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A stone Curbstone broker.See under Broker.

See Courche.

beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc.

Pertaining to the Curculionideæ, or weevil tribe.

A genus of plants of the order Scitamineæ, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa). Curcuma paper. (Chem.) See Turmeric paper, under Turmeric.

The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluorescence.

hed from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese. Curds and cream, the flower of country fare. Dryden.

The state of being curdy.

To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle. Thomson.

Destitute of curd.

Like curd; full of curd; coagulated. "A curdy mass." Arbuthnot.

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

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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.

tire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself. He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak. The village curfew, as it tolled profound. Campbell.

ee in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.

Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican. -- n.

The wiew or doctrins of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Gladstone.