<B>curb key,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a telegraphic key used in operating submarine cables, designed to prevent confusion of signals; curb sender. </DL>
<A NAME="curbmarket">
<B>curb market,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a market for the sale of securities not dealt in on the regular stock exchange. The original curb markets were formed on city sidewalks and streets. </DL>
<A NAME="curbplate">
<B>curb plate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Architecture.) <DD><B> a. </B>the wall plate of a circular or elliptical dome or roof. <DD><B> b. </B>the plate which receives the feet of the upper rafters of a curb roof. <DD><B> 2. </B>the cylindrical frame of a well. </DL>
<A NAME="curbroof">
<B>curb roof,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a roof having two slopes on each side, with the lower one being the steeper. The gambrel roof and mansard roof are two types. </DL>
<A NAME="curbsender">
<B>curb sender,</B> =curb key.</DL>
<A NAME="curbservice">
<B>curb service,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> service provided by an establishment to patrons seated in parked cars; drive-in service. </DL>
<A NAME="curbside">
<B>curbside, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the area of sidewalk at or near a curb. <BR> <I>Ex. a car hugging the curbside.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>at or near a curb. <BR> <I>Ex. We went to a restaurant with curbside service.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of the street; earthy. <BR> <I>Ex. Argentina has its Italianate curbside slang, Mexico has its Indian (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="curbstone">
<B>curbstone, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a stone or stones forming a curb; raised border of concrete or stone along the edge of a pavement or sidewalk. Also, (especially British,) <B>kerbstone.</B> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>at or near the curb; curbside. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) homespun. <BR> <I>Ex. curbstone philosophy.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="curch">
<B>curch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) a kerchief for the head. </DL>
<A NAME="curculio">
<B>curculio, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lios.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various snout beetles, especially a kind that destroys fruit. </DL>
<A NAME="curcuma">
<B>curcuma, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various tropical plants of the ginger family, with perennial tuberous roots from which turmeric and zedoary are obtained. </DL>
<A NAME="curcumin">
<B>curcumin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a yellow, crystalline substance, the coloring matter of turmeric. <DD><B> 2. </B>an artificial yellow dye. </DL>
<A NAME="curd">
<B>curd, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>Often, <B>curds.</B> the thick part of milk that separates from the watery part when milk sours. Cheese is made from curds. <DD><B> 2. </B>any similar food obtained by fermentation. <BR> <I>Ex. soybean curds.</I> <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to form into curds; curdle. </DL>
<A NAME="curdle">
<B>curdle, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-dled,</B> <B>-dling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to form into curds; coagulate. <BR> <I>Ex. Milk curdles when kept too long in a warm place.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to thicken. <BR><I>expr. <B>curdle the blood.</B> </I>See under <B>blood.</B> </DL>
<B>cure, </B>verb, <B>cured,</B> <B>curing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to bring back to health; make well. <BR> <I>Ex. The doctor used strong medicine to cure the sick child of pneumonia. (Figurative.) Time cured him of his grief (Washington Irving).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to get rid of. <BR> <I>Ex. Rest in bed will often cure a cold. (Figurative.) Only great determination can cure a bad habit like smoking. (Figurative.) What can't be cured must be endured (Robert Burton).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to preserve (meat, fish, hide, lumber, or other material or food), especially by drying, salting, smoking, or pickling. <BR> <I>Ex. Tobacco leaves are hung in bunches to be cured before being prepared for smoking.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to treat (concrete) by watering or chemical means in order to develop hardness and imperviousness. <DD><B> 5. </B>to vulcanize (rubber). <BR> <I>Ex. The curing of rubber products by radiation has been known for a good many years (New York Herald Tribune).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to be or become cured. <BR> <I>Ex. Tobacco leaves are often hung in barns to cure.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to bring about a cure. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act or fact of curing. <DD><B> 2. </B>a means of curing; treatment intended to relieve or remove disease or any bad condition. <BR> <I>Ex. a rest cure, a cure for sore eyes, (Figurative.) a cure for laziness.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a medicine that is a means of curing or relieving; remedy. <BR> <I>Ex. Quinine is a cure for malaria.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a successful medical treatment; restoration to health. <DD><B> 5a. </B>spiritual charge; religious care. <DD><B> b. </B>the office or district of a curate; curacy. <BR> <I>Ex. A small cure was offered me (Oliver Goldsmith).</I> <DD><B> 6a. </B>a method or process of curing meat, fish, hide, lumber, or other material or food. <DD><B> b. </B>a quantity of meat, fish, hide, lumber, or other material or food, cured at one time or in one place. noun <B>curer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cure">
<B>cure, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a parish priest. </DL>
<A NAME="cureall">
<B>cure-all, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a remedy supposed to cure all diseases or evils; panacea. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) The toll road is only suitable through a densely populated area, is not a cure-all to the nationwide need for better roads (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cureless">
<B>cureless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without cure; incurable. adv. <B>curelessly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="curettage">
<B>curettage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a scraping or cleaning with a curette; the process of curetting. </DL>
<A NAME="curette">
<B>curette</B> or <B>curet, </B>noun, verb, <B>-retted,</B> <B>-retting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a small, scoop-shaped surgical instrument used to scrape the walls of a body cavity. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to scrape with a curette. <BR> <I>Ex. to curette a sinus.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="curettement">
<B>curettement, </B>noun. =curettage.</DL>
<A NAME="curfew">
<B>curfew, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a period of time, usually starting in the evening, during which the inhabitants of a city or other area are restricted to their homes or not permitted to appear in certain public places, especially in wartime. <BR> <I>Ex. Using a Jordanian law, a 21-hour curfew has been imposed in all the towns (London Times).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a rule requiring certain persons to be off the streets or at home before a fixed time. <BR> <I>Ex. The mayor has established a 10 P.M. curfew for children in our city.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>the ringing of a bell at a fixed time in the evening as a signal. In the Middle Ages, it was a signal to put out lights and cover fires in the camp or in the town. <DD><B> b. </B>a bell ringing such a signal. <BR> <I>Ex. Every night at nine the curfew rang. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day (Thomas Gray).</I> <DD><B> c. </B>the time when a curfew begins or is rung. <BR> <I>Ex. Everyone has to be in by curfew.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="curfewed">
<B>curfewed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> regulated by a curfew. <BR> <I>Ex. a curfewed city.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="curia">
<B>curia, </B>noun, pl. <B>curiae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a medieval council or law court. <DD><B> 2. </B>the meeting place of the ancient Roman senate. <DD><B> 3. </B>one of the ten divisions of each of the three ancient Roman tribes. <DD><B> 4. </B>the meeting place of one of these divisions. <DD><B> 5. </B>the senate of ancient Italian towns. </DL>
<A NAME="curia">
<B>Curia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a group of high officials who assist the Pope in the government and administration of the Roman Catholic Church; the papal court of the Roman Catholic Church; Curia Romana. </DL>
<A NAME="curial">
<B>curial, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a curia. <DD><I>noun </I> a member of an ancient Roman or an Italian curia. </DL>
<A NAME="curialism">
<B>curialism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a curial system, especially the policy or system of the papal Curia. </DL>
<A NAME="curialist">
<B>curialist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of the papal Curia. <DD><B> 2. </B>a supporter of the policy or authority of the papal Curia. </DL>
<A NAME="curialistic">
<B>curialistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with curialists or curialism. </DL>
<A NAME="curiaregis">
<B>curia regis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the king's court or central administration in early Norman and Angevin England and Capetian France. </DL>
<A NAME="curiaromana">
<B>Curia Romana,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Curia. </DL>
<A NAME="curiate">
<B>curiate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or relating to the ancient Roman curiae. </DL>
<A NAME="curie">
<B>curie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the unit for measuring the intensity of radioactivity. It is the quantity of a radioactive isotope which decays at the rate of 3.7 X (10 to the power of 10) disintegrations per second. Originally, it was the amount of radioactivity given off by one gram of radium. <BR> <I>Ex. The most powerful modern atomic bomb should release no more than 10 billion curies (Scientific American).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) c. </DL>
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<A NAME="curieconstant">
<B>Curie constant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) the result of multiplying the magnetic susceptibility per unit mass of a paramagnetic substance by the absolute temperature. </DL>
<A NAME="curiepoint">
<B>Curie point,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance, such as iron, loses its magnetization or becomes paramagnetic. </DL>
<A NAME="curieslaw">
<B>Curie's law,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) the law that the magnetic susceptibility of gases is inversely proportional to the absolute temperature. </DL>
<A NAME="curietemperature">
<B>Curie temperature,</B> =Curie point.</DL>
<A NAME="curio">
<B>curio, </B>noun, pl. <B>-rios.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an object valued as a curiosity; a strange, rare, or novel object. <BR> <I>Ex. Marco Polo brought back many curios from China.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="curiologic">
<B>curiologic, </B>adjective. =cyriologic.</DL>
<A NAME="curiosa">
<B>curiosa, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> books, manuscripts, or novel objects dealing with unusual, and often pornographic, subjects. </DL>
