CPage 542
- English Word Curtail Definition To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
- English Word Curtail Definition The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
- English Word Curtail dog Definition A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting.
- English Word Curtailed Definition of Curtail
- English Word Curtailer Definition One who curtails.
- English Word Curtailing Definition of Curtail
- English Word Curtailment Definition The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.
- English Word Curtain Definition A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
- English Word Curtain Definition That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
- English Word Curtain Definition That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- English Word Curtain Definition A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
- English Word Curtain Definition To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
- English Word Curtained Definition of Curtain
- English Word Curtaining Definition of Curtain
- English Word Curtal Definition Curt; brief; laconic.
- English Word Curtal Definition A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.
- English Word Curtal ax Definition Alt. of Curtelasse
- English Word Curtal friar Definition A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.
- English Word Curtana Definition The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.
- English Word Curtate Definition Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic.
- English Word Curtation Definition The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.
- English Word Curtein Definition Same as Curtana.
- English Word Curtelasse Definition A corruption of Cutlass.
- English Word Curtes Definition Courteous.
- English Word Curtesies Definition of Curtesy
- English Word Curtesy Definition the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands.
- English Word Curtilage Definition A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.
- English Word Curtle ax Definition Alt. of Curtelasse
- English Word Curtly Definition In a curt manner.
- English Word Curtness Definition The quality of bing curt.