Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 162

Cure (v. t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.

Cure (v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

Cure (v. i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

Cure (v. i.) To restore health; to effect a cure.

Cure (v. i.) To become healed.

Cure (n.) A curate; a pardon.

Cureall (n.) A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea.

Cureless (a.) Incapable of cure; incurable.

Curer (n.) One who cures; a healer; a physician.

Curer (n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.

Curette (n.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.

Curfew (n.) The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself.

Curfew (n.) A utensil for covering the fire.

Curle (pl. ) of Curia

Curia (n.) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.

Curia (n.) The place of assembly of one of these divisions.

Curia (n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.

Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.

Curia (n.) Any court of justice.

Curia (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.

Curialism (n.) The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.

Curialist (n.) One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.

Curialistic (a.) Pertaining to a court.

Curialistic (a.) Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.

Curiality (n.) The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court.

Curiet (n.) A cuirass.

Curing () p. a. & vb. n. of Cure.

Curios (pl. ) of Curio

Curio (n.) Any curiosity or article of virtu.

Curiologic (a.) Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.

Curiosities (pl. ) of Curiosity

Curiosity (n.) The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.

Curiosity (n.) Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.

Curiosity (n.) That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.

Curiosos (pl. ) of Curioso

Curioso (n.) A virtuoso.

Curious (a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

Curious (a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.

Curious (a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.

Curious (a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.

Curiously (adv.) In a curious manner.

Curiousness (n.) Carefulness; painstaking.

Curiousness (n.) The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.

Curiousness (n.) Inquisitiveness; curiosity.

Curled (imp. & p. p.) of Curl

Curling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curl

Curl (n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

Curl (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.

Curl (n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.

Curl (n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.

Curl (n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.

Curl (v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.

Curl (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.

Curl (v. i.) To play at the game called curling.

Curl (v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.

Curl (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.

Curl (v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.

Curled (a.) Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).

Curledness (n.) State of being curled; curliness.

Curler (n.) One who, or that which, curls.

Curler (n.) A player at the game called curling.

Curlew (n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

Curliness (n.) State of being curly.

Curling (n.) The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.

Curling (n.) A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.

Curlingly (adv.) With a curl, or curls.

Curly (a.) Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.

Curlycue (n.) Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.

Curmudgeon (n.) An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.

Curmudgeonly (a.) Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.

Curmurring (n.) Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes.

Curr (v. i.) To coo.

Currant (n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.

Currant (n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

Currant (n.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.

Currencies (pl. ) of Currency

Currency (n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.

Currency (n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.

Currency (n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.

Currency (n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance.

Currency (n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

Current (a.) Running or moving rapidly.

Current (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month.

Current (a.) Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.

Current (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

Current (a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.

Current (a.) A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.

Current (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.

Currently (adv.) In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.

Currentness (n.) The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.

Currentness (n.) Easiness of pronunciation; fluency.

Curricle (n.) A small or short course.

Curricle (n.) A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.

Curriculums (pl. ) of Curriculum

Curricula (pl. ) of Curriculum

Curriculum (n.) A race course; a place for running.

Curriculum (n.) A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.

Currie (n. & v.) See 2d & 3d Curry.

Curried (n.) Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.

Curried (n.) Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc.

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