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r in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, illmannered boy. O, thuo dissembling cub! what wilt thou be When time hath sowed a drizzle on thy case Shak.

Of or pertaining to Cuba or its inhabitants. -- n.

The act of lying down; a reclining. [Obs.]

Lying down; recumbent. [R.]

The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.

A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

A snug or confined place.

Sucked by cubs. [R.] This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.

ined by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4. Cube ore (Min.), pharmacosiderite. It commonly crystallizes in cubes of a green color. -- Cube root. (Math.), the number or quantity which, multiplied into itself, and then into the product, produces the given cube; th…

The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs).

The state of being a cub. [Jocose] "From cubhood to old age." W. B. Dawkins.

A curve of the third degree. Circular cubic. See under Circular.

Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.

In a cubical method.

The quality of being cubical.

A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

Belonging to a chamber or bedroom. [Obs.] Howell.

Of the form of a cube.

The lowest course of stones in a building.