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cue, n. catchword; queue, pigtail; hint, suggestion, intimation.
cuff, n. box, slap, buffet; manchette (ornamental cuff).
cuff, v. box, slap, smite, strike, buffet.
cull, n. cully, dupe, gull.
culprit, n. offender, malefactor, delinquent, criminal sinner.
cultivable, a. tillable, arable, culturable.
cultivate, v. till.
cultivation, n. tillage.
culture, n. cultivation, tillage; refinement, enlightenment, education.
cultured, a. refined, educated, enlightened.
c.u.mbersome, a. burdensome, troublesome, unwieldy, unmanageable.
cunning, a. artful, crafty, sly, wily, arch, designing, deceitful, intriguing; curious, ingenious; skillful, dexterous.
cunning, n. craft, deceit, craftiness, subtlety, wiliness.
cup, n. mug, noggin, nipperkin, beaker, b.u.mper, tankard, jorum, tig; pl. carousal, wa.s.sail, intoxication, orgies; cupping-gla.s.s, cupel; calyx.
cupboard, n. locker, buffet, ambry, closet.
cupidity, n. covetousness, avarice, greediness.
cupola, n. dome; lantern.
curable, a. remediable, sanable. Antonyms: incurable, irremediable.
curative, a. remedial, sanatory.
curator, n. custodian, keeper, trustee, warden.
curb, v. check, restrain, control, repress, bridle.
curb roof, gambrel roof; mansard roof.
curdle, v. coagulate, thicken, curd, clabber, lopper
curdled, a. coagulated, thickened, loppered.
curdled milk. clabber.
cure, n. spiritual charge, curacy; medical treatment, therapy; antidote, remedy, specific; healing.
cure, v. heal, remedy.
cure-all, n. panacea, catholicon.
curiosity, n. inquisitiveness; curio, freak, rarity, _rara avis_, wonder. Antonyms: incuriosity, uninquisitiveness.
curious, a. inquisitive; strange, rare, unusual. Antonym: incurious.
curl, n. ringlet, kink, toupet.
curl, v. crisp, crimp, c.r.a.pe; writhe, wreathe, twist, wind.
curling, n. crispation.
curl paper. papillote.
curly, a. curling, curled, crinkled, crinkly, wavy, kinky.
curlycue, n. (Colloq.) flourish, paraph, caper.
current, a. present, instant; circulating, rife.
curse, n. denunciation, anathema, ban, malediction, execration, imprecation, fulmination, malison, maranatha; torment, plague, scourge, affliction.
curse, v. anathematize, execrate, fulminate, denounce, condemn.
cursed, a. accursed, execrable, abominable, odious.
curtail, v. shorten, reduce, retrench.
curtain, n. hanging, drapery, portiere, valance, purdah.
curvature, n. curve, flexure, sinuosity; cyrtosis.
curve, v. bend, crook, turn, inflect, deflect, deviate, wind.
cus.h.i.+on, n. pad, bolster, pillow, pillion; pouf, pouffle.
cussedness, n. (Slang) perversity, obstinacy, doggedness, meanness.
custodian, n. curator, guardian, keeper.
custody, n. safe-keeping, care; imprisonment.
custom, n. usage, practice, conventionality; patronage; impost, duty, tribute.
customary, a. usual, wonted, habitual, conventional, accustomed.
