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Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars. Milton.

A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.

A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

olobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [Written also condurango.]

Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. "Curable diseases." Harvey. -- Cur"a*ble*ness, n. -- Cur`a*bly, adv.

One who has the cure souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assist a rector or vicar Hook. All this the good old man performed alone, He spared no pains, for curate he had none. Dryden.

Cure; healing. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot.

A woman who cures.

p. a. & vb. n. of Cure. Curing house, a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.

ell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

istippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.

Daily occurence. [R.]

To darken to obscure. [Obs.] Milton.

To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.

With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden. so softly dark and darkly pure. Byron.

Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless. [Poetic] He brought him through a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold. Spenser.

To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. [R.] A deaf murmur through the squadron went. Dryden.

Without sense of sounds; obscurely.