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The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.

A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc. Creature comforts, those which minister to the comfort of the body.

Cream; -- a term used esp. in cookery, names of liqueurs, etc.

y disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden.

it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point. This hour's the very crisis of your fate. Dryden. The very times of crisis for the fate of the country. Brougham.

tistic productions. It is submitted to the judgment of more critical ears to direct and determine what is graceful and what is not. Holder.

periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.

nce: A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind. Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler. Lord Dufferin.

A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surfase of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.

Perverse; untractable; contrary. She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades. Arbuthnot.

n a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer. Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. Macualay.

The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.

One who is an advocate of culture. The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does notJ. C. Shairp

broccoli and cauliflower. Broccoli should be cut while the curd, as the flowering mass is termed, is entire. R. Thompson. Cauliflowers should be cut for use while the head, or curd, is still close and compact. F. Burr.

The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.

rve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone. -- Curve tracing (Math.), the process of determining the shape, location, singular points, and other perculiarities of a curve from its equation. -- Plane curve (Geom.), a curve such that when a plane passes through three points of the curve, it passes through all the oth…

Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf.

Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort.

under Caper. -- To cut the cards, to divide a pack of cards into portions, in order to determine the deal or the trump, or to change the cards to be dealt. -- To cut a dash or a figure, to make a display. [Colloq.] -- To cut down. (a) To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to prostrate. "Timber . . . cut down in the mo…