Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 160
Culturist (n.) One who is an advocate of culture.
The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not?) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man. -- J. C. Shairp
Cultuses (n. pl. ) of Cultus.
Cultus (n. sing. & pl.) Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2.
Cultus (a.) [See Cultus cod.] Bad, worthless; no good. [Northwestern U. S.]
"A bad horse, cultus [no good] !" he said, beating it with his whip. -- F. H. Balch.
Cultus (n.) A system of religious beliefs and rituals; "devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin" [syn: cult, cultus, religious cult].
Cultus cod () (Zool.) See Cod, and Buffalo cod, under Buffalo.
Cod (n.) (Zool.) An important edible fish ({Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.
Note: There are several varieties; as shore cod, from shallow water; bank cod, from the distant banks; and rock cod, which is found among ledges, and is often dark brown or mottled with red. The tomcod is a distinct species of small size. The bastard, blue, buffalo, or cultus cod of the Pacific coast belongs to a distinct family. See Buffalo cod, under Buffalo.
Cod fishery, The business of fishing for cod.
Cod line, An eighteen-thread line used in catching codfish. -- McElrath.
Culver (n.) A dove.
Culver (n.) A culverin.
Culverhouse (n.) A dovecote.
Culverin (n.) A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles.
Culverkey (n.) A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree.
Culverkey (n.) An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans).
Culvert (n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
Culvertail (n.) Dovetail.
Culvertailed (a.) United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.
Cumacea (n. pl.) An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.
Cumbent (a.) Lying down; recumbent.
Cumbered (imp. & p. p.) of Cumber.
Cumbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cumber.
Cumber (v. t.) To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.
Cumber (v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress.
Cumbersome (a.) Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
Cumbersome (a.) Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine.
Cumbrance (n.) Encumbrance.
Cumbrian (a.) Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there.
Cumbrous (a.) Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
Cumbrous (a.) Giving trouble; vexatious.
Cumene (n.) A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.
Cumfrey (n.) See Comfrey.
Cumic (a.) See Cuming.
Cumidine (n.) A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.
Cumin (n.) A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway.
Cuminic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid.
Cuminil (n .) A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.
Cuminol (n.) A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde.
Cummin (n.) Same as Cumin.
Cumshaw (n.) A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton.
Cumshaw (v. t.) To give or make a present to.
Cumshot (n.) Cumshots (n. pl.) (vulgar, slang) A sex act in pornographic films in which a man ejaculates onto his partner's body.
Cumshot (n.) (vulgar, slang) The portrayal of ejaculation.
Cumshot (n.) (vulgar, slang) A trail or splodge of semen.
Cumu-cirro-stratus (n.) Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.
Cumulated (imp. & p. p.) of Cumulate.
Cumulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cumulate.
Cumulate (v. t.) To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.
Cumulation (n.) The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation.
Cumulatist (n.) One who accumulates; one who collects.
Cumulative (a.) Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
Cumulative (a.) Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.
Cumulative (a.) Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.
Cumulative (a.) Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.
Cumulose (a.) Full of heaps.
Cumulostratus (n.) A form of cloud. See Cloud.
Cumuli (n. pl. ) of Cumulus.
Cumulus (n.) One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud.
Cun (v. t.) To con (a ship).
Cun (v. t.) To know. See Con.
Cunabula (n. pl.) The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.
Cunabula (n. pl.) The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.
Cunctation (n.) Delay; procrastination.
Cunctative (a.) Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.
Cunctator (n.) One who delays or lingers.
Cunctipotent (a.) All-powerful; omnipotent.
Cund (v. t.) To con (a ship).
Cundurango (n.) The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer.
Cuneal () Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped.
Cuneate (a.) Alt. of Cuneated.
Cuneated (a.) Wedge-shaped.
Cuneated (a.) wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.
Cuneatic (a.) Cuneiform.
Cuneiform (a.) Alt. of Cuniform.
Cuniform (a.) Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.
Cuniform (a.) Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them.
Cuneiform (n.) Alt. of Cuniform.
Cuniform (n.) The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.
Cuniform (n.) One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.
Cuniform (n.) One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.
Cunette (n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.
Cunner (n.) A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer.
Cunner (n.) A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.
Cunning (a.) 狡猾的，奸詐的；精巧的；熟練的，靈巧的 Knowing; skillful; dexterous. "A cunning workman." -- Ex. xxxviii. 23.
"Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. -- Shak.
Esau was a cunning hunter. -- Gen xxv. 27.
Cunning (a.) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
Over them Arachne high did lift Her cunning web. -- Spenser.
Cunning (a.) Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. -- South.
Cunning (a.) Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Barlett.
Syn: Cunning, Artful, Sly, Wily, Crafty.
Usage: These epithets agree in expressing an aptitude for attaining some end by peculiar and secret means. Cunning is usually low; as, a cunning trick. Artful is more ingenious and inventive; as, an artful device. Sly implies a turn for what is double or concealed; as, sly humor; a sly evasion. Crafty denotes a talent for dexterously deceiving; as, a crafty manager. Wily describes a talent for the use of stratagems; as, a wily politician. A cunning man often shows his dexterity in simply concealing. An artful man goes further, and exerts his ingenuity in misleading. A crafty man mingles cunning with art, and so shapes his actions as to lull suspicions. The young may be cunning, but the experienced only can be crafty. Slyness is a vulgar kind of cunning; the sly man goes cautiously and silently to work. Wiliness is a species of cunning or craft applicable only to cases of attack and defense". -- Crabb.
Cunning (n.) [U] 狡猾，奸詐；靈巧，熟練 Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity. [Archaic]
Let my right hand forget her cunning. -- Ps. cxxxvii. 5.
A carpenter's desert Stands more in cunning than in power. -- Chapman.
Cunning (n.) The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom. -- Locke.
We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. -- Bacon.
Cunning (a.) Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn: cunning, cute].
Cunning (a.) Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily].
Cunning (a.) Showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem" [syn: clever, cunning, ingenious].
Cunning (n.) Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness].
Cunning (n.) Crafty artfulness (especially in deception).
Cunning (n.) The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses".
Cunningly (adv.) 狡猾地；巧妙地 In a cunning manner; with cunning.
Cunningly (adv.) In an attractive manner; "how cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure" [syn: cunningly, cutely].
Cunningly (adv.) In an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?" [syn: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully].
Cunningman (n.) A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
Cunningness (n.) Quality of being cunning; craft.
Cup (n.) A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.
Cup (n.) The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
Give me a cup of sack, boy. -- Shak.
Cup (n.) pl. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
Thence from cups to civil broils. -- Milton.
Cup (n.) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. -- Matt. xxvi. 39.
Cup (n.) Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. -- Shenstone.
Cup (n.) (Med.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
Cup and ball, A familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. -- Milman.
Cup and can, Familiar companions.
Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), A cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping.
To be in one's cups, To be drunk.
Cupped (imp. & p. p.) of Cup.
Cupping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cup.
Cup (v. t.) To supply with cups of wine. [R.]
Cup us, till the world go round. -- Shak.
Cup (v. t.) (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
Cup (v. t.) (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
Cupbearer (n.) One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.
Cupbearer (n.) One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master.
Cupboard (n.) A board or shelf for cups and dishes. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Cupboard (n.) A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.
Cupboard love, Interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. "A cupboard love is seldom true." -- Poor Robin. [Colloq.]
To cry cupboard, To call for food; to express hunger. [Colloq.] "My stomach cries cupboard." -- W. Irving.
Cupboard (n.) A small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space [syn: cupboard, closet].
Cupboard (v. t.) To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. [R.] -- Shak.