English Dictionary: cubicle | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Jute \Jute\ (j[umac]t), n. [Hind. j[umac]t, Skr. j[umac][tsdot]a matted hair; cf. ja[tsdot]a matted hair, fibrous roots.] The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian {Corchorus olitorius}, and {C. capsularis}; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc. | |
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Gunny \Gun"ny\, n., Gunny cloth \Gun"ny cloth`\ [Hind. gon, gon[?],, a sack, sacking.] A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus {Corchorus} ({C. olitorius} and {C. capsularis}), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. {Gunny bag}, a sack made of gunny, used for coarse commodities. | |
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Shepherd \Shep"herd\, n. [OE. schepherde, schephirde, AS. sce[a0]phyrde; sce[a0]p sheep + hyrde, hirde, heorde, a herd, a guardian. See {Sheep}, and {Herd}.] 1. A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large. 2. The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others. {Shepherd bird} (Zo[94]l.), the crested screamer. See {Screamer}. {Shepherd dog} (Zo[94]l.), a breed of dogs used largely for the herding and care of sheep. There are several kinds, as the collie, or Scotch shepherd dog, and the English shepherd dog. Called also {shepherd's dog}. {Shepherd dog}, a name of Pan. --Keats. {Shepherd kings}, the chiefs of a nomadic people who invaded Egypt from the East in the traditional period, and conquered it, at least in part. They were expelled after about five hundred years, and attempts have been made to connect their expulsion with narrative in the book of Exodus. {Shepherd's club} (Bot.), the common mullein. See {Mullein}. {Shepherd's crook}, a long staff having the end curved so as to form a large hook, -- used by shepherds. {Shepherd's needle} (Bot.), the lady's comb. {Shepherd's plaid}, a kind of woolen cloth of a checkered black and white pattern. {Shephered spider} (Zo[94]l.), a daddy longlegs, or harvestman. {Shepherd's pouch}, [or] {Shepherd's purse} (Bot.), an annual cruciferous plant ({Capsella Bursapastoris}) bearing small white flowers and pouchlike pods. See Illust. of {Silicle}. {Shepherd's rod}, [or] {Shepherd's staff} (Bot.), the small teasel. | |
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Capsular \Cap"su*lar\, Capsulary \Cap"su*la*ry\, a. [Cf. F. capsulaire.] Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous. {Capsular ligament} (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton. | |
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Capsular \Cap"su*lar\, Capsulary \Cap"su*la*ry\, a. [Cf. F. capsulaire.] Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous. {Capsular ligament} (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton. | |
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Capsular \Cap"su*lar\, Capsulary \Cap"su*la*ry\, a. [Cf. F. capsulaire.] Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous. {Capsular ligament} (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton. | |
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Capsulate \Cap"su*late\, Capsulated \Cap"su*la`ted\, a. Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box. | |
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Capsulate \Cap"su*late\, Capsulated \Cap"su*la`ted\, a. Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box. | |
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Capsule \Cap"sule\, n. [L. capsula a little box or chest, fr. capsa chest, case, fr. capere to take, contain: cf. F. capsule.] 1. (Bot.) a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc. 2. (Chem.) (a) A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier. (b) a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain. 3. (Med.) A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed. 4. (Anat.) A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ. 5. A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle. 6. A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc. {Atrabiliary capsule}. See under {Atrabiliary}. {Glisson's capsule}, a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ. {Suprarenal capsule}, an organ of unknown function, above or in front of each kidney. | |
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Tenonian \Te*no"ni*an\, a. (Anat.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist. {Tenonian capsule} (Anat.), a lymphatic space inclosed by a delicate membrane or fascia (the fascia of Tenon) between the eyeball and the fat of the orbit; -- called also {capsule of Tenon}. | |
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Atrabiliary \At`ra*bil"ia*ry\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys. 2. Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. {Atrabiliary arteries}, {capsules}, and {veins} (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins. | |
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Malpighian \Mal*pi"ghi*an\, a. (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. {Malhighian} {capsules [or] corpuscles}, the globular dilatations, containing the glomeruli or Malpighian tufts, at the extremities of the urinary tubules of the kidney. {Malpighian corpuscles of the spleen}, masses of adenoid tissue connected with branches of the splenic artery. | |
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Capsulotomy \Cap`su*lot"o*my\, n. [Capsule + Gr. [?] to cut.] (Surg.) The incision of a capsule, esp. of that of the crystalline lens, as in a cataract operation. | |
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Cob \Cob\, n. [Cf. AS. cop, copp, head, top, D. kop, G. kopf, kuppe, LL. cuppa cup (cf. E. brainpan), and also W. cob tuft, spider, cop, copa, top, summit, cobio to thump. Cf. {Cop} top, {Cup}, n.] 1. The top or head of anything. [Obs.] --W. Gifford. 2. A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person. [Obs.] All cobbing country chuffs, which make their bellies and their bags their god, are called rich cobs. --Nash. 3. The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow. [U. S.] 4. (Zo[94]l.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head. 5. (Zo[94]l.) A young herring. --B. Jonson. 6. (Zo[94]l.) A fish; -- also called {miller's thumb}. 7. A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. [Eng.] 8. (Zo[94]l.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull ({Larus marinus}). [Written also {cobb}.] 9. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone. 10. A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See {Cobnut}. [Eng.] 11. Clay mixed with straw. [Prov. Eng.] The poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for his walls, and thatch for his covering. --R. Carew. 12. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood. --Wright. 13. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d. [Obs.] --Wright. {Cob coal}, coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to that of a football; -- called also {cobbles}. --Grose. {Cob loaf}, a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top. --Wright. {Cob money}, a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins were of the weight of the piece of eight, or one of its aliquot parts. | |
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Copiously \Co"pi*ous*ly\, adv. In a copious manner. | |
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Cleavage \Cleav"age\, n. 1. The act of cleaving or splitting. 2. (Crystallog.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See {Parting}. 3. (Geol.) Division into lamin[91], like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure. {Basal cleavage}, cleavage parallel to the base of a crystal, or to the plane of the lateral axes. {Cell cleavage} (Biol.), multiplication of cells by fission. See {Segmentation}. {Cubic cleavage}, cleavage parallel to the faces of a cube. {Diagonal cleavage}, cleavage parallel to ta diagonal plane. {Egg clavage}. (Biol.) See {Segmentation}. {Lateral cleavage}, cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. {Octahedral, Dodecahedral, [or] Rhombohedral, {cleavage}, cleavage parallel to the faces of an octahedron, dodecahedron, or rhombohedron. {Prismatic cleavage}, cleavage parallel to a vertical prism. | |
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Cubic \Cu"bic\ (k?"b?k), Cubical \Cu"bic*al\ (-b?-kal), a. [L. cubicus, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?]: cf. F. cubique. See {Cube}.] 1. Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube. 2. (Crystallog.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See {Crystallization}. {Cubic equation}, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. {Cubic foot}, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions. {Cubic number}, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See {Cube}. {Cubical parabola} (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions. | |
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Parabola \Pa*rab"o*la\, n.; pl. {Parabolas}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?]; -- so called because its axis is parallel to the side of the cone. See {Parable}, and cf. {Parabole}.] (Geom.) (a) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See {Focus}. (b) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = ax^{n} where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the {cubical parabola} n = 3; for the {semicubical parabola} n = [frac32]. See under {Cubical}, and {Semicubical}. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes. | |
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Cubic \Cu"bic\ (k?"b?k), Cubical \Cu"bic*al\ (-b?-kal), a. [L. cubicus, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?]: cf. F. cubique. See {Cube}.] 1. Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube. 2. (Crystallog.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See {Crystallization}. {Cubic equation}, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. {Cubic foot}, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions. {Cubic number}, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See {Cube}. {Cubical parabola} (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions. | |
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Parabola \Pa*rab"o*la\, n.; pl. {Parabolas}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?]; -- so called because its axis is parallel to the side of the cone. See {Parable}, and cf. {Parabole}.] (Geom.) (a) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See {Focus}. (b) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = ax^{n} where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the {cubical parabola} n = 3; for the {semicubical parabola} n = [frac32]. See under {Cubical}, and {Semicubical}. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes. | |
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Cubic \Cu"bic\ (k?"b?k), Cubical \Cu"bic*al\ (-b?-kal), a. [L. cubicus, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?]: cf. F. cubique. See {Cube}.] 1. Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube. 2. (Crystallog.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See {Crystallization}. {Cubic equation}, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. {Cubic foot}, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions. {Cubic number}, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See {Cube}. {Cubical parabola} (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions. | |
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Cubically \Cu"bic*al*ly\, adv. In a cubical method. | |
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Cubicalness \Cu"bic*al*ness\, n. The quality of being cubical. | |
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Cubicle \Cu"bi*cle\ (k?"b?-k'l), n. [L. cubiculum.] A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory. | |
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Cubicular \Cu*bic"u*lar\ (k?-??k"?-l?r), a. [L. cubicularis, fr. cubiculum a sleeping room, fr. cubare to lie down.] Belonging to a chamber or bedroom. [Obs.] --Howell. | |
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Cup-gall \Cup"-gall`\ (-g?l`), n. A kind of oak-leaf gall. See {Gall}. | |
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Cypseliform \Cyp*sel"i*form\ (s?p-s?l"?-f?rm), a. [L. cypselus a kind of swallow, Gr. [?][?][?][?] + -form.] (Zo[94]l.) Like or belonging to the swifts ({Cypselid[91]}.) | |
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Swift \Swift\, n. 1. The current of a stream. [R.] --Walton. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family {Micropodid[91]}. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds. Note: The common European swift ({Cypselus, [or] Micropus, apus}) nests in church steeples and under the tiles of roofs, and is noted for its rapid flight and shrill screams. It is called also {black martin}, {black swift}, {hawk swallow}, {devil bird}, {swingdevil}, {screech martin}, and {shreik owl}. The common American, or chimney, swift ({Ch[91]tura pelagica}) has sharp rigid tips to the tail feathers. It attaches its nest to the inner walls of chimneys, and is called also {chimney swallow}. The Australian swift ({Ch[91]tura caudacuta}) also has sharp naked tips to the tail quills. The European Alpine swift ({Cypselus melba}) is whitish beneath, with a white band across the breast. The common Indian swift is {Cypselus affinis}. See also {Palm swift}, under {Palm}, and {Tree swift}, under {Tree}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The ghost moth. See under {Ghost}. 5. [Cf. {Swivel}.] A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural. 6. The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine. | |
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Palm \Palm\, n. [AS. palm, L. palma; -- so named fr. the leaf resembling a hand. See lst {Palm}, and cf. {Pam}.] 1. (Bot.) Any endogenous tree of the order {Palm[91]} or {Palmace[91]}; a palm tree. Note: Palms are perennial woody plants, often of majestic size. The trunk is usually erect and rarely branched, and has a roughened exterior composed of the persistent bases of the leaf stalks. The leaves are borne in a terminal crown, and are supported on stout, sheathing, often prickly, petioles. They are usually of great size, and are either pinnately or palmately many-cleft. There are about one thousand species known, nearly all of them growing in tropical or semitropical regions. The wood, petioles, leaves, sap, and fruit of many species are invaluable in the arts and in domestic economy. Among the best known are the date palm, the cocoa palm, the fan palm, the oil palm, the wax palm, the palmyra, and the various kinds called cabbage palm and palmetto. 2. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. A great multitude . . . stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme in their hands. --Rev. vii. 9. 3. Hence: Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy. [bd]The palm of martyrdom.[b8] --Chaucer. So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. --Shak. {Molucca palm} (Bot.), a labiate herb from Asia ({Molucella l[91]vis}), having a curious cup-shaped calyx. {Palm cabbage}, the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food. {Palm cat} (Zo[94]l.), the common paradoxure. {Palm crab} (Zo[94]l.), the purse crab. {Palm oil}, a vegetable oil, obtained from the fruit of several species of palms, as the African oil palm ({El[91]is Guineensis}), and used in the manufacture of soap and candles. See {El[91]is}. {Palm swift} (Zo[94]l.), a small swift ({Cypselus Batassiensis}) which frequents the palmyra and cocoanut palms in India. Its peculiar nest is attached to the leaf of the palmyra palm. {Palm toddy}. Same as {Palm wine}. {Palm weevil} (Zo[94]l.), any one of mumerous species of very large weevils of the genus {Rhynchophorus}. The larv[91] bore into palm trees, and are called {palm borers}, and {grugru worms}. They are considered excellent food. {Palm wine}, the sap of several species of palms, especially, in India, of the wild date palm ({Ph[d2]nix sylvestrix}), the palmyra, and the {Caryota urens}. When fermented it yields by distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery. Called also {palm toddy}. {Palm worm}, or {Palmworm}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The larva of a palm weevil. (b) A centipede. | |
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Swift \Swift\, n. 1. The current of a stream. [R.] --Walton. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family {Micropodid[91]}. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds. Note: The common European swift ({Cypselus, [or] Micropus, apus}) nests in church steeples and under the tiles of roofs, and is noted for its rapid flight and shrill screams. It is called also {black martin}, {black swift}, {hawk swallow}, {devil bird}, {swingdevil}, {screech martin}, and {shreik owl}. The common American, or chimney, swift ({Ch[91]tura pelagica}) has sharp rigid tips to the tail feathers. It attaches its nest to the inner walls of chimneys, and is called also {chimney swallow}. The Australian swift ({Ch[91]tura caudacuta}) also has sharp naked tips to the tail quills. The European Alpine swift ({Cypselus melba}) is whitish beneath, with a white band across the breast. The common Indian swift is {Cypselus affinis}. See also {Palm swift}, under {Palm}, and {Tree swift}, under {Tree}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The ghost moth. See under {Ghost}. 5. [Cf. {Swivel}.] A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural. 6. The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine. | |
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Swift \Swift\, n. 1. The current of a stream. [R.] --Walton. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family {Micropodid[91]}. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds. Note: The common European swift ({Cypselus, [or] Micropus, apus}) nests in church steeples and under the tiles of roofs, and is noted for its rapid flight and shrill screams. It is called also {black martin}, {black swift}, {hawk swallow}, {devil bird}, {swingdevil}, {screech martin}, and {shreik owl}. The common American, or chimney, swift ({Ch[91]tura pelagica}) has sharp rigid tips to the tail feathers. It attaches its nest to the inner walls of chimneys, and is called also {chimney swallow}. The Australian swift ({Ch[91]tura caudacuta}) also has sharp naked tips to the tail quills. The European Alpine swift ({Cypselus melba}) is whitish beneath, with a white band across the breast. The common Indian swift is {Cypselus affinis}. See also {Palm swift}, under {Palm}, and {Tree swift}, under {Tree}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The ghost moth. See under {Ghost}. 5. [Cf. {Swivel}.] A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural. 6. The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine. | |
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