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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Cûr'vet, n. p. 326(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.…Cûr'vet, v. i. p. 326To make a curvet; to leap; to bound. Anon he rears upright, curvets, and leaps. Shak. 2. To leap and frisk.Cûr'vet, v. t. p. 326To cause to move briskly; to cause to frisk or leap. The upright leaden spout curreting its liquid filament into it. Landor.Cûr'vi-cau'date, a. p. 326Having a curved or crooked tail.Cûr'vi-côv'date, a. p. 326Marked with small, bent ribs.Cûr'vi-dĕn/tate, a. p. 326Having curved teeth.Cûr'vi-fō'li-ate, a. p. 326(Bot.) Having leaves bent back.Cûr'vi-fōrm, a. p. 326Having a curved form.Cûr'vi-lîn'e-ad, n. p. 326(Geom.) An instrument to aid in drawing curved lines.Cûr'vi-lîn'e-al or Cûr'vi-lîn'e-ar, a. p. 326Consisting of curve lines; bounded by curve lines; as, a curvilinear figure.Cûr'vi-lin'e-âr'i-ty, n. p. 326The state of being curvilinear, or of being described or bounded by curved lines.Cûr'vi-lîn'e-ar-ly, adv. p. 326In a curvilinear manner.Cûr'vi-nēr'ved, a. p. 326Having the veins or nervures curved; — called also curvinerveate and curve-veined.Cûr'vi-rŏs'tral, a. p. 326Having a crooked beak, as the bird called cross-bill.Cûr'vi-ty, n. p. 326The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness. Holder.Cûr'vo-grāph, n. p. 326(Geom.) An instrument for drawing a circular arc without reference to the center; an arcograph.Cus-cū'ta, n. p. 326(Bot.) A genus of plants, including the dodder.Cush'at, n. p. 326The ring-dove or wood-pigeon. Flew like the startled cushat-dove. W. Scott.Cûsh'ew-bird, n. p. 326(Ornith.) A bird resembling the curassow, but having a large, oval, bony knob on the upper mandible of its bill.Cush'ion, n. p. 326A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon. Two cushions stuffed with straw, the seat to raise. Dryden. 2. Hence, any stuffed or padded surface; any…Cush'ion, v. t. p. 326To seat on a cushion. 2. To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise. 3. To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.Cush'ion-căp'i-tal, n. p. 326(Arch.) A capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature. Weale.Cush'ion-ēt, n. p. 326A little cushion.Cush'ion-y, a. p. 326Like a cushion; soft; pliable. “A bow-legged character, with a flat and cushiony nose.” Dickens.Cūsk, n. p. 326(Ichth.) A salt-water fish, Brosmius vulgaris, common on the coasts of Great Britain;—called also torsk. Storer.Cūsk'in, n. p. 326A kind of drinking cup. [Obs.] Nares.Cūsp, n. p. 326(Arch.) A projecting point in the foliation or other ornamentation of arches, panels, &c.; also, a pendant of a pointed arch. “Two cusps form a trefoil; three, a quaterfoil.” Gwilt. 2. (Astrol.) The…Cūsp'ā-ted, a. p. 326Ending in a point. [Obs.]Cūsped, a. p. 326Furnished with a cusp or cusps.Cūs'pi-dal, a. p. 326Ending in a point.Cūs'pi-dāte, v. t. p. 326To make pointed; to sharpen. [Obs.]Cŭs'pi-date or Cŭs'pi-dā'ted, a. p. 326(Bot.) Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf.Cūs'pīs, n. p. 326A point; a sharp end.Cūs'tard, n. p. 326A dish composed of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.Custard-coffin p. 326a piece of raised pastry, or upper crust, which covers or coffins a custard. [Cant and obs.] Shak.Cŭs'tard-āp'ple, n. p. 326(Bot.) A plant, a species of the anona (A. squamosa), growing in the West Indies, whose fruit is of the size of a tennis-ball, of an orange color, containing a yellowish eatable pulp, of the…Cūs'tōde, n. p. 326Same as CUSTODIAN.Cus-tō'di-al, a. p. 326Relating to custody or guardianship.Cūs-tō′di-an, n. p. 326One who has care or custody, as of some public building, and the like; a keeper or superintendent.Cus-tō'di-an-ship, n. p. 326The office of a custodian, or that of which he has charge.Cus-tō'di-er, n. p. 326A keeper; a guardian. [Obs.]Cŭs'to-dy, n. p. 326A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security, especially, judicial or penal safe-keeping. Jailer, take him to thy custody. Shak. 2. The condition or relation…Cūs'tom, n. p. 326Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage. Custom differeth from use as the cause from the effect, in that custom is by use and continuance…Cŭs'tom, v. t. p. 327To make familiar. [Obs.] 2. To pay custom for. These ships which, when you went, put out to sea, Are now returned and customed have their freight. Drayton.Cŭs'tom, v. i. p. 327To accustom. One morn I missed him on the customed hill. Gray.Cŭs'tom, n. p. 327The customary toll, tax, or tribute. Render, therefore, to all their dues, . . . custom to whom custom. Rom. xiii. 7. 2. (pl.) Duties imposed on commodities on their being imported into or exported…Cūs'tom-a-ble, a. p. 327Common; habitual; frequent. “After his customable fashion.” T. More. 2. Subject to the payment of duties called customs.Cŭs'tom-a-ble-ness, n. p. 327State or quality of being customable; conformity to custom; frequency.Cŭs'tom-a-bly, adv. p. 327According to custom; in a customary manner.Cŭs'tom-a-ri-ly, adv. p. 327In a customary manner; habitually.Cŭs'tom-a-ri-ness, n. p. 327Habitual use or practice; frequency; commonness. Gov. of the Tongue.Cŭs'tom-a-ry, a. p. 327According to custom; established by common usage; conventional. A formal customary attendance upon the offices of the church. South. Even now I met him With customary compliment. Shak. 2. (Law.)…Cŭs'tom-a-ry, n. p. 327A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. Cowell.Cŭs'tom-er, n. p. 327One who collects customs or duties; a toll-gatherer. [Obs.] The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey-cloths. Hackluyt. 2. One who frequents…Cās'tom-house, n. p. 327The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.Cŭs'tom-shrŭnk, a. p. 327Having a diminished number of customers. [Obs.] Shak.Cŭs'tōs, n. p. 327A keeper; custodian; superintendent. [Obs.] Custos brevium (Law), the principal clerk of the Common Pleas.—Custos rotulorum, the principal justice of the peace in a county, who is also keeper of the…Cās'trel, n. p. 327An armor-bearer or esquire to a knight. 2. A vessel for holding wine. Ainsworth.Cŭs'tu-ma-ry, a. p. 327See CUSTOMARY.Cŭt, v. t. p. 327To separate the parts of with a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to wound; to notch with an edged tool; to divide; to sever. You must cut this flesh from off his breast: The law…