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ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean. Your short horse is soon curried. Beau. & FL.

An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction. Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. Shak.

manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. Let him have your custom, but not your votes. Addison.

th, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide. You must cut this flesh from off his breast. Shak. Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way. Pope.

The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.

A foul-mouthed fellow. "An you play the saucy cuttle me." Shak.

A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.…

A young swan. Shak.

The unbrunched antler of a young deer.

ty, to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. [Obs.] Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all Will now deny to dance She that makes dainty, She, I'll swear, hath corns. Shak.

and dam. T. L. K. Oliphant. The dam runs lowing up end down, Looking the way her harmless young one went. Shak.

Hurtful; pernicious. [R.] That it be not demageable unto your royal majesty. Hakluit.

demn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc. You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. Pope. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. Pope.

ence, A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul. Addison. It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion. J. D. Forbes.

A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales. [Obs.]

ipe and Gill shall dance. Wiher. Good shepherd, what fair swain is this Which dances with your dauther Shak.

Authority; jurisdiction; control. [Obs.] In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer.

Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods. Milton.

A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge. A Daniel come to judgment. Shak.

Manacles; handcuffs. [Cant] Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies. Sir W. Scott.