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| CUBICLE | | n. - small screened space.
- small separate sleeping-compartment. [latin cubo lie] | |
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| CUCKOLD | | —n. Husband of an adulteress. —v. Make a cuckold of. cuckoldry n. [french] | |
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| CUEBALL | | n. Ball to be struck with a cue. | |
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| CUIRASS | | n. Armour breastplate and back-plate fastened together. [latin corium leather] | |
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| CUISINE | | n. Style or method of cooking. [french] | |
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| CULPRIT | | n. Guilty person. [perhaps from anglo-french culpable: see *culpable] | |
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| CULTURE | | shock n. Disorientation felt by a person subjected to an unfamiliar way of life.
- vulture n. Colloq. Person eager for cultural pursuits.
- —n. - a intellectual and artistic achievement or expression (city lacking in culture). B refined appreciation of the arts etc. (person of culture).
- customs, achievements, etc. Of a particular civilization or group (chinese culture).
- improvement by mental or physical training.
- cultivation of plants; rearing of bees etc.
- quantity of micro-organisms and nutrient material supporting their growth. —v. (-ring) maintain (bacteria etc.) In suitable growth conditions. [latin: related to *cultivate] | |
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| CULVERT | | n. Underground channel carrying water under a road etc. [origin unknown] | |
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| CUMQUAT | | var. Of *kumquat. | |
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| CUMULUS | | n. (pl. -li) cloud formation of rounded masses heaped up on a flat base. [latin, = heap] | |
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