CPage 802
- 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.