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  • English Word Cumbersome Definition Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
  • English Word Cumbersome Definition Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine.
  • English Word Cumbrance Definition Encumbrance.
  • English Word Cumbrian Definition Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there.
  • English Word Cumbrous Definition Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
  • English Word Cumbrous Definition Giving trouble; vexatious.
  • English Word Cumene Definition A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.
  • English Word Cumfrey Definition See Comfrey.
  • English Word Cumic Definition See Cuming.
  • English Word Cumidine Definition A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.
  • English Word Cumin Definition 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.
  • English Word Cuminic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid.
  • English Word Cuminil Definition A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.
  • English Word Cuminol Definition A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde.
  • English Word Cummin Definition Same as Cumin.
  • English Word Cumshaw Definition A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton.
  • English Word Cumshaw Definition To give or make a present to.
  • English Word Cumu-cirro-stratus Definition Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.
  • English Word Cumulate Definition To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.
  • English Word Cumulated Definition of Cumulate
  • English Word Cumulating Definition of Cumulate
  • English Word Cumulation Definition The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation.
  • English Word Cumulatist Definition One who accumulates; one who collects.
  • English Word Cumulative Definition Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
  • English Word Cumulative Definition Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.
  • English Word Cumulative Definition Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.
  • English Word Cumulative Definition Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.
  • English Word Cumuli Definition of Cumulus
  • English Word Cumulose Definition Full of heaps.
  • English Word Cumulostratus Definition A form of cloud. See Cloud.