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The state of being a cur; one who is currish. [Jocose] How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship! Hudibras.

d soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.

Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei. Cycloid scale (Zoöl.), a fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin.

A misty shower; dew. [Obs.]

A sword of Damask steel. No old Toledo blades or damaskins. Howell

Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself. How can ye escape the damnation of hell Matt. xxiii. 33. Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation. Shak.

and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug. Bacon. How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! Sir J. Lubbock. The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. Macaulay.

Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively. He wondered how so many provinces could be held in subjection by such a dapper little man. Milton. The dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.

To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.

A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash. [Low]

Bold; spirited; showy. The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T. Campbell.

Conspicuously; showily. [Colloq.] A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.

The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show. [R. & Colloq.] He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed. V. Knox.

Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. [Colloq.]

ecious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue. Shak.

The break of day; the first appeareance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise. And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve. Thomson. No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day. Hood.

Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.

he is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches. Addison. I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat. Tennyson.

aking, contract, etc.; to renounce. -- To declare one's self, to avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.

An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceæ inhabiting a temperate clime.