Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
cuban |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to Cuba or its inhabitants., A native or an inhabitant of Cuba. |
cubby |
noun |
Alt. of Cubbyhole |
cubed |
imp. & past participle |
of Cube |
cubeb |
noun |
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. |
cubic |
adjective |
Alt. of Cubical, A curve of the third degree. |
cubit |
noun |
The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist., A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. |
cuddy |
noun |
An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer., A blockhead; a lout., A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc., A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel., The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius). |
cuffy |
noun |
A name for a negro. |
cufic |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic language. |
cuish |
noun |
Defensive armor for the thighs. |
culex |
noun |
A genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and mosquito. |
culls |
verb t. |
Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out., Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked. |
cully |
noun |
A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull., To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive. |
culpa |
noun |
Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart. |
culpe |
noun |
Blameworthiness. |
cumic |
adjective |
See Cuming. |
cumin |
noun |
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. |
cupel |
noun |
A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime)., To refine by means of a cupel. |
cupid |
n . |
The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow. |
curat |
noun |
A cuirass or breastplate. |
curch |
noun |
See Courche. |
curdy |
adjective |
Like curd; full of curd; coagulated. |
cured |
imp. & past participle |
of Cure |
curer |
noun |
One who cures; a healer; a physician., One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc. |
curle |
plural |
of Curia |
curia |
noun |
One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus., The place of assembly of one of these divisions., The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house., The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household., Any court of justice., The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; — called also curia Romana. |
curio |
noun |
Any curiosity or article of virtu. |
curly |
adjective |
Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled. |
curry |
verb t. |
To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; — said of leather., 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., To beat or bruise; to drub; — said of persons., A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices., A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry., To flavor or cook with curry. |
curst |
|
of Curse, imp. & p. p. of Curse., Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling. |
curse |
verb t. |
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate., 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., To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear., An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction., Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation., The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment. |
curve |
adjective |
Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface., A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal., A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line., 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., To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right. |
cutch |
noun |
See Catechu., See Cultch. |
cutin |
noun |
The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork. |
cutis |
noun |
See Dermis. |
cutty |
noun |
A short spoon., A short tobacco pipe., A light or unchaste woman. |