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The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.

The art of measuring crystals.

scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial.

Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle.

In decorative art, boiled leather, fitted by the process to receive impressed patterns, like those produced by chasing metal, and to retain the impression permanently.

Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art.

The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

One of the carpal bones usually articulating wich the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.

Crafty; sly; artful; designid; deceitful. They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. South.

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

Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill. To devise curious works. Ex. xxxv. 32 His body couched in a curious bed. Shak.

Cursory; hasty. [Obs.] With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles. Shak.

The art of making edged tools or cutlery. [Obs.] Milton.

One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

ich the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.

The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have severed as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend aof Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.

The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.