyparissus (cf. the usual Lat. form cupressus), fr. Gr. _;_;_;_;, perh. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. g_;pher, Gen. vi. 14.]
(Bot)
A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

&hand_; Among the trees called cypress are the common Oriental cypress, Cupressus sempervirens, the evergreen American cypress, Cupressus thyoides (now called Chamaecyparis sphaeroidea), and the deciduous American cypress, Taxodium distichum. As having anciently been used at funerals, and to adorn tombs, the Oriental species is an emblem of mourning and sadness.

Cypress vine (Bot.), a climbing plant with red or white flowers (Ipotœa Quamoclit, formerly Quamoclit vulgaris).


word: cypress-pine
definition:
cypress-pine

cypress-pine
n.
any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of Australia and N Caledonia.

Syn. -- cypress pine.


word: Cyprian
definition:
Cyprian

Cyp"ri*an
(s?p"r?-an)
a.
[L. Cyprius, fr. Cyprus, Gr. _;_;_;_;, an island in the Mediterranean, renowned for the worship of Venus.]
1.
Belonging to Cyprus.

2.
Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness.


word: Cyprian₂
definition:
Cyprian

Cyp"ri*an
n.
1.
A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot.

2.
A lewd woman; a harlot.


word: Cyprinidae
definition:
Cyprinidae

Cyprinidae
n.
a natural family of fishes including the carp; tench; roach; rudd; and dace.

Syn. -- family Cyprinidae.


word: Cypriniformes
definition:
Cypriniformes

Cypriniformes
n.
an order of fishes including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as Cyprinoidea, a suborder of Ostariophysi.

Syn. -- order Cypriniformes.


word: Cyprinodont
definition:
Cyprinodont

Cy*prin"o*dont
(s?-pr?n"?-d?nt)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; kind of carp + _;_;_;_;, _;_;_;_;, a tooth.]
(Zool.)
One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow.


word: Cyprinodontidae
definition:
Cyprinodontidae

Cyprinodontidae
n.
a large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies.

Syn. -- family Cyprinodontidae.


word: Cyprinoid
definition:
Cyprinoid

Cyp"ri*noid
(s?p"r?-noid)
a.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; a kind of carp + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Like the carp (Cyprinus).
n. One of the Cyprinidae, or Carp family, as the goldfish, barbel, etc.


word: Cypriote
definition:
Cypriote

Cypriot

Cyp"ri*ot, Cyp"ri*ote
(s?p"r?-?t)
n.
[F. Cypriot, Chypriot.]
A native or inhabitant of Cyprus.

Syn. -- Cypriot, Cyprian.


word: Cypriote₂
definition:
Cypriote

Cypriot

Cyp"ri*ot, Cyp"ri*ote
adj.
of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture; as, Cypriote monasteries.

Syn. -- Cyprian, Cypriot.


word: Cypripedium
definition:
Cypripedium

Cyp`ri*pe"di*um
(s?p`r?-p?"d?-?m)
n.
[NL., fr. Cypris Venus + pes, pedis, foot.]
(Bot.)
A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.


word: Cypris
definition:
Cypris

Cy"pris
(s?"pr?s)
n.
pl. Cyprides (s_;p"r_;-d_;z).
[L. Cypris, the Cyprian goddess Venus, Gr. Ky`pris. See Cyprian.]
(Zool.)
A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.


word: Cyprus
definition:
Cyprus

Cy"prus
(s?"pr?s)
n.
[OE. cipres, cypirs; perh. so named as being first manufactured in Cyprus. Cf. Cipers.]
A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning.
[Obs.]

Lawn as white as driven snow,
Cyprus black as e'er was crow.
Shak.


word: Cypsela
definition:
Cypsela

Cyp"se*la
(s?p"s?-l?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. kypse`lh any hollow vessel.]
(Bot.)
A one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.


word: Cypseliform
definition:
Cypseliform

Cyp*sel"i*form
(s?p-s?l"?-f?rm)
a.
[L. cypselus a kind of swallow, Gr. _;_;_;_; + -form.]
(Zool.)
Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselidæ.)


word: Cyrenaic
definition:
Cyrenaic

Cyr`e*na"ic
(s?r`?-n?"?k or s?`r?-)
a.
[L. Cyrenaicus, fr. Cyrene, in Libya.]
Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene.
n. A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n.


word: Cyrenian₂
definition:
Cyrenian

Cy*re"ni*an
n.
1.
A native or inhabitant of Cyrene.

2.
One of a school of philosophers, established at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.


word: Cyriologic
definition:
Cyriologic

Cyr`i*o*log"ic
(s?r`?-?-l?j"?k or s?`r?-)
a.
[See Curiologic.]
Relating to capital letters.


word: Cyrtostyle
definition:
Cyrtostyle

Cyr"to*style
(s?r"t?-st?l)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; bent + _;_;_; pillar.]
(Arch.)
A circular projecting portion.


word: Cyst
definition:
Cyst

Cyst
(sĭst)
n.
[Gr. ky`stis bladder, bag, pouch, fr. ky`ein to be pregnant. Cf. Cyme.]
1.
(Med.)
(a)
A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.
(b)
In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.
[Written also cystis.]

2.
(Bot.)
One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algæ, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores.
D. C. Eaton.

3.
(Zool.)
(a)
A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc.
(b)
A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment.


word: Cystic
definition:
Cystic

Cyst"ic
(s?s"t?k)
a.
[Cf. F. cystique.]
1.
Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.

2.
Containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma.

3.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.

Cystic duct, the duct from the gall bladder which unites with the hepatic to form the common bile duct. -- Cystic worm (Zool.), a larval tape worm, as the cysticercus and echinococcus.


word: Cysticercus
definition:
Cysticercus

Cysticerce

{ Cys"ti*cerce (s?s"t?-s?rs), Cys`ti*cer"cus (-s?r"k?s), }
n.
[NL. cysticercus, fr. Gr. _;_;_;_; bladder + ke`rkos tail: cf. F. cysticerque.]
(Zool.)
The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).

&hand_; These larvae live in the tissues of various living animals, and, when swallowed by a suitable carnivorous animal, develop into adult tapeworms in the intestine. See Measles, 4, Tapeworm.


word: Cysticule
definition:
Cysticule

Cys"ti*cule
(s?s"t?-k?l)
n.
[Dim. of cyst.]
(Anat.)
An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes.
Owen.


word: Cystidea
definition:
Cystidea

Cys*tid"e*a
(s?s-t?d"?-?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;_;_;_; a bladder, pouch.]
(Zool.)
An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.


word: Cystine
definition:
Cystine

Cyst"ine
(s?s"t?n; 104)
n.
[See Cyst.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.


word: Cystitis
definition:
Cystitis

Cys*ti"tis
(s?s-t?"t?s)
n.
[Cyst +  -itis: cf. F. cystite.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the bladder.


word: Cystocarp
definition:
Cystocarp

Cys"to*carp
(s?s"t?-k?rp)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; bladder + karpo`s fruit.]
(Bot.)
A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.


word: Cystocele
definition:
Cystocele

Cys"to*cele
(-s?l)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; bladder + _;_;_; tumor: cf. F. cystocele.]
(Med.)
Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.


word: Cystolith
definition:
Cystolith

Cys"to*lith
(s?s"t?-l?th)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; bladder + -lith.]
1.
(Bot.)
A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.

2.
(Med.)
A urinary calculus.


word: Cystoplast
definition:
Cystoplast

Cys"to*plast
(-pl?st)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; bladder + _;_;_; to form.]
(Biol.)
A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.


word: cytosine
definition:
cytosine

cy"to*sine
(sī"to̝*sĭn or sī"to̝*sēn)
n.
(Biochemistry)
A pyrimidine (C4H5N3O) which is one of the four major basic components of DNA and RNA in most organisms, forming glyosides with ribose and deoxyribose.  It is the basic component of cytidine, deoxycytidine, cytosine, cytidine monophosphate, and derivatives of those compounds.


word: cytoskeletal
definition:
cytoskeletal

cy`to*skel"e*tal
(sī`to̝*skĕl"ĕ*tal)
a.
(Cell Biology)
Of or pertaining to the cytoskeleton; as, cytoskeletal microtubules.


word: cytoskeleton
definition:
cytoskeleton

cy`to*skel"e*ton
(sī`to̝*skĕl"ĭ*t'n)
n.
(Cell Biology)
An arrangement of microtubules, microfilaments, and larger filaments within a cell serving to provide structural support of components of the cell, and to transport components from one part of the cell to another; the filaments are composed of protein and form a latticelike arrangement which may change rapidly with time.


word: cytosol
definition:
cytosol

cy"to*sol
(sī"to̝*s&asuml_;l or sī"to̝*s&obreve_;l)
n.
(Biology)
The soluble components of the fluid matter enclosed within the cellular membrane; the portion of the cytoplasm which remains after removal of particulate components.


word: cytostasis
definition:
cytostasis

cy`to*sta"sis
(sī`to̝*stā"sĭs)
n.
(Biology)
The inhibition or cessation of cell growth or division.


word: cytostatic
definition:
cytostatic

cy`to*stat"ic
(sī`to̝*stăt"ĭk)
a.
(Biology)
Having an inhibitory action on cell growth or cell division.


word: cytotaxis
definition:
cytotaxis

cy`to*tax"is
(sī`to̝*tăk"sĭs)
n.
(Biology)
The movement of cells toward or away from other cells, as a result of some stimulation, such as chemical signals transmitted and received by the cells.


word: cytotaxonomy
definition:
cytotaxonomy

cy`to*tax*on"o*my
(sī`to̝*tăks*&obreve_;n"o̝*m&ybreve_;)
n.
(Biology)
A branch of taxonomy which uses the characteristics of cellular structures, such as somatic chromosomes, to classify organisms.


word: Cystotome
definition:
Cystotome

Cys"to*tome
(s?s"t?-t?m)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_; bladder + _;_;_;_; to cut: cf. F. cystotome.]
(Surg.)
A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.


word: Cystotomy
definition:
Cystotomy

Cys*tot"o*my
(s??s-t?t"?-m?)
n.
[Gr. _;_;_;_; bladder + _;_;_;_; to cut: cf. F. cystotomie.]
The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.


word: Cytherean
definition:
Cytherean

Cyth`er*e"an
(s?th`?r--?"an)
a.
[L. Cythereus, from Cythera, Gr. _;_;_;, now Cerigo, an island in the Ægean Sea, celebrated for the worship of Venus.]
Pertaining to the goddess Venus.


word: Cytoblast
definition:
Cytoblast

Cy"to*blast
(s?"t?-bl?st)
n.
[Gr. ky`tos hollow vessel + -blast.]
(Biol.)
The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.


word: Cytoblastema
definition:
Cytoblastema

Cy`to*blas*te"ma
(-bl?s-t?"m?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ky`tos hollow vessel + _;_;_;_; growth.]
(Biol.)
See Protoplasm.


word: Cytococcus
definition:
Cytococcus

Cy`to*coc"cus
(-k?k"k?s)
n.
pl. Cytococci (-s_;).
[NL., fr. Gr. ky`tos hollow vessel + _;_;_;_; kernel.]
(Biol.)
The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.
Hæckel.


word: Cytode
definition:
Cytode

Cy"tode
(s?"t?d)
n.
[Gr. ky`tos hollow vessel, from _;_;_;_;. See Cyst.]
(Biol.)
A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.


word: Cytogenesis
definition:
Cytogenesis

Cy`to*gen"e*sis
(s?`t?-j?n"?-s?s)
n.
[Gr. ky`tos hollow vessel + E. genesis.]
(Biol.)
Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.


word: Cytogenetic
definition:
Cytogenetic

Cytogenic

{ Cy`to*gen"ic (s?`t?-j?n"?k), Cy`to*ge*net"ic (-j?-n?t"?k), }
a.
(Biol.)
Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.


word: Cytogenous
definition:
Cytogenous

Cy*tog"e*nous
(s?-t?j"?-n?s)
a.
(Anat.)
Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.


word: Cytoid
definition:
Cytoid

Cy"toid
(s?"toid)
a.
[Gr. ky`tos hollow vessel + -oid.]
(Physiol.)
Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.


word: Cytoplasm
definition:
Cytoplasm

Cy"to*plasm
(s?"t?-pl?z'm)
n.
[Gr. ky`tos hollow vessel + _;_;_;_; a mold.]
(Biol.)
The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.
Cy`to*plas"mic (-pl_;z"m_;k), a.


word: Cytula
definition:
Cytula

Cyt"u*la
(s?t"?-l?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. ky`tos a hollow vessel.]
(Biol.)
The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.
Hæckel.


word: czar
definition:
czar

czar
(zär)
n.
[Russ. tsare, fr. L. Caesar Cæsar; cf. OPol. czar, Pol.  car. ]
A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.
[Written also tsar and tzar.]


word: czarina
definition:
czarina

cza*ri"na
(z?-r?"n?)
n.
[Cf. G. Zarin, Czarin, fem., Russ. tsaritsa.]
The title of the empress of Russia.


word: Czarowitz
definition:
Czarowitz

Czar"o*witz
(z?r"?-w?ts or  t??r"?-v?ch)
n.
pl. Czarowitzes (-_;z).
[Russ. tsarévich'.]
The title of the eldest son of the czar of Russia.


word: Czech
definition:
Czech

Czech
(chĕk; 204)
prop. n.
1.
One of the Czechs; an inhabitant or native of the Czech Republic.

2.
The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.

3.
Of or pertaining to Czechoslovakia or the Czech Republic.


word: Czechoslovakian
definition:
Czechoslovakian

Czechoslovakian
prop. adj.
Of or pertaining to Czechoslovakia.   Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech republic and Slovakia in January 1993, this term no longer refers to any current country.

Syn. -- Czechoslovak, Czech.

2.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the inhabitants of Czechoslovakia or the Czech Republic; as, the Czech population.

Syn. -- Czechoslovak, Czech.


word: Czechoslovakian₂
definition:
Czechoslovakian

Czechoslovakian
prop. n.
a native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia.  Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech republic and Slovakia in January 1993, this term no longer refers to a citizen of any current country.  The natives of the former Czechoslovakia are now Czechs or Slovaks.

Syn. -- Chechoslovak, Czech.


word: Czechs
definition:
Czechs

Czechs
(chĕks)
prop. n. pl.
sing. Czech
[Named after their chieftain, Czech.]
(Ethnol.)
The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in the Czech Republic, consisting of the old regions of Bohemia and Moravia.


word: D
definition:
D

D
(dē)
1.
The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Phœnician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter, G. tochter, Gr. qyga`thr, Skr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunciation, √178, 179, 229.

2.
(Mus.)
The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.

3.
As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign _; (or _; ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000.


word: Dab
definition:
Dab

Dab
(dăb)
n.
[Perh. corrupted fr. adept.]
A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.
[Colloq.]

One excels at a plan or the titlepage, another works away at the body of the book, and the third is a dab at an index.
Goldsmith.


word: Dab₂
definition:
Dab

Dab

Dab
n.
[Perh. so named from its quickness in diving beneath the sand.  Cf. Dabchick.]
(Zool.)
A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.


word: Dab₃
definition:
Dab

Dab
(dăb)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Dabbed (dăbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dabbing.]
[OE. dabben to strice; akin to OD. dabben to pinch, knead, fumble, dabble, and perh. to G. tappen to grope.]
1.
To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.

A sore should . . . be wiped . . . only by dabbing it over with fine lint.
S. Sharp.

2.
To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
dab
Sir T. More.


word: Dab₄
definition:
Dab

Dab
(?)
n.
1.
A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.

A scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak.
Hawthorne.

2.
A small mass of anything soft or moist.


word: Dabb
definition:
Dabb

Dabb
(dȧb)
n.
(Zool.)
A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhubb.


word: Dabber
definition:
Dabber

Dab"ber
(dăb"bẽr)
n.
That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.


word: Dabble
definition:
Dabble

Dab"ble
(dăb"b'l)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dabbled (dăb"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Dabbling (dăb"blĭng).]
[Freq. of dab: cf. OD. dabbelen.]
To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.
dabbled
Shak.


word: Dabble₂
definition:
Dabble

Dab"ble
v. i.
1.
To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water.

Where the duck dabbles 'mid the rustling sedge.
Wordsworth.

2.
To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle.
Dabbling
Atterbury.

During the first year at Dumfries, Burns for the first time began to dabble in politics.
J. C. Shairp.


word: Dabbler
definition:
Dabbler

Dab"bler
(dăb"blẽr)
n.
1.
One who dabbles.

2.
One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler.
dabblers
Swift.


word: Dabchick
definition:
Dabchick

Dab"chick`
(dăb"chĭk`)
n.
[For dabchick. See Dap, Dip, cf. Dipchick.]
(Zool.)
A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.


word: Dabster
definition:
Dabster

Dab"ster
n.
[Cf. Dab an expert.]
One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept.
[Colloq.]

&hand_; Sometimes improperly used for dabbler; as, “I am but a dabster with gentle art”.


word: Dacapo
definition:
Dacapo

Da`ca"po
(?)
[It., from [the] head or beginning.]
(Mus.)
From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated.


word: Dace
definition:
Dace

Dace
(dās)
n.
[Written also dare, dart, fr. F. dard dase, dart, of German origin. Dace is for an older darce, fr. an OF. nom. darz. See Dart a javelin.]
(Zool.)
A small European cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus leuciscus, formerly Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare.

&hand_; In America the name is given to several related fishes of the genera Squalius, Minnilus, etc. The black-nosed dace is Rhinichthys atronasus the horned dace is Semotilus corporalis. For red dace, see Redfin.


word: Dachshund
definition:
Dachshund

Dachs"hund`
(däks"h&usuml_;nt`)
n.
[G., from dachs badger + hund dog.]
(Zool.)
One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.


word: Dacninae
definition:
Dacninae

Dacninae
n.
a natural family comprising the honeycreepers.

Syn. -- Coerebidae, family Coerebidae, family Dacninae.


word: dacoit
definition:
dacoit

da*coit"
(dȧ*koit")
n.
[Hind. &dsdot_;akait, &dsdot_;ākāyat.]
One of a class of robbers, in India and Burma (Myanmar), who act in gangs and are usually armed.
[Also spelled dakoit.]


word: Dacron
definition:
Dacron

Dacron
n.
[Trademark.]
a brand of polyester textile fiber, or the wrinkle-resistant fabric prepared from it.

Syn. -- dacron, Terylene.


word: Dacrycarpus
definition:
Dacrycarpus

Dacrycarpus
n.
a genus of evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines.

Syn. -- genus Dacrycarpus.


word: Dacrydium
definition:
Dacrydium

Dacrydium
n.
a genus of Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs.

Syn. -- genus Dacrydium.


word: Dacrymyces
definition:
Dacrymyces

Dacrymyces
n.
the type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae, consisting of fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa.

Syn. -- genus Dacrymyces.


word: dactyl
definition:
dactyl

dac"tyl
(dăk"tĭl)
n.
[L. dactylus, Gr. da`ktylos a finger, a dactyl.  Cf. Digit.]
1.
(Pros.)
A poetical foot of three sylables (— &breve &breve), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tëgmĭnĕ, E. mer&bprime_;ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
[Written also dactyle.]

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A finger or toe; a digit.
(b)
The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.


word: dactylar
definition:
dactylar

dac"tyl*ar
(dăk"tĭl*ẽr)
a.
1.
Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.

2.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.


word: Dactylic
definition:
Dactylic

Dac*tyl"ic
(dăk*tĭl"ĭk)
a.
[L. dactylicus, Gr. daktyliko`s, fr. da`ktylos.]
Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.


word: Dactylic₂
definition:
Dactylic

Dac*tyl"ic
n.
1.
A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.

2.
pl.
Dactylic meters.


word: dactylioglyph
definition:
dactylioglyph

dac*tyl"i*o*glyph
(dăk*tĭl"ĭ*o̝*glĭf)
n.
[Gr. daktyliogly`fos an engraver of gems; dakty`lios finger ring (fr. da`ktylos finger) + gly`fein to engrave.]
(Fine Arts)
(a)
An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.
(b)
The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.


word: Dactyliography
definition:
Dactyliography

Dac*tyl`i*og"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. dakty`lios finger ring + -graphy.]
(Fine Arts)
(a)
The art of writing or engraving upon gems.
(b)
In general, the literature or history of the art.


word: Dactyliology
definition:
Dactyliology

Dac*tyl`i*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. dakty`lios finger ring + -logy.]
(Fine Arts)
(a)
That branch of archæology which has to do with gem engraving.
(b)
That branch of archæology which has to do with finger rings.


word: Dactyliomancy
definition:
Dactyliomancy

Dac*tyl"i*o*man`cy
(?)
n.
[Gr. dakty`lios + -mancy.]
Divination by means of finger rings.


word: Dactylitis
definition:
Dactylitis

Dac`tyl*i"tis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. da`ktylos finger + -itis.]
(Med.)
An inflammatory affection of the fingers.
Gross.


word: Dactylology
definition:
Dactylology

Dac`tyl*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. da`ktylos finger + -logy.]
The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; a form of sign language, especially the manual alphabets used by the deaf and dumb.

&hand_; There are two different manual alphabets, the one-hand alphabet (which was perfected by Abbé de l'Epée, who died in 1789), and the two-hand alphabet. The latter was probably based on the manual alphabet published by George Dalgarus of Aberdeen, in 1680. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Dactylonomy
definition:
Dactylonomy

Dac`tyl*on"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. da`ktylos finger + no`mos law, distribution.]
The art of numbering or counting by the fingers.


word: Dactylopterous
definition:
Dactylopterous

Dac`tyl*op"ter*ous
(?)
a.
[Gr. da`ktylos finger + _; wing, fin.]
(Zool.)
Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.


word: Dactyloscopidae
definition:
Dactyloscopidae

Dactyloscopidae
n.
a natural family of Atlantic fishes comprising the sand stargazers.

Syn. -- family Dactyloscopidae.


word: Dactylotheca
definition:
Dactylotheca

Dac`ty*lo*the"ca
(dăk`tĭ*lo̝*thē"kȧ)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. da`ktylos finger, toe + qh`kh case, box.]
(Zool.)
The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.


word: dactylozooid
definition:
dactylozooid

dac`tyl*o*zo"oid
(dăk`tĭ*lo̝*z&omacr"oid)
n.
[Gr. da`ktylos finger + E. zooid.]
(Zool.)
A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.


word: Dad
definition:
Dad

Dad
(dăd)
n.
[Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. daid, Gael. daidein, W. tad, OL. tata, Gr. ta`ta, te`tta, Skr. tāta.]
Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.

I was never so bethumped with words,
Since I first called my brother's father dad.
Shak.


word: Daddle
definition:
Daddle

Dad"dle
(dăd"d'l)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Daddled (?), p. pr. & vb. n. Daddling.]
[Prob. freq. of dade.]
To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.


word: Daddock
definition:
Daddock

Dad"dock
(?)
n.
[Cf. Prov. E. dad a large piece.]
The rotten body of a tree.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.


word: Daddy longlegs
definition:
Daddy longlegs

Dad"dy long"legs`
(?)
1.
(Zool.)
An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.

2.
(Zool.)
A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.


word: Dade
definition:
Dade

Dade
(?)
v. t.
[Of. uncertain origin.  Cf. Dandle, Daddle.]
To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles.
[Obs.]

Little children when they learn to go
By painful mothers daded to and fro.
Drayton.


word: Dade₂
definition:
Dade

Dade
v. i.
To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly.
[Obs.]

No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.
Drayton.


word: Dado
definition:
Dado

Da"do
(?)
n.
pl. Dadoes (#).
[It. dado die, cube, pedestal; of the same origin as E. die, n. See Die, n.]
(Arch.)
(a)
That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.
(b)
In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course.  See Base course, under Base.
(c)
In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.


word: Daedalian
definition:
Daedalian

Daedal

{ Dæ"dal (?), Dæ*dal"ian (?) }
a.
[L. daedalus cunningly wrought, fr. Gr. _;; cf. _; to work cunningly. The word also alludes to the mythical Dædalus (Gr. _;, lit., the cunning worker).]
1.
Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious.

Our bodies decked in our dædalian arms.
Chapman.

The dædal hand of Nature.
J. Philips.

The doth the dædal earth throw forth to thee,
Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers.
Spenser.

2.
Crafty; deceitful.
[R.]
Keats.


word: Daff
definition:
Daff

Daff
(dȧf)
v. t.
[Cf. Doff.]
To cast aside; to put off; to doff.
[Obs.]

Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast killed my child.
Shak.


word: Daffodil
definition:
Daffodil

Daf"fo*dil
(dăf"fo̝*dĭl)
n.
[OE. affodylle, prop., the asphodel, fr. LL. affodillus (cf. D. affodille or OF. asphodile, aphodille, F. asphodèle), L. asphodelus, fr. Gr. 'asfo`delos. The initial d in English is not satisfactorily explained. See Asphodel.]
(Bot.)
(a)
A plant of the genus Asphodelus.
(b)
A plant of the genus Narcissus (Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus). It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc.

With damask roses and daffadillies set.
Spenser.

Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies,
And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies.
Spenser.

A college gown
That clad her like an April daffodilly.
Tennyson

And chance-sown daffodil.
Whittier.


word: Daft
definition:
Daft

Daft
(dȧft)
a.
[OE. daft, deft, deft, stupid; prob. the same word as E. deft. See Deft.]
1.
Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.

Let us think no more of this daft business
Sir W. Scott.

2.
Gay; playful; frolicsome.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.


word: Dag
definition:
Dag

Dag
(dăg)
n.
[Cf. F. dague, LL. daga, D. dagge (fr. French); all prob. fr. Celtic; Cf. Gael. dag a pistol, Armor. dag dagger, W. dager, dagr, Ir. daigear.  Cf. Dagger.]
1.
A dagger; a poniard.
[Obs.]
Johnson.

2.
A large pistol formerly used.
[Obs.]

The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.
Foxe.

A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.
Grose.

3.
(Zool.)
The unbranched antler of a young deer.


word: Dag₂
definition:
Dag

Dag
n.
[Of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. dagg, Icel. dögg. √71. See Dew.]
A misty shower; dew.
[Obs.]


word: Dag₃
definition:
Dag

Dag
n.
[OE. dagge (cf. Dagger); or cf. AS. dāg what is dangling.]
A loose end; a dangling shred.

Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
Wedgwood.


word: Dag₄
definition:
Dag

Dag
v. t.
[1, from Dag dew. 2, from Dag a loose end.]
1.
To daggle or bemire.
[Prov. Eng.]
Johnson.

2.
To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment.
[Obs.]
Wright.


word: dagame
definition:
dagame

dagame
n.
the lemonwood tree (Calycophyllum candidissimum); -- it is a tropical American tree which is source of a tough elastic wood.

Syn. -- lemonwood tree, Calycophyllum candidissimum.


word: Dagan
definition:
Dagan

Dagan
prop. n.
the Mesopotanian god of agriculture and earth; it is a counterpart of Phoenician and Philistine Dagon.
See references to Dagon in the Bible and in the opera Samson et Dalila.


word: dagga
definition:
dagga

dagga
n.
a relatively nontoxic South African herb (Leonotis leonurus) smoked like tobacco.

Syn. -- Cape dagga, red dagga, wilde dagga, Leonotis leonurus.


word: Dagger
definition:
Dagger

Dag"ger
(-gẽr)
n.
[Cf. OE. daggen to pierce, F. daguer. See Dag a dagger.]
1.
A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.

2.
(Print.)
A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [†]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.

Dagger moth (Zool.), any moth of the genus Apatalea. The larvæ are often destructive to the foliage of fruit trees, etc. -- Dagger of lath, the wooden weapon given to the Vice in the old Moralities. Shak. -- Double dagger, a mark of reference [‡] which comes next in order after the dagger. -- To look daggers, or To speak daggers, to look or speak fiercely or reproachfully.


word: Dagges
definition:
Dagges

Dagges
(dăgz)
n. pl.
[OE. See Dag a loose end.]
An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans.
[Obs.]
Halliwell.


word: Daggle
definition:
Daggle

Dag"gle
(dăg"g'l)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Daggled (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Daggling (-glĭng).]
[Freq. of dag, v. t., 1.]
To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.

The warrior's very plume, I say,
Was daggled by the dashing spray.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Daggle₂
definition:
Daggle

Dag"gle
v. i.
To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.

Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town.
Pope.


word: Daggle-tailed
definition:
Daggle-tailed

Daggle-tail

{ Dag"gle-tail` (dăg"g'l-tāl`), Dag"gle-tailed` (-tāld`), }
a.
Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.


word: Daglock
definition:
Daglock

Dag"lock`
(-l&obreve_;k`)
n.
[Dag a loose end + lock.]
A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.


word: Dago
definition:
Dago

Da"go
(dā"go̝)
n.
pl. Dagos (-g&omacrz).
[Cf. Sp. Diego, E. James.]
A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent.
[U. S.]


word: Dagoba
definition:
Dagoba

Da*go"ba
(dȧ*g&omacr"bȧ)
n.
[Singhalese dāgoba.]
A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint.
[East Indies]


word: Dagon
definition:
Dagon

Da"gon
(dā"g&obreve_;n)
[Heb. Dāgon, fr. dag a fish: cf. Gr. Dagw`n.]
The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.
W. Smith.

This day a solemn feast the people hold
To Dagon, their sea idol.
Milton.

They brought it into the house of Dagon.
1 Sam. v. 2.


word: Dagswain
definition:
Dagswain

Dag"swain`
(?)
n.
[From Dag a loose end?]
A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.
dagswain
Holinshed.


word: Dag-tailed
definition:
Dag-tailed

Dag"-tailed`
(?)
a.
[Dag a loose end + tail.]
Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks.
Dag-tailed
Bp. Hall.


word: Daguerreian
definition:
Daguerreian

Daguerrean

{ Da*guer"re*an (dȧ*gĕr"ĭ*an), Da*guerre"i*an (?), }
a.
Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.


word: Daguerreotype
definition:
Daguerreotype

Da*guerre"o*type
(dȧ*gĕr"o̝*tīp)
n.
[From Daguerre the inventor + -type.]
1.
An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.

2.
The process of taking such pictures.


word: Daguerreotype₂
definition:
Daguerreotype

Da*guerre"o*type
(dȧ*gĕr"o̝*tīp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Daguerreotyped (-tīpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Daguerreotyping (-tī`pĭng).]
1.
To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.

2.
To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.


word: Daguerreotypist
definition:
Daguerreotypist

Daguerreotyper

{ Da*guerre"o*ty`per (?), Da*guerre"o*ty`pist (?), }
n.
One who takes daguerreotypes.


word: Daguerreotypy
definition:
Daguerreotypy

Da*guerre"o*ty`py
(?)
n.
The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre.


word: Dahabeah
definition:
Dahabeah

Da`ha*be"ah
(dä`hȧ*bē"ȧ)
n.
[Ar.]
A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.


word: Dahlia
definition:
Dahlia

Dah"lia
(däl"yȧ or dāl"yȧ; 277, 106)
n.
pl. Dahlias (#).
[Named after Andrew Dahl a Swedish botanist.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositæ; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color.


word: Dahlin
definition:
Dahlin

Dah"lin
(dä"lĭn)
n.
[From Dahlia.]
(Chem.)
A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.


word: Dahoon
definition:
Dahoon

Da*hoon"
(dȧ*hōn")
[Origin unknown.]
An evergreen shrub or small tree (Ilex cassine) of the southern United States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close-grained wood; -- called also dahoon holly.


word: daikon
definition:
daikon

daikon
n.
a radish of Japan (Raphanus sativus longipinnatus) with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked.

Syn. -- Japanese radish, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus.


word: Dail
definition:
Dail

Dail
n.
the lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland; -- also called the Dail Eirann.  From its members is selected the Taoiseach, or prime minister.

Syn. -- Dail Eireann.


word: Daily
definition:
Daily

Dai"ly
(dā"l&ybreve_;)
a.
[AS. dæglīc; dæg day + -līc like. See Day.]
Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.

Give us this day our daily bread.
Matt. vi. 11.

Bunyan has told us . . . that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
Macaulay.
Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, which declares his dignity,
And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.
Milton.

Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound
Within the visible diurnal sphere.
Milton.


word: Daily₂
definition:
Daily

Dai"ly
n.
pl. Dailies (_;).
A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.


word: Daimio
definition:
Daimio

Dai"mi*o
(?)
n.
pl. Daimios (#).
[Jap., fr. Chin. tai ming great name.]
The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.

The daimios, or territorial nobles, resided in Yedo and were divided into four classes.
Am. Cyc.


word: Daint
definition:
Daint

Daint
(?)
n.
[See Dainty, n.]
Something of exquisite taste; a dainty.
[Obs.]
a. Dainty.
[Obs.]

To cherish him with diets daint.
Spenser.


word: Daintify
definition:
Daintify

Dain"ti*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Daintified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Daintifying.]
[Dainty + -fy.]
To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious.
Daintified
Sat. rev.


word: Daintily
definition:
Daintily

Dain"ti*ly
adv.
In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily.


word: Daintiness
definition:
Daintiness

Dain"ti*ness
n.
The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.

The daintiness and niceness of our captains
Hakluyt.

More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish.
Hakewill.

The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands,
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Dainty
definition:
Dainty

Dain"ty
(?)
n.
pl. Dainties (#).
[OE. deinie, dainte, deintie, deyntee, OF. deintié delicacy, orig., dignity, honor, fr. L. dignitas, fr. dignus worthy. See Deign, and cf. Dignity.]
1.
Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
[Obs.]

I ne told no deyntee of her love.
Chaucer.

2.
That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.

That precious nectar may the taste renew
Of Eden's dainties, by our parents lost.
Beau. & Fl.

3.
A term of fondness.
[Poetic]
B. Jonson.
These delicacies
I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flowers,
Walks and the melody of birds.
Milton.

[A table] furnished plenteously with bread,
And dainties, remnants of the last regale.
Cowper.


word: Dainty₂
definition:
Dainty

Dain"ty
a.
[Compar. Daintier (?); superl. Daintiest.]
1.
Rare; valuable; costly.
[Obs.]

Full many a deynté horse had he in stable.
Chaucer.

&hand_; Hence the proverb “dainty maketh dearth,” i. e., rarity makes a thing dear or precious.

2.
Delicious to the palate; toothsome.

Dainty bits
Make rich the ribs.
Shak.

3.
Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.

Those dainty limbs which nature lent
For gentle usage and soft delicacy.
Milton.

I would be the girdle.
About her dainty, dainty waist.
Tennyson.

4.
Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.

Thew were a fine and dainty people.
Bacon.

And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
But shift away.
Shak.

To make dainty, to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. [Obs.]

Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all
Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,
She, I'll swear, hath corns.
Shak.


word: daiquiri
definition:
daiquiri

daiquiri
n.
an alcoholic beverage containing rum and lime or lemon juice, usually mixed with a fruit juice or fruit extract and often blended with crushed ice; as, a strawberry daiquiri.

Syn. -- rum cocktail.


word: Daira
definition:
Daira

Da"ï*ra
(dä"e̝*rä)
n.
[Turk. daire circuit, department, fr. Ar. daïrah circle.]
Any of several valuable estates of the Egyptian khedive or his family. The most important are the Da"i*ra Sa"ni*eh (sä"nĭ*ĕ), or Da"i*ra Sa"ni*yeh, and the Da"i*ra Khas"sa, administered by the khedive's European bondholders, and known collectively as the Daira, or the Daira estates.


word: Dairy
definition:
Dairy

Dai"ry
(dā"r&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Dairies (-rĭz).
[OE. deierie, from deie, daie, maid; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deigja maid, dairymaid, Sw. deja, orig., a baking maid, fr. Icel. deig. √66. See Dough.]
1.
The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.

What stores my dairies and my folds contain.
Dryden.

2.
That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.

Grounds were turned much in England either to feeding or dairy; and this advanced the trade of English butter.
Temple.

3.
A dairy farm.
[R.]

&hand_; Dairy is much used adjectively or in combination; as, dairy farm, dairy countries, dairy house or dairyhouse, dairyroom, dairywork, etc.


word: Dais
definition:
Dais

Da"is
(dā"ĭs)
n.
[OE. deis, des, table, dais, OF. deis table, F. dais a canopy, L. discus a quoit, a dish (from the shape), LL., table, fr. Gr. _; a quoit, a dish. See Dish.]
1.
The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.
[Obs.]

2.
A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.

3.
A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.
[Obs.]
Shiply.


word: Daisied
definition:
Daisied

Dai"sied
(?)
a.
Full of daisies; adorned with daisies.
daisied
Langhorne.

The grass all deep and daisied.
G. Eliot.


word: Daisy
definition:
Daisy

Dai"sy
(dā"z&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Daisies (dā"zĭz).
[OE. dayesye, AS. dæges-eáge day's eye, daisy. See Day, and Eye.]
(Bot.)
(a)
A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositæ. The common English and classical daisy is Bellis perennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
(b)
The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.

&hand_; The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane.

Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of which there are many species. -- Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy (b).


word: daisy bush
definition:
daisy bush

daisybush

daisybush, daisy bush
n.
any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays.

Syn. -- .


word: Dak
definition:
Dak

Dak
(d&asuml_;k or däk)
n.
[Hind. &dsdot_;āk.]
Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk.
[India]

Dak boat, a mail boat. Percy Smith. -- Dak bungalow, a traveler's rest-house at the end of a dak stage. -- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquins or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.


word: Dakir
definition:
Dakir

Daker

{ Da"ker (?), Da"kir (?), }
n.
[See Dicker.]
(O. Eng. & Scots Law)
A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.
Burrill.


word: Daker hen
definition:
Daker hen

Da"ker hen`
(?)
[Perh. fr. W. crecial the daker hen; crec a sharp noise (creg harsh, hoarse, crechian to scream) + iar hen; or cf. D. duiken to dive, plunge.]
(Zool.)
The corncrake or land rail.


word: Dakota group
definition:
Dakota group

Da*ko"ta group`
(?)
(Geol.)
A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.


word: Dakotas
definition:
Dakotas

Da*ko"tas
(?)
n. pl
sing. Dacota (_;)
(Ethnol.)
An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux.
[Written also Dacotahs.]


word: Dalbergia
definition:
Dalbergia

Dalbergia
n.
a large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers.

Syn. -- genus Dalbergia.


word: Dale
definition:
Dale

Dale
(dāl)
n.
[AS. dæl; akin to LG., D., Sw., Dan., OS., & Goth. dal, Icel. dalr, OHG. tal, G. thal, and perh. to Gr. qo`los a rotunda, Skr. dhāra depth.  Cf. Dell.]
1.
A low place between hills; a vale or valley.

Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend.
Thomson.

2.
A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
Knight.


word: Dalesman
definition:
Dalesman

Dales"man
(dālz"man)
n.
pl. Dalesmen (dālz"men).
One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.
Macaulay.


word: Dalles
definition:
Dalles

Dalles
(dălz)
n. pl.
[F. dalle a tube, gutter, trough.]
A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls.
[Northwestern U. S. & Canada]
The place below, where the compressed river wound like a silver thread among the flat black rocks, was the far-famed Dalles of the Columbia.
F. H. Balch.


word: Dalliance
definition:
Dalliance

Dal"li*ance
(?)
n.
[From Dally.]
1.
The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.

Look thou be true, do not give dalliance
Too much the rein.
Shak.

O, the dalliance and the wit,
The flattery and the strife!
Tennyson.

2.
Delay or procrastination.
Shak.

3.
Entertaining discourse.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: dallisgrass
definition:
dallisgrass

dallis grass

dallis grass, dallisgrass
n.
a tall tufted perennial tropical American grass (Paspalum dilatatum) naturalized as pasture and forage grass in the southern U.S.

Syn. -- paspalum, Paspalum dilatatum.


word: Dally
definition:
Dally

Dal"ly
(dăl"l&ybreve_;)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Dallied (dăl"lĭd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dallying.]
[OE. dalien, dailien; cf. Icel. pylja to talk, G. dallen, dalen, dahlen, to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol foolish, E. dull.]
1.
To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.
Calamy.

We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
Barrow.

2.
To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.

Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.
Shak.

Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind.
Shak.


word: Dally₂
definition:
Dally

Dal"ly
v. t.
To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

Dallying off the time with often skirmishes.
Knolles.


word: Dalmania
definition:
Dalmania

Dal*ma"ni*a
(?)
n.
[From Dalman, the geologist.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.


word: Dalmatian
definition:
Dalmatian

Dal*ma"tian
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.

Dalmatian dog (Zool.), a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.


word: Dalmatic
definition:
Dalmatic

Dalmatica

Dal*mat"i*ca (?), n., Dal*mat"ic (_;), n.
[LL. dalmatica: cf. F. dalmatique.]
1.
(R. C. Ch.)
A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.

2.
A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.


word: dalo
definition:
dalo

dalo
n.
a herb of the Pacific islands (Colocasia esculenta) grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.

Syn. -- taro, taro plant, dasheen, Colocasia esculenta.


word: Dal segno
definition:
Dal segno

Dal` se"gno
(?)
[It., from the sign.]
(Mus.)
A direction to go back to the sign _; and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno.


word: dalton
definition:
dalton

dalton
n.
[from the chemist John Dalton, proponent of the modern atomic theory of matter.]
a unit of mass, approximately 1.66 x 10-24 grams; -- it is approximately equal to the mass of one hydrogen atom, but the exact value differs slightly as used in physics and chemistry. It is used mostly to describe the size of proteins and nucleic acids in biochemistry.
Molecular weights are often expressed as dimensionless units, the unit being understood (in chemistry) to be the atomic mass unit with carbon equal to 14.   Thus having a “molecular weight of 255” means the same as each molecule having a mass of 255 daltons.

Syn. atomic mass unit.


word: Daltonism
definition:
Daltonism

Dal"ton*ism
(?)
n.
Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity.
Nichol.


word: Dam
definition:
Dam

Dam
(dăm)
n.
[OE. dame mistress, lady; also, mother, dam. See Dame.]
1.
A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.

Our sire and dam, now confined to horses, are a relic of this age (13th century) . . . .Dame is used of a hen; we now make a great difference between dame and dam.
T. L. K. Oliphant.

The dam runs lowing up and down,
Looking the way her harmless young one went.
Shak.

2.
A king or crowned piece in the game of draughts.


word: Dam₂
definition:
Dam

Dam
n.
[Akin to OLG., D., & Dan. dam, G. & Sw. damm, Icel. dammr, and AS. fordemman to stop up, Goth. Faúrdammjan.]
1.
A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

2.
(Metal.)
A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

Dam plate (Blast Furnace), an iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it.


word: Dam₃
definition:
Dam

Dam
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dammed (dămd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damming.]
1.
To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.

I'll have the current in this place dammed up.
Shak.

A weight of earth that dams in the water.
Mortimer.

2.
To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

The strait pass was dammed
With dead men hurt behind, and cowards.
Shak.

To dam out, to keep out by means of a dam.


word: Damage
definition:
Damage

Dam"age
(dăm"a̝j; 48)
n.
[OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See Damn.]
1.
Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage.
Prov. xxvi. 6.

Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
Bacon.

2.
pl.
(Law)
The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.

&hand_; In common-law actions, the jury are the proper judges of damages.

Consequential damage. See under Consequential. -- Exemplary damages (Law), damages imposed by way of example to others.  Similar in purpose to vindictive damages, below. -- Nominal damages (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued. -- vindictive damages or punitive damages, those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.


word: Damage₂
definition:
Damage

Dam"age
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Damaged (dăm"a̝jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging (dăm"a̝*jĭng).]
[Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n.]
To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.

He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
Clarendon.


word: Damage₃
definition:
Damage

Dam"age
(dăm"a̝j)
v. i.
To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight.


word: Damageable
definition:
Damageable

Dam"age*a*ble
(dăm"a̝j*ȧ*b'l)
a.
[Cf. OF. damageable, F. dommageable for sense 2.]
1.
Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.

2.
Hurtful; pernicious.
[R.]

That it be not damageable unto your royal majesty.
Hakluyt.


word: damaged
definition:
damaged

damaged
(dăm"a̝jd)
adj.
1.
changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons.  Opposite of undamaged.
battered, beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound
bent, crumpled, dented
blasted, rent, ripped, torn
broken-backed
burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate)
burst, ruptured
corroded
cracked, crackled, crazed
defaced, marred
hurt, weakened
knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out
mangled, mutilated
peeling
scraped, scratched
storm-beaten
Also See blemished, broken, damaged, destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound.

2.
Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some part, or by breaking.  Opposite of unbroken.
busted
chipped
cracked
crumbled, fragmented
crushed, ground
dissolved
fractured
shattered, smashed, splintered
split
unkept, violated
Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured, unsound.

Syn. -- broken.

3.
being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged reputation.

Syn. -- discredited.

4.
made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as, the senator's seriously damaged reputation.

Syn. -- besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished.


word: Damage feasant
definition:
Damage feasant

Dam"age fea`sant
(?)
[OF. damage + F. faisant doing, p. pr. See Feasible.]
(Law)
Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.
Blackstone.


word: damages
definition:
damages

damages
n.
(Law)
a sum of money paid in compensation for an injury or wrong.

Syn. -- amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress.


word: damaging
definition:
damaging

damaging
adj.
1.
causing harm or injury; as, damaging to career and reputation.

Syn. -- detrimental, detrimental to(predicate), prejudicial, prejudicious.

2.
designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions.

Syn. -- negative.


word: Damaliscus
definition:
Damaliscus

Damaliscus
n.
a genus of African antelopes including the sassaby, Damaliscus lunatus.

Syn. -- genus Damaliscus.


word: Daman
definition:
Daman

Da"man
(dä"mȧn)
n.
(Zool.)
A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is Hyrax Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.


word: Damara
definition:
Damara

Da*ma"ra
(dä*mä"rä)
n.
[The name is supposed to be from Hottentot dama vanquished.]
A native of Damaraland, German Southwest Africa. The Damaras include an important and warlike Bantu tribe, and the Hill Damaras, who are Hottentots and mixed breeds hostile to the Bantus.


word: Damascene
definition:
Damascene

Dam"as*cene
(dăm"as*sēn)
a.
[L. Damascenus of Damascus, fr. Damascus the city, Gr. Damasko`s. See Damask, and cf. Damaskeen, Damaskin, Damson.]
Of or relating to Damascus.


word: Damascene₃
definition:
Damascene

Dam`as*cene"
(dăm`as*sēn")
v. t.
Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.
Damascened
Beaconsfield.
damascened
Ure.


word: damascened
definition:
damascened

damascened
adj.
decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals; -- of metallic objects; as, a damascened sword.

Syn. -- damascene.


word: Damascus
definition:
Damascus

Damascus
prop. n.
(Geography)
The capital city of Syria.  Population (2000) = 1,549,932.

Damascus blade, a sword or scimiter, made chiefly at Damascus, having a variegated appearance of watering, and proverbial for excellence. -- Damascus iron, or Damascus twist, metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damask appearance. -- Damascus steel. See Damask steel, under Damask, a.


word: Damask
definition:
Damask

Dam"ask
(dăm"ask)
n.
[From the city Damascus, L. Damascus, Gr. Damasko`s, Heb. Dammesq, Ar. Daemeshq; cf. Heb. d'meseq damask; cf. It. damasco, Sp. damasco, F. damas.  Cf. Damascene, Damassé.]
1.
Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.
damask
W. Irving.

2.
Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.

3.
A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.

4.
Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or “water” of such steel.

5.
A deep pink or rose color.
Fairfax.


word: Damask₂
definition:
Damask

Dam"ask
a.
1.
Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.

2.
Having the color of the damask rose.

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek.
Shak.

Damask color, a deep rose-color like that of the damask rose. -- Damask plum, a small dark-colored plum, generally called damson. -- Damask rose (Bot.), a large, pink, hardy, and very fragrant variety of rose (Rosa damascena) from Damascus. “Damask roses have not been known in England above one hundred years.” Bacon. -- Damask steel, or Damascus steel, steel of the kind originally made at Damascus, famous for its hardness, and its beautiful texture, ornamented with waving lines; especially, that which is inlaid with damaskeening; -- formerly much valued for sword blades, from its great flexibility and tenacity.


word: Damask₃
definition:
Damask

Dam"ask
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Damasked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Damasking.]
To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or “water,” as metal. See Damaskeen.

Mingled metal damasked o'er with gold.
Dryde_;.

On the soft, downy bank, damasked with flowers.
Milton.


word: Damasken
definition:
Damasken

Damaskeen

{ Dam"as*keen` (?), Dam"as*ken (?), }
v. t.
[F. damaschinare. See Damascene, v.]
To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or “water” produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.

Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving.
Ure.


word: Damaskin
definition:
Damaskin

Dam"as*kin
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. damasquin, adj., It. damaschino, Sp. damasquino. See Damaskeen.]
A sword of Damask steel.

No old Toledo blades or damaskins.
Howell (1641).


word: Damasse
definition:
Damasse

Da*mas*sé"
(?)
a.
[F. damassé, fr. damas. See Damask.]
Woven like damask.
n. A damassé fabric, esp. one of linen.


word: Damassin
definition:
Damassin

Dam"as*sin
(dăm"as*sĭn)
n.
[F., fr. damas. See Damask.]
A kind of modified damask or brocade.


word: Dambonite
definition:
Dambonite

Dam"bo*nite
(-bo̝*nīt)
n.
[Cf. F. dambonite.]
(Chem.)
A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc.


word: Dambose
definition:
Dambose

Dam"bose
(dăm"b&omacrs)
n.
(Chem.)
A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.


word: Dame
definition:
Dame

Dame
(dām)
n.
[F. dame, LL. domna, fr. L. domina mistress, lady, fem. of dominus master, ruler, lord; akin to domare to tame, subdue. See Tame, and cf. Dam a mother, Dan, Danger, Dungeon, Dominie, Don, n., Duenna.]
1.
A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.

Then shall these lords do vex me half so much,
As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife.
Shak.

2.
The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.

In the dame's classes at the village school.
Emerson.

3.
A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.

4.
A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Damewort
definition:
Damewort

Dame"wort`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet.
Loudon.


word: Damiana
definition:
Damiana

Da`mi*a"na
(?)
n.
[NL.; of uncertain origin.]
(Med.)
A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.

&hand_; There are several varieties derived from different plants, esp. from a species of Turnera and from Bigelovia veneta.  Wood & Bache.


word: Damianist
definition:
Damianist

Da"mi*an*ist
(?)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.


word: Dammara
definition:
Dammara

Dammar

{ Dam"mar (?), Dam"ma*ra (?), }
n.
[Jav. & Malay. damar.]
An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine.

Dammar pine, (Bot.), a tree of the Moluccas (Agathis orientalis syn. Dammara orientalis), yielding dammar.


word: Dammara₂
definition:
Dammara

Dam"ma*ra
n.
(Bot.)
A large tree of the order Coniferæ, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several species.


word: Damn
definition:
Damn

Damn
(dăm)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Damned (dămd or dăm"nĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (dăm"ĭng or dăm"nĭng).]
[OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty.  Cf. Condemn, Damage.]
1.
To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
Shak.

2.
(Theol.)
To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

3.
To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.

You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
Pope.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
Pope.

&hand_; Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.


word: Damnable
definition:
Damnable

Dam"na*ble
(?)
a.
[L. damnabilis, fr. damnare: cf. F. damnable. See Damn.]
1.
Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.

A creature unprepared unmeet for death,
And to transport him in the mind he is,
Were damnable.
Shak.

2.
Odious; pernicious; detestable.

Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy damnable faces.
Shak.


word: Damnableness
definition:
Damnableness

Dam"na*ble*ness
n.
The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.

The damnableness of this most execrable impiety.
Prynne.


word: Damnably
definition:
Damnably

Dam"na*bly
adv.
1.
In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.

2.
Odiously; detestably; excessively.
[Low]


word: Damnation
definition:
Damnation

Dam*na"tion
(?)
n.
[F. damnation, L. damnatio, fr. damnare. See Damn.]
1.
The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

2.
(Theol.)
Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.

How can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Matt. xxiii. 33.

Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation.
Shak.

3.
A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.
[R.]

The deep damnation of his taking-off.
Shak.


word: Damnatory
definition:
Damnatory

Dam"na*to*ry
(dăm"nȧ*to̝*r&ybreve_;)
a.
[L. damnatorius, fr. damnator a condemner.]
Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.
Damnatory
Hallam.


word: Damned
definition:
Damned

Damned
(?)
a.
1.
Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.

2.
Hateful; detestable; abominable.

But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves.
Shak.


word: Damnific
definition:
Damnific

Dam*nif"ic
(?)
a.
[L. damnificus; damnum damage, loss + facere to make. See Damn.]
Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.


word: Damnify
definition:
Damnify

Dam"ni*fy
(dăm"nĭ*fī)
v. t.
[LL. damnificare, fr. L. damnificus: cf. OF. damnefier. See Damnific.]
To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair.
[R.]

This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified.
Milton.


word: Damoiselle
definition:
Damoiselle

Damosella

Damosel

{ Dam"o*sel (dăm"o̝*zĕl), Dam`o*sel"la (-zĕl"lȧ), &VerbarDa`moi`selle" (dȧ`mwä`zĕl") }
n.
See Damsel.
[Archaic]


word: Damourite
definition:
Damourite

Dam"our*ite
(dăm"ŏ*īt)
n.
[Ater the French chemist Damour.]
(Min.)
A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.


word: Damp
definition:
Damp

Damp
(dămp)
n.
[Akin to LG., D., & Dan. damp vapor, steam, fog, G. dampf, Icel. dampi, Sw. damb dust, and to MNG. dimpfen to smoke, imp. dampf.]
1.
Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.

Night . . . with black air
Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.
Milton.

2.
Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.

Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence,
A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.
Addison.

It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion.
J. D. Forbes.

3.
(Mining)
A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.

Choke damp, a damp consisting principally of carbonic acid gas; -- so called from its extinguishing flame and animal life. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. -- Damp sheet, a curtain in a mine gallery to direct air currents and prevent accumulation of gas. -- Fire damp, a damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen; -- so called from its tendence to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame.


word: Damp₂
definition:
Damp

Damp
(dămp)
a.
[Compar. Damper (?); superl. Dampest.]
1.
Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.

O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear.
Dryden.

2.
Dejected; depressed; sunk.
[R.]

All these and more came flocking, but with looks
Downcast and damp.
Milton.


word: Damp₃
definition:
Damp

Damp
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Damped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Damping.]
[OE. dampen to choke, suffocate. See Damp, n.]
1.
To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.

2.
To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
damp
Akenside.

Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug.
Bacon.

How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!
Sir J. Lubbock.

The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers.
Macaulay.


word: Dampen
definition:
Dampen

Damp"en
(dămp"'n)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. dampened (dămp"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. dampening.]
1.
To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

2.
To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.

In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm.
The Century.


word: damper
definition:
damper

damp"er
(dăm"pẽr)
n.
That which damps or checks;
as:
(a)
A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
(b)
A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.

Nor did Sabrina's presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
W. Black.


word: Dampy
definition:
Dampy

Damp"y
(?)
a.
1.
Somewhat damp.
[Obs.]
Drayton.

2.
Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful.
[Obs.]
dampy
Haywards.


word: Damsel
definition:
Damsel

Dam"sel
(dăm"zĕl)
n.
[OE. damosel, damesel, damisel, damsel, fr. OF. damoisele, damisele, gentlewoman, F. demoiselle young lady; cf. OF. damoisel young nobleman, F. damoiseau; fr. LL. domicella, dominicella, fem., domicellus, dominicellus, masc., dim. fr. L. domina, dominus. See Dame, and cf. Demoiselle, Doncella.]
1.
A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
[Obs.]

2.
A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.

With her train of damsels she was gone,
In shady walks the scorching heat to shun.
Dryden.

Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . 
Goes by to towered Camelot.
Tennyson.

3.
(Milling)
An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.


word: damselfish
definition:
damselfish

damselfish
n.
small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs.

Syn. -- demoiselle.


word: damselfly
definition:
damselfly

damselfly
n.
a slender nonstinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest.


word: Damson
definition:
Damson

Dam"son
(dăm"z'n)
n.
[OE. damasin the Damascus plum, fr. L. Damascenus. See Damascene.]
A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.


word: Dan
definition:
Dan

Dan
(dăn)
n.
[OE. dan, danz, OF. danz (prop. only nom.), dan, master, fr. L. dominus. See Dame.]
A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
[Obs.]

Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright
The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
Spenser.

What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
Thomson.


word: Danaidae
definition:
Danaidae

Danaidae
n.
a small natural family of usually tropical butterflies, including the monarch butterflies.

Syn. -- family Danaidae.


word: Danaide
definition:
Danaide

Da"na*ide
(dā"nȧ*īd)
n.
[From the mythical Danaides, who were condemned to fill with water a vessel full of holes.]
(Mach.)
A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.


word: Danaite
definition:
Danaite

Da"na*ite
(dā"nȧ*īt)
n.
[Named after J. Freeman Dana.]
(Min.)
A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.


word: Danalite
definition:
Danalite

Da"na*lite
(?)
n.
[Named after James Dwight Dana.]
(Min.)
A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.


word: Danaus
definition:
Danaus

Danaus
n.
the type genus of the Danaidae, including the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus.

Syn. -- genus Danaus.


word: Danburite
definition:
Danburite

Dan"bu*rite
(?)
n.
(Min.)
A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form.
Dana.


word: Dance
definition:
Dance

Dance
(dȧns)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Danced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dancing.]
[F. danser, fr. OHG. dans&omacrn to draw; akin to dinsan to draw, Goth. apinsan, and prob. from the same root (meaning to stretch) as E. thin. See Thin.]
1.
To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.

Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance.
Wither.

Good shepherd, what fair swain is this
Which dances with your daughter?
Shak.

2.
To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.

Then, 'tis time to dance off.
Thackeray.

More dances my rapt heart
Than when I first my wedded mistress saw.
Shak.

Shadows in the glassy waters dance.
Byron.

Where rivulets dance their wayward round.
Wordsworth.

To dance on a rope, or To dance on nothing, to be hanged.


word: Dance₂
definition:
Dance

Dance
(?)
v. t.
To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.

To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind.
Shak.

Thy grandsire loved thee well;
Many a time he danced thee on his knee.
Shak.

To dance attendance, to come and go obsequiously; to be or remain in waiting, at the beck and call of another, with a view to please or gain favor.

A man of his place, and so near our favor,
To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.
Shak.


word: Dance₃
definition:
Dance

Dance
n.
[F. danse, of German origin. See Dance, v. i.]
1.
The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.

2.
(Mus.)
A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.

&hand_; The word dance was used ironically, by the older writers, of many proceedings besides dancing.

Of remedies of love she knew parchance
For of that art she couth the olde dance.
Chaucer.

Dance of Death (Art), an allegorical representation of the power of death over all, -- the old, the young, the high, and the low, being led by a dancing skeleton. -- Morris dance. See Morris. -- To lead one a dance, to cause one to go through a series of movements or experiences as if guided by a partner in a dance not understood.


word: Dancer
definition:
Dancer

Dan"cer
(?)
n.
One who dances or who practices dancing.

The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.


word: Dancette
definition:
Dancette

Dan`cet`té"
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. danché dancetté, dent tooth.]
(Her.)
Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.


word: Dancing
definition:
Dancing

Dan"cing
(?)
p. a. & vb. n.
from Dance.

Dancing girl, one of the women in the East Indies whose profession is to dance in the temples, or for the amusement of spectators. There are various classes of dancing girls. -- Dancing master, a teacher of dancing. -- Dancing school, a school or place where dancing is taught.


word: Dandelion
definition:
Dandelion

Dan"de*li`on
(?)
n.
[F. dent de lion lion's tooth, fr. L. dens tooth + leo lion. See Tooth, n., and Lion.]
(Bot.)
A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (Taraxacum officinale, formerly called Taraxacum Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.


word: Dander
definition:
Dander

Dan"der
(?)
n.
[Corrupted from dandruff.]
1.
Dandruff or scurf on the head.

2.
Anger or vexation; rage.
[Low]
Halliwell.


word: Dander₂
definition:
Dander

Dan"der
v. i.
[See Dandle.]
To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Dandi
definition:
Dandi

Dan"di
(?)
n.
[Hind. &dsdot_;ān&dsdot_;i, fr. &dsdot_;ān&dsdot_; an oar.]
A boatman; an oarsman.
[India]


word: Dandie Dinmont
definition:
Dandie  Dinmont

Dandie Dinmont

{ Dan"die Din"mont (dăn"dĭ dĭn"m&obreve_;nt), or Dan"die  Din"mont  }
n.
1.
In Scott's “Guy Mannering”, a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.

2.
One of a breed of terriers with short legs, long body, and rough coat, originating in the country about the English and Scotch border.


word: Dandified
definition:
Dandified

Dan"di*fied
(?)
a.
Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.


word: Dandify
definition:
Dandify

Dan"di*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dandified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dandifying.]
[Dandy + -fy.]
To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.


word: Dandiprat
definition:
Dandiprat

Dan"di*prat
(?)
n.
[Dandy + brat child.]
1.
A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt.
dandiprat
Stanyhurst.

2.
A small coin.

Henry VII. stamped a small coin called dandiprats.
Camden.


word: Dandle
definition:
Dandle

Dan"dle
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dandled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dandling (?).]
[Cf. G. dändeln to trifly, dandle, OD. & Prov. G. danten, G. tand trifly, prattle; Scot. dandill, dander, to go about idly, to trifly.]
1.
To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.

Ye shall be dandled . . . upon her knees.
Is._;

2.
To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.

They have put me in a silk gown and gaudy fool's cap; I as ashamed to be dandled thus.
Addison.

The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence.
Jeffrey.

3.
To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
[Obs.]

Captains do so dandle their doings, and dally in the service, as it they would not have the enemy subdued.
Spenser.


word: Dandruff
definition:
Dandruff

Dandruff
(dăn"drŭf)
n.
[Prob. from W. toncrust, peel, skin + AS. dr&omacrf dirty, draffy, or W. drwg bad: cf. AS. tan a letter, an eruption. √240.]
A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small scales or particles.
[Written also dandriff.]


word: Dandy
definition:
Dandy

Dan"dy
(dăn"d&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Dandies (dăn"dĭz).
[Cf. F. dandin, ninny, silly fellow, dandiner to waddle, to play the fool; prob. allied to E. dandle. Senses 2 & 3 are of uncertain etymology.]
1.
One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.

2.
(Naut.)
(a)
A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.
(b)
A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.

3.
A dandy roller. See below.

Dandy brush, a yard whalebone brush. -- Dandy fever. See Dengue. -- Dandy line, a kind of fishing line to which are attached several crosspieces of whalebone which carry a hook at each end. -- Dandy roller, a roller sieve used in machines for making paper, to press out water from the pulp, and set the paper.


word: Dandy-hen
definition:
Dandy-hen

Dandy-cock

Dan"dy-cock` (_;), n. masc., Dan"dy-hen` (_;), n. fem.
[See Dandy.]
A bantam fowl.


word: Dandyling
definition:
Dandyling

Dan"dy*ling
(?)
n.
[Dandy + -ling.]
A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.


word: Dane
definition:
Dane

Dane
(?)
n.
[LL. Dani: cf. AS. Dene.]
A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.

Great Dane. (Zool.) See Danish dog, under Danish.


word: Danegelt
definition:
Danegelt

Danegeld

{ Dane"geld` (?), Dane"gelt` (?) }
n.
[AS. danegeld. See Dane, and Geld, n.]
(Eng. Hist.)
An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.
Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins.


word: Danewort
definition:
Danewort

Dane"wort`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]


word: Dang₂
definition:
Dang

Dang
v. t.
[Cf. Ding.]
To dash.
[Obs.]

Till she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage,
Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage.
Marlowe.


word: Danger
definition:
Danger

Dan"ger
(?)
n.
[OE. danger, daunger, power, arrogance, refusal, difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier (with same meaning), F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. dominium power, property. See Dungeon, Domain, Dame.]
1.
Authority; jurisdiction; control.
[Obs.]

In dangerhad he . . . the young girls.
Chaucer.

2.
Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
[Obs.]
In one's danger

You stand within his danger, do you not?
Shak.

Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute.
Robynson (More's Utopia).

3.
Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

4.
Difficulty; sparingness.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

5.
Coyness; disdainful behavior.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

In one's danger, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. [Obs.] This sense is retained in the proverb, “Out of debt out of danger.”
[1913 Webster]
Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not. Robynson (More's Utopia).
-- To do danger, to cause danger. [Obs.] Shak.


word: Dangerous
definition:
Dangerous

Dan"ger*ous
(?)
a.
[OE., haughty, difficult, dangerous, fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux. See Danger.]
1.
Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.

Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us;
The ways are dangerous.
Shak.

It is dangerous to assert a negative.
Macaulay.

2.
Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

If they incline to think you dangerous
To less than gods.
Milton.

3.
In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
[Colloq.]
Forby. Bartlett.

4.
Hard to suit; difficult to please.
[Obs.]

My wages ben full strait, and eke full small;
My lord to me is hard and dangerous.
Chaucer.

5.
Reserved; not affable.
[Obs.]
dangerous
Chaucer.


word: Dangle
definition:
Dangle

Dan"gle
(dă&nsmacr_;"g'l)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Dangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dangling (?).]
[Akin to Dan. dangle, dial. Sw. dangla, Dan.  dingle, Sw. dingla, Icel. dingla; perh. from E. ding.]
To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.

He'd rather on a gibbet dangle
Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.
Hudibras.

From her lifted hand
Dangled a length of ribbon.
Tennyson.

To dangle about or To dangle after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset.

The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle after them,
are well inclined to pull down the present establishment.
Swift.


word: Dangle₂
definition:
Dangle

Dan"gle
(?)
v. t.
To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.

And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Dangleberry
definition:
Dangleberry

Dan"gle*ber`ry
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.


word: Dangler
definition:
Dangler

Dan"gler
(?)
n.
One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler.
Danglers
Burke.


word: Daniel
definition:
Daniel

Dan"i*el
(?)
n.
A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.

A Daniel come to judgment.
Shak.


word: Danish
definition:
Danish

Dan"ish
(?)
a.
[See Dane.]
Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.
n. The language of the Danes.

Danish dog (Zool.), one of a large and powerful breed of dogs reared in Denmark; -- called also great Dane. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Danite
definition:
Danite

Dan"ite
(?)
n.
1.
A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.
Judges xiii. 2.

2.
[So called in remembrance of the prophecy in Gen. xlix. 17, “Dan shall be a serpent by the way,” etc.]
One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things.
[U. S.]


word: Dank
definition:
Dank

Dank
(?)
a.
[Cf. dial, Sw. dank a moist place in a field, Icel. dökk pit, pool; possibly akin to E. damp or to daggle dew.]
Damp; moist; humid; wet.

Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.
Milton.

Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground.
Trench.


word: Dannebrog
definition:
Dannebrog

Dan"ne*brog
(?)
n.
The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown.

Order of Dannebrog, an ancient Danish order of knighthood.


word: Danseuse
definition:
Danseuse

Dan`seuse"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. danser to dance.]
A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.


word: Dantean
definition:
Dantean

Dan*te"an
(?)
a.
Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.


word: Dap
definition:
Dap

Dap
(dăp)
v. i.
[Cf. Dip.]
(Angling)
To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water.

To catch a club by dapping with a grasshoper.
Walton.


word: Daphne
definition:
Daphne

Daph"ne
(?)
n.
[L., a laurel tree, from Gr. da`fnh.]
1.
(Bot.)
A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.

2.
(Myth.)
A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.


word: Daphnetin
definition:
Daphnetin

Daph"ne*tin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin.


word: Daphnin
definition:
Daphnin

Daph"nin
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. daphnine.]
(Chem.)
(a)
A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant.
[R.]
(b)
A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and Daphne alpina.


word: Daphnomancy
definition:
Daphnomancy

Daph"no*man`cy
(?)
n.
[Gr. da`fnh the laurel + -mancy.]
Divination by means of the laurel.


word: Dapifer
definition:
Dapifer

Dap"i*fer
(?)
n.
[L., daps a feast + ferre to bear.]
One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.


word: Dapper
definition:
Dapper

Dap"per
(?)
a.
[OE. daper; prob. fr. D. dapper brave, valiant; akin to G. tapfer brave, OHG. taphar heavy, weighty, OSlav. dobrŭ good, Russ. dobrui.  Cf. Deft.]
Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.

He wondered how so many provinces could be held in subjection by such a dapper little man.
Milton.

The dapper ditties that I wont devise.
Spenser.

Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts.
Julian Hawthorne.


word: Dapple
definition:
Dapple

Dap"ple
(?)
n.
[Cf. Icel. depill a spot, a dot, a dog with spots over the eyes, dapi a pool, and E. dimple.]
One of the spots on a dappled animal.

He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples.
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Dappled
definition:
Dappled

Dapple

{ Dap"ple (?), Dap"pled (?) }
a.
Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.

Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.
Sir W. Scott.

&hand_; The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray.

His steed was all dapple-gray.
Chaucer.

O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Dapple₂
definition:
Dapple

Dap"ple
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dappled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling.]
To variegate with spots; to spot.

The gentle day, . . . 
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.
Shak.

The dappled pink and blushing rose.
Prior.


word: Darbies
definition:
Darbies

Dar"bies
(där"bĭz)
n. pl.
Manacles; handcuffs.
[Cant]

Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies.
Sir W. Scott.

&hand_; In “The Steel Glass” by Gascoigne, printed in 1576, occurs the line “To binde such babes in father Derbies bands.”


word: Darby
definition:
Darby

Dar"by
(där"b&ybreve_;)
n.
A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.


word: Darbyite
definition:
Darbyite

Dar"by*ite
(?)
n.
One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; -- so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.


word: Dardanelles
definition:
Dardanelles

Dardanelles
n.
1.
the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European from Asian Turkey.

Syn. -- Hellespont.

2.
the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks.

Syn. -- Dardanelles campaign.


word: Dare
definition:
Dare

Dare
(dâr)
v. i.
[imp. Durst (dûrst) or Dared (dârd); p. p. Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.]
[OE. I dar, dear, I dare, imp. dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare, imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta, gidurran, OHG. tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar, gadaúrsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. √70.]
To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.
Shak.

Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they durst not, because they could not.
Macaulay.

Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion.
Thackeray.

The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why.
Jowett (Thu_;yd.).

&hand_; The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he shalls or he cans.
Skeat.

The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead).
P. Plowman.

You know one dare not discover you.
Dryden.

The fellow dares not deceive me.
Shak.

Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed
Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep.
Beau. & Fl.

&hand_; Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.


word: Dare₂
definition:
Dare

Dare
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.]
1.
To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.

What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything?
Bagehot.

To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
The Century.

2.
To challenge; to provoke; to defy.

Time, I dare thee to discover
Such a youth and such a lover.
Dryden.


word: Dare₃
definition:
Dare

Dare
n.
1.
The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.
[R.]

It lends a luster . . . 
A large dare to our great enterprise.
Shak.

2.
Defiance; challenge.

Childish, unworthy dares
Are not enought to part our powers.
Chapman.

Sextus Pompeius
Hath given the dare to Cæsar.
Shak.


word: Dare₅
definition:
Dare

Dare
v. t.
To terrify; to daunt.
[Obs.]

For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs,
Would dare a woman.
Beau. & Fl.

To dare larks, to catch them by producing terror through to use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. Nares.


word: Dare-devil
definition:
Dare-devil

Dare"-dev`il
(?)
n.
A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement.

A humorous dare-devil -- the very man
To suit my prpose.
Ld. Lytton.


word: Dare-deviltry
definition:
Dare-deviltry

Dare"-dev`il*try
(?)
n
pl. Dare-deviltries (_;).
Reckless mischief; the action of a dare-devil.


word: Dar es Salaam
definition:
Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam
prop. n.
(Geography)
The administrative capital city of Tanzania.  Population (2000) = 1,360,850.


word: Dargue
definition:
Dargue

Darg

{ Darg, Dargue (?) }
n.
[Scot., contr. fr. day work.]
A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day.
[Local, Eng. & Scot.]


word: Daric
definition:
Daric

Dar"ic
(dăr"ĭk)
n.
[Gr. dareiko`s, of Persian origin.]
1.
(Antiq.)
(a)
A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer.
(b)
A silver coin of about 86 grains, having the figure of an archer, and hence, in modern times, called a daric.

2.
Any very pure gold coin.


word: Daring₂
definition:
Daring

Dar"ing
a.
Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits.
Dar"ing*ly, adv. -- Dar"ing*ness, n.


word: Dariole
definition:
Dariole

Da`ri*ole"
(dȧ`rĭ*&omacrl")
n.
[F.]
1.
A crustade.
[Obs.]

2.
A shell or cup of pastry filled with custard, whipped cream, crushed macaroons, etc.


word: Dark
definition:
Dark

Dark
(därk)
a.
[OE. dark, derk, deork, AS. dearc, deorc; cf. Gael. & Ir. dorch, dorcha, dark, black, dusky.]
1.
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse
Without all hope of day!
Milton.

In the dark and silent grave.
Sir W. Raleigh.

2.
Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.

The dark problems of existence.
Shairp.

What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
Hooker.

What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
Shak.

3.
Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.

The age wherein he lived was dark, but he
Could not want light who taught the world to see.
Denhan.

The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediæval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.
Hallam.

4.
Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.

Left him at large to his own dark designs.
Milton.

5.
Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.

More dark and dark our woes.
Shak.

A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.
Macaulay.

There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
W. Irving.

6.
Deprived of sight; blind.
[Obs.]

He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.
Evelyn.

&hand_; Dark is sometimes used to qualify another adjective; as, dark blue, dark green, and sometimes it forms the first part of a compound; as, dark-haired, dark-eyed, dark-colored, dark-seated, dark-working.

A dark horse, in racing or politics, a horse or a candidate whose chances of success are not known, and whose capabilities have not been made the subject of general comment or of wagers. [Colloq.] -- Dark house, Dark room, a house or room in which madmen were confined. [Obs.] Shak. -- Dark lantern. See Lantern. -- The Dark Ages, a period of stagnation and obscurity in literature and art, lasting, according to Hallam, nearly 1000 years, from about 500 to about 1500 A. D.. See Middle Ages, under Middle. -- The Dark and Bloody Ground, a phrase applied to the State of Kentucky, and said to be the significance of its name, in allusion to the frequent wars that were waged there between Indians. -- The dark day, a day (May 19, 1780) when a remarkable and unexplained darkness extended over all New England. -- To keep dark, to reveal nothing. [Low]


word: Dark₂
definition:
Dark

Dark
(därk)
n.
1.
Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.

Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out.
Shak.

2.
The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.

Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark.
Shak.

Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before.
Locke.

3.
(Fine Arts)
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.

The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights.
Dryden.


word: dark-blue
definition:
dark-blue

dark-blue
adj.
of a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky.

Syn. -- blue, bluish, light-blue, cerulean.


word: Darken
definition:
Darken

Dark"en
(därk"'n)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Darkened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Darkening (-n*ĭng).]
[AS. deorcian. See Dark, a.]
1.
To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.

They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened.
Ex. x. 15.

So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began
To darken all the hill.
Milton.

2.
To render dim; to deprive of vision.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.
Rom. xi. 10.

3.
To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.

Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darkenhis foresight.
Bacon.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job. xxxviii. 2.

4.
To cast a gloom upon.

With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not
The mirth of the feast.
Shak.

5.
To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

I must not think there are
Evils enough to darken all his goodness.
Shak.


word: dark-green
definition:
dark-green

dark-green
adj.
similar to the color of fresh grass.

Syn. -- green, greenish, light-green.


word: darkie
definition:
darkie

dark"ie
(där"kē)
n.
a black person; an African-American; -- an older term now considered offensive.

Syn. -- darky, darkey.


word: Darkling
definition:
Darkling

Dark"ling
(därk"lĭng)
adv.
[Dark + the adverbial suffix -ling.]
In the dark.
[Poetic]

So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.
Shak.

As the wakeful bird
Sings darkling.
Milton.


word: Darkling₂
definition:
Darkling

Dark"ling
p. pr. & a.
1.
Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.

His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me.
Thackeray.

2.
Dark; gloomy.
darkling
Moore.


word: Darkly
definition:
Darkly

Dark"ly
adv.
1.
With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.

What fame to future times conveys but darkly down.
Dryden.

so softly dark and darkly pure.
Byron.

2.
With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.

Looking darkly at the clerguman.
Hawthorne.


word: Darkness
definition:
Darkness

Dark"ness
n.
1.
The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

And darkness was upon the face of the deep.
Gen. i. 2.

2.
A state of privacy; secrecy.

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light.
Matt. x. 27.

3.
A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.

Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John. iii. 19.

Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out
From all heaven's bounds.
Milton.

4.
Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.

5.
A state of distress or trouble.

A day of clouds and of thick darkness.
Joel. ii. 2.

Prince of darkness, the Devil; Satan. “In the power of the Prince of darkness.”  Locke.


word: dark-skinned
definition:
dark-skinned

dark-skinned
adj.
1.
same as colored.
black (vs. white)

Syn. -- colored, coloured.

2.
having a dark color; -- of skin color.

Syn. -- dusky, swart, swarthy.


word: Darksome
definition:
Darksome

Dark"some
(?)
a.
Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.
[Poetic]

He brought him through a darksome narrow pass
To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold.
Spenser.


word: darky
definition:
darky

dark"y
(?)
n.
a negro; an African-American; -- an older term now considered offensive.
[Slang]

Syn. -- darkie, darkey.


word: darling
definition:
darling

dar"ling
(?)
n.
[OE. derling, deorling, AS. deórling; deóre dear + -ling. See Dear, and -ling.]
One dearly beloved; a favorite.

And can do naught but wail her darling's loss.
Shak.


word: darling₂
definition:
darling

dar"ling
a.
Dearly beloved; regarded with especial kindness and tenderness; favorite.
darling
I. Watts.
Darling
Macaulay.


word: Darlingtonia
definition:
Darlingtonia

Dar`ling*to"ni*a
(?)
n.
[NL. Named after Dr. William Darlington, a botanist of West Chester, Penn.]
(Bot.)
A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.


word: Darmera
definition:
Darmera

Darmera
n.
a genus consisting of one species.

Syn. -- genus Darmera, Peltiphyllum, genus Peltiphyllum.


word: Darn
definition:
Darn

Darn
(därn)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Darned (därnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Darning.]
[OE. derne, prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. darnio to piece, break in pieces, W. & Arm. to E. tear.  Cf. Tear, v. t.]
To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockings.
Swift.

Darning last. See under Last. -- Darning needle. (a) A long, strong needle for mending holes or rents, especially in stockings. (b) (Zool.) Any species of dragon fly, having a long, cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are harmless and without stings. [In this sense, usually written with a hyphen.] Called also devil's darning-needle.


word: darned
definition:
darned

darned
adj.
an intensifying expletive; a eupehmism for damned; as, for no darned reason at all.

Syn. -- blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, gosh-darned.


word: darnel
definition:
darnel

dar"nel
(dăr"nĕl)
n.
[OE. darnel, dernel, of uncertain origin; cf. dial. F. darnelle, Sw. dår-repe; perh. named from a supposed intoxicating quality of the plant, and akin to Sw. dåra to infatuate, OD. door foolish, G. thor fool, and Ee. dizzy.]
(Bot.)
Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety Lolium Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.

&hand_; Under darnel our early herbalists comprehended all kinds of cornfield weeds.
Dr. Prior.


word: Darrain
definition:
Darrain

Darraign

{ Dar"raign, Dar"rain, }
(?)
v. t.
[OF. deraisnier to explain, defend, to maintain in legal action by proof and reasonings, LL. derationare; de- + rationare to discourse, contend in law, fr. L. ratio reason, in LL., legal cause.  Cf. Arraign, and see Reason.]
1.
To make ready to fight; to array.
[Obs.]

Darrain your battle, for they are at hand.
Shak.

2.
To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat.
[Obs.]
darrain
Chaucer .


word: Darrein
definition:
Darrein

Dar"rein
a.
[OF. darrein, darrain, fr. an assumed LL. deretranus; L. de + retro back, backward.]
(Law)
Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.


word: Dart
definition:
Dart

Dart
(därt)
n.
[OF. dart, of German origin; cf. OHG. tart javelin, dart, AS. darað, daroð, Sw. dart dagger, Icel. darraðr dart.]
1.
A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.

And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom.
2 Sa. xviii. 14.

2.
Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.

The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart
Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
Hannan More.

3.
A spear set as a prize in running.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

4.
(Zool.)
A fish; the dace. See Dace.

Dart sac (Zool.), a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.


word: Dart₂
definition:
Dart

Dart
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Darted; p. pr. & vb. n. Darting.]
1.
To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.

2.
To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.

Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart?
Pope.


word: Dart₃
definition:
Dart

Dart
v. i.
1.
To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.

2.
To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.


word: Dartars
definition:
Dartars

Dar"tars
(?)
n.
[F. dartre eruption, dandruff. √240.]
A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.


word: dart board
definition:
dart board

dartboard

dartboard, dart board
n.
a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts.  It may have any of several patterns on it, such as concentric circles, or a central circle with rays.


word: Darter
definition:
Darter

Dart"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.

2.
(Zool.)
The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird.

3.
(Zool.)
A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.


word: Dartle
definition:
Dartle

Dar"tle
(?)
v. t. & i.
To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart.

My star that dartles the red and the blue.
R. Browning.


word: Dartos
definition:
Dartos

Dar"tos
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; flayed.]
(Anat.)
A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.


word: Dartrous
definition:
Dartrous

Dar"trous
(?)
a.
[F. dartreux. See Dartars.]
(Med.)
Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.

Dartrous diathesis, A morbid condition of the system predisposing to the development of certain skin diseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, and pityriasis. Also called rheumic diathesis, and herpetism. Piffard.


word: Darussalam Bandar Seri Begawan
definition:
Darussalam Bandar Seri Begawan

Darussalam Bandar Seri Begawan
prop. n.
(Geography)
The capital city of Brunei.  Population (2000) = 52,300.


word: Darwinian
definition:
Darwinian

Dar*win"i*an
(?)
a.
[From the name of Charles Darwin, an English scientist.]
Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements.

&hand_; This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled “The Origin of species by Means of Natural Selection.” The author argues that, in the struggle for existence, those plants and creatures best fitted to the requirements of the situation in which they are placed are the ones that will live; in other words, that Nature selects those which are to survive. This is the theory of natural selection or the survival of the fittest. He also argues that natural selection is capable of modifying and producing organisms fit for their circumstances. See Development theory, under Development.


word: Darwinism
definition:
Darwinism

Dar"win*ism
(?)
n.
(Biol.)
The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above.
Huxley.


word: Dasewe
definition:
Dasewe

Dase"we
(?)
v. i.
[OE. dasewen, daswen; cf. AS. dysegian to be foolish.]
To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled.
[Obs.]
Chauscer.


word: Dash
definition:
Dash

Dash
(dăsh)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dashing.]
[Of. Scand. origin; cf. Dan daske to beat, strike, Sw. & Icel. daska, Dan. & Sw. dask blow.]
1.
To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound.
Bacon.

2.
To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.

Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Ps. ii. 9.

A brave vessel, . . . 
Dashed all to pieces.
Shak.

To perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.
Milton.

3.
To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.
South.

Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car.
Pope.

4.
To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture.

I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications.
Addison.

The very source and fount of day
Is dashed with wandering isles of night.
Tennyson.

5.
To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.

6.
To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.


word: Dash₂
definition:
Dash

Dash
v. i.
To rush with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.

[He] dashed through thick and thin.
Dryden.

On each hand the gushing waters play,
And down the rough cascade all dashing fall.
Thomson.


word: Dash₃
definition:
Dash

Dash
n.
1.
Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.

2.
A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.

3.
A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.

Innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
Addison.

4.
A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain.

She takes upon her bravely at first dash.
Shak.

5.
Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.

6.
A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.
[Low]

7.
(Punctuation)
A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis.
John Wilson.

8.
(Mus.)
(a)
The sign of staccato, a small mark [_;] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.
(b)
The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.

9.
(Racing)
A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.


word: Dashboard
definition:
Dashboard

Dash"board`
(dăsh"b&omacrrd`)
n.
1.
A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.

2.
(Naut.)
(a)
The float of a paddle wheel.
(b)
A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard.

3.
an instrument panel beneath the front window of a motor vehicle (such as an automobile or truck), containing indicating gauges and dials, such as the speedometer and fuel gauges, and sometimes certain control knobs or other devices.


word: Dasheen
definition:
Dasheen

Dash`een"
(dăsh`ēn")
n.
1.
A tropical aroid (of the genus Caladium, syn. Colocasia) having an edible farinaceous root. It is related to the taro and to the tanier, but is much superior to it in quality and is as easily cooked as the potato. It is a staple food plant of the tropics, being prepared like potatoes, and has been introduced into the Southern United States.

2.
a herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.

Syn. -- taro, taro plant, dalo, Colocasia esculenta.

3.
the edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.

Syn. -- taro, cocoyam, eddo.

4.
a tropical starchy tuberous root.

Syn. -- taro, taro root, cocoyam, edda.


word: dasher
definition:
dasher

dash"er
(dăsh"ẽr)
n.
1.
That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.

2.
A dashboard or splashboard.
[U. S.]

3.
One who makes an ostentatious parade.
[Low]


word: Dashing
definition:
Dashing

Dash"ing
a.
Bold; spirited; showy.

The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless.
T. Campbell.


word: Dashingly
definition:
Dashingly

Dash"ing*ly
adv.
Conspicuously; showily.
[Colloq.]

 A dashingly dressed gentleman.
Hawthorne.


word: Dashism
definition:
Dashism

Dash"ism
(-ĭz'm)
n.
The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show.
[R. & Colloq.]

He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed.
V. Knox.


word: dash-pot
definition:
dash-pot

dashpot

dash"pot`, dash-pot
(dăsh"p&obreve_;t`)
n.
(Mach.)
a mechanical damping device containing a piston that moves in a fluid-filled chamber to serve as a pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.

&hand_; It consists of a chamber, containing air or a liquid, in which a piston (a), attached to the weight, falls freely until it enters a space (as below the openings, b) from which the air or liquid can escape but slowly (as through cock c), when its fall is gradually checked.

A cataract of an engine is sometimes called a dashpot.


word: Dashy
definition:
Dashy

Dash"y
(?)
a.
[From Dash.]
Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.
[Colloq.]


word: Dastard
definition:
Dastard

Das"tard
(dăs"tẽrd)
n.
[Prob. from Icel. dæstr exhausted. breathless, p. p. of dæsa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. dasask to become exhausted, and E. daze.]
One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.

You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility.
Shak.


word: Dastardize
definition:
Dastardize

Das"tard*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dastardized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dastardizing.]
To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage.
Dryden.


word: Dasymeter
definition:
Dasymeter

Da*sym"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. dasy`s rough, thick + -meter.]
(Physics)
An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density.


word: Dasypaedes
definition:
Dasypaedes

Das`y*pæ"des
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. dasy`s hairy, shaggy + _;, _;, a child.]
(Zool.)
Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.


word: Dasyproctidae
definition:
Dasyproctidae

Dasyproctidae
n.
a natural family including the agoutis and pacas.

Syn. -- family Dasyproctidae.


word: Dasyuridae
definition:
Dasyuridae

Dasyuridae
n.
a natural family including the dasyures, native cats, pouched mice, banded anteaters, and Tasmanian devils.

Syn. -- family Dasyuridae, family Dasyurinae.


word: dasyure
definition:
dasyure

das"y*ure
(dăs"ĭ*ūr)
n.
[Gr. dasy`s thick, shaggy + o'yra` tail: cf. F. dasyure.]
1.
(Zool.)
A carnivorous catlike marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus, called also native cat. There are several species.

2.
(Zool.)
any of several related animals, such as the Tasmanian devil; -- called also ursine dasyure.


word: Dasyurus
definition:
Dasyurus

Dasyurus
n.
the type genus of the family Dasyuridae: native cats.

Syn. -- genus Dasyurus.


word: DAT
definition:
DAT

DAT
n.
[acronym, from Digital AudioTape.]
digital audiotape, a digitally encoded tape recording of sound; -- in contrast to the usual analog audio tape.
[acronym]


word: Data
definition:
Data

Da"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[L. pl. of datum.]
1.
See Datum.

2.
a collection of facts, observations, or other information related to a particular question or problem; as, the historical data show that the budget deficit is only a small factor in determining interest rates.
The term in this sense is used especially in reference to experimental observations collected in the course of a controlled scientific investigation.

3.
(Computers)
information, most commonly in the form of a series of binary digits, stored on a physical storage medium for manipulation by a computer program.  It is contrasted with the program which is a series of instructions used by the central processing unit of a computer to manipulate the data.  In some conputers data and execuatble programs are stored in separate locations.


word: data-based
definition:
data-based

data-based
adj.
relying on observation or experiment.

Syn. -- experimental, observational.


word: datable
definition:
datable

dat"a*ble
(?)
a.
That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.
Datable
The Century.

Syn. -- dateable.


word: Dataria
definition:
Dataria

Da*ta"ri*a
(?)
n.
[LL., fr. L. datum given.]
(R. C. Ch.)
Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor).


word: Datary
definition:
Datary

Da"ta*ry
(?)
n.
[LL. datarius. See Dataria.]
1.
(R. C. Ch.)
An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria.

2.
The office or employment of a datary.


word: Date
definition:
Date

Date
n.
[F. datte, L. dactylus, fr. Gr. _;, prob. not the same word as da`ktylos finger, but of Semitic origin.]
(Bot.)
The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

&hand_; This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome, and inclosing a hard kernel.

Date palm, or Date tree (Bot.), the genus of palms which bear dates, of which common species is Phœnix dactylifera. See Illust. -- Date plum (Bot.), the fruit of several species of Diospyros, including the American and Japanese persimmons, and the European lotus (Diospyros Lotus). -- Date shell, or Date fish (Zool.), a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See Pholas.


word: Date₂
definition:
Date

Date
(?)
n.
[F. date, LL. data, fr. L. datus given, p. p. of dare to give; akin to Gr. _;, OSlaw. dati, Skr. dā.  Cf. Datum, Dose, Dato, Die.]
1.
That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.

And bonds without a date, they say, are void.
Dryden.

2.
The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.

He at once,
Down the long series of eventful time,
So fixed the dates of being, so disposed
To every living soul of every kind
The field of motion, and the hour of rest.
Akenside.

3.
Assigned end; conclusion.
[R.]

What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date.
Pope.

4.
Given or assigned length of life; dyration.
[Obs.]

Good luck prolonged hath thy date.
Spenser.

Through his life's whole date.
Chapman.

To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of a writing.


word: Date₃
definition:
Date

Date
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dating.]
[Cf. F. dater. See 2d Date.]
1.
To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.

2.
To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.

&hand_; We may say dated at or from a place.

The letter is dated at Philadephia.
G. T. Curtis.

You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.
Addison.

In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them.
M. Arnold.


word: Date₄
definition:
Date

Date
v. i.
To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.

The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.
E. Everett.


word: dateable
definition:
dateable

dateable
adj.
that can be given a date.  Opposite of undatable.
dated

Syn. -- datable.

a concrete and dateable happening
C. W. Shumaker


word: dated
definition:
dated

dated
adj.
1.
marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.

Syn. -- outmoded; passé.
2.
bearing a date; as, dated and stamped documents.


word: dateless
definition:
dateless

date"less
a.
1.
Without date; having no fixed time.

2.
not having a social companion for an occasion; as, to be dateless for the prom.


word: Date line
definition:
Date line

Date line
The hypothetical line on the surface of the earth fixed by international or general agreement as a boundary on one side of which the same day shall have a different name and date in the calendar from its name and date on the other side.  Also called International Date Line.

&hand_; Speaking generally, the date line coincides with the meridian 180° from Greenwich. It deflects between north latitudes 80° and 45°, so that all Asia lies to the west, all North America, including the Aleutian Islands, to the east of the line; and between south latitudes 12° and 56°, so that Chatham Island and the Tonga group lie to the west of it. A vessel crossing this line to the westward sets the date forward by one day, as from Sunday to Monday. A vessel crossing the line to the eastward sets the date back by one day, as from Monday to Sunday. Hawaii has the same day name as San Francisco; Manila, the same day name as Australia, and this is one day later than the day of Hawaii. Thus when it is Monday May 1st at San Francisco it is Tuesday may 2d at Manila.


word: Datiscin
definition:
Datiscin

Da*tis"cin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).


word: Dative
definition:
Dative

Da"tive
(?)
a.
[L. dativus appropriate to giving, fr. dare to give. See 2d Date.]
1.
(Gram.)
Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.

2.
(Law)
(a)
In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.
(b)
Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.
(c)
Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.
Burril. Bouvier.

Dative executor, one appointed by the judge of probate, his office answering to that of an administrator.


word: Datolite
definition:
Datolite

Dat"o*lite
(?)
n.
[From. Gr. _; to divide + -lite; in allusion to the granular structure of a massive variety.]
(Min.)
A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals.
[Written also datholite.]


word: Datril
definition:
Datril

Datril
n.
an analgesic derived from acetanolide; also used as an antipyretic; Datril and Tylenol are trademarks of brands of acetaminophen tablets.  See acetaminophen.

Syn. -- acetaminophen, Tylenol.


word: Datum
definition:
Datum

Da"tum
(?)
n.
pl. Data (#).
[L. See 2d Date.]
1.
Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Any writer, therefore, who . . . furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote.
Priestley.

2.
a single piece of information; a fact; especially a piece of information obtained by observation or experiment; -- used mostly in the plural.

3.
pl.
(Math.)
The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.

4.
(Surveying)
a point, line, or level surface used as a reference in measuring elevations.
RHUD

Datum line (Surv.), the horizontal or base line, from which the heights of points are reckoned or measured, as in the plan of a railway, etc.


word: Datura
definition:
Datura

Da*tu"ra
(?)
n.
[NL.; cf. Skr. dhattūra, Per. & Ar. tatūra, Tatūla.]
(Bot.)
A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.

&hand_; The commonest species are the thorn apple (D. stramonium), with a prickly capsule (see Illust. of capsule), white flowers and green stem, and Datura tatula, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers.  Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous.


word: Daub
definition:
Daub

Daub
(d&asuml_;b)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Daubed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Daubing.]
[OE. dauben to smear, OF. dauber to plaster, fr. L. dealbare to whitewash, plaster; de- + albare to whiten, fr. albus white, perh. also confused with W. dwb plaster, dwbio to plaster, Ir. & OGael. dob plaster. See Alb, and cf. Dealbate.]
1.
To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch.
Ex. ii. 3.

2.
To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.

If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colors, the vulgar admire it is an excellent piece.
I. Watts.

A lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over.
Dryden.

3.
To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.

So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue.
Shak.

4.
To flatter excessively or glossy.
[R.]

I can safely say, however, that, without any daubing at all,
I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant.
Smollett.

5.
To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
[R.]

Let him be daubed with lace.
Dryden.


word: Daub₂
definition:
Daub

Daub
(d&asuml_;b)
v. i.
To smear; to play the flatterer.

His conscience . . . will not daub nor flatter.
South.


word: Daub₃
definition:
Daub

Daub
n.
1.
A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or daubed; a smear.

2.
(Paint.)
A picture coarsely executed.

Did you . . . take a look at the grand picture? . . . 'T is a melancholy daub, my lord.
Sterne.


word: Daubentonia
definition:
Daubentonia

Daubentonia
n.
1.
the type genus,  coextensive with the family Daubentoniidae.

Syn. -- genus Daubentonia.


word: Daubentoniidae
definition:
Daubentoniidae

Daubentoniidae
n.
a natural family comprising solely the aye-aye.

Syn. -- family Daubentoniidae.


word: Dauber
definition:
Dauber

Daub"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

2.
(Copperplate Print.)
A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

3.
A low and gross flatterer.

4.
(Zool.)
The mud wasp; the mud dauber.


word: Daubry
definition:
Daubry

Daubery

{ Daub"er*y (?), or Daub"ry (?) }
n.
A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses.

She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is.
Shak.


word: Daubing
definition:
Daubing

Daub"ing
n.
1.
The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed.

2.
A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.

3.
In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing.
Knight.


word: Daubreelite
definition:
Daubreelite

Dau"bree*lite
(?)
n.
[From Daubrée, a French mineralogist.]
(Min.)
A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.


word: Daughter
definition:
Daughter

Daugh"ter
(?)
n.
pl. Daughters (#); obs. pl. Daughtren (#).
[OE. doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d&omacrttir, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. daúhtar,, OSlav. dŭshti, Russ. doche, Lith. duktē, Gr. qyga`thr, Zend. dughdhar, Skr. duhit&rsdot_;; possibly originally, the milker, cf. Skr. duh to milk. √68, 245.]
1.
The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

2.
A female descendant; a woman.

This woman, being a daughter of Abraham.
Luke xiii. 16.

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land.
Gen. xxxiv. 1.

3.
A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.

And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters.
Ruth. i. 11.

4.
A term of address indicating parental interest.

Daughter, be of good comfort.
Matt. ix. 22.

Daughter cell (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See Cell division, under Division.


word: Daughterliness
definition:
Daughterliness

Daugh"ter*li*ness
(?)
n.
The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.


word: Daughterly
definition:
Daughterly

Daugh"ter*ly
a.
Becoming a daughter; filial.

Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him.
Cavendish.


word: Daunt
definition:
Daunt

Daunt
(d&asuml_;nt; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Daunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Daunting.]
[OF. danter, F. dompter to tame, subdue, fr. L. domitare, v. intens. of domare to tame. See Tame.]
1.
To overcome; to conquer.
[Obs.]

2.
To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.

Some presences daunt and discourage us.
Glanvill.


word: daunting
definition:
daunting

daunting
adj.
serving to discourage, dishearten, or intimidate; discouraging; disheartening.  Opposite of encouraging.

Syn. -- intimidating.


word: dauntless
definition:
dauntless

daunt"less
a.
Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.

Dauntless he rose, and to the fight returned.
Dryden.


word: Dauphin
definition:
Dauphin

Dau"phin
(?)
n.
[F. dauphin, prop., a dolphin, from L. delphinus. See Dolphin. The name was given, for some reason unexplained, to Guigo, count of Vienne, in the 12th century, and was borne by succeeding counts of Vienne. In 1349, Dauphiny was bequeathed to Philippe de Valois, king of France, on condition that the heir of the crown should always hold the title of Dauphin de Viennois.]
The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.


word: Dauphine
definition:
Dauphine

Dauphiness

{ Dau"phin*ess (?), or Dau"phine (?) }
n.
The title of the wife of the dauphin.


word: Dauw
definition:
Dauw

Dauw
(?)
n.
[D.]
(Zool.)
The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.


word: Davalliaceae
definition:
Davalliaceae

Davalliaceae
n.
one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Araiostegia; Davallia; Davallodes; Gymnogrammitis; Humata; Leucostegia; Scyphularia; Trogostolon.

Syn. -- family Davalliaceae.


word: Davenport
definition:
Davenport

Dav"en*port
(?)
n.
[From the name of the original maker. Encyc. Dict.]
A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.

A much battered davenport in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing.
A. B. Edwards.


word: Davidic
definition:
Davidic

Da*vid"ic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family.


word: Daviesia
definition:
Daviesia

Daviesia
n.
a genus of Australasian shrubs and subshrubs having small yellow or purple flowers followed by short triangular pods.

Syn. -- genus Daviesia.


word: Davit
definition:
Davit

Dav"it
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. davier forceps, davit, cooper's instrument, G. david davit; all probably from the proper name David.]
(Naut.)
(a)
A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit.
(b)
pl.
Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits.
Totten.


word: Davy Jones
definition:
Davy Jones

Da"vy Jones"
(?)
The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors.

This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.
Smollett.

Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of the ocean. -- Gone to Davy Jones's Locker, dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard.


word: Davyum
definition:
Davyum

Da"vy*um
(?)
n.
[Named after Sir Humphry Davy, the English chemist.]
(Chem.)
A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.


word: Daw
definition:
Daw

Daw
(d&asuml_;)
n.
[OE. dawe; akin to OHG. tāha, MHG. tāhe, tāhele, G. dohle.  Cf. Caddow.]
(Zool.)
A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.

The loud daw, his throat
displaying, draws
The whole assembly of his fellow daws.
Waller.

&hand_; The daw was reckoned as a silly bird, and a daw meant a simpleton. See in Shakespeare: -- “Then thou dwellest with daws too.” (Coriolanus iv. 5, 1. 47.)
Skeat.


word: Dawdle
definition:
Dawdle

Daw"dle
(d&asuml_;"d'l)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Dawdled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling (?).]
[Cf. Daddle.]
To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
Johnson.

We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall.
Thackeray.


word: Dawk₂
definition:
Dawk

Dawk
v. t.
[Prov. E. dauk to cut or pierce with a jerk; cf. OE. dalk a dimple.  Cf. Ir. tolch, tollachd, tolladh, a hole, crevice, toll to bore, pierce, W. tyllu.]
To cut or mark with an incision; to gash.
Moxon.


word: Dawn
definition:
Dawn

Dawn
(d&asuml_;n)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Dawned (d&asuml_;nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dawning.]
[OE. dawnen, dawen, dagen, daien, AS. dagian to become day, to dawn, fr. dæg day; akin to D. dagen, G. tagen, Icel. daga, Dan. dages, Sw. dagas. See Day. √71.]
1.
To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher.
Matt. xxviii. 1.

2.
To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
dawning
Dryden.

When life awakes, and dawns at every line.
Pope.

Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid.
Heber,


word: Dawn₂
definition:
Dawn

Dawn
n.
1.
The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.

And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve.
Thomson.

No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon,
No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day.
Hood.

2.
First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
dawn
Thomson.

These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul.
Pope.


word: dawning
definition:
dawning

dawn"ing
n.
the first light of day; dawn.

Syn. -- dawn, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow.


word: Dawsonite
definition:
Dawsonite

Daw"son*ite
(?)
n.
[Named after J. W. Dawson of Montreal.]
(Min.)
A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.


word: Day
definition:
Day

Day
(dā)
n.
[OE. day, dai, dei, AS. dæg; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. dag, G. tag, Icel. dagr, Goth. dags; cf. Skr. dah (for dhagh ?) to burn. √69.  Cf. Dawn.]
1.
The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine; -- also called daytime.

2.
The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day.  See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.

3.
Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.

4.
A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.

A man who was great among the Hellenes of his day.
Jowett (Thucyd. )

If my debtors do not keep their day, . . . 
I must with patience all the terms attend.
Dryden.

5.
(Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.

The field of Agincourt,
Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.
Shak.

His name struck fear, his conduct won the day.
Roscommon.

&hand_; Day is much used in self-explaining compounds; as, daybreak, daylight, workday, etc.

Anniversary day. See Anniversary, n. -- Astronomical day, a period equal to the mean solar day, but beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day, as that most used by astronomers. -- Born days. See under Born. -- Canicular days. See Dog day. -- Civil day, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight. -- Day blindness. (Med.) See Nyctalopia. -- Day by day, or Day after day, daily; every day; continually; without intermission of a day. See under By. “Day by day we magnify thee.” Book of Common Prayer. -- Days in bank (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench, or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. Burrill. -- Day in court, a day for the appearance of parties in a suit. -- Days of devotion (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. Shipley. -- Days of grace. See Grace. -- Days of obligation (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. Shipley. -- Day owl, (Zool.), an owl that flies by day. See Hawk owl. -- Day rule (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished) allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go beyond the prison limits for a single day. -- Day school, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in distinction from a boarding school. -- Day sight. (Med.) See Hemeralopia. -- Day's work (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon. -- From day to day, as time passes; in the course of time; as, he improves from day to day. -- Jewish day, the time between sunset and sunset. -- Mean solar day (Astron.), the mean or average of all the apparent solar days of the year. -- One day, One of these days, at an uncertain time, usually of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later. “Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.” Shak. -- Only from day to day, without certainty of continuance; temporarily. Bacon. -- Sidereal day, the interval between two successive transits of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time. -- To win the day, to gain the victory, to be successful. S. Butler. -- Week day, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day. -- Working day. (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction from Sundays and legal holidays. (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom, during which a workman, hired at a stated price per day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay.


word: day-and-night
definition:
day-and-night

day-and-night
adj.
same as around-the-clock.

Syn. -- around-the-clock, nonstop, round-the-clock.


word: daybed
definition:
daybed

daybed
n.
1.
an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night.

Syn. -- divan bed.

2.
a long chair; for reclining.

Syn. -- chaise longue, chaise.


word: day boarder
definition:
day boarder

day boarder
n.
a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home.


word: Daybook
definition:
Daybook

Day"book`
(dā"bŏk`)
n.
A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.


word: Day-coal
definition:
Day-coal

Day"-coal`
(dā"k&omacrl`)
n.
(Mining)
The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.


word: Daydream
definition:
Daydream

Day"dream`
(-drēm`)
n.
A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.

Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over.
Thackeray.


word: Dayflower
definition:
Dayflower

Day"flow`er
(-flou`ẽr)
n.
(Bot.)
A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.


word: Dayfly
definition:
Dayfly

Day"fly`
(dā"flī`)
n.
(Zool.)
A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.


word: Day-laborer
definition:
Day-laborer

Day"-la`bor*er
(?)
n.
One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade.
Goldsmith.


word: Daylight
definition:
Daylight

Day"light`
(-līt)
n.
1.
The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

2.
pl.
The eyes.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.


word: daylily
definition:
daylily

day lily

day" lil`y, day"lil`y
(lĭl`&ybreve_;)
(Bot.)
(a)
any plant of a genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers, which often bloom for only one day.
(b)
A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.


word: Daymare
definition:
Daymare

Day"mare`
(dā"mâr`)
n.
[Day + mare incubus.]
(Med.)
A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.
Dunglison.


word: Daysman
definition:
Daysman

Days"man
(dāz"măn)
n.
[From day in the sense of day fixed for trial.]
An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us.
Job ix. 33.


word: dayspring
definition:
dayspring

day"spring`
(dā"sprĭng`)
n.
The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning.
Milton.

The tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us.
Luke i. 78.


word: day-star
definition:
day-star

day"-star`
(dā"stär`)
n.
1.
The morning star; the star which ushers in the day; -- usually the planet Venus, when seen before and just after sunrise.

A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts.
2 Peter i. 19.

2.
The sun, as the orb of day.
[Poetic]

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
Milton.


word: daytime
definition:
daytime

day"time`
(dā"tīm`)
n.
The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night; same as day, 1; as, during the daytime.


word: Daze
definition:
Daze

Daze
(dāz)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dazed (dāzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dazing.]
[OE. dasen, prob. from Icel. dasask to become weary, a reflexive verb; cf. Sw. dasa to lie idle, and OD. daesen to be foolish, insane, daes, dwaes, D. dwaas, foolish, insane, AS. dw&aemacr_;s, dysig, stupid. √71.  Cf. Dizzy, Doze.]
To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.

While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen.
Spenser.

Such souls,
Whose sudden visitations daze the world.
Sir H. Taylor.

He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest.
Dickens.


word: Daze₂
definition:
Daze

Daze
n.
1.
The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.
[Colloq.]

2.
(Mining)
A glittering stone.


word: dazed
definition:
dazed

dazed
adj.
1.
stupefied; conscious but unable to think clearly; -- usually caused by a blow or other shock.

Syn. -- foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous.

2.
stunned from or as if from repeated blows.

Syn. -- punch-drunk, silly, slaphappy.


word: Dazzle
definition:
Dazzle

Daz"zle
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dazzled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dazzling (?).]
[Freq. of daze.]
1.
To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.

Those heavenly shapes
Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze
Insufferably bright.
Milton.

An unreflected light did never yet
Dazzle the vision feminine.
Sir H. Taylor.

2.
To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind.
Dazzled
Shak.


word: Dazzle₂
definition:
Dazzle

Daz"zle
v. i.
1.
To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy.

Ah, friend! to dazzle, let the vain design.
Pope.

2.
To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle.
Bacon.

I dare not trust these eyes;
They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise.
Dryden.


word: DBMS
definition:
DBMS

DBMS
n.
[acronym from DataBase Management System.]
a database management system, a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.

Syn. -- database management system.


word: D-day
definition:
D-day

D-day
n.
1.
(Mil.)
the day designated for the beginning of a planned attack by a military force; in communications the day is often otherwise unspecified for security reasons; as, the day before D-day the troops will move into position.

2.
6 June 1944, the day of the landing in France, by troops allied against the Germans in World War II.

Syn. -- 6 June 1944.

3.
the day for commencement or execution of any elaborate planned activity; -- often used jocosely.
[informal]


word: De-
definition:
De-

De-
(?)
A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis- apart, away; or sometimes to de.  Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.


word: de-access
definition:
de-access

de-access
v. t.
to sell or otherwise give up ownership; -- used mostly of artworks in museums.

Syn. -- sell off.


word: de-accession
definition:
de-accession

deaccession

deaccession, de-accession
v. t.
[de- + accession.  Ca. 1970.]
to sell (artwork); -- used of sales of art by museums.
The word appears to have been coined as a euphemism to avoid the negative connotations of the word “sell”, particularly for works donated by benefactors.  The practise is justified as a means of acquiring funds for purchase of more valuable artworks.


word: Deacon
definition:
Deacon

Dea"con
(dē"k'n)
n.
[OE. diakne, deakne, deken, AS. diacon, deacon, L. diaconus, fr. Gr. dia`konos a servant or minister, a minister of the church; of uncertain origin. In sense 2 prob. confused with dean.]
1.
(Eccl.)
An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.

2.
The chairman of an incorporated company.
[Scot.]


word: Deacon₂
definition:
Deacon

Dea"con
(dē"k'n)
v. t.
1.
To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.
[Colloq. New. Eng.]
Line
v. t.

&hand_; The expression is derived from a former custom in the Congregational churches of New England. It was part of the office of a deacon to read aloud the psalm given out, one line at a time, the congregation singing each line as soon as read; -- called, also, lining out the psalm.

2.
With humorous reference to hypocritical posing: To pack (fruit or vegetables) with the finest specimens on top; to alter slyly the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.
[Colloq., U. S.]


word: Deaconess
definition:
Deaconess

Dea"con*ess
(?)
n.
(Eccl.)
A female deacon
(a)
(Primitive Ch.)
One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons.
(b)
(Ch. of Eng. and Prot. Epis. Ch.)
A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.
(c)
A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.


word: deactivate
definition:
deactivate

de*ac"ti*vate
v. t.
1.
To make inactive; to render ineffective; as, to deactivate a bomb; to deactivate a machine; to deactivate the alarm.
The deactivation of a machine or device is usually a reversible process; switching off an electrical device may be referred to as deactivation.  To render an enzyme or catalyst ineffective is more commonly referred to as to inactivate.

2.
To disband (a military unit, or other group); to discontinue (a group activity); as, to deactivate the regiment; to deactivate the investigation.


word: Dead
definition:
Dead

Dead
(dĕd)
a.
[OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. deád; akin to OS. d&omacrd, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dauðr, Sw. & Dan. död, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb meaning to die. See Die, and cf. Death.]
1.
Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
dead
Shak.

The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger.
Arbuthnot.

Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living.
Shak.

2.
Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.

3.
Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.

4.
Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.

5.
So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.

6.
Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.

7.
Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

8.
Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
dead
C. Reade.

9.
Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.

I had them a dead bargain.
Goldsmith.

10.
Bringing death; deadly.
Shak.

11.
Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
Dead
Eph. ii. 1.

12.
(Paint.)
(a)
Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
(b)
Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.

13.
(Law)
Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.

14.
(Mach.)
Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc.  See Spindle.

15.
(Elec.)
Carrying no current, or producing no useful effect; -- said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and, therefore, is not in use.

16.
Out of play; regarded as out of the game; -- said of a ball, a piece, or a player under certain conditions in cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games.
[In golf], a ball is said to lie dead when it lies so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
Encyc. of Sport.

Dead ahead (Naut.), directly ahead; -- said of a ship or any object, esp. of the wind when blowing from that point toward which a vessel would go. -- Dead angle (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen or defended from behind the parapet. -- Dead block, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car. -- Dead calm (Naut.), no wind at all. -- Dead center, or Dead point (Mach.), either of two points in the orbit of a crank, at which the crank and connecting rod lie a straight line. It corresponds to the end of a stroke; as, A and B are dead centers of the crank mechanism in which the crank C drives, or is driven by, the lever L. -- Dead color (Paint.), a color which has no gloss upon it. -- Dead coloring (Oil paint.), the layer of colors, the preparation for what is to follow. In modern painting this is usually in monochrome. -- Dead door (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery door. -- Dead flat (Naut.), the widest or midship frame. -- Dead freight (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity. Abbott. -- Dead ground (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. -- Dead hand, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person civilly dead. “Serfs held in dead hand.” Morley. See Mortmain. -- Dead head (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor buoy. -- Dead heat, a heat or course between two or more race horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal, so that neither wins. -- Dead horse, an expression applied to a debt for wages paid in advance. [Law] -- Dead language, a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. -- Dead letter. (a) A letter which, after lying for a certain fixed time uncalled for at the post office to which it was directed, is then sent to the general post office to be opened. (b) That which has lost its force or authority; as, the law has become a dead letter. -- Dead-letter office, a department of the general post office where dead letters are examined and disposed of. -- Dead level, a term applied to a flat country. -- Dead lift, (a) a direct lift, without assistance from mechanical advantage, as from levers, pulleys, etc.; hence, an extreme emergency. “(As we say) at a dead lift.” Robynson (More's Utopia). (b) (Weighlifting) The lifting of a weight from the ground, without raising it to the shoulders. -- Dead line (Mil.), a line drawn within or around a military prison, to cross which involves for a prisoner the penalty of being instantly shot. -- Dead load (Civil Engin.), a constant, motionless load, as the weight of a structure, in distinction from a moving load, as a train of cars, or a variable pressure, as of wind. -- Dead march (Mus.), a piece of solemn music intended to be played as an accompaniment to a funeral procession. -- Dead nettle (Bot.), a harmless plant with leaves like a nettle (Lamium album). -- Dead oil (Chem.), the heavy oil obtained in the distillation of coal tar, and containing phenol, naphthalus, etc. -- Dead plate (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part. -- Dead pledge, a mortgage. See Mortgage. -- Dead point. (Mach.) See Dead center. -- Dead reckoning (Naut.), the method of determining the place of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as given by compass, and the distance made on each course as found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the aid of celestial observations. -- Dead rise, the transverse upward curvature of a vessel's floor. -- Dead rising, an elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the ship's length. -- Dead-Sea apple. See under Apple. -- Dead set. See under Set. -- Dead shot. (a) An unerring marksman. (b) A shot certain to be made. -- Dead smooth, the finest cut made; -- said of files. -- Dead wall (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings. -- Dead water (Naut.), the eddy water closing in under a ship's stern when sailing. -- Dead weight. (a) A heavy or oppressive burden. Dryden. (b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo. (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load. Knight. -- Dead wind (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course. -- To be dead, to die. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. Chaucer.


word: Dead₂
definition:
Dead

Dead
(dĕd)
adv.
To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
[Colloq.]

I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
Dickens.

Dead drunk, so drunk as to be unconscious.


word: Dead₃
definition:
Dead

Dead
(dĕd)
n.
1.
The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.

When the drum beat at dead of night.
Campbell.

2.
One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.

And Abraham stood up from before his dead.
Gen. xxiii. 3.


word: Dead₄
definition:
Dead

Dead
v. t.
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
[Obs.]

Heaven's stern decree,
With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me.
Chapman.


word: Dead₅
definition:
Dead

Dead
v. i.
To die; to lose life or force.
[Obs.]

So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadeth straightway.
Bacon.


word: deadbeat
definition:
deadbeat

dead beat

dead` beat" (dĕd`bēt"), dead"beat`
(dĕd"bēt`)
a loafer, sponger, or swindler; especially, one who does not pay his debts.  Same as Beat, n., 7.
[Low, U.S.]


word: Deadbeat
definition:
Deadbeat

Dead"beat`
(?)
a.
(Physics)
Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

Deadbeat escapement. See under Escapement.


word: Deaden
definition:
Deaden

Dead"en
(dĕd"'n)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Deadened (dĕd"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Deadening.]
[From Dead; cf. AS. d_;dan to kill, put to death. See Dead, a.]
1.
To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.

As harper lays his open palm
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
Longfellow.

2.
To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.

3.
To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.

4.
To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

5.
To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen.


word: deadening
definition:
deadening

dead"en*ing
adj.
[p. pr. of verb deaden{3}.]
Rendering less lively, intense, or vigorous; as, the deadening effect of some routine tasks.

2.
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; as, the deadening effect of some routine tasks.

Syn. -- boring, dreary, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome.


word: deadening₂
definition:
deadening

dead"en*ing
n.
The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine).

Syn. -- stultification, impairment.


word: Dead-eye
definition:
Dead-eye

Dead"-eye`
(dĕd"ī`)
n.
(Naut.)
A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye.
Totten.


word: Deadhead
definition:
Deadhead

Dead"head`
(?)
n.
1.
One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc.
[Colloq. U. S.]

2.
(Naut.)
A buoy. See under Dead, a.


word: Dead-hearted
definition:
Dead-hearted

Dead"-heart`ed
(?)
a.
Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
Dead"-heart`ed*ness, n.
Bp. Hall.


word: Deadhouse
definition:
Deadhouse

Dead"house`
(?)
n.
A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.


word: Deadish
definition:
Deadish

Dead"ish
a.
Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.

The lips put on a deadish paleness.
A. Stafford.


word: Deadlatch
definition:
Deadlatch

Dead"latch`
(?)
n.
A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.
Knight.


word: Deadlight
definition:
Deadlight

Dead"light`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm.


word: deadlock
definition:
deadlock

dead"lock`
(?)
n.
1.
A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.

2.
A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action.

Things are at a deadlock.
London Times.

The Board is much more likely to be at a deadlock of two to two.
The Century.


word: deadlocked
definition:
deadlocked

deadlocked
adj.
at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions.

Syn. -- stalemated, blocked.


word: deadly
definition:
deadly

dead"ly
(?)
a.
1.
Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.

2.
Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.

Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly.
Shak.

3.
Subject to death; mortal.
[Obs.]

The image of a deadly man.
Wyclif (Rom. i. 23).

Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.


word: deadly₂
definition:
deadly

dead"ly
adv.
1.
In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death; deathly.
Deadly
Shak.

2.
In a manner to occasion death; mortally.

The groanings of a deadly wounded man.
Ezek. xxx. 24.

3.
In an implacable manner; destructively.

4.
Extremely.
[Obs.]
Deadly
Orrery.
deadly
Arbuthnot.


word: Deadness
definition:
Deadness

Dead"ness
n.
The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.


word: dead-on
definition:
dead-on

dead-on
adj.
precisely accurate and to the point; as, a dead-on feel for characterization.
[prenominal and informal]

Syn. -- precise.

She avoids big scenes . . . preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue.
Peter S. Prescott


word: Dead-pay
definition:
Dead-pay

Dead"-pay`
(?)
n.
Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.

O you commanders,
That, like me, have no dead-pays.
Massinger.


word: Dead-stroke
definition:
Dead-stroke

Dead"-stroke`
(?)
a.
(Mech.)
Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

Dead-stroke hammer (Mach.), a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.


word: Deadwood
definition:
Deadwood

Dead"wood`
(?)
n.
1.
(Naut.)
A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.

2.
Dead trees or branches; useless material.

3.
[fig.]
People who are unproductive; -- used especially in reference to employees.


word: Deaf
definition:
Deaf

Deaf
(dĕf or dēf; 277)
a.
[OE. def, deaf, deef, AS. deáf; akin to D. doof, G. taub, Icel. daufr, Dan. döv, Sw. döf, Goth. daubs, and prob. to E. dumb (the original sense being, dull as applied to one of the senses), and perh. to Gr. tyflo`s (for qyflo`s) blind, ty^fos smoke, vapor, folly, and to G. toben to rage.  Cf. Dumb.]
1.
Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.

Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf.
Shak.

2.
Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.

O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
Shak.

3.
Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.

Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
Dryden.

4.
Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
[R.]

A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
Dryden.

5.
Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught.
Holland.


word: deaf-aid
definition:
deaf-aid

deaf-aid
n.
an electronic device which amplifies sound and is worn to compensate for poor hearing.

Syn. -- hearing aid.


word: deaf-and-dumb
definition:
deaf-and-dumb

deaf and dumb

deaf and dumb, deaf-and-dumb
adj.
both deaf and unable to speak; without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech. Same as Deaf-mute.


word: Deafen
definition:
Deafen

Deaf"en
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Deafened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Deafening.]
[From Deaf.]
1.
To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.

Deafened and stunned with their promiscuous cries.
Addison.

2.
(Arch.)
To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.


word: deafening
definition:
deafening

deaf"en*ing
n.
The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging; sound insulation.


word: deafening₂
definition:
deafening

deaf"en*ing
a.
extremely loud; so loud as to cause deafness; as, a disco with rock music played at a deafening volume.


word: Deaf-mute
definition:
Deaf-mute

Deaf"-mute`
(?)
n.
A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it.
[See Illust. of Dactylology.]

Deaf-mutes are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly.


word: deaf-mutism
definition:
deaf-mutism

deaf-muteness

deaf-muteness, deaf-mutism
n.
the condition of being a deaf-mute; a congenital deafness that results in inability to speak.


word: Deafness
definition:
Deafness

Deaf"ness
(?)
n.
1.
Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.

2.
Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.

Nervous deafness, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.


word: Deal
definition:
Deal

Deal
(dēl)
n.
[OE. del, deel, part, AS. d&aemacr_;l; akin to OS. dēl, D. & Dan. deel, G. theil, teil, Icel. deild, Sw. del, Goth. dails. √65.  Cf. 3d Dole.]
1.
A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour.
Num. xv. 9.

As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power.
M. Arnold.

She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
W. Black.

&hand_; It was formerly limited by some, every, never a, a thousand, etc.; as, some deal; but these are now obsolete or vulgar. In general, we now qualify the word with great or good, and often use it adverbially, by being understood; as, a great deal of time and pains; a great (or good) deal better or worse; that is, better by a great deal, or by a great part or difference.

2.
The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.

The deal, the shuffle, and the cut.
Swift.

3.
Distribution; apportionment.
[Colloq.]

4.
An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.
[Slang]

5.
[Prob. from D. deel a plank, threshing floor. See Thill.]
The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.

&hand_; Whole deal is a general term for planking one and one half inches thick.

6.
Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.

Deal tree, a fir tree. Dr. Prior.


word: Deal₂
definition:
Deal

Deal
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dealt (dĕlt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dealing.]
[OE. delen, AS. d&aemacr_;lan, fr. d&aemacr_;l share; akin to OS. dēlian, D. deelen, G. theilen, teilen, Icel. deila, Sw. dela, Dan. dele, Goth. dailjan. See Deal, n.]
1.
To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry?
Is. lviii. 7.

And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold.
Tickell.

The nightly mallet deals resounding blows.
Gay.

Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt.
Dryden.

2.
Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.


word: Deal₃
definition:
Deal

Deal
v. i.
1.
To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.

2.
To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.

They buy and sell, they deal and traffic.
South.

This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels.
Dr. H. More.

3.
To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.

Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either.
Bacon.

4.
To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.

If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he will acknowledge all this to be true.
Tillotson.

5.
To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.

To deal by, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well by servants. “Such an one deals not fairly by his own mind.” Locke. -- To deal in. (a) To have to do with; to be engaged in; to practice; as, they deal in political matters. (b) To buy and sell; to furnish, as a retailer or wholesaler; as, they deal in fish. -- To deal with. (a) To treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill; to have to do with; specifically, to trade with. “Dealing with witches.” Shak. (b) To reprove solemnly; to expostulate with.

The deacons of his church, who, to use their own phrase, “dealt with him” on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out.
Hawthorne.

Return . . . and I will deal well with thee.
Gen. xxxii. 9.


word: Dealbate
definition:
Dealbate

De*al"bate
(?)
v. t.
[L. dealbatus, p. p. of dealbare. See Daub.]
To whiten.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.


word: Dealbation
definition:
Dealbation

De`al*ba"tion
(?)
n.
[L. dealbatio: cf. F. déalbation.]
Act of bleaching; a whitening.
[Obs.]


word: Dealer
definition:
Dealer

Deal"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.

2.
One who distributes cards to the players.


word: Dealfish
definition:
Dealfish

Deal"fish`
(?)
n.
[From deal a long, narrow plank.]
(Zool.)
A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).


word: Dealing
definition:
Dealing

Deal"ing
n.
The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.

Double dealing, insincere, treacherous dealing; duplicity. -- Plain dealing, fair, sincere, honorable dealing; honest, outspoken expression of opinion.


word: Deambulate
definition:
Deambulate

De*am"bu*late
(?)
v. i.
[L. deambulare, deambulatum; de- + ambulare to walk.]
To walk abroad.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.


word: Deambulation
definition:
Deambulation

De*am`bu*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. deambulatio.]
A walking abroad; a promenading.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Elyot.


word: Deambulatory
definition:
Deambulatory

De*am"bu*la*to*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. LL. deambulator a traveler.]
Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory.
[Obs.]
Deambulatory
Bp. Morton.


word: Deambulatory₂
definition:
Deambulatory

De*am"bu*la*to*ry
n.
[L. deambulatorium.]
A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.


word: Dean
definition:
Dean

Dean
(?)
n.
[OE. dene, deene, OF. deien, dien, F. doyen, eldest of a corporation, a dean, L. decanus the chief of ten, one set over ten persons, e. g., over soldiers or over monks, from decem ten. See Ten, and cf. Decemvir.]
1.
A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.

Dean of cathedral church, the chief officer of a chapter; he is an ecclesiastical magistrate next in degree to bishop, and has immediate charge of the cathedral and its estates. -- Dean of peculiars, a dean holding a preferment which has some peculiarity relative to spiritual superiors and the jurisdiction exercised in it. [Eng.] -- Rural dean, one having, under the bishop, the especial care and inspection of the clergy within certain parishes or districts of the diocese.

2.
The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
Shipley.

3.
The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.

4.
A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
[U.S.]

5.
The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.

Cardinal dean, the senior cardinal bishop of the college of cardinals at Rome. Shipley. -- Dean and chapter, the legal corporation and governing body of a cathedral. It consists of the dean, who is chief, and his canons or prebendaries. -- Dean of arches, the lay judge of the court of arches. -- Dean of faculty, the president of an incorporation or barristers; specifically, the president of the incorporation of advocates in Edinburgh. -- Dean of guild, a magistrate of Scotch burghs, formerly, and still, in some burghs, chosen by the Guildry, whose duty is to superintend the erection of new buildings and see that they conform to the law. -- Dean of a monastery, Monastic dean, a monastic superior over ten monks. -- Dean's stall. See Decanal stall, under Decanal.


word: Deanery
definition:
Deanery

Dean"er*y
(?)
n.
pl. Deaneries (_;).
1.
The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.

2.
The residence of a dean.
Shak.

3.
The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.

Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes.
Blackstone.


word: Dear
definition:
Dear

Dear
(dēr)
a.
[Compar. Dearer (dēr"ẽr); superl. Dearest (dēr"ĕst).]
[OE. dere, deore, AS. deóre; akin to OS. diuri, D. duur, OHG. tiuri, G. theuer, teuer, Icel. d&ymacr_;rr, Dan. & Sw. dyr.  Cf. Darling, Dearth.]
1.
Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.

The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.
Shak.

2.
Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.

3.
Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.
dear
Shak.

Neither count I my life dear unto myself.
Acts xx. 24.

And the last joy was dearer than the rest.
Pope.

Dear as remember'd kisses after death.
Tennyson.

4.
Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.
(a)
Of agreeable things and interests.

[I'll] leave you to attend him: some dear cause
Will in concealment wrap me up awhile.
Shak.

His dearest wish was to escape from the bustle and glitter of Whitehall.
Macaulay.
In our dear peril.
Shak.

Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Or ever I had seen that day.
Shak.


word: Dearly
definition:
Dearly

Dear"ly
adv.
1.
In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.

2.
At a high rate or price; grievously.

He buys his mistress dearly with his throne.
Dryden.

3.
Exquisitely.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Dearn
definition:
Dearn

Dearn
(?)
a.
[AS. derne, dyrne, dierne, hidden, secret.  Cf. Derne.]
Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Dearn"ly, adv. [Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Dearness
definition:
Dearness

Dear"ness
(?)
n.
1.
The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.

The dearness of corn.
Swift.

2.
Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.

The dearness of friendship.
Bacon.


word: Dearth
definition:
Dearth

Dearth
(?)
n.
[OE. derthe, fr. dere. See Dear.]
Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt.
Acts vii. 11.

He with her press'd, she faint with dearth.
Shak.

Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination.
Dryden.


word: Death
definition:
Death

Death
(dĕth)
n.
[OE. deth, deað, AS. deáð; akin to OS. d&omacrð, D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dauði, Sw. & Dan. död, Goth. dauþus; from a verb meaning to die. See Die, v. i., and cf. Dead.]
1.
The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

&hand_; Local death is going on at all times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval.  Huxley.

2.
Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant.
J. Peile.

3.
Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

A death that I abhor.
Shak.

Let me die the death of the righteous.
Num. xxiii. 10.

4.
Cause of loss of life.

Swiftly flies the feathered death.
Dryden.

He caught his death the last county sessions.
Addison.

5.
Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

Death! great proprietor of all.
Young.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death.
Rev. vi. 8.

6.
Danger of death.
deaths
2 Cor. xi. 23.

7.
Murder; murderous character.

Not to suffer a man of death to live.
Bacon.

8.
(Theol.)
Loss of spiritual life.

To be carnally minded is death.
Rom. viii. 6.

9.
Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines.
Atterbury.

And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death.
Judg. xvi. 16.

&hand_; Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc.

Black death. See Black death, in the Vocabulary. -- Civil death, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. Blackstone. -- Death adder. (Zool.) (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa (Acanthophis tortor); -- so called from the virulence of its venom. (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapidæ, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica. -- Death bell, a bell that announces a death.
[1913 Webster]
The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle.
-- Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. -- Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. -- Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death.
[1913 Webster]
And round about in reel and rout,
The death fires danced at night. Coleridge.
-- Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life. -- Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] “Lay lingering out a five years' death in life.” Tennyson. -- Death rate, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population.
[1913 Webster]
At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. Darwin.
-- Death rattle, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. -- Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. -- Death stroke, a stroke causing death. -- Death throe, the spasm of death. -- Death token, the signal of approaching death. -- Death warrant. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. -- Death wound. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. -- Spiritual death (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. -- The gates of death, the grave.
[1913 Webster]
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Job xxxviii. 17.
-- The second death, condemnation to eternal separation from God. Rev. ii. 11. -- To be the death of, to be the cause of death to; to make die. “It was one who should be the death of both his parents.” Milton.


word: Deathbed
definition:
Deathbed

Death"bed
(?)
n.
The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.

That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described.
Thackeray.


word: Deathbird
definition:
Deathbird

Death"bird`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.


word: Deathblow
definition:
Deathblow

Death"blow`
(?)
n.
A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.

The deathblow of my hope.
Byron.


word: Deathful
definition:
Deathful

Death"ful
(?)
a.
1.
Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.

These eyes behold
The deathful scene.
Pope.

2.
Liable to undergo death; mortal.

The deathless gods and deathful earth.
Chapman.


word: death knell
definition:
death knell

death" knell`
n.
1.
A stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death; a knell{1}.

2.
Hence:
(figuratively)
A sign or harbinger of the end, death, or passing away of anything.


word: Deathless
definition:
Deathless

Death"less
a.
Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.


word: Deathlike
definition:
Deathlike

Death"like`
(?)
a.
1.
Resembling death.

A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose.
Pope.

2.
Deadly.
[Obs.]
Deathlike
Shak.


word: Death's-head
definition:
Death's-head

Death's"-head`
(?)
n.
A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.

I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth.
Shak.

Death's-head moth (Zool.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; -- called also death's-head sphinx.


word: Deathwatch
definition:
Deathwatch

Death"watch`
(?; 224)
n.
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.
(b)
A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.

She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches.
Addison.

I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat.
Tennyson.

2.
The guard set over a criminal before his execution.


word: Deaurate
definition:
Deaurate

De*au"rate
(?)
a.
[L. deauratus, p. p. of deaurare to gild; de- + aurum gold.]
Gilded.
[Obs.]


word: Debacchate
definition:
Debacchate

De*bac"chate
(?)
v. i.
[L. debacchatus, p. p. of debacchari to rage; de- + bacchari to rage like a bacchant.]
To rave as a bacchanal.
[R.]
Cockeram.


word: Debacle
definition:
Debacle

De*ba"cle
(?)
n.
[F. débâcle, fr. débâcler to unbar, break loose; pref. dé- (prob. = L. dis) + bâcler to bolt, fr. L. baculum a stick.]
1.
(Geol.)
A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other débris.

2.
A sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst.

3.
a complete and ludicrous failure; a rout, as of an army; a great disaster; a fiasco.


word: Debar
definition:
Debar

De*bar"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Debarred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Debarring.]
[Pref. de- + bar.]
To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.

Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed
Labor, as to debar us when we need
Refreshment.
Milton.

Their wages were so low as to debar them, not only from the comforts but from the common decencies of civilized life.
Buckle.


word: Debark
definition:
Debark

De"bark"
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Debarked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Debarking.]
[F. débarquer; pref. dé- (L. dis-) + barque. See Bark the vessel, and cf. Disbark.]
To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.


word: Debarkation
definition:
Debarkation

De`bar*ka"tion
(?)
n.
Disembarkation.

The debarkation, therefore, had to take place by small steamers.
U. S. Grant.


word: Debarrass
definition:
Debarrass

De*bar"rass
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. F. débarrasser. See Embarrass.]
To disembarrass; to relieve.
[R.]


word: Debase
definition:
Debase

De*base"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Debased (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Debasing.]
[Pref. de- + base. See Base, a., and cf. Abase.]
To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.

The coin which was adulterated and debased.
Hale.

It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes.
Hooker.

And to debase the sons, exalts the sires.
Pope.


word: Debatable
definition:
Debatable

De*bat"a*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. OF. debatable. See Debate.]
Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.

The Debatable Land or or Ground, a tract of land between the Esk and the Sark, claimed by both England and Scotland; the Batable Ground.


word: Debate
definition:
Debate

De*bate"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Debated; p. pr. & vb. n. Debating.]
[OF. debatre, F. débattre; L. de + batuere to beat. See Batter, v. t., and cf. Abate.]
1.
To engage in combat for; to strive for.

Volunteers . . . thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.
Prescott.

2.
To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.

A wise council . . . that did debate this business.
Shak.

Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself.
Prov. xxv. 9.


word: Debate₂
definition:
Debate

De*bate"
v. i.
1.
To engage in strife or combat; to fight.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Well could he tourney and in lists debate.
Spenser.

2.
To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.

He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends.
Tatler.


word: Debate₃
definition:
Debate

De*bate"
n.
[F. débat, fr. débattre. See Debate, v. t.]
1.
A fight or fighting; contest; strife.
[Archaic]

On the day of the Trinity next ensuing was a great debate . . . and in that murder there were slain . . . fourscore.
R. of Gloucester.

But question fierce and proud reply
Gave signal soon of dire debate.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.

Heard, noted, answer'd, as in full debate.
Pope.

3.
Subject of discussion.
[R.]

Statutes and edicts concerning this debate.
Milton.


word: Debatement
definition:
Debatement

De*bate"ment
(?)
n.
[Cf. OF. debatement a beating.]
Controversy; deliberation; debate.
[R.]

A serious question and debatement with myself.
Milton.


word: Debater
definition:
Debater

De*bat"er
(?)
n.
One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.

Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters.
Shak.


word: Debating
definition:
Debating

De*bat"ing
n.
The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.

Debating society or Debating club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.


word: Debauch
definition:
Debauch

De*bauch"
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Debauched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Debauching.]
[F. débaucher, prob. originally, to entice away from the workshop; pref. dé- (L. dis- or de) + OF. bauche, bauge, hut, cf. F. bauge lair of a wild boar; prob. from G. or Icel., cf. Icel. bālkr. See Balk, n.]
To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.

Learning not debauched by ambition.
Burke.

A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin.
South.

Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes.
Cowley.


word: Debauch₂
definition:
Debauch

De*bauch"
n.
[Cf. F. débauche.]
1.
Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.

The first physicians by debauch were made.
Dryden.

2.
An act or occasion of debauchery.

Silenus, from his night's debauch,
Fatigued and sick.
Cowley.


word: Debauchee
definition:
Debauchee

Deb`au*chee"
(?)
n.
[F. débauché, n., properly p. p. of débaucher. See Debauch, v. t.]
One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.


word: Debaucher
definition:
Debaucher

De*bauch"er
(?)
n.
One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.


word: Debauchery
definition:
Debauchery

De*bauch"er*y
(?)
n.
pl. Debaucheries (_;).
1.
Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.

The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army.
Burke.

2.
Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.

Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance.
Sprat.


word: Debeige
definition:
Debeige

De*beige"
(?)
n.
[F. de of + beige the natural color of wool.]
A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods.
[Written also debage.]


word: Debellate
definition:
Debellate

De*bel"late
(?)
v. t.
[L. debellatus, p. p. of debellare to subdue; de- + bellum war.]
To subdue; to conquer in war.
[Obs.]
Speed.


word: De bene esse
definition:
De bene esse

De be"ne es"se
(?)
[L.]
(Law)
Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time; conditionally; provisionally.
Abbott.


word: Debenture
definition:
Debenture

De*ben"ture
(?; 135)
n.
[L. debentur they are due, fr. debere to owe; cf. F. debentur. So called because these receipts began with the words Debentur mihi.]
1.
A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.

2.
A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.
Burrill.

It is applied in England to deeds of mortgage given by railway companies for borrowed money; also to municipal and other bonds and securities for money loaned.

3.
Any of various instruments issued, esp. by corporations, as evidences of debt. Such instruments (often called debenture bonds) are generally, through not necessarily, under seal, and are usually secured by a mortgage or other charge upon property; they may be registered or unregistered. A debenture secured by a mortgage on specific property is called a mortgage debenture; one secured by a floating charge (which see), a floating debenture; one not secured by any charge a naked debenture. In general the term debenture in British usage designates any security issued by companies other than their shares, including, therefore, what are in the United States commonly called bonds. When used in the United States debenture generally designates an instrument secured by a floating charge junior to other charges secured by fixed mortgages, or, specif., one of a series of securities secured by a group of securities held in trust for the benefit of the debenture holders.


word: Debenture stock
definition:
Debenture stock

Debenture stock
(Finance)
The debt or series of debts, collectively, represented by a series of debentures; a debt secured by a trust deed of property for the benefit of the holders of shares in the debt or of a series of debentures. By the terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the case of railway debentures, they cannot demand payment of the principal, and the debtor company cannot redeem the stock, except by authority of an act of Parliament.
[Eng.]


word: Debilitant
definition:
Debilitant

De*bil"i*tant
(?)
a.
[L. debilitants, p. pr.]
(Med.)
Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug.


word: Debilitate
definition:
Debilitate

De*bil"i*tate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Debilitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Debilitating.]
[L. debilitatus, p. p. of debilitare to debilitate, fr. debilis. See Debility.]
To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.

Various ails debilitate the mind.
Jenyns.

The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort.
Sir W. Scott.


word: debilitated
definition:
debilitated

debilitated
adj.
1.
lacking strength or vigor; weakened.

Syn. -- adynamic, asthenic, enervated.

2.
weakened due to illness.

Syn. -- enfeebled, infirm, seedy.


word: debilitative
definition:
debilitative

debilitative
adj.
causing weakness.
debilitating (vs. invigorating)

Syn. -- enervating, enfeebling, weakening.


word: Debilitation
definition:
Debilitation

De*bil`i*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. debilitatio: cf. F. débilitation.]
The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.


word: Debility
definition:
Debility

De*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. debilitas, fr. debilis weak, prob. fr. de- + habilis able: cf. F. débilité. See Able, a.]
The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.

The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death.
Arbuthnot.


word: Debit
definition:
Debit

Deb"it
(?)
n.
[L. debitum what is due, debt, from debere to owe: cf. F. débit. See Debt.]
A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.


word: Debit₂
definition:
Debit

Deb"it
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Debited; p. pr. & vb. n. Debiting.]
1.
To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.

2.
(Bookkeeping)
To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold.


word: Debit card
definition:
Debit card

Deb"it card`
(?)
n.
[See debit.]
a small usually plastic card with a magnetic coded number, similar to a credit card, which is used to pay for purchases by the electronic deduction of a sum of money (a debit) directly from the card-holder's bank account.  Such cards do not require the establishment of a credit line, and such transactions do not incur any interest payments.


word: Deblai
definition:
Deblai

Dé`blai"
(?)
n.
[F.]
(Fort.)
The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.


word: Debonair
definition:
Debonair

Deb`o*nair"
(?)
a.
[OE. debonere, OF. de bon aire, debonaire, of good descent or lineage, excellent, debonair, F. débonnaire debonair; de of (L. de) + bon good (L. bonus) + aire. See Air, and Bounty, and cf. Bonair.]
Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.

Was never prince so meek and debonair.
Spenser.


word: Debonairity
definition:
Debonairity

Deb`o*nair"i*ty
(?)
n.
[OF. debonaireté, F. débonnaireté.]
Debonairness.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Debonairness
definition:
Debonairness

Deb`o*nair"ness
n.
The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.
Sterne.


word: Debouch
definition:
Debouch

De*bouch"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Debouched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Debouching.]
[F. déboucher; pref. dé- (L. dis- or de) + boucher to stop up, fr. bouche mouth, fr. L. bucca the cheek.  Cf. Disembogue.]
To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.

Battalions debouching on the plain.
Prescott.

2.
(Geog.)
To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain.


