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CRYER, H, S. A kind of hawk, called the falcon gentle, an enemy to pigeons, and very swift. Ainsworth. CRYPTICAL. adj. [xpúnlw.] Hidden; CRYPTICK. secret; occult; private; unknown; not divulged.

The students of nature, conscious of her more

cryptick ways of working, resolve many strange effects into the near efficiency of second causes. Glanville's Apol.

Speakers whose chief business is to amuse or delight, do not confine themselves to any natural order, but in a cryptical or hidden method adapt every thing to their ends. Watts. CRYPTICALLY. adv. [from cryptical.] Occultly; secretly: perhaps, in the following example, the author might have written critically.

We take the word acid in a familiar sense, without cryptically distinguishing it from those sapors that are a-kin to it. Boyle. CRYPTOGRAPHY.n.s. [xpúnlw and yęźpw.] 1. The act of writing secret characters. 2. Secret characters; cyphers. CRYPTO'LOGY. n. s. [xgzlw and xóy✪,] Enigmatical language. CRYSTAL. n. s. [פà®.]

1. Crystals are hard, pellucid, and naturally colourless bodies, of regularly angular figures, composed of simple, not filamentous plates, not flexile or elastick, giving fire with steel, not fermenting with acid menstrua, and calcining in a strong fire. There are many various species of it produced in different parts of the globe. Hill on Fossils. Island crystal is a genuine spar, of an extremely pure, clear, and fine texture, seldom either blemished with flaws or spots, or stained with any other colour. A remarkable property of this body, which has much employed the writers on opticks, is its double refraction; so that if it be laid over a black line drawn on paper, two lines appear Hill. in the place of one.

Water, as it seems, turneth into crystal; as is seen in divers caves, where the crystal hangs in stillicidiis. Bacon

If crystal be a stone, it is not immediately concreted by the efficacy of cold, but rather by a Brown. mineral spirit.

Crystal is certainly known and distinguished by the degree of its diaphaneity and of its refraction, as also of its hardness, which are ever the Woodward.

same.

2. Crystal is also used for a factitious body cast in the glass-houses, called also crystal glass; which is carried to a degree of perfection beyond the common glass, though it comes far short of the whiteness and vivacity of the natural crystal. Chambers.

3. Crystals [in chymistry] express salts or other matters shot or congealed in manner of crystal. Chambers.

If the menstruum be overcharged, within a short time the metals will shoot into certain crystals.

CRYSTAL. adj.

I. Consisting of crystal.

Then, Jupiter, thou king of gods,

Bacon.

Thy crystal window ope, look out. Shakspeare." Bright; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid.

In groves we live, and lie on messy beds, By crystal streams that murmur through the meads. Drydes CRY'STALLINE. adj. [crystallinus, Lat.] 1. Consisting of crystal.

Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shalı, We provided ourselves with some small re ceivers, blown of crystalline glass. Boyk, 2. Bright; clear; pellucid; transparent.

The clarifying of water is an experiment tending to the health; besides the pleasure of the eye, when water is crystalline. It is effected by casting in and placing pebbles at the head of the current, that the water may strain through them. Bacon's Natural History

He on the wings of cherub rode sublime On the crystalline sky, in saphir thron'd Illustrious far and wide. CRYSTALLINE Humour. n. s. The se cond humour of the eye; that lies in mediately next to the aqueous behind the uvea, opposite to the papilla, nearer to the fore part than the back part of the globe. It is the least of the humours, but much more solid than any of them. Its figure, which is convex on bath sides, resembles two unequal segments of spheres; of which the most convex is on its backside, which makes a small cavity in the glassy humour in which it lies. It is covered with a fine cost, called aranea.

The parts of the eye are made convex; and especially the crystalline bumour, which is of a lenticular figure, convex on both sides. Rey CRYSTALLIZATION. n. s. [from crystal lize.]

1. Congelation into crystals.

Such a combination of saline particles as resembles the form of a crystal, variously modified, according to the nature and texture of the salts. The method is by dissolving any saline body in water, and filtering it, to evaporate, till a fim appear at the top, and then let it stand to sheet; and this it does by that attractive force which is in all bodies, and particularly in salt, by reason of its solidity: whereby, when the menstruam or fluid, in which such particles flow, is sated enough or evaporated, so that the saline particles are within each other's attractive posters, they draw one another more than they are drawn by the fluid, then will they run into crys tals. And this is peculiar to those, that, let them be ever so much divided and reduced into minute particles, yet when they are formed into crystals, they each of them reassume their preper shapes; so that one might as easily dest them of their saltness, as of their figure. This -being an immutable and perpetual law, by knowing the figure of the crystals, we may understand what the texture of the particles ought to be, which can form those crystals; and, on the other hand, by knowing the texture of the par ticles, may be determined the figure of the crystals.

2. The mass formed by congelatien-or concretion.

All natural metallick and mineral crystallio ations were effected by the water; which ist brought the particles, whereof each consists, from amongst the matter of the strata.

To CRYSTALLIZE, v. a. [from crystal.] To cause to congeal or concrete in crystals.

If you dissolve copper in eque forti, yat

of nitre, you may, by crystallizing the solution, obtain a goodly blue. Boyle. To CRYSTALLIZE. V. n. To coagulate, congeal, concrete, or shoot into crystals. Recent urine will crystallize by inspissation;

and afford a salt neither acid nor alkaline. Arbuthnot on Aliments. CUB. n. s. [of uncertain etymology.] 1. The young of a beast, generally of a bear or fox.

I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear. Shakspeare.

This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would'

couch;

The lion, and the belly-pinched wolf,
Keep their fur dry. Shakspeare's King Lear.

In the eagle's destroying one fox's cubs, there's power executed with oppression. L'Estrange. 2. The young of a whale, perhaps of any viviparous fish.

Two mighty whales, which swelling seas had

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Gubb'd in a cabbin, on a mattress laid, On a brown george with lousy swabbers fed; Dead wine, that stinks of the Borrachio, sup From a foul jack, or greasy maple cup. Dryden. CUBATION. n. s. (cubatio, Latin.] The act of lying down.

Dict.

CUBATORY. adj. [from cubo, Lat.] Recumbent. Dict. CU'BATURE. n. s. [from cube.] The finding exactly the solid content of any proposed body. Harris.

CUBE. n. s. [from xu6os, a die.] 1. [In geometry.] A regular solid body, consisting of six square and equal faces or sides, and the angles all right and therefore equal. Chambers.

2. [In arithmetick.] See CUBICK Number. All the master planets move about the sun at several distances, as their common centre, and with different velocities; this common law being observed in all of them, that the squares of the times of the revolutions are proportional to the cubes of their distances. Greau.

CUBE Root. I n. s. The origin of a CUBICK Root. S cubick number; or a number, by whose multiplication into itself, and again into the product, any given number is formed: thus two is the cube-root of eight. Chambers. CUBEB. n. s. A small dried fruit resembling pepper, but somewhat longer, of a greyish brown colour on the surface. It has an aromatick smell, and is acrid to the taste. Cubebs are brought from Java. Hill. VOL, I

Aromaticks, as cubebs, cinnamon, and nutmegs, are usually put into crude poor wines, ta give them more oily spirits. Floyer.

CUBICK.} adj. [from cube.]

1. Having the form or properties of a cube. A close vessel containing ten cubical feet of air, will not suffer a wax candle of an ounce to burn in it above an hour before it be suffocated.

Wilkins's Mathematical Magic.

It is above a hundred to one against any particular throw, that you do not cast any given set of faces with four cubical dice; because there are so many several combinations of the six faces of four dice. Bentley's Sermons.

2. It is applied to numbers.

The number of four, multiplied into itself, produceth the square number of sixteen; and that again multiplied by four, produceth, the cubick number of sixty-four. If we should suppose a multitude actually infinite, there must be infinite roots, and square and cubick numbers; yet, of necessity, the root is but the fourth part of the square, and the sixteenth part of the cubick number. Hale's Origin of Mankind. The number of ten hath been highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long and plain, quadrate and cubical, numbers. Brown. CUBICALNESS. n. s. [from cubical.] The state or quality of being cubical. CUBICULARY. adj. [cubiculum, Latin.] Fitted for the posture of lying down.

Custom, by degrees, changed their cubiculary beds into discubitory, and introduced a fashion to go from the baths unto these. Brown.

CUBIFORM. adj. [from cube and form.] Of the shape of a cube. CU'BIT. n. s. [from cubitus, Latin.] A measure in use among the ancients; which was originally the distance from the elbow, bending inwards, to the extremity of the middle finger. This measure is the fourth part of a wellproportioned man's stature. Some fix the Hebrew cubit at twenty inches and a half, Paris measure; and others at eighteen. Calmet.

From the tip of the elbow to the end of the long finger, is half a yard, and a quarter of the stature; and makes a cubit, the first measure we read of, the ark of Noah being framed and measured by cubits. Holder on Time.

Measur'd by cubit, length, and breadth, and highth. Milton. The Jews used two sorts of cubits; the sacred, and the profane or common one. Arbuthnot.

When on the goddess first I cast my sight, Scarce seem'd her stature of a cubit height. Pope. CUBITAL. adj. [cubitulis, Latin.] Containing only the length of a cubit.

stature.

The watchmen of Tyre might well be called pygmies; the towers of that city being so high, that unto men below they appeared in a cubital Brown's Vulg. Erreurs. CU'CKINGSTOOL. n. s. An engine invented for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women, which,in ancient times, was called tumbrel.

Cowell.

Hudibrar

These, mounted on a chair-curule, Which moderns call a cucking-stoel, March proudly to the river's side. CUCKOLD. n. s. [cocu, French, from coukoo.] One that is married to an adultress; one whose wife is false to his bed.

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Of lands to her, the cuckold may succeed. Dryd. Ever since the reign of king Charles 11. the alderman is made a cuckold, the deluded virgin is debauched, and adultery and fornication are committed, behind the scenes. To CUCKOLD. v. a.

Swift.

1. To corrupt a man's wife; to bring upon a man the reproach of having an adulterous wife; to rob a man of his wife's fidelity.

If thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, and me a sport. Shakp. Othello. 2. To wrong a husband by unchastity. But suffer not thy wife abroad to roam,

Nor strut in streets with Amazonian pace;

For that 's to cuckold thee before thy face. Dryd. CUCKOLDLY. adj. [from cuckold.] Having the qualities of a cuckold; poor; mean; cowardly; sneaking.

Poor cuckoldly knave, I know him not yet I wrong him to call him poor; they say the jealous knave hath masses of money. Shaks. CUCKOLDMAKER. n. s. [cuckold and make.] One that makes a practice of corrupting wives.

If I spared any that had a head to hit, either young or old, he or she, cuckold or cuckoldmaker, let me hope never to see a chine again. Shaks.

One Hernando, cuckoldmaker of this city, contrived to steal her away. Dryd. Spanish Friar. CUCKOLDOM. n. s. [from cuckold.] 1. The act of adultery.

She is thinking on nothing but her colonel, and conspiring cuckoldom against me. Dryden.

2. The state of a cuckold.

It is a true saying, that the last man of the parish that knows of his cuckoldom, is himself. Arbuthnot's Joba Bull. CUCKOO. n.'s. [cuculus, Lat. cwce, Welsh; cocu, French; kockock, Dutch.] 1. A bird which appears in the spring, and is said to suck the eggs of other birds, and lay her own to be hatched in their place from which practice, it was usual to alarm a husband at the approach of an adulterer, by calling cuckoo; which, by mistake, was in time applied to the husband. This bird is remarka ble for the uniformity of his note, from which his name in most tongues seems to have been formed.

Finding Mopsa, like a cuckoo by a nightingale, alone with Pamela, I came in. Sidney.

The merry cuckoo, messenger of spring,
His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
Spenser.

The plainsong cuckoo gray;
Whose note full many a man doth mark,
And dares not answer, Nay.

Shakspeare.

Take heed, have open eye; for thieves do foot by night:

Take heed, ere summer comes, or cuckoo birds affright. Shakspeare.

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Why, what a rascal art thou, then, to praise him so for running!-A-horseback, ye cucks; but a-foot, he will not budge a foot. CUCKOO-BUD. Įn. s. [cardaminus, CUCKOO-FLOWER.) Latin.] The name of a flower.

When daizies pied, and violets blue,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hues
Do paint the meadows much bedight.
Nettles, cuckoo-flowers,

Shak

Shak

s. [cuckoo and

Darnel, and all the idle weeds. CUCKOO-SPITTLE, N. spittle.]

Cuckoo-spittle, or woodseare, is that spumons dew or exudation, or both, found upon plants, especially about the joints of lavender and rosemary; observable with us about the latter end of May. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs. CU'CULLATE. adj. [cucullatus, hoodCU'CULLATED. Šed, Latin.]

1. Hooded; covered, as with a hood or cowl.

2. Having the resemblance or shape of a hood.

They are differently tucullated, and capuches upon the head and back. Brown's Vulg.Error. CU'CUMBER. n. s. [cucumis, Lat.] 'The name of a plant, and also of the fruit of that plant.

It hath a flower consisting of one single leaf, bell shaped, and expanded toward the top, and cut into many segments: of which some are male, or barren, having no embryo, but only a large style in the middle, charged with the farina, others are female, or fruitful, being fastened to an embryo,which is afterwards changed intoa fleshy fruit, for the most part oblong and turbinated, which is divided into three or four cells, inclosing many oblong seeds. The species are, 1. The common cucumber. 2. The white cucumber. 3. The long Turky cucumber.

Miller.

How cucumbers along the surface creep, With crooked bodies and with bellies deep. Dryden's Virgil. CUCURBITA'CEOUS. adj. [from cu curbita, Latin, a gourd.]

Cucurbitaceous plants are those which resemble a gourd; such as the pumpion and melon. Chambers. CUCURBITE. 2. s. [cucurbita, Latin.] A chymical vessel, commonly called a body, made of earth or glass, in the shape of a gourd, and therefore called cucurbite. Quincy

I have, for curiosity's sake, distilled quicksilver in a cucurbite, fitted with a capacious glas head. Boyle on Colours. Let common yellow sulphur be put into a cucurbite glass, upon which pour the strongest aqua fortis. Mertimer. CUD. n. s. [cud, Saxon.] That food which is reposited in the first stomach in order to rumination, or to be chewed again.

Many times, when my master's cattle came hither to chew their cud in this fresh place, I might see the young bull testify his love. Sidery You range the pathless wood, While on a flowry bank he chews the end. Dryd

CU'DDEN.. s. [without etymology.] CUDDY. A clown; a stupid rustick; a low dolt: a low bad word.

The slavering cudden, propp'd upon his staff, Stood ready gaping with a grinning laugh. Dryd. To CU'DDLE. v. n. [a low word; I believe, without etymology.] To lie close; to squat.

Have you mark'd a partridge quake,
Viewing the tow'ring falcon nigh?

She cuddles low behind the brake;
Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly.
CU'DGEL. n. s. [kudse, Dutch.]

Prior.

1. A stick to strike with, lighter than a club, shorter than a pole.

Vine twigs, while they are green, are brittle: yet the wood, dried, is extreme tough; and was used by the captains of armies, amongst the Bacon. Romans, for their'cudgels.

Do not provoke the rage of stones
And cudgels to thy hide and bones:
Tremble and vanish.

Hudibras. The ass was quickly given to understand, with a good cudgel, the difference betwixt the one playfellow and the other. L'Estrange. His surly officer ne'er fail'd to crack His knotty cudgel on his tougher back. Dryd. This, if well reflected on, would make people more wary in the use of the rod and the cudgel. Locke. The wise Cornelius was convinced, that these, being polemical arts, could no more be learned alone than fencing or cudgel playing. Arbuthnot. . To cross the CUDGELS, is to forbear the contest, from the practice of cudgelplayers to lay one over the other.

It is much better to give way, than it would be to contend at first, and then either to cross the cudgels or to be baffled in the conclusion.

L'Estrange. CU'DGEL. v. a. [from the noun.]

- To beat with a stick.

My lord, he speaks most vilely of you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is; and said he would cudgel you. Shakspeare's Henry N. The ass courting his master, just as the spaniel had done, instead of being stroked and made much of, is only rated off and cudgelled for all his courtship.

South.

Three duels he fought, thrice ventur'd his life; Went home, and was cudgell'd again by his wife. Swift.

To beat in general. Cudgel thy brains no more about it; for your Hull ass will not mend his pace with beating. Shakspeare's Hamlet. A good woman happened to pass by, as a -ompany of young fellows were cudgelling a walnut-tree, and asked them what they did that L'Estrange. DGEL-PROOF. adj. Able to resist a

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His doublet was of sturdy buff, And, though not sword, yet cudgel-proof. Hudib. 'DLE. n. s. A small sea fish.

Of round fish there are britt, sprat, cudles, eels. Carew.

DWEED. n.s. [from cud and weed.] Miller. plant.

E. n. s. [queue, a tail, French.] The tail or end of any thing: as, the ong curl of a wig.

The last words of a speech, which the layer, who is to answer, catches, and gards as intimation to begin.

Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your speech, enter into that brake; and so every one according to his cue. Shakspeares

3. A hint; an intimation; a short direc-
tion..

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? he would drown the stage with
Shakspeare.

tears.

Let him know how many servants there are, of both sexes, who expect vails; and give them their cue to attend in two lines, as he leaves the house. Swift. 4. The part which any man is to play in his turn.

Hold your hands,

Both you of my inclining, and the rest:
Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter. Shakspeare's Othello.

Neither is Otto here a much more taking ger-
tleman: nothing appears in his cue to move pity,
or any way make the audience of his party.
Rymer's Tragedies of the Last Age.
5. Humour; temper of mind: a low
word.
CUERPO. n. s. [Spanish.] To be in
cuerpo, is to be without the upper coat,
or cloak, so as to discover the true shape
of the cuerpo or body.

Hudibras.

Expos'd in cuerpo to their rage, Without my arms and equipage. CUFF. n. s. [zuffa, a battle; zuffare, to fight, Italian.

1. A blow with the fist: a box; a stroke. The priest let fall the book;

priest.

And as he stoop'd again to take it up, The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff, That down fell priest and book, and book and Shaksp. There was no money bid for argument, unless the poet and the player went to cuffs in the Shakspeare. question. He gave her a cuff on the ear, and she would prick him with her knitting-needle. Arbuthnot, Their own sects, which now lie dormant, would be soon at cuffs again with each other about power and preferment.

Swift.

2. It is used of birds that fight with their talons.

To CUFF. v. n. [from the noun.] To fight; to scuffle.

Clapping farces acted by the court, While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport. Dryden's Juvenal.

To CUFF. v. a.

1. To strike with the fist. I'll after him again, and beat him.-Do, cuff him soundly; but never draw Shakspeare. thy sword. Were not you, my friend, abused, and cuffed, and kicked? Congreve's Old Bachelor.

2. To strike with the talons.

Those lazy owls, who, perch'd near fortune's
top,

Sit only watchful with their heavy wings
To cuff down new-fledg'd virtues, that would rise
To nobler heights, and make the grove harmo-
nious.
Otway.

The dastard crow, that to the wood made wing, With her loud kaws her craven kind does bring; Who, safe in numbers, cuff the noble bird. Dryd. They with their quills did all the hurt they

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Hov'ring about the coasts, they make their

moan,

And the cliffs with pinions not their own. Dryden's Æneid. CUFF. n. s. [coeffe, French.] Part of the sleeve.

He railed at fops; and, instead of the common fashion, he would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band, short cuffs, and a peaked beard. Arbuthnot. CUINAGE. n. s. The making up of twine into such forms, as it is commonly framed into for carriage to other places. Corvell.

CU'IRASS. n. s. [cuirasse, Fr. from cuir,
leather; coraccia, Ital.] A breastplate.
The lance pursued the voice without delay;
And pierc'd his cuirass, with such fury sent,
And sign'd his bosom with a purple tint. Dryd.
CUIRA'SSIER. n. s. [from cuirass.] A
man at arms; a soldier in armour.
The field, all iron, cast a gleaming brown;
Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor, on each horn,
Cuirassiers, all in steel, for standing fight.

Milton.

The picture of St. George, wherein he is described like a cuirassier, or horseman completely armed, is rather a symbolical image than any proper figure. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs. CUISH. n. s. [cuisse, French.] The armour that covers the thighs.

I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuishes on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury. Shakspeare's Henry IV. The croslet some, and some the cuisbes mould, With silver plated, and with ductile gold. Dryden's Æneid. But what had our author to wound Æneas with at so critical a time? And how came the cuishes to be worse tempered than the rest of his armour? Dryden.

CU'LDEES. n. s. [colidei, Lat.] Monks in Scotland.

arse-smart.

CU'LERAGE. n. s. The same plant with Ainsworth. CULINARY. adj. [culina, Latin.] Relating to the kitchen; relating to the art of cookery.

Great weight may condense those vapours and exhalations, as soon as they shall at any time begin to ascend from the sun, and make them presently fall back again into him, and by that action increase his heat; much after the manner that, in our earth, the air increases the heat of a culinary fire. Nervton.

To those who, by reason of their northern exposition, will be still forced to be at the expence of culinary fires, it will reduce the price of their manufacture. Arbuthnot. To CULL. v. a. [cueillir, French.] To select from others; to pick out of many. The best of every thing they had being culled out for themselves; if there were in their flocks any poor diseased thing not worth the keeping, they thought it good enough for the altar of God. Hooker.

Our engines shall be bent Against the brows of this resisting town: Call for our chiefest men of discipline, To call the plots of best advantage. Sbaks. Like the bee culling from ev'ry flow'r, Our thighs are packt with wax, our mouths with honey. Shakspeare.

I do remember an apothecary

In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, Calling of simples. Sbaki. Romeo and Julid.

Then in a moment fortune shall call forth, Out of one side, her happy minion. Shakpen The choicest of the British, the Roman, Saxon, and Norman laws, being called, as it were, s grand charter was extracted. Howel

When false flow'rs of rhetorick thou would'n
cull,

Trust nature, do not labour to be dull. Dryd
From his herd he culis,
Fer slaughter, four the fairest of his bulls.
Dryden's Virgil

When the current pieces of the same denom nation are of different weights, then the traders in money cull out the heavier, and melt them down with profit.

Lati With humble duty, and officious haste, I'll cull the farthest mead for thy repast. Prir The various off'rings of the world appear: From each she nicely calls with curious tail, And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spell Pap CU'LLER. n. s. [from cull.] One who picks or chooses.

CU'LLION. n. s. [coglione, a fool, It!. or perhaps from scullion. It seems to import meanness rather than folly.] A Scoundrel; a mean wretch.

Shain

Sucli a one as leaves a gentleman, And makes a god of such a cullion. Up to the breach, you dogs! avaunt, you cullions! Shakspear CU'LLIONLY. adj. [from cullion.] Hring the qualities of a cullion; mean; base.

I'll make a sop o' th' moonshine of you: you whoresen, cullionly, barber-monger; draw. Shakspeare's King Lov. CU'LLUMBINE. n. s. [more properly spet COLUMBINE.] The flowers of the plant are beautifully variegated with blue, purple, red, and white.

Miller

Her goodly bosom, like a strawberry bed; Her neck, like toa bunch of cullumbines. Spers, CU'LLY, n. s. [coglione, Ital. a foolA man deceived or imposed upon, by sharpers or a strumpet.

Why should you, whose mother-wits
Are furnish'd with all perquisites,
B' allow'd to put all tricks upon
Our cully sex, and we use none?

Yet the rich cullies may their boasting spare
They purchase but sophisticated ware.

He takes it in mighty dudgeon, because won't let him make me over by deed as lawful cully. Arbutust

To CU'LLY. v. a. [from the noun.] T befool; to cheat; to trick; to deceive i to impose upon. CULMIFEROUS. adj. [culmus and firs Latin.]

Culmiferous plants are such as have a mecc jointed stalk, and usually hollow; and at ext joint the stalk is wrapped about with single row, long, sharp-pointed leaves, and their sent are contained in chaffy husks.

There are also several sorts of grasses, br the Cyprus and culmiferous kinds; some with

broader, others with narrower leaves. W

The properest food of the vegetable kingd is taken from the farinaceous or mealy seeds some culmiferous plants; as oats, barley, whos rice, rye, maize, panic, millet.

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