Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 164

Curvet (n.) A prank; a frolic.

Curveted (imp. & p. p.) of Curvet

-vetted () of Curvet

Curveting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curvet

-vetting () of Curvet

Curvet (n.) To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.

Curvet (n.) To leap and frisk; to frolic.

Curvet (v. t.) To cause to curvet.

Curvicaudate (a.) Having a curved or crooked tail.

Curvicostate (a.) Having bent ribs.

Curvidentate (a.) Having curved teeth.

Curviform (a.) Having a curved form.

Curvilinead (n.) An instrument for drawing curved lines.

Curvilineal (a.) Alt. of Curvilinear

Curvilinear (a.) Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.

Curvilinearity (n.) The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.

Curvilinearly (adv.) In a curvilinear manner.

Curvinerved (a.) Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.

Curvirostral (a.) Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.

Curvirostres (n. pl.) A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.

Curviserial (a.) Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.

Curvity (n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.

Curvograph (n.) An arcograph.

Cushat (n.) The ringdove or wood pigeon.

Cushewbird (n.) The galeated curassow. See Curassow.

Cushion (n.) A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.

Cushion (n.) Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use

Cushion (n.) a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf

Cushion (n.) a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston

Cushion (n.) the elastic edge of a billiard table.

Cushion (n.) A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.

Cushioned (imp. & p. p.) of Cushion

Cushioning (p. pr. & vb.) of Cushion

Cushion (v. t.) To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.

Cushion (v. t.) To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.

Cushion (v. t.) To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

Cushionet (n.) A little cushion.

Cushionless (a.) Hot furnished with a cushion.

Cushiony (a.) Like a cushion; soft; pliable.

Cushite (n.) A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah.

Cusk (n.) A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.

Cuskin (n.) A kind of drinking cup.

Cusp (n.) A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.

Cusp (n.) The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc.

Cusp (n.) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

Cusp (n.) A multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent.

Cusp (n.) A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth.

Cusp (n.) A sharp and rigid point.

Cusped (imp. & p. p.) of Cusp

Cusping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cusp

Cusp (v. t.) To furnish with a cusp or cusps.

Cuspated (a.) Ending in a point.

Cuspid (n.) One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.

Cuspidal (a.) Ending in a point.

Cuspidate (v. t.) To make pointed or sharp.

Cuspidate (a.) Alt. of Cuspidated

Cuspidated (a.) Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf.

Cuspidor (n.) Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort.

Cuspis (n.) A point; a sharp end.

Custard (n.) A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.

Custode (n.) See Custodian.

Custodial (a.) Relating to custody or guardianship.

Custodian (n.) One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.

Custodianship (n.) Office or duty of a custodian.

Custodier (n.) A custodian.

Custody (n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.

Custody (n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.

Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.

Custom (n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.

Custom (n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.

Custom (n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.

Custom (n.) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.

Custom (v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom.

Custom (v. t.) To supply with customers.

Custom (v. i.) To have a custom.

Custom (n.) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.

Custom (n.) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.

Custom (v. t.) To pay the customs of.

Customable (a.) Customary.

Customable (a.) Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.

Customableness (n.) Quality of being customable; conformity to custom.

Customably (adv.) Usually.

Customarily (adv.) In a customary manner; habitually.

Customariness (n.) Quality of being customary.

Customary (a.) Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.

Customary (a.) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.

Customary (n.) A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans.

Customer (n.) One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.

Customer (n.) One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.

Customer (n.) A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.

Customer (n.) A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer.

Customer (n.) A lewd woman.

Customhouse (n.) The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.

Custodes (pl. ) of Custos

Custos (n.) A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.

Custrel (n.) An armor-bearer to a knight.

Custrel (n.) See Costrel.

Custumary (a.) See Customary.

Cut (imp. & p. p.) of Cut

Cutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cut

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