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Show cu CU A cloud of cumbrous gnats do him moleft Crpning in mufick and the mathematicks " That from their noyance he no where can reft 2. Opprefiive ; .burdenfome Henceforth I fiy not death, nor would prolon Life much ! Bent rather, how I'may be quit . Fairclt and eafieft, of this cambrous charge. Miltos They rear'd him from the ground " And from his cumbroys arms his limbs unboun " Then lanc'd a vein Dryden Pofleflion's load was grown {o great Savift He funk beneath the cumbrsus weight A plant Miller " Rank fmelling rue, and cumin good for eyes A man that beholds the mighty fhoals of thells bedded and cumulated, herp upon heap amongf .earth, will {carcely conceive which way thefe coul Woodward Cumura'rion.s./. The a& of heapin together Di&z CuncTa'rioN. #. /[ [cunfiatio, Latin. Delay; procraftination ; dilatorinefs It is moft certain, that the Englith made 'no _their beft improvements of thefe fortunate events and thatefpecially by two miferable errours, cusnc‘#ation in profecuting, and hafte in departure Hayward The fwifteft animal, conjoined with a heav body, implies that common moral, feffina lente .and that celerity fhould always be contempere with cunéation Brozn. CUNCTATOR n. /. [Lat. One give -to delay; a lingerer ; an idler ; a flug gard Not in ufe Others, being unwilling to difcourage fuch cunctatorsy always keep them up in good hope, that, i they are not yet called, they may yet, with th thief, be brought in at the laft hour Hammond's Fundamentals To Cuxp. . 7. [from Aennen; to know Dutch.] To give notice: a provincia or obfolete word. . See ConpER They are directed by a balker o ‘eliff, who, difcerning the courfe o (cundethy as they call it, the mafter o in Carew's Surwe huer on th the pilchard each boat of Cornwall CUNEAL. adj. [caneus, Latin.] Relat«ing to a wedge wedge having the form of Cu'NEATED. adj. [cuneus, Latin. Mad in form of a'wedge. Cu'NE1FORM. adj. [fiom cuncus and forma, Lat.] Having the form of a wedge CunerrorM BoNES. #. /i The fourth fifth, and fixth bones of ‘the foot' thu -called from their wedge-like fhape, being large above and narrow below. Dicz Cu'sNER 7. /0 [lepas. A kind of fit lefs than an oyfter; ‘that fticks clofe t the rocks Ainfworth CU'NNING. adj. [from connan, Saxon konnen, Dut. to kinow. k. Skilful Jearned knowing wel inftruted Schoolmafters will I keep within my houfe ,l,".'l_t'to inftru& her youih-To cunning.me L will be very kind'; and Jibera Lo mine own children, in good brigging up. Shak N 3 All friends fhall taft trickifh deceitful The wages of their virtue, and all foe The cups of their defervings.: Shakefp. King Lear Will >t pleafe your lordfhip, drink a cup of fack Shakefpeare They that never had the uf Of the grape's furprifing juice "To the firft delicious cu Waller All their reafon render up The beft, the deareft fav'rite of the fk Muft tafte that czp; for man is born to die Pope's Odyffey ful o fly ; defigning fetche gems ; fubtle ; crafty an 3 {ftrata Then fhall our names Thefe fmall wares and petty points of-ennming are infinite, and it were a good deed to make lift of them ; for nothing doth more hurt tha . that cunning men pafs for wife Bacon Men will leave truth and mifery to fuch as'lov . it; they are refolved to be cunning: let others ru the hazard of being fincere South 4. A&ed with fubtilty Th mor he protefted the more his fathe thought he diffembled, accounting his integrity to be but a cunning face of falfehood Sidney i Cu'NNING. #./. [cunninge, Saxon. 1. Artifice ; deceit; flinefs; fleight ; craft ;. {fubtilty ; diffimulation ; fraudu lent dexterity. What if I be not fo much the poet, as even tha miferable fubjeét of his cunning, whereof yo fpeak Sidney We take cunning for a finifter or crooked wifdom ; and certainly there is great difference between' a cunning man and a wife man, not only i point of honefty, but in point of ability Bacon Difcourage cunning in a child; cunning is th ape of wifdom Locke. 2. Art fkill knowledge right-han | cunning Cu'NNINGLY. adv. [from cunning.] Artfully ; flily ; fubtilely ; by fraudulen contrivance; craftily Amongft other crimes of this nature, there wa diligent enquiry made of fuch as had raifed an difperfed a bruit and rumour, a little before th field fought, that the rebels had the day, and tha the king's army was overthrown, and the kin fled; whereby it was fuppofed, that many fuccour were cunningly put off and kept back Baconw's Henry VII I muft meet my danger; and ‘deftroy him firft But cunningly and clofely Denbam's Sophy When ftock is high, they come between, Making by fecond-hand their offers Then cunningly retire unfeen With each a million in his coffers Sawift Cu'~nNineman. 7. [ [cunning and man. A man who pretends to tell fortunes or teach how to recover ftolen goods He fent him for a ftrong detachmen Of beadle, conftable, and watchmen, T' attack the cunningman, for plunde Committed falfely on his lumber Cu'~nNiNGNESs 7. [ [ fro Social entertainment [Inthe plural. merry bout fubdolous Hudibras cunning. Deceitfulnefs ; {flinefs Spenfér That can thy light relumine. Shakefpeare's Othello Artfull th Which when the vile enchanterefs perceiv'd With cup thus charm'd imparting fhe deceiv'd Thou canning'f# pattern of excelling nature 1 know not where is that Promethean hea Spenfer . a. [cumulo, Latin. liquor contained in the cup draught Enwrapped in foul fmoak, and clouds mose blac than jet Spenfer And there befide of marble ftone was buil An altar, carv'd with cunning imagery On which true Chriftians blood was often fpilt And holy martyrs often done to die Spenfer . Once put out thy light ever live z. Th Her cunning web, and fpread her fubtile net Cu'MERE 7../. [confolida.] A medicina _To heap together Far from fair Albion ; nor let civil broil Philips Ferment from f(ocial cups And over them Arachne high did lif . The cumbrous elements, earth, flood, air, fire. Mi/z 7o CUMULATE The Britifh ifles, fuch dire events remov 2. Performed with fkill ; artful Swift to their feveral quarters hafted the Cu'mMIN. . f. [cuminum, Latin. Ye heav'nly pow'rs, that guar Wherein is he good, but to tafte fack and drin it # Wherein canning, but in craft ? Wherei crafty, but in villainy Shakefpeare's Henry IV Send me now therefore a man cunning to'wor in gold and in filver, and that can fkill to cut an to grave 2 Chronicles ‘When Pedro does the lute command She guides the cunning artift's hand Prior 3¢ Jumbled ;- obftructing each other art Genefis To inftruét her fully in thofe fciences, Shakefpeare Spenfer Thou fhalt deliver Pharaoh's eup into his hand after the former manner when thou waft his butler 1 do prefent you with a man of mine Al ftriving to infix their.feeble ftings CUP, #. /. {cup, Sax. 4op, Dut. coupe French. 1. A fmall veffel to drink in, Familiar in their mouth as houfehold words, Be in their flowing cups frefhly remember'd Shakefpeare's Henry Vi Let us fuppofe that I were reafoning; as on friend with another, by the firefide, or in our cups without care, without any great affection to eithe Rnolleso party It was near a miracle to fee an old man filent fince talking is the difeafe of age; but, amongf Ben Fonfon's Difcovss. cups, makes fully a wonder Thenc Amid His limb His han Milrors from cxps to civil broils his.cups with fainting fhiv'ring feiz'd disjointed, and all o'er difeas'd refufes to fuftain the bowl Dryden's Perfius 4. Any thing hollow like a cup: as, th hutk of an acorn ; the bell ofa flower place figure, czp Foffils A pyrites of the fame colour and fhap in the cavity of another of an hemifpheric in much the fame manner as an acorn in it Woodward o 5. Cup and Can Familiar companions "Fhe can is the large veffel out of whic the cu i filled an to whic itis conftant aflociate You boafting tell us where you din'd And how his lordfhip was fo kind Swear he 's a moft facetious man That you and he are cup and can :Yo travel with a heavy load Savifr And quite miftake preferment's road 6. [couper, French, to {carify.] - A glaf to draw the blood in fcarification Hippocrates tells you, that in applying of cups, the fcarification ought ta be made: with crooke inftruments Arbuthnot 7% Cur. v..4. [from the noun. 1. To fupply with cups. This {enfe is obfolete Plumpy, Bacchus, with pink eyne, In thy vats our cares be drown'd With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd Cup us, till the world go round. Shakefpeare's Antonia and Cleopatra 2. [couper, to cut, Fr.] To fix a glaf bell or cucurbite upon the fkin, to draw the blood in fcarification. The clotted blood lies heavy on his: heart, Corrupts,.and there. remains in fpite of art: Nor breathing veins nor cxpping will prevail All outward remedies and inward fail. Dryd Fab . You have quartered all the foul language upo me, that could be raked out of the air of Billing(gate, withou knowin who I am or whethe deferve to be cupped and fearified at. this rate Spe&ator. Rliftering |