Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 163
Currier (n.) One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned.
Currier (n.) United States lithographer who (with his partner James Ives) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1813-1888) [syn: Currier, Nathaniel Currier].
Currier (n.) A craftsman who curries leather for use.
Currish (a.) Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.
Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. -- Shak.
Some currish plot, -- some trick. -- Lockhart. -- Cur"rish*ly, adv. -- Cur"rish*ness, n.
Currish (a.) Base and cowardly.
Currish (a.) Resembling a cur; snarling and rude.
Curried (imp. & p. p.) of Curry.
Currying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curry.
Curry (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
Curry (v. t.) To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.
Your short horse is soon curried. -- Beau. & FL.
Curry (v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely. -- Beau. & FL.
To curry favor, To seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See Favor, n.
Curry (v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry.
Curry (n.) (Cookery) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
Curry (n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
Curry powder (Cookery), A condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc.
Curry (n.) (East Indian cookery) A pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice.
Curry (v.) Season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking
Curry (v.) Treat by incorporating fat; "curry tanned leather."
Curry (v.) Give a neat appearance to; "groom the dogs"; "dress the horses" [syn: dress, groom, curry].
Curry -- U.S. County in New Mexico
Population (2000): 45044
Housing Units (2000): 19212
Land area (2000): 1405.949452 sq. miles (3641.392209 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.718479 sq. miles (4.450841 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1407.667931 sq. miles (3645.843050 sq. km)
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 34.481212 N, 103.253378 W
Headwords:
Curry
Curry, NM
Curry County
Curry County, NM
Curry -- U.S. County in Oregon
Population (2000): 21137
Housing Units (2000): 11406
Land area (2000): 1627.382872 sq. miles (4214.902111 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 361.192062 sq. miles (935.483105 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1988.574934 sq. miles (5150.385216 sq. km)
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 42.398153 N, 124.279359 W
Headwords:
Curry
Curry, OR
Curry County
Curry County, OR
Curry powder (Cookery), A condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc.
Curry powder (n.) Pungent blend of cumin and ground coriander seed and turmeric and other spices.
Currycomb (n.) A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.
Currycomb (v. t.) To comb with a currycomb.
Currycomb (n.) A square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses.
Currycomb (v.) Clean (a horse) with a currycomb.
Curse (v. i.) To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
Then began he to curse and to swear. -- Matt. xxi. 74.
His spirits hear me, And yet I need must curse. -- Shak.
Curse (n.) An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. -- Shak.
Curse (n.) Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
The priest shall write these curses in a book. -- Num. v. 23.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. -- Old Proverb.
Curse (n.) The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance. -- Shak.
All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget, Is propagated curse. -- Milton.
The curse of Scotland (Card Playing), The nine of diamonds.
Not worth a curse. See under Cress.
Syn: Malediction; imprecation; execration. See Malediction.
Cursed (imp. & p. p.) of Curse.
Curst (imp. & p. p.) of Curse.
Cursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curse.
Curse (v. t.) To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
Thou shalt not . . . curse the ruler of thy people. -- Ex. xxii. 28.
Ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed. -- Shak.
Curse (v. t.) To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those. -- Pope.
To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell.
Curse (n.) Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss].
Curse (n.) An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group [syn: execration, condemnation, curse].
Curse (n.) An evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me" [syn: hex, jinx, curse, whammy].
Curse (n.) Something causing misery or death; "the bane of my life" [syn: bane, curse, scourge, nemesis].
Curse (n.) A severe affliction [syn: curse, torment].
Curse (v.) Utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate].
Curse (v.) Heap obscenities upon; "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger."
Curse (v.) Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" [syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant: bless].
Curse (v.) Exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner" [syn: excommunicate, unchurch, curse] [ant: communicate].
Curse, () Denounced by God against the serpent (Gen. 3:14), and against Cain (4:11). These divine maledictions carried their effect with them. Prophetical curses were sometimes pronounced by holy men (Gen. 9:25; 49:7; Deut. 27:15; Josh. 6:26). Such curses are not the consequence of passion or revenge, they are predictions.
No one on pain of death shall curse father or mother (Ex. 21:17), nor the prince of his people (22:28), nor the deaf (Lev. 19:14). Cursing God or blaspheming was punishable by death (Lev. 24:10-16). The words "curse God and die" (R.V., "renounce God and die"), used by Job's wife (Job 2:9), have been variously interpreted. Perhaps they simply mean that as nothing but death was expected, God would by this cursing at once interpose and destroy Job, and so put an end to his sufferings.
Curse (v. t.) Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operation which in literature, particularly in the drama, is commonly fatal to the victim. Nevertheless, the liability to a cursing is a risk that cuts but a small figure in fixing the rates of life insurance.
Cursed (a.) Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.
Let us fly this cursed place. -- Milton.
This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. -- Dryden.
Cursedly (adv.) In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously. [Low]
Cursedly (adv.) In a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably, politely , endlessly persistent!" [syn: damned, damnably, cursedly].
Cursedness (n.) The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.
Cursedness (n.) Wickedness; sin; cursing. -- Chaucer.
Cursedness (n.) Shrewishness. "My wife's cursedness." -- Chaucer.
Curser (n.) One who curses.
Curship (n.) The state of being a cur; one who is currish. [Jocose]
How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship! -- Hudibras.
Cursitating (a.) Moving about slightly. [R.] -- H. Bushnell.
Cursitor (n.) A courier or runner. [Obs.] "Cursitors to and fro." -- Holland.
Cursitor (n.) (Eng.Law) An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs.
Cursive (a.) Running; flowing.
Cursive hand, A running handwriting.
Cursive (n.) A character used in cursive writing.
Cursive (n.) A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial. -- Shipley.
Cursive (a.) Having successive letter joined together; "cursive script".
Cursive (n.) Rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper [syn: longhand, running hand, cursive, cursive script].
Cursor (n.) 光標，有橫線的滑動玻璃板，遊標 Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.
Cursor (n.) 1: (Computer science) Indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions [syn: cursor, pointer].
Cursor, () A visually distinct mark on a display indicating where newly typed text will be inserted. The cursor moves as text is typed and, in most modern editors, can be moved around within a document by the user to change the insertion point.
Cursor, () In SQL, a named control structure used by an application program to point to a row of data. The position of the row is within a table or view, and the cursor is used interactively so select rows from columns. (1996-12-27)
Cursor (n.) [ C ] (B2) （電腦的）遊標 A line on a computer screen that moves to show the point where work is being done.
// You can move the cursor either by using the mouse or by using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
Cursorary (a.) Cursory; hasty. [Obs.]
With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles. -- Shak.
Cursores (n. pl.) (Zool.) 走禽 An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratita[ae].
Cursores (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.
Cursorial (a.) (Zool.) Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.
Cursorial (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
Cursorily (adv.) In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
Cursorily (adv.) Without taking pains; "he looked cursorily through the magazine" [syn: cursorily, quickly].
Cursoriness (n.) The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.
Cursory (a.) Running about; not stationary. [Obs.]
Cursory (a.) Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.
Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. -- Hallam.
Curst () imp. & p. p. of Curse.
Curst (a.) Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling. [Obs.]
Though his mind Be ne'er so curst, his tonque is kind. -- Crashaw.
Curstfully (adv.) Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably. [Obs.] "Curstfully mad." -- Marston.
Curstness (n.) Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Curt (a.) Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.
The curt, yet comprehensive reply. -- W. Irving.
Curtail (n.) The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
Curtailed (imp. & p. p.) of Curtail.
Curtailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curtail.
Curtail (v. t.) 縮減，剝奪，簡略 To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion. -- Shak.
Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been doubled. -- Macaulay.
Curtail (v.) Place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school" [syn: restrict, curtail, curb, cut back].
Curtail (v.) Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries" [syn: clip, curtail, cut short].
Curtail (v.) [ T ] 制止；減少；縮減；限制 To stop something before it is finished, or to reduce or limit something.
// To curtail your holiday/ spending.
// With all the snow, our daily walks have been severely curtailed.
Curtail dog (n.) A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting.
Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. -- Shak.
Curtailer (n.) One who curtails.
Curtailment (n.) 縮減，縮短 The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. -- Bancroft.
Curtailment (n.) The temporal property of being cut short.
Curtailment (n.) The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" [syn: suppression, curtailment].
Curtailment (n.) The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable [syn: retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing].
Curtain (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
Curtain (n.) (Fort.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
Curtain (n.) (Arch.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
Curtain (n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Behind the curtain, In concealment; in secret.
Curtain lecture, A querulous lecture given by a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. -- Jerrold.
A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. -- W. Irving.
The curtain falls, The performance closes.
The curtain rises, The performance begins.
To draw the curtain, To close it over an object, or to remove it; hence:
To draw the curtain, To hide or to disclose an object.
To draw the curtain, To commence or close a performance.
To drop the curtain, To end the tale, or close the performance.
Curtained (imp. & p. p.) of Curtain.
Curtaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curtain.
Curtain (v. t.) 裝簾子於，遮掉 To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red. -- Milton.
Curtain (n.) 帳，幕，窗簾 Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: {curtain}, {drape}, {drapery}, {mantle}, {pall}].
Curtain (n.) Any barrier to communication or vision; "a curtain of secrecy"; "a curtain of trees".
Curtain (v.) Provide with drapery; "curtain the bedrooms".
Curtain, () Ten curtains, each twenty-eight cubits long and four wide, made of fine linen, also eleven made of goat's hair, covered the tabernacle (Ex. 26:1-13; 36:8-17).
Curtain, () The sacred curtain, separating the holy of holies from the sanctuary, is designated by a different Hebrew word (peroketh). It is described as a "veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work" (Ex. 26:31; Lev. 16:2; Num. 18:7).
Curtain, () "Stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain" (Isa. 40:22), is an expression used with reference to the veil or awning which Orientals spread for a screen over their courts in summer.
According to the prophet, the heavens are spread over our heads as such an awning. Similar expressions are found in Ps. 104:2l; comp. Isa. 44:24; Job 9:8.
Curtal (a.) Curt; brief; laconic.
Essays and curtal aphorisms. -- Milton.
Curtal dog. See Curtail dog.
Curtal (n.) A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short. [Obs] -- Nares. Curtle ax, Curtal ax
Curtal (a.) (Obsolete) Cut short; "a dog with a curtal tail".
Curtal ax () Alt. of Curtelasse.
Curtle ax () Alt. of Curtelasse.
Curtelasse () A corruption of Cutlass.
Curtal friar () A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. -- Sir W. Scott.
Curtana (n.) The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.
Curtate (a.) (Astron.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic.
Curtate cycloid. (Math.) See Cycloid.
Curtation (n.) (Astron.) The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.
Curtein (n.) Same as Curtana.
Curtes (a.) Courteous. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Curtesies (n. pl. ) of Curtesy.
Curtesy (n.) (Law) The life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands. -- Mozley & W.
Curtesy, or Courtesy, Scotch law. A life-rent given by law to the surviving husband, of all his wife's heritage of which she died intest, if there was a child of the marriage born alive. The child born of the marriage must be the mother's heir. If she had a child by a former marriage, who is to succeed to her estate, the husband has no right to the curtesy while such child is alive; so that the curtesy is due to the husband rather as father to the heir, than as husband to an heiress, conformable to the Roman law, which gives to the father the usufruct of what the child succeeds to by the mother. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. B. 2, t. 9, s. 30. Vide Estate by the curtesy.
Curtilage (n.) (Law) A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. -- Burrill.
Curtilage (n.) The enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" [syn: yard, grounds, curtilage].
Curtilage, () estates. The open space situated within a common enclosure belonging to a dwelling-house. Vide 2 Roll, Ab. 1, l. 30; Com. dig. Grant, E 7, E 9; Russ. & Ry. 360; Id. 334, 357; Ry & Mood. 13; 2 Leach, 913; 2 Bos. & Pull. 508; 2 East, P. C. 494; Russ. & Ry. 170, 289, 322; 22 Eng. Com. Law R. 330; 1 Ch. Pr. 175; Shep. Touchs. 94.
Curtly (adv.) In a curt manner.
Curtly (adv.) In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it" [syn: curtly, short, shortly].
Curtness (n.) The quality of bing curt.
Curtness (n.) An abrupt discourteous manner [syn: abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortness].
Courtesy (n.) An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees. [Written also curtsy and curtsey.]
The lady drops a courtesy in token of obedience, and the ceremony proceeds as usual. -- Golgsmith.
Curtsey, Curtsy (n.) An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees. Same as 2nd Courtesy, n..
Syn: curtsy; courtesy. curtsey
Curtsey, Curtsy (v. i.) To perform a curtsy.
Curtsy (n.) Bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women [syn: curtsy, curtsey].
Curtsy (v.) Bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting [syn: curtsy, curtsey].
Curtsy (v.) Make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect; "She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand" [syn: curtsy, bob].
Curtsy (n.) Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.
Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot.
Curule (a.) (Rom. Antiq.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.
Note: The curule chair was usually shaped like a camp stool, and provided with curved legs. It was at first ornamented with ivory, and later sometimes made of ivory and inlaid with gold.
Curule dignity right of sitting in the curule chair.
Cururo (n.) (Zool.) A Chilian burrowing rodent of the genus Spalacopus.
Curval (p. pr.) Alt. of Curvant.
Curvant (a.) (Her.) Bowed; bent; curved.
Curvate (a.) Alt. of Curvated.
Curvated (a.) Bent in a regular form; curved.
Curvation (n.) The act of bending or crooking.
Curvative (a.) (Bot.) Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. -- Henslow.
Curvature (n.) 彎曲；（幾何）曲率 The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. -- Cowper.
The elegant curvature of their fronds. -- Darwin.
Curvature (n.) (Math.) The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point.
Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), The deviation of a curve from a circular form.
Absolute curvature. See under Absolute.
Angle of curvature (Geom.), One that expresses the amount of curvature of a curve.
Chord of curvature. See under Chord.
Circle of curvature. See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle.
Curvature of the spine (Med.), An abnormal curving of the spine, especially in a lateral direction.
Radius of curvature, The radius of the circle of curvature, or osculatory circle, at any point of a curve.
Curvature (n.) (Medicine) A curving or bending; often abnormal; "curvature of the spine".
Curvature (n.) The rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve.
Curvature (n.) The property possessed by the curving of a line or surface [syn: curvature, curve].
Compare: Adiabatic
Adiabatic (a.) (Physics) 【物】絕熱的，隔熱的 Not giving out or receiving heat. -- {Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly}, adv.
Note: The adiabatic expansion of carbon dioxide from a compressed container causes the temperature of the gas to decrease rapidly below its freezing point, resulting in the familiar carbon dioxide "snow" emitted by carbon dioxide fire extinguishers.
{Adiabatic line} or {curve}, A curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. -- Rankine.
Curved (imp. & p. p.) of Curve.
Curving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curve.
Curve (v. t.) 使彎曲；使成曲線 To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
Curve (a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
Curve (n.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
Curve (n.) (Geom.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
Axis of a curve. See under Axis.
Curve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone.
Curve tracing (Math.), 曲線描畫法 The process of determining the shape, location, singular points, and other peculiarities of a curve from its equation.
Plane curve (Geom.), 平面曲線 A curve such that when a plane passes through three points of the curve, it passes through all the other Points of the curve. Any other curve is called a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve.
Curve (v. i.) 彎曲；（依）曲線行進 To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
Curve (n.) [C] 曲線，弧線；曲線狀物；彎曲部分；（道路的）彎曲處 The trace of a point whose direction of motion changes [syn: curve, curved shape] [ant: straight line].
Curve (n.) A line on a graph representing data.
Curve (n.) A pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter [syn: curve, curve ball, breaking ball, bender].
Curve (n.) The property possessed by the curving of a line or surface [syn: curvature, curve].
Curve (n.) Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) [syn: bend, curve].
Curve (v.) Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut].
Curve (v.) Extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest" [syn: wind, twist, curve].
Curve (v.) Form an arch or curve; "her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely" [syn: arch, curve, arc].
Curve (v.) Bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply" [syn: crook, curve].
Curve (v.) Form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling" [syn: curl, curve, kink].
Curved (a.) Not straight; having or marked by curves. Opposite of straight.
Note: [Narrower terms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed; falcate, sickle-shaped; flexuous; incurvate, incurved: recurved, recurvate; semicircular: serpentine, snaky: sinuate, sinuous, wavy: sinusoidal].
Syn: curving.
Curved (a.) (Botany) Curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk; -- of a plant ovule. Opposite of orthotropous.
Syn: campylotropous.
Curved (a.) Having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend; "the curved tusks of a walrus"; "his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard" [syn: curved, curving] [ant: straight].
Curvedness (n.) The state of being curved.
Curvet (n.) (Man.) 騰躍 A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.