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

Top; summit; acme. R. North.

Having jointed stems or culms.

Pertaining to a culmen.

Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant. [R.]

; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead. As when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator. Milton.

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.…

The top or highest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.

f. See under Grief. -- To come to a head. (a) To suppurate, as a boil. (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot. -- To come to one's self, to recover one's senses. -- To come to pass, to happen; to fall out. -- To come to the scratch. (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed…

Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. Shak. The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. Addison.

Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.

Hence, the highest point; culmination. In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed. Motley. High noon, the exact meridian; midday. -- Noon of night, midnight. [Poetic] Dryden.

ing of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid. [Written also sacculmic.]

sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.

Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. Raymond.

all, or the warmth and light which they give. But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator. Milton.

hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity. I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star. Shak. This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. Mrs. Barbauld. It was during those civil troubles . . . this…