CUBICAL. a. [from Cabe.] 1. Having the CUBICK. form or properties of a cube. Bentley. 2. It is applied to numbers. The number of four multiplied into itfelf, produceth the fquare number of fixteen ; and that again multiplied by four produceth the cubick number of fixty four. Hale. CUBICALNESS. f. [from cubical.] The state or quality of being cubical. CUBICULARY. a. [cubiculum, Lat.] Fitted for the posture of lying down. Brewn. CUBIFORM. a. [from cube and form.] Of the shape of a cube. CUBIT. . [from cubitus, Lat.] A measure in ufe among the ancients; which was originally the distance from the elbow, bending inwards, to the extremity of the middle finger. Holder. CUBITAL. a. [cubitalis, Lat.] Containing only the length of a cubit. Brown. CUCKINGSTOOL. S. An engine invented for the punishment of fcolds and unquiet women. Cowell, Hudibras. CUCKOLD. f. [cocu, Fr.] One that is married to an adultrefs. Shakesp. 4. To CUCKOLD. v. a. 1. To rob a man of his wife's fidelity. Shakesp. 2. To wrong a hufband by unchastity. Dryden CUCKOLDLY. . [from cuckold.] Having the qualities of a cuckold; poor; mean. Spenfer. CUCKOLDMAKER. f. (cuckold and make.] One that makes a practice of corrupting wives. Dryden. CUCKOLDOM. f. [from cuckold.] 1. The act of adultery Dryden. 2. The state of a cucCon. Aroktonot. CUCKOO. J. [ewecer, Welsh.] 1. A bird which appears in the spring; and is faid to fuck the eggs of other birds, and lay her own to be hatched in their place. Sidney, Thomfon. 2. A name of contempt. Shakefp. CUCKOO-BUD. f. The name of a CUCKOO FLOWER. Hower. Shakelp. CUCKOO-SPITTLE. S. Woodfeare, that fpumous dew or exudation, found upon plants, about the latter end of May. Brown. CUCULLATE. a. [cucullatus, hooded, CUCULLATED. Lat.] 1. Hooded; covered as with a hood or cowl. 2. Having the refemblance or shape of a hood. Brown. CUCUMBER. J. [cucumis, Lat.] The name of a plant, and fruit of that plant. Miller. CUCURBITACEOUS. a. (from cucurbite, Lat. a gourd.] Cucurbitaceous plants are those which refemble a gourd; fuch as the pumpion and melon. Chambers. CUCURBITE.. [cucurbita, Lat.] A chymical veffel, commonly called a body. Boyle. CUD. . [cud, Saxon] That food which is repofited in the first stomach, in order to rumination. Sidney. CUDDEN.. A clown ; a stupid low dolt. CUDDY. ́ Dryden. To CUDDLE. v. n. To lie clofe; to fquat. Prior. CUDGEL. S. [kudse, Dutch.] 1. A stick to ftrike with. Locke. 2. To cross the CUDGELS, is to yield. L'Efirange. To CU DGEL. v. a. [from the noun] To beat with a stick. South. CUDGEL-PROOF. a. Able to refift a stick. Hudibras. CUDWEED.. [from cud and weed.] A plant. Miller. CUE. J. (queue, a tail, Fr.] 1. The tail or end of any thing. 2. The laft word of a speech. Shakefp. 3. A hint; an intimation; a fhort direction. Swift. 4. The part that any manis to play in his turn. Rymer. 5. Humour; temper of mind. CUERPO. J. [Spanish.] To be in cuerpo, is to be without the upper coat. Hudibras. CUFF.J. [zuffa, a battle, Italian.] A blow with the fift; a box; a stroke. Shakejp. To CUFF. v. n. [from the noun.] To fight; to fcuffle. Dryden. To CUFF. v. a. 1. To ftrike with the fift. Shakefp. 2. To ftrike with talons. Otway. CUFF.J. (coeffe, Fr] Part of the fleeve. Arbuth. CUIRASS. J. [cuiraffe, Fr.) A breastplate. Dryden. CUIRA'SSIER. S. [from cuirass.] A man at arms; a foldier in armour. Milton. CUISH. [cuiffe, Fr.] The armour that covers the thighs. Dryden. CULDEES . [celidei, Lat.] Monks in Scotland. CULERAGE. J. Arfe-fmart. CULINARY. a. [culina, Lat.] Relating to the kitchen. Newton. To CULL. v. a. [cueillir, Fr.] To select from others. Hooker, Pope. CULLER. f. [from cull.] One who picks or chooses. CULLION. S. [coglione, a fool, Ital.] A fcoundrel. Shakesp. CU'LLIONLY. a. [from cullion.] Having the qualities of a cullion, mean; base. Shakesp. CULLY. f. [coglione, Ital. a fool.] A man deceived or impofed upon. Arbuthnot. To CULLY. v. a. [from the noun.] To befool; to cheat; to impofe upon. CULMIFEROUS. a. [culmus and fero, Lat.] Culmiferous plants are fuch as have a smooth jointed ftalk, and their feeds are contained in chaffy husks. Quincy. To CULMINATE. v. n. [culmen, Lat.] To be vertical; to be in the meridian. Milton. CULMINATION. . [from culminate] The tranfit of a planet through the meridian. CULPABILITY. S. [from culpable.] Blameableness. CULPABLE. a. [culpabilis, Lat.] 1. Criminal. Shakefp. 2. Blameable; blame worthy Hooker. CULPABLENESS. f. [from culpable.] Blame; guilt. CULPABLY.adv. [from culpable ] Blameably; criminally. Taylor. CULPRIT. . A man arraigned before his judge. Prior. CULTER. f. [culter, Lat.] The iron of the plow perpendicular to the thear. Shakesp. To To CULTIVATE. v. a. [cultiver, Fr.] 1. To forward or improve the product of the earth, I by manual industry. Felton. 2. To improve; to meliorate. Waller. CULTIVATION. /. [from cultivate.] 1. The art or practice of improving foil, and forwarding or meliorating vegetables. 2 Improve-ment in general; melioration South. CULTIVATOR. J. [from cultivate.] One who improves, promotes, or meliorates Boyle. CULTURE. [cultura, Lat.] 1. The act of cultivation. Woodward 2. Art of improvement and melioration. Tatler. To CULTURE. v. a [from the noun.] To cultivate; to till. Themfon. CULVER.. [culfne, Sax.] A pigeon. Spenfer. CULVERIN.. (coleuvrine, Fr.] A fpecies of ordnance. Waller. CULVERKEY. J. A fpecies of flower. Walton ToCUMBER.v.a. [komberen,to disturb, Dutch.] 1. To embarrafs; to entangle; to obftru&t. Locke. 2. To crowd or load with fomething ufelefs. Locke. 3. To involve in difficulties and dangers, to diftrefs. Shakefp. 4. To bufy: to diftract with multiplicity of care. Luke. 5. To be troublesome in any place. Grew. CUMBER. f. [komber, Dutch.] Vexation; em-1 barraffment. Raleigh. CUMBERSOME. a. [from cumber.] 1. Troublefome; vexatious. Sidney. 2. Burthenfome: embarraffing. Arbuthnot. 3. Unweildy; unmanageable. Newton. CUMBERSOMELY, adv. [from cumbersome.] In a trouble fome manner. CUMBERSOMENESS. /. [from cumbersome.] Encumbrance; hindrance; obftruction. CUMBRANCE. . [from cumber.] Burthen; hindrance; impediment. Milton. CUMBROUS. a [from cumber.] 1. Troublefome; vexatious; disturbing. Spenfer. 2. Oppreffive; burthenfome. Swift. 3. Jumbled; obftructing each other. Milton. CUMFREY. J. A medicinal plant. CUMIN. [cuminum, Lat.] A plant. To CUMULATE. v. a. [cumulo, Lat.] To heap together. Woodward. CUMULATION. The act of heaping together. CUNCTATION. S. [cunctatic, Lat.] Delay; procrastination; dilatorinefs. Hayward. CUNCTATOR. J. [Lat] One given to delay a lingerer. Hammond. To CUND. v. n. [konnen, Dutch.] To give notice. Carew. CUNNING. . [cunninge, Sax.] 1. Artifice deceit; flynefs; fleight; fraudulent dexterity. Bacon. 2 Art; fkill: knowledge. CUNNINGLY. adv. [from cunning] Artfully; flyly; craftily. Swift. CU'NEAL. a. [cuneus, Lat] Relating to al wedge; having the form of a wedge. CUNEATED. a. [cuneus, Lat.] Made in form of a wedge. ,Lat.] CUNEIFORM. a. [from cuneus and forma, L Having the form of a wedge. CU'NNER. S. A kind of fish less than an oyster, that sticks close to the rocks. Ainsworth. CUNNING.4 [from connan, Sax.] 1. Skilful; knowing; learned. Shakefp. Prior. 2. Performed with skill; artiul. Spenfer. 3. Artfully deceitful; trickifh; fubtle; crafty; fubdolous. South. 4. Acted with fubtilty. Sidney. CUNNINGMAN. [cunning and man.] A man who pretends to tell fortunes, or teach how to recover ftolen goods. Hudibras. CUNNINGNESS..[from cunning.] Deceitfulnefs; flynefs. CUP. [cup, Sax.] 1. A small vessel to drink in. Genefis. 2. The liquor contained in the cup; the draught. Waller. 3. Social entertainment; merry bout. Knolles, Ben. Johnson. 4. Any thing hollow like a cup; as, the hufk of an acorn. Woodward. 5. CUP and Can. Familiar companions. Swift. To CUP. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To fupply with cups. Shakesp. 2. To fix a glass-bell or cucurbite upon the skin, to draw the blood in -fcarification. Pope. CUPBEARER. J. 1. An officer of the king's houfhold. Wotton. 2. An attendant to give wine to a feast. Notes on the Odyffey. CUPBOARD. S. [cup and bond, Sax.] A case with fhelves, in which victuals or earthen ware are placed. Bacon. To CUPBOARD. v. a. [from the noun.] To treasure; to hoard up. Shakelp. CUPIDITY. f. [cupiditas, Lat.] Concupifcence; unlawful longing. CU POLA. f. [Ital.] A dome; the hemifpherical fummit of a building. Addison. CUPPEL. See COPPEL. CUPPER [from cup.] One who applies cupping-glaffes; a scarifier. CUPPING GLASS. J. [from cup and glass.] A glafs used by scarifiers to draw out the blood by rarefying the air. Wifeman. CUPREOUS. a. [cupreus, Lat.] Coppery; confifting of copper. Boyle. CUR. J. (korre, Dutch.] 1. A worthless degenerate dog. Shakefp. 2. A term of reproach for a man. Shakejp. CURABLE a. [from cure.] That admits a remedy. Dryden. CURABLENESS. §. [from curable.] Poffibility to be healed. CURACY. f. [from curate] Employment of a curate; employment which a hired clergyman holds under the beneficiary. Swift. CURATE. f. [curator, Lat.] A clergyman hired to perform the duties of another. A parish priest. Dryden, Collier. CURATESHIP. f. [from curate.] The fame with curacy. CURATIVÉ. a. [from care.] Relating to the cure of difeafes; not prefervative. Brown. CURATOR. J. [Lat.] One that has the care and fuperintendence of any thing. Swift. CURB. J. [courber, Fr.] 1. A curb is an iron chain, made faft to the upper part of the branches of the bridle, running over the beard of the horse. Shakelp. 2. Restraint; inhibition; opposition. Atterbury. То CUR Avaricious; covetous; churlish; niggardly. To CURB. v. a. [from the noun] 1. To guide | CURMUDGEONLY. 4. [from curmudgeon.] To CU'RDLE. v. a. To caufe to coagulate. CURDY. a [from curd.] Coagulated; concret- To CURE. v. a. [curo, Lat.] 1. To heal; to CURELESS. a. [cure and lefs.] Without cure; CURER.. from cure.] A healer; a physician. CURFEW. [couvre feu, Fr.] 1. An evening- or retinue of a court. Bacon. CURL.. [from the verb ] 1. A ringlet of hair. Sidney. 2. Undulation; wave; finuofity; flexure. Newton. To CURL. v. a. (krollen, Dutch] 1. To turn CURLEW. [courlieu, Fr.] 1. A kind of a CURRANT. 1. The tree. 2. A small dried grape, properly written corinth. King. CURRENCY. [from current.] 1. Circulation; power of paffing from hand to hand. Savift. 2. General reception. 3. Fluency; readiness of utterance. 4. Continuance; conftant flow. Ayliffe 5. General esteem; the rate at which any thing is vulgarly valued. Bacon. 6. The papers ftamped in the English colonies by authority, and paffing for money. CURRENT. a. [currens, Lat. Circulatory; paffing from hand to hand. Genefis. 2. Generally received; uncontradicted; authoritative. Hooker. 3. Common; general. Watts. 4. Popular; fuch as is established by vulgar estimation. Grew. 5. Fashionable; popular. Pope. 6. Paffable; fuch as may be allowed or admitted. Shakelp. 7. What is now paffing; as, the current year CURRENT. S. 1. A running stream. Boyle. 2. Currents are certain progreffive motions of the water of the fea in several places. Harris. CURRENTLY. adv. [from current.] 1. In 2. Without oppofition. a conftant motion. Hooker. 3. Popularly; fashionably; generally. 4. Without ceating. CURRENTNESS.. [from current.] 1. Circulation. 2. General reception. 3. Eafinefs of pronunciation. Camden. CURRIER. f. [ceriarus, Lat.] One who dresses and pares leather for those who make shoes, or other things L'Etrange. CURRISH. a. [from cur.) Having the qualities of a degenerate dog; brutal; four; quarrelfome Fairfax. To CURRY.v. a. [corium, leather.] 1. To dress leather. 2. To beat; to drub; to thresh; to chaftife. Addifon. 3. To rub a horse with a fcratching inftrument, fo as to smooth his coat. Bacon. 4. To fcratch in kindness. Shakesp. 5. To CURRY Favour. To become a favourite by petty officiousness, flight kindnesses, or flattery. Hooker. 2. CURRYCOMB. f. [from curry and comb.] An CURSED. part. a. [from curse.] 1. Under a CURSEDLY. adv. [from cursed.] Miferably; fhamefully. Pope. CURSEDNESS. [from curfed.] The state of CURSHIP. f. [from cur.] Dogship; meanness. CURSORY. a. [from curforius, Lat.] Hafty; quick; inattentive; carelefs. Addifon. TO CURTAIL. va [curto, Lat.] To cut off: CURTAINS, [cortina, Lat] 1. A cloth con- To CURTAIN. v. a. [from the noun] To CURTELAX. } See CUTLASS. CURTSY See COURTESY. CURVATURE. S. [from curve.]Crookedness; CURVE.. Any thing bent; a flexure or crook- To CURVE. v. a. [curvo, Lat.] To bend; to To CURVET. v. n. [corvettare, Ital.] 1. To CURVET. . [from the verb.] 1. A leap; a CURVITY [from curve.]Crookedness. Helder. CUSHIONED a. [from cubion.] Seated on a CUSP. f. [cufpis, Lat.] A term used to exprefs CU'SPATED. Zaffrom cufpis, Lat.] When CUSTARD. J. (cwftard, Welfh.] A kind of and fugar. It is a food much uted in the city CUSTODY. . [cuftodia, Lat] 1. Imprifon- CUSTOM. f. [couftume, Fr.] 1. Habit; ha- CUSTOMHOUSE. S. The house where the CUSTOMABLE. a. [from cuftom.] Common; CUSTOMARY. a. [from cuftom.] 1. Con- CUSTOMED. a. [from cuftem.] Ufual; com- CUSTOMER.. [from cuftom.] One who fre- CUSTREL... A buckler-bearer. 2. A veffel To CUT. pret. cut; part. pafi. cut. [from the off. To put an end to; to obviate. Clarendon. | CUT-THROAT. a. Cruel; inhuman; barba15. T. CUToff. To take away; to with-hold. rous. Carew. Rogers. 16. To CUT off. To preclude. Addison, CUTTING. f. [from cut.] A piece cut off; a Prior. 17. To Cur of To interrupt; to chop. Bacon. filence. Bacon. 18. To CUT of. To apoftro-CUTTLE. . A fith, which, when he is purphize; to abbreviate. Dryden. 19. To CUT fued by a fish of prey, throws out a black lieat. To fhape; to form. Temple. 20. T. CUT quor. Ray. est. To scheme; to contrive. Howel. 21. To CUT out. To adapt. Rymer. 22. TO CUT out. To debar. Pepe. 23. TO CUT cut. To excell; to outdo. 24. To CUT fort. To hinder from proceeding by fudden interruption. Dryden. 25. TO CUT bort. To abridge; as, the fol diers were cut short of their pay. 26. To CUT up. To divide an animal into convenient pieces. L'Etrange. 27. To CUT up. To eradicate. Job. CUTTLE. . [from cuttle.] A foul mouthed fellow. Hanmer, Shakejp. To CUT. v. n. 1. To make its way by dividing obftructions. Arbuthnot. 2. To perform the operation of lithotomy. Pope. 3. To interiere; as, a horfe that cuts. CYCLE. S. [cyclus, Lat. xx] 1. A circle. 2. A round of time; a space in which the fame revolution begins again; a periodical fpace of time. Holder. 3. A method, or account of a method continued till the same courfe begins again. Evelyn. 4. Imaginary orbs; a circle in the heavens. Milton. CYCLOID.. [from xuxhods.] A geometrical curve, of which the genesis may be conceived by imagining a nail in the circumference of a wheel; the line which the nail defcribes in the air, while the wheel revolves in a right line, is the cycloid CYCLOIDAL. a. [from cycloid.] Relating to a cycloid. CYCLOPÆDIA. s. [ninλ and waideja.] A circle of knowledge; a courfe of the sciences. CYGNET. . [from cycnus, Lat.] A young fwan. Mortimer. CUT. part. a. Prepared for ufe. Swift CUT.. [from the noun.] 1. The action of a tharp or edged inftrument. 2. The impreffion or feparation of continuity, made by an edge. 3. A wound made by cutting. Wijeman. 4. A channel made by art. Knolles. 5. A part cut off from the rest. Mortimer. 6. A small! particle; a thred. Hooker. 7. A lot cut off a CYLINDER . [xúλvdgcv.] A body having two ftick. Locke. 8. A near paffage, by which flat furfaces and one circular. Wilkins. fome angle is cut off. Hale. 9. A picture cut CYLINDRICAL.2 a [from cylinder.] Partaking of the nature of a or carved upon a stamp of wood or copper, and CYLINDRICK. impreted from it. Brown. 10. The act or cylinder; having the form of a cylinder. Woodward. practice of dividing a pack of cards. Swift. 11. Fashion; form; fhape; manner of cutting into fhape. Stillingfleet, Addifon. 12. A fool or cally. Shakejp. 13 CUT and long Tail. Men of all kinds. Ben. Johnson. CUTANEOUS a. [rom catis, Lat.] Relating to the kin. Floyer. CUTICLE.. [cuticula, Lat.] 1. The first and outermost covering of the body, commonly called the scarf-fkin. This is that foft ikin which rifes in a blifter upon any burning, or the application of a blistering-plaifler. It sticks clofe to the furface of the true ikin. Quincy. 2. A thin kin formed on the furnace of any liquor. Neaton. CUTICULAR. a. from cutis, Lat.] Belonging to the fkin. CUTH. Knowledge or skill. Camden, CUTLASS {coutelas, Fr.] A broad cutting iword. Shakelp. CUTLER.. (coutelier, Fr.] One who makes CU TPURSES. [cut and purse.] One w. o fteals CYMA'R.. [properly writtenfimar.] A flight covering; a scarf. Dryden. CYMATHIUM [.[Lat. from xvμário.] A member of architecture, whereof one half is convex, and the other concave. Harris, Spectator. CYMBAL. f. [cymbalum, Lat.] A musical inftrument. Dryden. CYNA'NTHROPY. S. (núar xivòs, áv&gwπoc.] A fpecies of madness in which men have the qualities of dogs. CYNEGETICKS. f. [xuviylixò.] The art of hunting. CYNICAL. 24. [xx] Having the qualities CYNICK . [xunds,] A philofopher of the CYPRESS-TREE. S. [cupreffus, Lat.] 1. A tall Bb CYPRUS. |