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Having jointed stems or culms.

Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.

Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.

Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

Having a curved form.

In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.

Having the form of a cylinder.

Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.

Producing cymes.

Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselidæ.)

To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious. "Daintified emotion." Sat. rev.

Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.

That which causes damage or loss.

icials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. Milton.

Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.

To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.

See Dandruff. Swift.

One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.

The removal of calcareous matter.