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Currency
CURRENCY, noun [See Current.]
1. Literally, flowing, running or passing; a continued or uninterrupted course, like that of a stream; as the currency of time.
2. A continued course in public opinion, belief or reception; a passing from person to person, or from age to age; a, a report has had a long or general currency
3. A continual passing from hand to hand, as coin or bills of credit; circulation; as the currency of cents, or of English crowns; the currency of bank bills or treasury notes.
4. Fluency; readiness of utterance; but in this sense we generally use fluency.
5. General estimation; the rate at which any thing is generally valued.
He takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency and not after intrinsic value.
6. That which is current or in circulation, as a medium of trade. The word may be applied to coins, or to bills issued by authority. It is often applied to bank notes, and to notes issued by government.
Current
CURRENT, adjective [Latin , to flow or run.]
1. Literally, flowing, running, passing. Hence, passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating; as current opinions; current coin. Hence, common, general or fashionable; generally received; popular; as the current notions of the day or age; current folly.
2. Established by common estimation; generally received; as the current value of coin.
3. Passable; that may be allowed or admitted.
4. Now passing; present in its course; as the current month or year.
CURRENT, noun
1. A flowing or passing; a stream; applied to fluids; as a current of water, or of air. The gulf stream is a remarkable current in the Atlantic. A current sets into the Mediterranean.
2. Course; progressive motion, or movement; continuation; as the current of time.
3. A connected series; successive course; as the current of events.
4. General or main course; as the current of opinion.
Currently
CURRENTLY, adjective In constant motion; with continued progression. Hence, commonly; generally; popularly; with general reception; as, the story is currently reported and believed.
Currentness
CURRENTNESS, noun
1. Currency; circulation; general reception.
2. Fluency; easiness of pronunciation. [Not much used.]
Curricle
CURRICLE, noun [Latin , to run.]
1. A chaise or carriage, with two wheels, drawn by two horses abreast.
2. A chariot. [Not in use.]
3. A course. [Not in use.]
Curried
CURRIED, participle passive [See Curry.] Dressed by currying; dressed as leather; cleaned; prepared.
Currier
CURRIER, noun [Latin See Curry.] A man who dresses and colors leather, after it is tanned.
Currish
CURRISH, adjective [See Cur.] Like a cur; having the qualities of a cur; brutal; malignant; snappish; snarling; churlish; intractable; quarrelsome.
Currishly
CURRISHLY, adverb Like a cur; in a brutal manner.
Currishness
CURRISHNESS, noun Moroseness; churlishness.
Curry
CURRY, verb transitive [Latin , to scrape; scrape, from cutting.]
1. To dress leather, after it is tanned; to soak, pare or scrape, cleanse, beat and color tanned hides, and prepare them for use.
2. To rub and clean with a comb; as, to curry a horse.
3. To scratch or claw; to tear, in quarrels.
By setting brother against brother, to claw and curry one another.
4. To rub or stroke; to make smooth; to tickle by flattery; to humor. But generally used in the phrase,
To curry favor, to seek or gain favor by flattery, caresses, kindness, or officious civilities. [Not elegant.]
Curry-Comb
CURRY-COMB, noun [See Comb.] An iron instrument or comb, for rubbing and cleaning horses.
Currying
CURRYING, participle present tense Scraping and dressing; cleaning; scratching.
Curse
CURSE, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive cursed or curst.
1. To utter a wish of evil against one; to imprecate evil upon; to call for mischief or injury to fall upon; to execrate.
Thou shalt not curse the ruler of thy people. .
Bless and curse not. .
CURSE me this people, for they are too mighty for me. .
2. To injure; to subject to evil; to vex, harass or torment with great calamities.
On impious realms and barbarous kings impose thy plagues, and curse em with such sons as those.
3. To devote to evil.
CURSE, verb intransitive To utter imprecations; to affirm or deny with imprecations of divine vengeance.
Then began he to curse and to swear. .
CURSE, noun
1. Malediction; the expression of a wish of evil to another.
Shimei--who cured me with a grievous curse .
2. Imprecation of evil.
They entered into a curse and into an oath. .
3. Affliction; torment; great vexation.
I will make this city a curse to all nations. .
4. Condemnation; sentence of divine vengeance on sinners.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. .
5. Denunciation of evil.
The priest shall write all these curses in a book. .
Cursed
CURSED, participle passive
1. Execrated; afflicted; vexed; tormented; blasted by a curse.
2. Devoted to destruction.
Thou art cursed from the earth. .
3. adjective Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.
4. adjective Vexatious; as a cursed quarrel; cursed thorns.
Cursedly
CURSEDLY, adverb In a cursed manner; enormously; miserably; in a manner to be cursed or detested. [A low word.]
Cursedness
CURSEDNESS, noun The state of being under a curse, or of being doomed to execration or to evil.
Curser
CURSER, noun One who curses, or utters a curse.
Curship
CURSHIP, noun [See Cur.] Dogship; meanness; ill-nature.
Cursing
CURSING, participle present tense Execrating; imprecating evil on; denouncing evil; dooming to evil, misery, or vexation.
CURSING, noun Execration; the uttering of a curse; a dooming to vexation or misery.
Cursitor
CURSITOR, noun [Latin , to run.] In England, a clerk in the court of chancery, whose business is to make out original writs. In the statute 18 Edward III, the cursitors are called clerks of course. They are twenty four in number, and are a corporation among themselves. To each are assigned certain counties, to which he issue writs.
Cursive
CURSIVE, adjective [See Course and Current.] Running; flowing. cursive hand is a running hand.
Cursorary
CURSORARY, adjective Cursory; hasty. [Not in use.]
Cursorily
CURSORILY, adjective [See Cursory.[ In a running or hasty manner; slightly; hastily; without attention; as, I read the paper cursorily
Cursoriness
CURSORINESS, noun Slight view or attention.
Cursory
CURSORY, adjective [Latin See Course.]
1. Running; hasty; slight; superficial; careless; not with close attention; as a cursory reading; a cursory view.
2. Running about; not stationary.
Curst
CURST, participle passive of curse. [See Cursed.]
CURST, adjective Hateful; detestable; froward; tormenting; vexatious; peevish; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling; a word however which can be hardly said to have a definite signification. It is applied to any thing vexatious. In some of its applications in old authors, ti appears to be the Dutch korst, crust, and to signify crusty, crabbed, surly.
Curstness
CURSTNESS, noun Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.
Curt
CURT, adjective [Latin] Short. [Rarely used, and not elegant.]
Curtail
CURTAIL, verb transitive [Latin , to cut; edge.] To shorten; to cut off the end or a part; as, to curtail words. Hence in a more general sense, to shorten in any manner; to abridge; to diminish; as, to curtail our privileges. It is followed by of before the thing shortened. His name was curtailed of three letters. We are curtailed of our rights.
Curtail-Dog
CURTAIL-DOG, noun A dog whose tail is cut off, according to the forest laws, and therefore hindered from coursing.
Curtailed
CURTAILED, participle passive Cut short or shorter; abridged.
Curtailing
CURTAILING, participle present tense Cutting short or shorter; abridging.
CURTAILING, noun Abridgment; abbreviation.
Curtain
CURTAIN, noun [Low Latin , in fortification. This word may be from the root of court, and from the sense of separating.]
1. A cloth hanging round a bed, or at a window, which may be contracted, spread or drawn aside at pleasure; intended for ornament, or for use. Also, the hangings about the ark, among the Israelites.
2. A cloth-hanging used in theaters, to conceal the stage from the spectators. This is raised or let down by cords. Hence the phrases, to drop the curtain to close the scene, to end; to raise the curtain or the curtain will rise, to denote the opening of the play. And to draw the curtain is to close it, to shut out the light or to conceal an object; or to open it and disclose the object. Behind the curtain in concealment, in secret.
3. In fortification, that part of the rampart which is between the flanks of two bastions, bordered with a parapet five feet high, behind which the soldiers stand to fire on the covered way and into the moat.
4. In scripture, tents; dwellings. .
CURTAIN, verb transitive To inclose with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
Curtain-Lecture
CURTAIN-LECTURE, noun Reproof given in bed by a wife to her husband.
Curtal
CURTAL, noun A horse with a docked tail.
CURTAL, adjective Short; abridged; brief.
Curtate
CURTATE, adjective [Latin , to shorten.] The curtate distance, in astronomy, is the distance of a planet from the sun to that point, where a perpendicular let fall from the planet meets with the ecliptic. Or the interval between the sun or earth, and that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet, meets the ecliptic.
Curtation
CURTATION, noun [See Curtate.] The interval between a planets distance from the sun and the curtate distance.
Curtilage
CURTILAGE, noun In law, a yard, garden, inclosure or field near and belonging to a messuage. [This is probably from court or the same radix.]
Curtly
CURTLY, adverb Briefly. [Not in use.]
Curule
CURULE, adjective [Latin , a chariot.] Belonging to a chariot. The curule chair or seat, among the Romans, was a stool without a back, covered with leather, and so made as to be folded. It was conveyed in a chariot, and used by public officers.
Curvated
CURVATED, adjective [See Curve.] Curved; bent in a regular form.
Curvature
CURVATURE, noun [Latin See Curve.] A bending in a regular form; crookedness, or the manner of bending; flexure by which a curve is formed.
Curve
CURVE, adjective [Latin , bent, crooked; to bend, turn or wind.] Bending; crooked; inflected in a regular form, and forming part of a circle; as a curve line, which may be cut by a right line in more points than one. A curve line is that which is neither a straight line, nor composed of straight lines.
CURVE, noun A bending in a regular form, or without angles; that which is bent ; a flexure; part of a circle. In geometry, a line which may be cut by a right line in more points than one.
CURVE, verb transitive [Latin] To bend; to crook; to inflect.
Curved
CURVED, participle passive Bent; regularly inflected.
Curvet
CURVET, noun
1. In the manege, a particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at one, equally advanced, and as his fore legs are falling, he raises his hind legs, so that all his lets are raised at once.
2. A prank; a frolic.
CURVET, verb intransitive
1. To leap; to bound; to spring and form a curvet
2. To leap and frisk.
Curvilineal
CURVILINEAR, CURVILINEAL adjective [Latin , bent and a line.] Having a curve line; consisting of curve lines; bounded by curve lines; as a curvilinear figure.
Curvilinear
CURVILINEAR, CURVILINEAL, adjective [Latin , bent and a line.] Having a curve line; consisting of curve lines; bounded by curve lines; as a curvilinear figure.
Curvilinearity
CURVILINEARITY, noun The state of being curvilinear, or of consisting in curve lines.
Curving
CURVING, participle present tense Bending in a regular form; crooked.
Curvity
CURVITY, noun [Latin] A bending in a regular form; crookedness.
Cushat
CUSHAT, noun The ring-dove or wood-pigeon.
Cushion
CUSHION, noun
1. A pillow for a seat; a soft pad to be placed on a chair; a bag, stuffed with wool, hair or other soft material.
2. A bag of leather filled with sand, used by engravers to support the plate.
3. In gilding, a stuffing of fine tow or wool, covered by leather, on a board; used for receiving the leaves of gold from the paper, in order to its being cut into proper sizes and figures.
Ladys cushion a plant, a species of saxifraga.
Sea cushion sea pink or thrift, a species of Statice.
CUSHION, verb transitive To seat on a cushion
Cushioned
CUSHIONED, adjective Seated on a cushion; supported by cushions.
Cushionet
CUSHIONET, noun A little cushion.
Cuskin
CUSKIN, noun A kind of ivory cup. [Not in use.]
Cusp
CUSP, noun [Latin , a point.] The point or horn of the moon or other luminary.
Cuspated
CUSPATED, adjective [Latin , a point.] Pointed; ending in a point.
Cuspidal
CUSPIDAL, adjective Ending in a point.
Cuspidate
CUSPIDATE, CUSPIDATED, adjective [Latin , a point.] Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a bristly point; as a cuspidate leaf.
Cuspidated
CUSPIDATE, CUSPIDATED adjective [Latin , a point.] Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a bristly point; as a cuspidate leaf.
Custard
CUSTARD, noun A composition of milk and eggs, sweetened and baked or boiled, forming an agreeable kind of food.
Custard-Apple
CUSTARD-APPLE, noun A plant, a species of Annona, growing in the West Indies, whose fruit is of the size of a tennis ball, of an orange color, containing a yellowish pulp, of the consistence of custard.
Custodial
CUSTODIAL, adjective [from custody.] Relating to custody or guardianship.
Custody
CUSTODY, noun [Latin , a watchman, a keeper. See Chaste.]
1. A keeping; a guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation or security.
Under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle. .
The prisoner was committed to the custody of the sheriff.
2. Imprisonment; confinement; restraint of liberty.
3. Defense from a foe; preservation; security.
There was prepared a fleet of thirty ships fro the custody of the narrow seas.
Custom
CUSTOM, noun [Latin]
1. Frequent or common use, or practice; a frequent repetition o the same act; hence, way; established manner; habitual practice.
The prists custom with the people was--- .
We have no such custom .
The customs of the people are vain. .
2. A buying of goods; practice of frequenting a shop and purchasing or procuring to be done.
Let him have your custom but not your votes.
The shopkeeper has extensive custom or a good run of custom A mill or a manufacturer has extensive custom or little custom
3. In law, long established practice, or usage, which constitutes the unwritten law, and long consent to which gives it authority. Customs are general, which extend over a state or kingdom, and particular, which are limited to a city or district.
CUSTOM, verb intransitive
1. To make familiar. [See Accustom, which is the word used.]
2. To give custom to.
CUSTOM, noun Tribute, toll or tax; that is, cost or charge paid to the public.
Render custom to whom custom is due. .
CUSTOMs, in the plural, the duties imposed by law on merchandize imported or exported. IN Great Britain and the United States, this word is limited to these species of duties.
Custom-House
CUSTOM-HOUSE, noun The house where vessel enter and clear, and where the customs are paid or secured to be paid.
Customable
CUSTOMABLE, adjective
1. Common; habitual; frequent.
2. Subject to the payment of the duties called customs.
Customableness
CUSTOMABLENESS, noun Frequency; conformity to custom. [Little used.]
Customably
CUSTOMABLY, adverb According to custom; in a customary manner.
Customarily
CUSTOMARILY, adverb [See Customary.] Habitually; commonly.
Customariness
CUSTOMARINESS, noun Frequency; commonness; habitual use or practice.
Customary
CUSTOMARY, adjective
1. According to custom, or to established or common usage; as a customary dress; customary compliments.
2. Habitual; in common practice; as customary vices.
3. Holding by custom; as customary tenants, who are copyholders.
4. Held by custom; as a customary freehold.
CUSTOMARY, noun A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as the customary of the Normans.
Customed
CUSTOMED, adjective
1. Usual; common; to which we are accustomed. [See Accustomed.]
2. Furnished with customers.
Customer
CUSTOMER, noun
1. One who frequents any place of sale for the sake of purchasing goods; one who purchases goods or wares.
2. One who frequents or visits any place for procuring what he wants. We say, a mill has many customers. Hence a person who receives supplies is called a customer; the smith, the shoemaker and the tailor have their customers; and the coffee-house has its customers.
3. A toll-gatherer.
Custos
CUSTOS, noun [Latin] A keeper; as custos brevium, the principal clerk of the common pleas; custos rotulorum, keeper of the rolls and records of the sessions of the peace.
Custrel
CUSTREL, noun A buckler-bearer. Also, a vessel for holding wine. [Not in use.]
Cut
CUT, verb transitive preterit tense and preposition cut [Latin , to thrust, to drive, to strike.]
1. To separate the parts of any body by an edged instrument, either by striking, as with an ax, or by sawing or rubbing; to make a gash, incision or notch, which separates the external part of a body, as to cut the flesh. It signifies also, to cut into pieces; to sever or divide; as, to cut timber in the forest. But when an entire separation of the body is intended, it is usually followed by off, down, asunder, in two, in pieces, or other word denoting such severance.
Ye shall not cut yourselves, that is, ye shall not gash your flesh. .
2. To hew.
Thy servants can skill to cut timber. .
3. To carve, as meat; to carve or engrave in sculpture.
4. To divide; to cleave, by passing through; as, a ship cuts the briny deep.
5. To penetrate; to pierce; to affect deeply; as, a sarcasm cuts to the quick.
6. To divide, as a pack of cards; as, to cut and shuffle.
7. To intersect; to cross. One line cuts another at right angles. The ecliptic cuts the equator.
8. To castrate.
To cut across, to pass by a shorter course, so as to cut off an angle or distance.
To cut asunder, to cut into pieces; to divide; to sever.
He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. .
To cut down, to fell; to cause to fall by severing.
Ye shall cut down their groves. .
Hence, to depress; to abash; to humble; to shame; to silence; as, his eloquence cuts down the finest orator.
[This phrase is not elegant, but is in popular use.]
To cut off,
1. To separate one part from another; as, to cut off a finger, or an arm; to cut off the right hand figure; to cut off a letter or syllable.
2. To destroy; to extirpate; to put to death untimely.
Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord. .
Evil doers shall be cut off. .
3. To separate; to remove to a distance, or to prevent all intercourse. A man in another country or in prison is cut off from his country or his friends.
4. To interrupt; as, to cut off communication.
5. To separate; to remove; to take away; as, to cut off ten years of life.
6. To intercept; to hinder from return, or union. The troops were cut off from the ships.
7. To end; to finish; as, to cut off all controversy.
8. To prevent or preclude; as, to cut off all occasion of blame.
9. To preclude or shut out. The sinner cuts himself off from the benefits of Christianity.
10. To stop, interrupt or silence.
The judge cut off the counsel very short.
To cut on,
1. To hasten; to run or ride with the utmost speed; a vulgar phrase.
2.To urge or drive in striking; to quicken blows; to hasten.
To cut out,
1. To remove a part by cutting or carving; as, to cut out a piece from a board; to cut out the tongue. Hence,
2. To shape or form by cutting; as, to cut out a garment; to cut out an image; to cut out a wood into walks. Hence,
3. To scheme; to contrive; to prepare; as, to cut out word for another day. So we say, to strike out.
4. To shape; to adapt. He is no cut out for an author. [Not elegant.]
5. To debar. [Not common.]
6. To take the preference or precedence of; as, to cut out a prior judgment creditor.
7. To step in and take the place of, as in courting and dancing. [A vulgar phrase.]
8. To interfere as a horse, when the shoe of one foot beats off the skin of the pastern joint of another.
To cut short,
1. To hinder from proceeding by sudden interruption.
Achilles cut him short.
2. To shorten; to abridge; as, to cut short of provisions or pay; to cut the matter short.
To cut up,
1. To cut in pieces; as, to cut up beef.
2. To eradicate; to cut off; as, to cut up shrubs.
CUT, verb intransitive
1. To pass into or through and sever; to enter and divide the parts; as, an instrument cuts well.
2. To be severed by a cutting instrument; as, this fruit cuts easy or smooth.
3. To divide by passing.
The teeth are ready to cut
4. To perform a surgical operation by cutting, especially in lithotomy.
He saved lives by cutting for the stone.
5. To interfere, as a horse.
To cut in, to divide, or turn a card, for determining who are to play.
CUT, participle passive Gashed; divided; hewn; carved; intersected; pierced; deeply affected; castrated.
CUT and dry, prepared for use; a metaphor from hewn timber.
CUT, noun
1. The action of an edged instrument; a stroke or blow, as with an ax or sword.
2. A cleft; a gash; a notch; a wound; the opening made by an edged instrument, distinguished by its length from that made by perforation with a pointed instrument.
3. A stroke or blow with a whip.
4. A channel made by cutting or digging; a ditch; a groove; a furrow; a canal.
5. A part cut off from the rest; as a good cut of beef; a cut of timber. Also, any small piece or shred.
6. A lot made by cutting a stick; as, to draw cuts.
7. A near passage, by which an angle is cut off; a shorter cut
8. A picture cut or cared on wood or metal, and impressed from it.
9. The stamp on which a picture is carved, and by which it is impressed.
10. The act of dividing a pack of cards. Also, the right to divide; as, whose cut is it?
11. Manner in which a thing is cut; form; shape; fashion; as the cut of a garment; the cut of his beard.
12. A fool; a cully; a gelding. [Not in use.]
CUT and long tail, men of all kinds; a proverbial expression borrowed from dogs.
Cut-Throat
CUT-THROAT, noun A murderer; an assassin; a ruffian.
CUT-THROAT, adjective Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
Cut-Water
CUT-WATER, noun The fore part of a ships prow, or knee of the head, which cuts the water. Also, a water-fowl, a species of gull; or rather, the Rynchops, or razorbill.
Cut-Work
CUT-WORK, noun Embroidery. [Not in use.]
Cutaneous
CUTANEOUS, adjective [See Cuticle.] Belonging to the skin, or cutis; existing on, or affecting the skin; as a cutaneous disease; cutaneous eruption.
Cuth
CUTH, in Saxon, signifies known, or famous. Hence, Cuthwin, a famous conqueror; Cuthred, a famous or knowing counselor; Cuthbert, known bright, or famous for skill.
Cuticle
CUTICLE, noun [Latin , skin, the same as hide, which see.]
1. The scarf-skin; the thin exterior coat of the skin, which rises in a blister; a thin pellucid membrane covering the true skin.
2. The thin external covering of the bark of a plant.
3. A thin skin formed on the surface of liquor.
Cuticular
CUTICULAR, adjective Pertaining to the cuticle or external coat of the skin.
Cutlas
CUTLAS, noun [Latin , to cut.] A broad curving sword; a hanger; used by soldiers int he cavalry, by seamen, etc.
Cutler
CUTLER, noun [Latin , a knife.] One whose occupation is to make knives and other cutting instruments.
Cutlery
CUTLERY, noun The business of making knives; or more generally, knives and other edged instruments in general.
Cutlet
CUTLET, noun A small piece of meat for cooking; as a veal cutlet
Cutpurse
CUTPURSE, noun [cut and purse.] One who cuts purses for stealing them or their contents; a practice said to have been common when men wore purses at their girdles. One who steals from the person; a thief; a robber.
Cutter
CUTTER, noun
1. One who cuts or hews.
2. An instrument that cuts; as a straw-cutter.
3. A fore tooth, that cuts meat, as distinguished from a grinder.
4. A small boat used by ships of war. Also, a vessel with one mast and a straight running bowsprit, which may be run in upon deck; rigged nearly like a sloop.
5. An officer int he exchequer that provides wood for the tallies.
6. A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
Cutting
CUTTING, participle present tense [See Cut.]
1. Dividing by an edged instrument; cleaving by the stroke or motion of an edged instrument, as by a knife, ax, or saw; hewing; carving; intersecting; piercing.
2. adjective Piercing the heart; wounding the feelings; deeply affecting with shame or remorse; pungent; piquant; satirical; as a cutting reflection.
CUTTING, noun
1. A separation or division; a piece cut off; a ship; as the cuttings of vines.
2. The operation of removing a stone from the bladder.
Cuttle
CUTTLE, CUTTLE-FISH, n. 1. A genus of mollusca, called Sepia. They have small arms, with serrated cups, by which they lay fast hold of any thing. They have also two tentacula longer than the arms; the mouth is int he center of the arms, and is horny, and hooked like the bill of a hawk. They feed on sprats, lobsters and other shell-fish. They have a little bladder under the throat, [near the liver, Cuvier, ] from which, when pursued, they throw out a black liquor that darkens the water, by which means they escape. Hence cuttle is used for a foul-mouthed fellow; one who blackens the character of another.2. A knife. [Not in use.]
Cuttle-Fish
CUTTLE, CUTTLE-FISH noun
1. A genus of mollusca, called Sepia. They have small arms, with serrated cups, by which they lay fast hold of any thing. They have also two tentacula longer than the arms; the mouth is int he center of the arms, and is horny, and hooked like the bill of a hawk. They feed on sprats, lobsters and other shell-fish. They have a little bladder under the throat, [near the liver, Cuvier, ] from which, when pursued, they throw out a black liquor that darkens the water, by which means they escape. Hence cuttle is used for a foul-mouthed fellow; one who blackens the character of another.
2. A knife. [Not in use.]
Cyanite
CYANITE, noun [Gr. Sky-colored.] A mineral of a berlin blue color, passing into gray and green; called by Hauy, disthene.
Cyanogen
CYANOGEN, noun [Gr., blue, and to beget.] Carbureted azote, or carburet of nitrogen, the compound base of Prussic acid; otherwise called Prussine.
Cyathiform
CYATHIFORM, adjective [Latin , a cup; Gr.] In the form of a cup, or drinking glass, a little widened at the top.
Cyclades
CYCLADES, noun plural [Gr., a circle.] A number of isles arranged round the isle of delos, in the Grecian Sea, in the form of a circle.
Cycle
CYCLE, noun [Gr. Latin , an orb or circle.]
1. In chronology, a period or series of numbers, which regularly proceed from first to last, and then return to the first, in a perpetual circle. Hence,
2. The cycle of the moon, or golden number, or Metonic cycle so called from its inventor Meton, is a period of nineteen years, which being completed, the new and full moons return on the same days of the month.
3. The cycle of the sun, is a period of twenty eight years, which having elapsed, the dominical or Sunday letters return to their former place, and proceed in the former order, according to the Julian calendar.
4. cycle of indiction, a period of fifteen years, at the end of which the Roman emperors imposed an extraordinary tax, to pay the soldiers who were obliged to serve in the army for that period and no longer.
5. A round of years, or period of time, in which the same course begins again; a periodical space of time.
6. An imaginary orb or circle in the heavens.
Cyclograph
CYCLOGRAPH, noun [circle, and to describe.] An instrument for describing the arcs of circles.
Cycloid
CYCLOID, noun A geometrical curve on which depends the doctrine of pendulums; a figure made by the upper end of the diameter of a circle, turning about a right line. The genesis of a cycloid may be conceived by imagining a nail in the circumference of a wheel; the line which the nail describes in the air, while the wheel revolves in a right line, is the cycloid
Cycloidal
CYCLOIDAL, adjective Pertaining or relating to a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between the cycloid and its substance. Or the space contained between the curve or crooked line and the subtense of the figure.
Cyclolite
CYCLOLITE, noun A name given to Madrepores.
Cyclometry
CYCLOMETRY, noun [Gr., circle, to measure.] The art of measuring cycles or circles.
Cyclopean
CYCLOPEAN, adjective [from Cyclops.] Pertaining to the Cyclops; vast; terrific.
Cyclopedia
CYCLOPEDIA, CYCOPEDE, noun [Gr., circle, discipline, erudition.] The circle or compass of the arts and sciences; circle of human knowledge. Hence, the book or books that contain treatises on every branch of the arts and sciences, arranged under proper heads, in alphabetical order. [See Encyclopedia.]
Cyclopic
CYCLOPIC, adjective Pertaining to the Cyclops; gigantic; savage.
Cyclops
CYCLOPS, noun [Gr., a circle, an eye.] In fabulous history, certain giants, the sons of Neptune and Amshitrite, who had but one circular eye in the midst of the forehead. They inhabited Sicily, and assisted Vulcan in making thunderbolts for Jupiter.
Cycopede
CYCLOPEDIA, CYCOPEDE noun [Gr., circle, discipline, erudition.] The circle or compass of the arts and sciences; circle of human knowledge. Hence, the book or books that contain treatises on every branch of the arts and sciences, arranged under proper heads, in alphabetical order. [See Encyclopedia.]
Cyder
CYDER. [See Cider.]
Cygnet
CYGNET, noun [Latin , a swan; Gr.] A young swan.
Cylinder
CYLINDER, noun [Gr. To roll; Latin ] In geometry, a solid body supposed to be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one of its sides; or a long circular body of uniform diameter, and its extremities forming equal parallel circles.
Cylindraceous
CYLINDRACEOUS, adjective Cylindrical. [Little used.]
Cylindric
CYLINDRIC, CYLINDRICAL, adjective Having the form of a cylinder; or partaking of its properties.
Cylindrical
CYLINDRIC, CYLINDRICAL adjective Having the form of a cylinder; or partaking of its properties.
Cylindriform
CYLINDRIFORM, adjective [cylinder and form.] Having the form of a cylinder.
Cylindroid
CYLINDROID, noun [cylinder and form.] A solid body, approaching to the figure of a cylinder, but differing in some respects, as having the bases elliptical, but parallel and equal.
Cyma
CYMATIUM, cyma noun [Latin , Gr., a little wave.] In architecture, a member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is waving, that is, concave at the top and convex at bottom.
Cymar
CYMAR, noun A slight covering; a scarf; properly, simar.
Cymatium
CYMATIUM, CYMA, noun [Latin , Gr., a little wave.] In architecture, a member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is waving, that is, concave at the top and convex at bottom.
Cymbal
CYMBAL, noun [Latin , Gr.]
1. A musical instrument used by the ancients, hollow and made of brass, somewhat like a kettle-drum; but the precise form is not ascertained.
2. A mean instrument used by gypsies and vagrants, made of a steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are passed fie rings, which are touched and shifter along the triangle with an iron rod held in the left hand, while it is supported in the right by a ring, to give it free motion.
Cymbiform
CYMBIFORM, adjective [Latin , a boat, form.] Shaped like a boat.
Cyme
CYME, CYMA, noun [Gr., fetus, to swell.] Literally, a sprout, particularly of the cabbage. Technically, an aggregate flower composed of several florets sitting on a receptacle, producing all the primary peduncles from the same point, but having the partial peduncles scattered and irregular; all fastigiate, or forming a flat surface at the top. It is naked or with bractes.
Cymling
CYMLING, noun A squash.
Cymophane
CYMOPHANE, noun [Gr., a wave, to appear.] A mineral, called also chrysoberyl. Its color is green of different shades; its fracture conchyoidal or undulated, and in hardness it ranks next to the sapphire.
Cymophanous
CYMOPHANOUS, adjective Having a wavy floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
Cymose
CYMOSE, CYMOUS, adjective Containing a cyme; in the form of a cyme.
Cymous
CYMOSE, CYMOUS adjective Containing a cyme; in the form of a cyme.
Cynanche
CYNANCHE, noun [Gr., a dog-collar, angina; a dog, to press or bind, to suffocate.] A disease of the throat, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing. It is of several kinds and comprehends the quinsy, croop and malignant sore throat.
Cynanthropy
CYNANTHROPY, noun [Gr., a dog, man.] A kind of madness in which men have the qualities of dogs.
Cynarctomachy
CYNARCTOMACHY, noun [Gr., a dog, a bear, a fight.] Bear-baiting with a dog. [A barbarous word.]
Cynic
CYNIC, CYNICAL, adjective [Gr., canine, a dog.] Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; surly; currish; austere.
Cynical
CYNIC, CYNICAL adjective [Gr., canine, a dog.] Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; surly; currish; austere.
Cynic spasm, a kind of convulsion, in which the patient imitates the howling of dogs.
CYNIC, noun A man of a canine temper; a surly or snarling man or philosopher; a follower of Diogenes; a misanthrope.
Cynically
CYNICALLY, adverb In a snarling, captious or morose manner.
Cynicalness
CYNICALNESS, noun Moroseness; contempt of riches and amusements.
Cynics
CYNICS, noun In ancient history, a sect of philosophers, who valued themselves on their contempt of riches, of arts, sciences and amusements. They are said to owe their origin to Antisthenes of Athens.
Cynosure
CYNOSURE, noun [Gr., the tail of the dog, ursa minor, the little bear.] The constellation near the north pole, consisting of seven stars, four of which are disposed like the four wheels of a chariot, and three lengthwise, like the beam; hence called the chariot or Charless wain. As seamen are accustomed to steer by this constellation, ti si sometimes taken for that which directs or attracts attention.
Cyon
CYON. [See Cion.]
Cypher
CYPHER. [See Cipher.]
Cypress
CYPRESS, noun [Latin , Gr.]
1. A genus of plants or trees. The most remarkable are the sempervirens or common cypress the evergreen American cypress or white cedar, and the disticha or deciduous American cypress The wood of these trees is remarkable for its durability. The coffins in which the Athenian heroes and the mummies of Egypt were deposited, are said to have been made of the first species.
2 The emblem of mourning for the dead, cypress branches having been anciently used at funerals.
Had success attended the Americans, the death of Warren would have been sufficient to damp the joys of victory, and the cypress would have been united with the laurel.
Cyprin
CYPRIN, adjective Pertaining to the fish of the genus Cyprinus.
Cyprus
CYPRUS, noun A thin transparent black stuff.
Cyriologic
CYRIOLOGIC, adjective [Gr., a chief, discourse.] Relating or pertaining to capital letters.
Cyst
CYST, noun [Gr., a bladder.] A bag or tunic which includes morbid matter in animal bodies.
Cystic
CYSTIC, adjective Pertaining to a cyst, or contained in a cyst. The cystic duct is the membranous canal that conveys the bile from the hepatic duct into the gall bladder. The cystic artery is a branch of the hepatic.
CYSTIC oxyd, a name given to a peculiar substance, supposed to be generated in the bladder or rather in the kidneys.
Cystocele
CYS'TOCELE, noun [Gr., a bladder or a tumor.] A hernia or rupture formed by the protrusion of the urinary bladder.
Cystotomy
CYSTOT'OMY, noun [Gr., a bladder or to cut.] The act or practice of opening encysted tumors, for the discharge of morbid matter.
Cytisus
CYT'ISUS, noun A shrub or tree. Also, a genus of trees; tree-trefoil.
Czar
CZ'AR, noun A king; a chief; a title of the emperor of Russia; pronounced tzar, and so written by good authors.
Czarina
CZARINA, noun A title of the empress of Russia.
Czarish
CZ'ARISH, adjective Pertaining to the czar of Russia.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.