Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 158
Cubicular (a.) Belonging to a chamber or bedroom. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Cubiform (a.) Of the form of a cube.
Cubiform (a.) Shaped like a cube [syn: cubelike, cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal].
Cubile (n.) The lowest course of stones in a building.
Cubilose (n.) A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.
Cubit (n.) (Anat.) The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist. [Obs.]
Cubit (n.) A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.
Note: The cubit varies in length in different countries, the Roman cubit being 17.47 inches, the Greek 18.20, the Hebrew somewhat longer, and the English 18 inches.
Cubit (n.) An ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm.
Cubit, () Heb. 'ammah; i.e., "mother of the arm," the fore-arm, is a word derived from the Latin cubitus, the lower arm. It is difficult to determine the exact length of this measure, from the uncertainty whether it included the entire length from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger, or only from the elbow to the root of the hand at the wrist. The probability is that the longer was the original cubit. The common computation as to the length of the cubit makes it 20.24 inches for the ordinary cubit, and 21.888 inches for the sacred one. This is the same as the Egyptian measurements.
A rod or staff the measure of a cubit is called in Judg. 3:16 _gomed_, which literally means a "cut," something "cut off." The LXX. and Vulgate render it "span."
Cubital (a.) Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle.
Cubital (a.) Of the length of a cubit. -- Sir. T. Browne.
Cubital (n.) A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand. -- Crabb.
Cubital (a.) Of or relating to the elbow.
Cubited (a.) Having the measure of a cubit.
Cubless (a.) Having no cubs. -- Byron.
Cuboid (a.) (Anat.) Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot.
Cuboid (n.) (Anat.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.
Cuboid (a.) Shaped like a cube [syn: cubelike, cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal].
Cuboid (n.) A rectangular parallelepiped.
Cuboidal (a.) (Anat.) Cuboid.
Cuboidal (a.) Shaped like a cube [syn: cubelike, cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal].
Cubo-octahedral (a.) Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.
Cubo-octahedron (n.) (Crystallog.) A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.
Cuca (n.) See Coca.
Cucking stool () A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. -- Sir. W. Scott.
Cucking stool (n.) An instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water [syn: cucking stool, ducking stool].
Cuckold (n.) A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress. -- Shak.
Cuckold (n.) (Zool.) A West Indian plectognath fish ({Ostracion triqueter).
Cuckold (n.) (Zool.) The cowfish.
Cuckolded (imp. & p. p.) of Cuckold.
Cuckolding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cuckold.
Cuckold (v. t.) To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress. -- Shak.
Cuckold (n.) A man whose wife committed adultery.
Cuckold (v.) Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" [syn: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander].
Cuckoldize (v. t.) To cuckold. -- Dryden.
Cuckoldly (a.) Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking. -- Shak.
Cuckoldom (n.) The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively. -- Addison.
Cuckoldom (n.) The state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery.
Cuckoldry (n.) The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.
Cuckoldry (n.) The practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women.
Cuckold's knot () (Naut.) A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Cuckoo (n.) (Zool.) A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.
Note: The European cuckoo ({Cuculus canorus) builds no nest of its own, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them. The American yellow-billed cuckoo ({Coccyzus Americanus) and the black-billed cuckoo ({Coccyzus erythrophthalmus) build their own nests.
Cuckoo clock, A clock so constructed that at the time for striking it gives forth sounds resembling the cry of the cuckoo.
Cuckoo dove (Zool.), A long-tailed pigeon of the genus Macropygia. Many species inhabit the East Indies.
Cuckoo fish (Zool.), The European red gurnard ({Trigla cuculus). The name probably alludes to the sound that it utters.
Cuckoo falcon (Zool.), Any falcon of the genus Baza. The genus inhabits Africa and the East Indies.
Cuckoo maid (Zool.), The wryneck; -- called also cuckoo mate.
Cuckoo+ray+(Zool.),+A+British+ray+({Raia+miraletus">Cuckoo ray (Zool.), a British ray ({Raia miraletus).
Cuckoo spit, or Cuckoo spittle. (a) A frothy secretion found upon plants, exuded by the larvae of certain insects, for concealment; -- called also toad spittle and frog spit.
Cuckoo spit, or Cuckoo spittle. (b) (Zool.) A small hemipterous insect, the larva of which, living on grass and the leaves of plants, exudes this secretion. The insects belong to Aphrophora, Helochara, and allied genera.
Ground cuckoo, The chaparral cock.
Cuckoo (n.) A man who is a stupid incompetent fool [syn: fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany].
Cuckoo (n.) Any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail.
Cuckoo (v.) Repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call.
Cuckoo, () (Heb. shahaph), from a root meaning "to be lean; slender." This bird is mentioned only in Lev. 11:16 and Deut. 14:15 (R.V., "seamew"). Some have interpreted the Hebrew word by "petrel" or "shearwater" (Puffinus cinereus), which is found on the coast of Syria; others think it denotes the "sea-gull" or "seamew." The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) feeds on reptiles and large insects. It is found in Asia and Africa as well as in Europe. It only passes the winter in Palestine. The Arabs suppose it to utter the cry _Yakub_, and hence they call it _tir el-Yakub_; i.e., "Jacob's bird."
Cuckoobud (n.) (Bot.) A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup. -- Shak.
Compare: Buttercup
Buttercup (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly Ranunculus bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.
Cuckooflower (n.) (Bot.) A species of Cardamine ({Cardamine pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin ({Lychnis Flos-cuculi).
Cuckooflower (n.) A bitter cress of Europe and America [syn: lady's smock, cuckooflower, cuckoo flower, meadow cress, Cardamine pratensis].
Cuckoopint (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Arum ({Arum maculatum); the European wake-robin.
Cuckoopint, Cuckoo-pint (n.) A common European arum ({Arum maculatum) with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring, and is the source of a sagolike starch called arum.
Syn: cuckoopint, lords and ladies, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum.
Cuckoopint (n.) Common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum [syn: cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum].
Cucquean (n.) A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her. [Obs.]
Cucujo (n.) (Zool.) The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies. Cucullate
Compare: Fire beetle
Fire beetle (Zool.) A very brilliantly luminous beetle ({Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.
Cucullate (a.) Alt. of Cucullated.
Cucullated (a.) Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. -- Sir T. Browne.
Cucullated (a.) (Bot.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.
Cucullated (a.) (Zool.) Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects.
Cucullated (a.) (Zool.) Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.
Cuculoid (a.) (Zool.) Like or belonging to the cuckoos ({Cuculidae).
Cucumber (n.) (Bot.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below.
Bitter cucumber (Bot.), The Citrullus Colocynthis syn.
Cucumis Colocynthis. See Colocynth.
Cucumber beetle. (Zool.) (a) A small, black flea-beetle ({Crepidodera cucumeris), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines.
Cucumber beetle. (Zool.) (b) The squash beetle.
Cucumber tree. (a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus Magnolia (Magnolia acuminata), so called from a slight resemblance of its young fruit to a small cucumber.
Cucumber tree. (b) An East Indian plant ({Averrhoa Bilimbi) which produces the fruit known as bilimbi.
Jamaica cucumber, Jerusalem cucumber, the prickly-fruited gherkin ({Cucumis Anguria).
Snake+cucumber,+A+species+({Cucumis+flexuosus">Snake cucumber, a species ({Cucumis flexuosus) remarkable
for its long, curiously-shaped fruit.
Squirting+cucumber,+A+plant+({Ecbalium+Elaterium">Squirting cucumber, a plant ({Ecbalium Elaterium) whose
small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium.
Star+cucumber,+A+climbing+weed+({Sicyos+angulatus">Star cucumber, a climbing weed ({Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.
Cucumber (n.) A melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit [syn: cucumber, cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus].
Cucumber (n.) Cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons [syn: cucumber, cuke].
Cucumiform (a.) Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.
Cucumis (n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds. Cucurbit
Cucumis (n.) Cucumbers; muskmelons [syn: Cucumis, genus Cucumis].
Cucurbit (n.) Alt. of Cucurbite.
Cucurbite (n.) (Chem.) A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.
Cucurbit (n.) Any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae.
Cucurbitaceous (a.) (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.
Cucurbitaceous (a.) of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae.
Cucurbitive (a.) Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms.
Cud (n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. -- Levit. xi. 3
Cud (n.) A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid. [Low]
Cud (n.) The first stomach of ruminating beasts. -- Crabb.
To chew the cud, To ruminate; to meditate; used with of; as, to chew the cud of bitter memories.
Chewed the thrice turned cud of wrath. -- Tennyson.
Cud (n.) Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again [syn: cud, rechewed food].
Cud (n.) A wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad].
CUD, () Color Universal Design (Eizo, LCD)
Cudbear (n.) A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea. --Ure.
Cudbear (n.) (Bot.) A lichen ({Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained.
Cudbear (n.) A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens [syn: orchil, archil, cudbear].
Compare: Cuddy
Cuddy (n.) (Zool) The coalfish ({Pollachius carbonarius). [Written also cudden.]
Cudden (n.) A clown; a low rustic; a dolt. [Obs.]
The slavering cudden, propped upon his staff. -- Dryden.
Cudden (n.) (Zool.) The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy.
Cuddled (imp. & p. p.) of Cuddle.
Cuddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cuddle.
Cuddle (v. i.) 偎依；舒服地貼著身睡 To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
She cuddles low beneath the brake; Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly. -- Prior.
Cuddle (v. t.) 撫愛地擁抱；親熱地摟住 To embrace closely; to fondle. -- Forby.
Cuddle (n.) [S] 擁抱，摟抱 A close embrace. cuddlesome
Cuddle (n.) A close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace [syn: {cuddle}, {nestle}, {snuggle}].
Cuddle (v.) Move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags" [syn: {cuddle}, {snuggle}, {nestle}, {nest}, {nuzzle}, {draw close}].
Cuddle (v.) Hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth; "I cuddled the baby".
Cuddy (n.) An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer. [Scot.]
Cuddy (n.) Hence: A blockhead; a lout. -- Hood.
Cuddy (n.) (Mech.) A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc . -- Knight.
Cuddy (n.) (Naut.) A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.
Cuddy (n.) The coalfish ({Pollachius carbonarius). [Written also cudden.]
Cuddy (n.) The galley or pantry of a small ship.
Cudgel (n.) 棍棒 A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.
He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. -- Bunyan.
Cudgel play, A fight or sportive contest with cudgels.
To cross the cudgels, To forbear or give up the contest; -- a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay one cudgel over another when the contest is ended.
To take up cudgels for, To engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something).
Cudgeled (imp. & p. p.) of Cudgel.
Cudgelled () of Cudgel.
Cudgeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cudgel.
Cudgelling () of Cudgel.
Cudgel (v. t.) 用棍棒打 To beat with a cudgel.
An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. --Shak.
To cudgel one's brains, to exercise one's wits.
Cudgel (n.) A club that is used as a weapon.
Cudgel (v.) Strike with a cudgel [syn: cudgel, fustigate].
Cudgeler (n.) One who beats with a cudgel. [Written also cudgeller.]
Cudweed (n.) (Bot.) 鼠麴草 A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.
Cudweed (n.) Any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color.
Cudweed (n.) Any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads [syn: cotton rose, cudweed, filago].
Cudweed (n.) Perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States [syn: western mugwort, white sage, cudweed, prairie sage, Artemisia ludoviciana, Artemisia gnaphalodes].
Cue (n.) [C]【戲】提示，尾白；暗示，信號；線索 The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
Cue (n.) The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword.
When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. -- Shak.
Cue (n.) A hint or intimation.
Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house. -- Swift.
Cue (n.) The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.
Were it my cueto fight, I should have known it Without a prompter. -- Shak.
Cue (n.) Humor; temper of mind. [Colloq.] -- Dickens.
Cue (n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.
Cue (v. t.) [（+in）] 給……暗示；把……插入演出 To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
Cue (n.) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing. [Obs.]
Note: The term was formerly current in the English universities, the letter q being the mark in the buttery books to denote such a portion. -- Nares.
Hast thou worn Gowns in the university, tossed logic, Sucked philosophy, eat cues? -- Old Play.
Cue (n.) An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
Cue (n.) Evidence that helps to solve a problem [syn: {clue}, {clew}, {cue}].
Cue (n.) A stimulus that provides information about what to do [syn: {discriminative stimulus}, {cue}].
Cue (n.) Sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards [syn: {cue}, {cue stick}, {pool cue}, {pool stick}].
Cue (v.) Assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned [syn: {prompt}, {remind}, {cue}].
Cuerpo (n.) The body. dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena! (1996)
In cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered.
Exposed in cuerpo to their rage. -- Hudibras.
Cuffed (imp. & p. p.) of Cuff.
Cuffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cuff.
Cuff (v. t.) To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.
I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again. -- Shak.
They with their quills did all the hurt they could, And cuffed the tender chickens from their food. -- Dryden.
Cuff (v. t.) To buffet. "Cuffed by the gale." -- Tennyson.
Cuff (v. i.) To fight; to scuffle; to box. While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport. -- Dryden.
Cuff (n.) A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.
Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff. -- Spenser.
Many a bitter kick and cuff. -- Hudibras.
Cuff (n.) The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.
He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band, short cuffs, and a peaked beard. -- Arbuthnot.
Cuff (n.) Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.
Cuff (n.) The lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg [syn: cuff, turnup].
Cuff (n.) Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs [syn: handcuff, cuff, handlock, manacle].
Cuff (v.) Hit with the hand [syn: cuff, whomp].
Cuff (v.) Confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs; "The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime" [syn: manacle, cuff, handcuff].
Cuffy (n.) A name for a negro. [Slang]
Cufic (a.) Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic language. [Written also Kufic.]
Cuinage (n.) The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.
Cuirasses (n. pl. ) of Cuirass.
Cuirass (n.) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.
Cuirass (n.) The breastplate taken by itself.
Note: The cuirass covered the body before and behind. It consisted of two parts, a breast- and backpiece of iron fastened together by means of straps and buckles or other like contrivances. It was originally, as the name imports, made of leather, but afterward of metal. -- Grose.
Cuirass (n.) (Zool) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.
Cuirass (n.) Medieval body armor that covers the chest and back.
Cuirassed (a.) Wearing a cuirass.
Cuirassed (a.) (Zool) Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; -- said of certain fishes.
Cuirassier (n.) (Mil.) A soldier armed with a cuirass; especially, a soldier of the heaviest cavalry, wearing a cuirass only when in full dress. -- Milton.
Cirassier (n.) A cavalryman equipped with a cuirass.