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The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." Shenstone.

Having no culture.

Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.] Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller.

A remedy for all diseases, o

Incapable of cure; incurable. With patience undergo A cureless ill, since fate will have it so. Dryden.

One who cures; a healer; a physician.

A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.

line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. Cowper. The elegant curvature of their fronds. Darwin.

A cyanide. [Obs.]

tion is strongly turned; a center of attraction. Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes. Milton.

A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species.

By right; of right; by law; -- often opposed to be facto.

A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.

The debt or series of debts, collectively, represented by a series of debentures; a debt secured by a trust deed of property for the benefit of the holders of shares in the debt or of a series of debentures. By the terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the…

Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.

The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.

A decree or sentence of a court. Stormonth.

The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.