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Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.

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

The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius). [Written also cudden.]

One who beats with a cudgel. [Written also cudgeller.]

Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic language. [Written also Kufic.]

Defensive armor for the thighs. [ Written also cuisse, and quish.]

on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster. [Also written cutch.]

Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obs.] [Written also comber.] A place of much distraction and cumber. Sir H. Wotton. Sage counsel in cumber. Sir W. Scott.

rish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway. [Written also cummin.] Rank-smelling rue, and cumin good for eyes. Spenser. Black cumin (Bot.), a plant (Nigella sativa) with pungent seeds, used by the Afghans, etc.

of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [Written also condurango.]

(Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. [Written also conner.]

cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). [Written also coppel.] Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.

uickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. [Written also urari, woorali, woorari, etc.]

e with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. [Sometimes written carlicue.] [ Colloq. U.S.] To cut a curlycue, to make a flourish; to cut a caper. I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot. McClintock.

mnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation. The priest shall write these curses in a book. Num. v. 23. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. Old Proverb.

An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs.

Running; flowing. Cursive hand,a running handwriting.

Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.

crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium. [Written also kyanite.]

ecause keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. Milman.