| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| cubbing | present participle & vb. noun | of Cub |
| cubebic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs). |
| cubhood | noun | The state of being a cub. |
| cubical | adjective | Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube., Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization. |
| cubicle | noun | A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory. |
| cubital | adjective | Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle., Of the length of a cubit., A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand. |
| cubited | adjective | Having the measure of a cubit. |
| cubless | adjective | Having no cubs. |
| cuckold | noun | A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress., A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter)., The cowfish., To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress. |
| cucumis | noun | A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds. |
| cudbear | noun | 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., A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained. |
| cuddled | imp. & past participle | of Cuddle |
| cudweed | noun | 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. |
| cuffing | present participle & vb. noun | of Cuff |
| cuinage | noun | The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall. |
| cuirass | noun | A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle, The breastplate taken by itself., An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass. |
| cuisine | noun | The kitchen or cooking department., Manner or style of cooking. |
| culasse | noun | The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond. |
| culling | present participle & vb. noun | of Cull, The act of one who culls., Anything separated or selected from a mass. |
| cullion | noun | A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion. |
| cullies | plural | of Cully |
| culprit | past participle | One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge., One quilty of a fault; a criminal. |
| culrage | noun | Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper). |
| culture | noun | The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil., 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., 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., To cultivate; to educate. |
| culvert | noun | A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge. |
| cumacea | noun pl. | An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size. |
| cumbent | adjective | Lying down; recumbent. |
| cumfrey | noun | See Comfrey. |
| cuminic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid. |
| cuminil | n . | A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway. |
| cuminol | noun | A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; — called also cuminic aldehyde. |
| cumshaw | noun | A present or bonus; — originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton., To give or make a present to. |
| cumulus | noun | One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud. |
| cuneate | adjective | Alt. of Cuneated |
| cunette | noun | A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; — called also cuvette. |
| cunning | adjective | Knowing; skillful; dexterous., Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work., Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful., Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy., Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity., The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft. |
| cupping | present participle & vb. noun | of Cup, 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. |
| cupfuls | plural | of Cupful |
| cupolas | plural | of Cupola |
| cuprite | noun | The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals. |
| cuproid | noun | A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles. |
| cuprous | adjective | 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. |
| curable | verb t. | Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. |
| curacao | noun | Alt. of Curacoa |
| curacoa | noun | A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; — first made at the island of Curaccao. |
| curator | noun | One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper., 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. |
| curbing | present participle & vb. noun | of Curb |
| curcuma | noun | A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa). |
| curding | present participle & vb. noun | of Curd |
| curdled | imp. & past participle | of Curdle |
| cureall | noun | A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea. |
| curette | noun | 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. |
| curioso | noun | A virtuoso. |
| curious | adjective | Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact., Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill., Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; — sometimes with after or of., Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. |
| curling | present participle & vb. noun | of Curl, 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., A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark. |
| currant | noun | A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; — used in cookery., The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant., A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. |
| current | adjective | Running or moving rapidly., Now passing, as time; as, the current month., 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., Commonly estimated or acknowledged., Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable., 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., General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. |
| curried | noun | Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared., Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc., of Curry |
| currier | noun | One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned. |
| currish | adjective | Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. |
| cursing | present participle & vb. noun | of Curse |
| curship | noun | The state of being a cur; one who is currish. |
| cursive | adjective | Running; flowing., A character used in cursive writing., A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; — opposed to uncial. |
| cursory | adjective | Running about; not stationary., Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. |
| curtail | verb t. | To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce., The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc. |
| curtain | noun | 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., That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion., That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc., A flag; an ensign; — in contempt., To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. |
| curtana | noun | 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. |
| curtate | adjective | 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. |
| curtein | noun | Same as Curtana. |
| curtesy | noun | 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. |
| curvant | present participle | Bowed; bent; curved. |
| curvate | adjective | Alt. of Curvated |
| curving | present participle & vb. noun | of Curve |
| curvity | noun | The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness. |
| cushion | noun | A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad., Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use, a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf, a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston, the elastic edge of a billiard table., A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; — called also cushion dance., To seat or place on, or as on a cushion., To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise., To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion. |
| cushite | noun | A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah. |
| cusping | present participle & vb. noun | of Cusp |
| custard | noun | A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. |
| custode | noun | See Custodian. |
| custody | noun | A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security., Judicial or penal safe-keeping., State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment. |
| custrel | noun | An armor-bearer to a knight., See Costrel. |
| cutting | present participle & vb. noun | of Cut, The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc., 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., Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool., Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind., Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply. |
| cutaway | adjective | Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away. |
| cuticle | noun | The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin., The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems., A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid. |
| cutlass | noun | A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax. |
| cutlery | noun | The business of a cutler., Edged or cutting instruments, collectively. |
| cutling | noun | The art of making edged tools or cutlery. |
| cut-off | noun | That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road., 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., Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout. |
| cut-out | noun | A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit., A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit. |
| cutwork | noun | 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. |
| cutworm | noun | 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 larvae of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths. |
| cuvette | noun | A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table., A cunette., A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer. |