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A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.

The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom. The custom of making the sign of the cross with the hand or finger, as a means of conferr…

The act of making the sign of the cross. Bp. Hall.

To sign with the cross; to bless. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Marked with the sign of the cross. [Obs.] Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.

h and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched. Crutched friar (Eccl.), one of a religious order, so called because its members bore the sign of the cross on their staves and habits; -- called also crossed friar and crouched friar.

the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.

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

at which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman.

The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself. He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak. The village curfew, as it tolled profound. Campbell.

ke onto coils, as a serpent's body. Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. Milton.

A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt. [Obs.] Shak. Behind the curtain, in concealment; in secret. -- Curtain lecture, a querulous lecture given by a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. Jerrold. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffer…

A sight covering; a scarf. See Simar. Her body shaded with a light cymar. Dryden.

his use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign

A direction to go back to the sign Segno.

peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk;

tc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.

Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.