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A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.

The state of being a cur; one who is currish. [Jocose] How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship! Hudibras.

Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.

, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cucle of the seasons, or of the year. Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years. Burke.

ple. The first Cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.

Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson.

constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up. I'll have the current in this place dammed up. Shak. A weight of earth that dams in the water. Mortimer.

iCarbonic acid, under Carbonic. -- Damp sheet, a curtain in a mine gallery to direct air currents and prevent accumulation of gas. -- Fire damp, a damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen; -- so called from its tendence to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame.…

A small silver coin current in Persia.

In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing. Knight.

Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.

same figure, or set of figures, is constantly repeated; as, 0.354354354; -- called also recurring decimal, repeating decimal, and repetend.

The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc.

To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. -- Dec`i*mal*i*za"tion, n.

Running down; decurrent.

In a decursive manner. Decursively pinnate (Bot.), having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf.

To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money. They [gold mohurs] have been completely demonetized by the [East India] Company. R. Cobden.

To put out of phase, as two parts of a single alternating current.

A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation. Raymond.