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Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." Shenstone.

cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower. The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. Shenstone.

around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.

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

A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark. Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The ob…

to use a cutting instrument. He saved the lives of thousands by manner of cutting for the stone. Pope.

One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.

Relating to stone in the bladder.

A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace. Dam plate (Blast Furnace), an iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it.

Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.

An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hoppe

haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against. If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. Bacon.

A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.

A glittering stone.

deaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes. Blackstone.

of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other débris.

One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor. Blackstone.

the second decade of Livy. [Written also decad.] During this notable decade of years. Gladstone.

or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

ing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence. Blackstone. Declinatory plea (O. Eng. Law), the plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction; -- now abolished.