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One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Shipley.

Pertaining to a court.

The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court. [Obs.] Bacon.

A cuirass. [Obs.] Spenser.

p. a. & vb. n. of Cure. Curing house, a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.

Any curiosity or article of virtu. The busy world, which does not hunt poets as collectors hunt for curios. F. Harrison.

Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.

The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration. [Obs.] Bacon. When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity. Shak. A screen accurately cut in tapiary work . . . with great curiosity. Evelin.

A virtuoso.

ase or satisfy; solicitous 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 &

In a curious manner.

Carefulness; painstaking. [Obs.] My father's care With curiousness and cost did train me up. Massinger.

To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. Cascoigne.

Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinnuous course). Curled hair (Com.), the hair of the manes and tails of horses, prepared for upholstery purposes. McElrath.

State of being curled; curliness.

One who, or that which, curls.

A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

State of being curly.

The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.

With a curl, or curls.