CPage 535
- English Word Curacy Definition The office or employment of a curate.
- English Word Curare Definition Alt. of Curari
- English Word Curari Definition A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S. toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison.
- English Word Curarine Definition A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.
- English Word Curarize Definition To poison with curare.
- English Word Curassow Definition A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidae.
- English Word Curat Definition A cuirass or breastplate.
- English Word Curate Definition One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.
- English Word Curateship Definition A curacy.
- English Word Curation Definition Cure; healing.
- English Word Curative Definition Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.
- English Word Curator Definition One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.
- English Word Curator Definition One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.
- English Word Curatorship Definition The office of a curator.
- English Word Curatrix Definition A woman who cures.
- English Word Curatrix Definition A woman who is a guardian or custodian.
- English Word Curb Definition To bend or curve
- English Word Curb Definition To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.
- English Word Curb Definition To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
- English Word Curb Definition To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
- English Word Curb Definition That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse.
- English Word Curb Definition An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.
- English Word Curb Definition A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
- English Word Curb Definition A curbstone.
- English Word Curb Definition A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
- English Word Curb roof Definition A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.
- English Word Curbed Definition of Curb
- English Word Curbing Definition of Curb
- English Word Curbless Definition Having no curb or restraint.
- English Word Curbstone Definition A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.