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A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also German carp.

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

nd, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc. Love is lost, and thus she cries him. Crashaw.

A vessel of flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.

contest with cudgels. -- To cross the cudgels, to forbear or give up the contest; -- a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay one cudgel over another when the contest is ended. -- To take up cudgels for, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something).

of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered. Exposed in cuerpo to their rage. Hudibras.

Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff. Spenser. Many a bitter kick and cuff. Hudibras.

The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.

To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree. Wright.

oublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble. Why asks he what avails him not in fight, And would but cumber and retard his flight Dryden. Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke x. 4…

Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. To perform a cumbersome obedience. Sir. P. Sidney.

Delay; procrastination. [R.] Carlyle.

A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [Obs.] Hudibras.

A cuirass or breastplate. [Obs.] Spenser.

The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower. Broccoli should be cut while the curd, as the flowering mass is termed, is entire. R. Thompson. Cauliflowers should be cut for use while the head, or curd, is still close and compact. F. Burr.

A cuirass. [Obs.] Spenser.

An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving.

sh with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment. On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those. Pope. To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell.

f being a cur; one who is currish. [Jocose] How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship! Hudibras.