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A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand. Crabb.

l fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium. -- Star cucumber,a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.

The first stomach of ruminating beasts. Crabb. To chew the cud, to ruminate; to meditate; used with of; as, to chew the cud of bitter memories. Chewed the thrice turned cudof wrath. Tennyson.

ielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon. He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. Bunyan. Cudgel play, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels. -- To cross the cudgels, to forbear or give up the contest; -- a phrase borrowed from the pract…

To fight; to scuffle; to box. While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport. Dryden.

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

Incapable of cure; incurable. With patience undergo A cureless ill, since fate will have it so. Dryden.

Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.

In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously. [Low]

Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. [Obs.] Shak.

last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. Goldsmith.

etty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.

x Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.

The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness. The damnableness of this most execrable impiety. Prynne.

To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen. In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm. The Century.

cers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.

cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverable dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! milton. In the dark and silent grave. Sir W. Raleigh.

Bold; spirited; showy. The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T. Campbell.