CPage 534
- English Word Cupidity Definition A passionate desire; love.
- English Word Cupidity Definition Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness
- English Word Cupola Definition A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.
- English Word Cupola Definition A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.
- English Word Cupola Definition A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.
- English Word Cupola Definition A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.
- English Word Cupola Definition The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.
- English Word Cupolas Definition of Cupola
- English Word Cupped Definition of Cup
- English Word Cupper Definition One who performs the operation of cupping.
- English Word Cupping Definition The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess.
- English Word Cupping Definition of Cup
- English Word Cupreous Definition Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.
- English Word Cupric Definition Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.
- English Word Cupriferous Definition Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver.
- English Word Cuprite Definition The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.
- English Word Cuproid Definition A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles.
- English Word Cuprous Definition Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.
- English Word Cuprum Definition Copper.
- English Word Cupulate Definition Having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous.
- English Word Cupule Definition A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.
- English Word Cupule Definition A sucker or acetabulum.
- English Word Cupuliferous Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.
- English Word Cur Definition A mongrel or inferior dog.
- English Word Cur Definition A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt.
- English Word Curability Definition The state of being curable; curableness.
- English Word Curable Definition Capable of being cured; admitting remedy.
- English Word Curacao Definition Alt. of Curacoa
- English Word Curacies Definition of Curacy
- English Word Curacoa Definition A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaccao.