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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]

The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.

One who curses.

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

Moving about slightly. [R.] H. Bushnell.

A courier or runner. [Obs.] "Cursitors to and fro." Holland.

Running; flowing. Cursive hand,a running handwriting.

Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

Cursory; hasty. [Obs.] With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles. Shak.

An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaæ.

Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.

In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.

The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.

lly performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. Hallam.

imp. & p.p. of Curse.

Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably. [Obs.] "Curstfully mad." Marston.

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

Characterized by exessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer. The curt, yet comprehensive reply. W. Irving.

end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce. I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion. Shak. Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been doubled. Macualay.