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Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.

A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain. Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition. Macualay.

Full of crumb or crumbs.

The body. In cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered. Exposed in cuerpo to their rage. Hudibras.

Full of heaps.

Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii. 23. "Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Shak. Esau was a cunning hunter. Gen xxv. 27.

Hollow; cuplike; also, full of cups, or small depressions.

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

study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller.

us to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact. [Obs.] Little curious in her clothes. Fuller. How shall we, If he be curious, work upon his faith Bean &

Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.

currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness Camden.

e of something peculiar; as, the cucle of the seasons, or of the year. Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years. Burke.

er after the dagger. -- To look, or speak, daggers, to look or speak fiercely or reproachfully.

Rare; valuable; costly. [Obs.] Full many a deynté horse had he in stable. Chaucer.

Full of daisies; adorned with daisies. "The daisied green." Langhorne. The grass all deep and daisied. G. Eliot.

Full of danger; dangerous. [Obs.] -- Dan"ger*ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] Udall.

Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay.

Full af daring or of defiance; adveturous. [R.] Shak.

Full of darkness. [Obs.]