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A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. Addison.

y through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid.

The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively. Addison.

Humor; temper of mind. [Colloq.] Dickens.

To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cuil flowers. From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. Dryden. Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled. Tennyson.

A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).

One who accumulates; one who collects. [R.]

Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy. [Colloq. U.S.] Barlett.

or that which has an eye to the cupboard. "A cupboard love is seldom true." Poor Robin. [Colloq.] -- To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [Colloq.] "My stomach cries cupboard." W. Irving.

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

, 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.

tion to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]

One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [Obs.] The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt.

to recognize; to ignorre; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance. [Colloq.]

Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning. [Colloq.]

Acuteness; cunning. [Colloq.]

Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.

A collective term for the Welsh race; -- so called by themselves . [Written also Cymri, Cwmry, Kymry, etc.]

A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert. [Colloq.] One excels at a plan or the titlepage, another works away at the body of the book, and the therd is a dab at an index. Goldsmith.

One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept. [Colloq.]