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.
Curvetting () of Curvet.
Curvet (v. i.) （使）騰躍 To make a curvet; to leap; to bound. "Oft and high he did curvet." -- Drayton.
Curvet (v. i.) To leap and frisk; to frolic. -- Shak.
Curvet (v. t.) To cause to curvet. -- Landor.
Curvet (n.) A light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down [syn: curvet, vaulting].
Curvet (v.) Perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse.
Curvicaudate (a.) (Zool.) Having a curved or crooked tail.
Curvicostate (a.) (Bot.) Having bent ribs.
Curvidentate (a.) Having curved teeth.
Curviform (a.) Having a curved form.
Curvilinead (n.) (Geom.) An instrument for drawing curved lines. Curvilineal
Curvilineal (a.) Alt. of Curvilinear.
Curvilinear (a.) 用曲線圈住的；曲線的；曲線組成的 Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.
Curvilineal (a.) Characterized by or following a curved line; "curvilinear tracery"; "curvilinear motion" [syn: curvilineal, curvilinear].
Curvilinearity (n.) The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
Curvilinearly (adv.) In a curvilinear manner.
Curvinerved (a.) (Bot.) Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.
Curvirostral (a.) (Zool.) Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.
Curvirostres (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
Curviserial (a.) (Bot.) Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
Curvity (n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness. -- Holder.
Curvograph (n.) (Geom.) An arcograph.
Compare: Ringdove
Ringdove (n.) (Zool.) A European wild pigeon ({Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.
Cushat (n.) (Zool.) The ringdove or wood pigeon.
Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie. -- Sir W. Scott.
Cushat (n.) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck [syn: wood pigeon, ringdove, cushat, Columba palumbus].
Cushewbird (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Two cushions stuffed with straw, the seat to raise. -- Dryden.
Cushion (n.) Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use ; as:
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. -- Halliwell.
Cushion capital. (Arch.) A capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature.
Cushion capital. (b) A name given to a form of capital, much used in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces.
Cushion star (Zool.) A pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; -- so called from its form.
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.
Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity. -- Bolingbroke.
Cushion (v. t.) To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.
Cushion (v. t.) To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
Cushioned hammer, A dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke.
Cushion (n.) A mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses; "the old car needed a new set of shocks" [syn: shock absorber, shock, cushion].
Cushion (n.) The layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle.
Cushion (n.) A soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc.
Cushion (v.) Protect from impact; "cushion the blow" [syn: cushion, buffer, soften].
Cushionet (n.) A little cushion.
Cushionless (a.) Hot furnished with a cushion.
Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. -- Hawthorne.
Cushiony (a.) Like a cushion; soft; pliable.
A flat and cushiony nose. -- Dickens.
Cushiony (a.) Softened by the addition of cushions or padding [syn: cushioned, cushiony, padded].
Cushite (n.) A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah.
Cushite, () The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2 Sam. 18:32).
Cushite, () The father of Shelemiah (Jer. 36:14).
Cushite, () Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet Zephaniah (1:1).
Cushite, () Moses married a Cushite woman (Num. 12:1). From this circumstance some have supposed that Zipporah was meant, and hence that Midian was Cush.
Cusk (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Cusk (n.) The lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters.
Cusk (n.) Large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod [syn: cusk, torsk, Brosme brosme]
Cusk (n.) Elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth [syn: burbot, eelpout, ling, cusk, Lota lota].
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.) 管理人；保管人；監護人；守衛 One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.
Custodian (n.) One having charge of buildings or grounds or animals [syn: custodian, keeper, steward].
Custodianship (n.) 保管人等之職位 Office or duty of a custodian.
Custodianship (n.) The position of custodian.
Custodier (n.) A custodian.
Custody (n.) [U] 照管；保管；監護 [（+of）]；拘留；監禁 [（+in/ into）] A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. -- Bacon.
Custody (n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
Jailer, take him to thy custody. -- Shak.
Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
What pease will be given To us enslaved, but custody severe, And stripes and arbitrary punishment? -- Milton.
Custody (n.) A state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police" [syn: {detention}, {detainment}, {hold}, {custody}].
Custody (n.) Holding by the police; "the suspect is in custody".
Custody (n.) (with `in') Guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate is in your hands"; "too much power in the president's hands"; "your guests are now in my custody"; "the mother was awarded custody of the children" [syn: {hands}, {custody}].
Custody (n.) The detainer of a person by virtue of a lawful authority. To be in custody, is to be lawfully detained under arrest. Vide 14 Vin. Ab. 359; 3 Chit. Pr. 355. In another sense, custody signifies having the care and possession of a thing; as, the chancellor is entitled to the custody as the keeper of the seal.
Custom
Bespoke
(Or "bespoke") An adjective describing any product that is special in some way, individually created for a specific user or system, as opposed to generic or off-the-shelf. (2008-06-25)
Custom (n.) （社會，團體的）習俗，慣例 [C] [U]；（個人的）習慣 [C]；（顧客對商店等的）惠顧 [U]；顧客 [U] Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
And teach customs which are not lawful. -- Acts xvi. 21.
Moved beyond his custom, Gama said. -- Tennyson.
A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. -- Shak.
Custom (n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
Let him have your custom, but not your votes. -- Addison.
Custom (n.) (Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See {Usage}, and {Prescription}.
Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. -- Wharton.
Custom (n.) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [Obs.]
Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. -- Shak.
{Custom of merchants}, A system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated.
{General customs}, Those which extend over a state or kingdom.
{Particular customs}, Those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.
Syn: Practice; fashion. See {Habit}, and {Usage}.
Custom (v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom. [Obs.] -- Gray.
Custom (v. t.) To supply with customers. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Custom (v. i.) To have a custom. [Obs.]
On a bridge he custometh to fight. -- Spenser.
Custom (n.) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. -- Rom. xiii. 7.
Custom (n.) pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
Custom (v. t.) To pay the customs of. [Obs.] -- Marlowe.
Custom (a.) 訂做的，訂製的 [B] Made according to the specifications of an individual [syn: {custom-made}, {custom}] [ant: {ready-made}].
Custom (n.) Accepted or habitual practice [syn: {custom}, {usage}, {usance}].
Custom (n.) A specific practice of long standing [syn: {custom}, {tradition}].
Custom (n.) Money collected under a tariff [syn: {customs}, {customs duty}, {custom}, {impost}].
Custom (n.) Habitual patronage; "I have given this tailor my custom for many years".
Custom (n.) A tax imposed by the Romans. The tax-gatherers were termed publicans (q.v.), who had their stations at the gates of cities, and in the public highways, and at the place set apart for that purpose, called the "receipt of custom" (Matt.9: 9; Mark 2:14), where they collected the money that was to be paid on certain goods (Matt.17:25). These publicans were tempted to exact more from the people than was lawful, and were, in consequence of their extortions, objects of great hatred. The Pharisees would have no intercourse with them (Matt.5:46, 47; 9:10, 11).
Custom (n.) A tax or tribute (q.v.) of half a shekel was annually paid by every adult Jew for the temple. It had to be paid in Jewish coin (Matt. 22:17-19; Mark 12:14, 15). Money-changers (q.v.) were necessary, to enable the Jews who came up to Jerusalem at the feasts to exchange their foreign coin for Jewish money; but as it was forbidden by the law to carry on such a traffic for emolument (Deut. 23:19, 20), our Lord drove them from the temple (Matt. 21:12: Mark 11:15).
Custom (n.) A usage which had acquired the force of law. It is, in fact, a lex loci, which regulates all local or real property within its limits. A repugnancy which destroys it, must be such as to show it never did exist. 5 T. R. 414. In Pennsylvania no customs have the force of law but those which prevail throughout the state. 6 Binn. 419, 20.
Custom (n.) A custom derives its force from the tacit consent of the legislature and the people, and supposes an original, actual deed or agreement. 2 Bl. Com. 30, 31; 1 Chit. Pr. 283. Therefore, custom is the best interpreter of laws: optima est legum interpres consuetudo. Dig. 1, 8, 37; 2 Inst. 18. It follows, therefore, there; can be no custom in relation to a matter regulated by law. 8 M. R. 309. Law cannot be established or abrogated except by the sovereign will, but this will may be express or implied and presumed and whether it manifests itself by word or by a series of facts, is of little importance. When a custom is public, peaceable, uniform, general, continued, reasonable and certain, and has lasted "time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," it acquires the force of law. And when any doubts arise as to the meaning of a statute, the custom which has prevailed on the subject ought to have weight in its construction, for the manner in which a law has always been executed is one of its modes of interpretation. 4 Penn. St. Rep. 13.
Custom (n.) Customs are general or, particular customs. 1. By general customs is meant the common law itself, by which proceedings and determinations in courts are guided.
Custom (n.) Particular customs, are those which affect the inhabitants of some particular districts only. 1 Bl. Com. 68, 74. Vide 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 121 Bac. Ab. h.t.; 1 Bl. Com. 76; 2 Bl. Com. 31; 1 Lill. Reg. 516; 7 Vin. Ab. 164; Com. Dig. h.t.; Nelson's Ab. h.t. the various Amer. Digs. h.t. Ayl. Pand. 15, 16; Ayl. Pareg. 194; Doct. Pl. 201; 3 W. C. C. R. 150; 1 Gilp. 486; Pet. C. C. R. 220; I Edw. Ch. R. 146; 1 Gall. R. 443; 3 Watts, R. 178; 1 Rep. Const. Ct. 303, 308; 1 Caines, R. 45; 15 Mass. R. 433; 1 Hill, R. 270; Wright, R. 573; 1 N. & M. 176; 5 Binn. R. 287; 5 Ham. R. 436; 3 Conn. R. 9; 2 Pet. R. 148; 6 Pet. R. 715; 6 Porter R. 123; 2 N. H. Rep. 93; 1 Hall, R. 612; 1 Harr. & Gill, 239; 1 N. S. 192; 4 L. R. 160; 7 L. R. 529; Id. 215.
Customs (n.) This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported. Story, Const. Sec. 949; Bac. Ab. Smuggling.
Customable (a.) Customary. [Obs.] -- Sir T. More.
Customable (a.) Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.
Customableness (n.) Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [Obs.]
Customably (adv.) Usually. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Customarily (adv.) In a customary manner; habitually.
Customarily (adv.) By custom; according to common practice; "children are custosby-the-waymarily expected to be seen but not heard".
Customariness (n.) Quality of being customary.
Customary (n.) （采邑、城市等的）習慣法匯編 [C] A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. -- Cowell.
Customary (a.) 習慣上的，慣常的；合乎習俗的；【律】習慣法上的；按慣例的 Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
Even now I met him With customary compliment. -- Shak.
A formal customary attendance upon the offices. -- South.
Customary (a.) (Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
Customary (a.) In accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake".
Customary (a.) Commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn: {accustomed}, {customary}, {habitual}, {wonted(a)}].
Customer (n.) [C] 顧客；買主；【口】傢伙，小子 One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.
The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. -- Hakluyt.
Customer (n.) One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. -- Goldsmith.
Customer (n.) A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. -- J. A. H. Murray.
Customer (n.) A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. [Colloq.] -- Dickens.
Customer (n.) A lewd woman. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Customer (n.) Someone who pays for goods or services [syn: {customer}, {client}].
Customer (n.) [ C ] (A2) 顧客，主顧，客戶 A person who buys goods or a service.
// A satisfied customer.
// Mrs Wilson is one of our regular customers.
Idiom: The customer is always right
The customer is always right (Saying) 顧客永遠是對的；顧客至上 Said to emphasize that in business, it is very important not to disagree with a customer or make them angry.
Customhouse (n.) The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.
Custodes (n. 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.