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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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CUMBER n. 2 definitions

rassment; distress. [Obs.] [Written also comber.] A place of much distraction and cumber. Sir H. Wotton. Sage counsel in cumber. Sir W. Scott.

CUMBERSOME a. 2 definitions

s a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. To perform a cumbersome obedience. Sir. P. Sidney.

CURL n. 11 definitions

. . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes. Sir I. Newton.

CURRICLE n. 2 definitions

A small or short course. Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next. Sir T. Browne.

CURTAL FRIAR n.

A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. Sir W. Scott.

The ringdove or wood pigeon. Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie. Sir W. Scott.

A custodian. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

CUSTOMABLE a. 2 definitions

Customary. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

CUTTY n. 4 definitions

A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott.

DAB v. 6 definitions

To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. "To dab him in the neck." Sir T. More.

DAFT a. 2 definitions

lso, delirious; insance; as, he has gone daft. Let us think no more of this daft business Sir W. Scott.

DAGGLE v. 2 definitions

and limp; to moisten. The warrior's very plume, I say, Was daggled by the dashing spray. Sir W. Scott.

eeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands, Sir H. Wotton.

DAM n. 6 definitions

of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother. Our sire and dam, now confined to horses, are a relic of this age (13th century) . . . .Dame is used of a hen; we now make a great difference between dame and dam. T. L. K. Oliphant. The dam runs lowing up end down, Looking the way he…

The quality of being damnable; damnableness. Sir T. More.

DAMP v. 7 definitions

e not for this slug. Bacon. How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! Sir J. Lubbock. The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. Macaulay.

DAN n. 2 definitions

A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir. [Obs.] Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell. Spenser. What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land. Thomson.

DANGLE v. 2 definitions

loosely; as, to dangle the feet. And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume. Sir W. Scott.

DAPPLE n. 2 definitions

on a dappled animal. He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.

DAPPLE; DAPPLED a.

spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott.