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on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster. [Also written cutch.]

Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obs.] [Written also comber.] A place of much distraction and cumber. Sir H. Wotton. Sage counsel in cumber. Sir W. Scott.

rish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway. [Written also cummin.] Rank-smelling rue, and cumin good for eyes. Spenser. Black cumin (Bot.), a plant (Nigella sativa) with pungent seeds, used by the Afghans, etc.

of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [Written also condurango.]

(Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. [Written also conner.]

cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). [Written also coppel.] Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.

uickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. [Written also urari, woorali, woorari, etc.]

e with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. [Sometimes written carlicue.] [ Colloq. U.S.] To cut a curlycue, to make a flourish; to cut a caper. I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot. McClintock.

A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial. Shipley.

Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.

crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium. [Written also kyanite.]

The Welsh language. [Written also Kymric.]

A collective term for the Welsh race; -- so called by themselves . [Written also Cymri, Cwmry, Kymry, etc.]

A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law. Mozley & W.

In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder. [Written also cystis.]

A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia. [Written also tzar.]

; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.]

y tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. [Written also Dacotahs.]

A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles. [Written also dandriff.]

A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals. [Written also datholite.]