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e under Aulic. -- Cabinet council. See under Cabinet. -- City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of aldermen and common council, but sometimes otherwise constituted. -- Common council. See under Common. -- Council board, Council table, the table round which a council…

To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.

A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. Cross and pile, a game with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or reverse; the game called heads or tails. -- Cross bottony or bottoné.…

The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward. "An olive branch and laurel crown." Shak. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptiblle. 1 Cor. ix. 25. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. ii. 10.

The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.

A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

That branch of Zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.

subdues; a check or hindbrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse. He that before ran in the pastures wild Felt the stiff curb control his angry jaws. Drayton. By these men, religion,that should be The curb,…

int and curiousvolume of forgotten lore. E. A. Poe. Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results. C. J. Smith. Curious arts, magic. [Obs.] Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them. Acts xix. 19.

A multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent.

lated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

cal order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.

A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.

The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia.

That branch of archæology which has to do with gem engraving.

Dead trees or branches; useless material.

rs having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

ch of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches.