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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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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…Cŭt, v. i. p. 327To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well. 2. To admit of incision or severance. 3. To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising…Cŭt, a. p. 327Overcome by liquor; tipsy. [Obs.]Cŭt, n. p. 327An opening made with a sharp instrument; a cleft; a gash; a wound. 2. A stroke or blow with an edged instrument, or the like; hence, an injury or wound. 3. That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh…Cu-tā'ne-oŭs, a. p. 327Belonging to the skin, or cutis; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous eruption.Cútech, n. p. 327The same as CATECHU. 2. The spawn of the oyster.Cûtech'e-ry, n. p. 327A Hindoo hall of justice. Malcom.Cūte, a. p. 327Clever; sharp. [Colloq.]Cūte'ness, n. p. 327Acuteness; keenness. [Colloq.]Cŭt'-grăss, n. p. 327A kind of grass having rough or sharp-edged leaves.Cū'ti-cle, n. p. 327A thin, transparent, dry membrane, devoid of nerves and vessels, which covers all the surface of the body, except the parts which correspond to the nails; the scarf-skin; epidermis. Dunglison. 2.…Cu-tic'ū-lar, a. p. 327Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin.Cū'tis, n. p. 327(Anat.) A dense resisting membrane, of a flexible and extensible nature, which forms the general envelope of the body: it is next below the cuticle, and is often called the true skin.Cŭt'lass, n. p. 327A broad, curving sword, with but one cutting edge. See CURTAL-AX.Cūt'ler, n. p. 327One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.Cŭt'ler-y, n. p. 327The business of a cutler. 2. Edged or cutting instruments in general, or in the mass.Cŭt'let, n. p. 327A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling; generally a part of the rib with the meat belonging to it.Cŭt'ling, n. p. 327The art of making edged tools; cutlery. [Obs.] Milton.Cŭt'-ŏff, n. p. 327That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road. 2. (Mach.) A contrivance in the steam-engine for cutting off the passage of steam from the steam-chest to the cylinder, when the piston…Cŭt'pūrse, n. p. 327One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents;—an act common when men wore purses at their girdles; hence, one who steals from the person; a thief; a robber; a pickpocket.Cut-tee', n. p. 327One who is cut, shunned, or avoided. [Slang.] Ogilvie. 2. A box to hold a weaver's quills. Simmonds.Cŭt'ter, n. p. 327One who cuts or hews. 2. An instrument used for cutting. 3. A fore tooth, that cuts, as distinguished from a grinder; an incisor. Ray. 4. (Naut.) (a.) A small boat used by ships of war. (b.) A vessel…Cŭt'ter-bär, n. p. 327(Mach.) A bar in which cutters or cutting-tools are fastened, as in a boring-machine.Cŭt'-thrōat, n. p. 327One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin; a ruffian.Cŭt'-thrōat, a. p. 327Murderous; cruel; barbarous.Cŭt'ting, n. p. 327The act or operation of making an incision, of severing, felling, hewing, shaping, and the like. Physicians who use cuttings and burnings for the healing of corrupt flesh. South. 2. Something cut…Cŭt'ting-ly, adv. p. 328In a cutting manner.Cŭt'tle or Cŭt'tle-fish, n. p. 328A knife. [Obs.] Bale. 2. (Zoöl.) A molluscous animal, of the order Cephalopoda and genus Sepia, having ten arms furnished with cupules or sucking cups, by means of which it attaches itself…Cŭt'tle-bōne, n. p. 328The dorsal plate or bone of the cuttle-fish (Sepia officinalis), used for various purposes, as for making tooth powder or polishing powder.Cŭt'tōe, n. p. 328A large knife. [Local, U. S.] Judd.Cŭt'ty, a. p. 328Short; as, a cutty-pipe. [Scot.] Jamieson.Cŭt'ty, n. p. 328A horn spoon. “Greenhorn cutties.” Ross. 2. A short tobacco-pipe. Ramsay. 3. An offender against chastity; a bad woman; a slut. W. Scott.Cŭt'ty-sto͞ol, n. p. 328A small, raised seat or gallery in old Scottish churches, where female offenders against chastity were formerly seated during three Sundays, and publicly rebuked by their minister. Scott.Cŭt'wal, n. p. 328The chief police officer of a large city. [East Indies.]Cŭt'-wa'ter, n. p. 328(Naut.) 1. The fore part of a ship's prow, which projects forward of the bow and cuts the water. 2. The lower portion of the pier of a bridge, formed with an angle or edge directed up stream, in…Cŭt'-work, n. p. 328Embroidery. [Obs.]