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Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profudity; as, a crude reasoner.

be and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.

Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.

Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.

Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated. "As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, njt original." Bacon

Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped.

Wedge-shaped; (Bot.), wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.

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

Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity. [Archaic] Let my right hand forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. A carpenter's desert Stands more in cunning than in power. Chapman.

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.

Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness. Milton.

Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of. It is a picurious after things that were elegant and beatiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. Woodward.…

Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

the elastic edge of a billiard table.

To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.

The art of making edged tools or cutlery. [Obs.] Milton.

A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a birdge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.

nces (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical 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.…