CPage 812
- English Word Cursorily Definition In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
- English Word Cursoriness Definition The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.
- English Word Cursory Definition Running about; not stationary.
- English Word Cursory Definition Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.
- English Word Curst Definition of Curse
- English Word Curst Definition imp. & p. p. of Curse.
- English Word Curst Definition Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.
- English Word Curstfully Definition Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably.
- English Word Curstness Definition Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.
- English Word Curt Definition Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.
- 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.