CURSORILY
CURSORILY, adjective [See Cursory.[In a running or hasty manner; slightly; hastily; without attention; as, I read the paper cursorily
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CURSORINESS
CURSORINESS, noun Slight view or attention.
CURSORY
CURSORY, adjective [Latin See Course.]1. Running; hasty; slight; superficial; careless; not with close attention; as a cursory reading; a cursory view.2. Running about; not stat...
CURST
CURST, participle passive of curse. [See Cursed.]CURST, adjective Hateful; detestable; froward; tormenting; vexatious; peevish; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling; a wo...
CURSTNESS
CURSTNESS, noun Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.
CURT
CURT, adjective [Latin] Short. [Rarely used, and not elegant.]
CURTAIL
CURTAIL, verb transitive [Latin, to cut; edge.] To shorten; to cut off the end or a part; as, to curtail words. Hence in a more general sense, to shorten in any manner; to abrid...
CURTAIL-DOG
CURTAIL-DOG, noun A dog whose tail is cut off, according to the forest laws, and therefore hindered from coursing.
CURTAILED
CURTAILED, participle passive Cut short or shorter; abridged.
CURTAILING
CURTAILING, participle present tense Cutting short or shorter; abridging.CURTAILING, noun Abridgment; abbreviation.
CURTAIN
CURTAIN, noun [Low Latin, in fortification. This word may be from the root of court, and from the sense of separating.]1. A cloth hanging round a bed, or at a window, which may ...
CURTAIN-LECTURE
CURTAIN-LECTURE, noun Reproof given in bed by a wife to her husband.
CURTAL
CURTAL, noun A horse with a docked tail.CURTAL, adjective Short; abridged; brief.
CURTATE
CURTATE, adjective [Latin, to shorten.] The curtate distance, in astronomy, is the distance of a planet from the sun to that point, where a perpendicular let fall from the plane...
CURTATION
CURTATION, noun [See Curtate.] The interval between a planets distance from the sun and the curtate distance.
CURTILAGE
CURTILAGE, noun In law, a yard, garden, inclosure or field near and belonging to a messuage. [This is probably from court or the same radix.]
CURTLY
CURTLY, adverb Briefly. [Not in use.]
CURULE
CURULE, adjective [Latin, a chariot.] Belonging to a chariot. The curule chair or seat, among the Romans, was a stool without a back, covered with leather, and so made as to be ...
CURVATED
CURVATED, adjective [See Curve.] Curved; bent in a regular form.
CURVATURE
CURVATURE, noun [Latin See Curve.] A bending in a regular form; crookedness, or the manner of bending; flexure by which a curve is formed.
CURVE
CURVE, adjective [Latin, bent, crooked; to bend, turn or wind.] Bending; crooked; inflected in a regular form, and forming part of a circle; as a curve line, which may be cut by...
CURVED
CURVED, participle passive Bent; regularly inflected.
CURVET
CURVET, noun1. In the manege, a particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at one, equally advanced, and as his fore legs are falling, he raises his hind legs...
CURVILINEAL
CURVILINEAR, CURVILINEAL adjective [Latin, bent and a line.] Having a curve line; consisting of curve lines; bounded by curve lines; as a curvilinear figure.
CURVILINEAR
CURVILINEAR, CURVILINEAL, adjective [Latin, bent and a line.] Having a curve line; consisting of curve lines; bounded by curve lines; as a curvilinear figure.
CURVILINEARITY
CURVILINEARITY, noun The state of being curvilinear, or of consisting in curve lines.
CURVING
CURVING, participle present tense Bending in a regular form; crooked.