Chapter Culture to Cunning of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Cuminol
(Cu"mi*nol) n. [Cuminic + L. oleum.] A liquid, C₃H₇.C₆H₄.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; — called also cuminic aldehyde.

Cummin
(Cum"min) n. Same as Cumin.

Ye pay tithe of mint, and cummin.
Matt. xxiii. 23.

Cumshaw
(Cum"shaw) n. [Chin. kom-tsie.] A present or bonus; — originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton. S. Wells Williams.

Cumshaw
(Cum"shaw), v. t. To give or make a present to.

Cumu-cirro-stratus
(Cu"mu-cir`ro-stra"tus) n. (Meteor.) Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.

Cumulate
(Cu"mu*late) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cumulated (-l?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Cumulating ] [L. cumulatus, p. p. of cumulare to heap up, fr. cumulus a heap. See Cumber.] To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

Shoals of shells, bedded and cumulated heap upon heap.
Woodward.

Cumulation
(Cu`mu*la"tion) n. [Cf. F. cumulation.] The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation.

Cumulatist
(Cu"mu*la*tist) n. One who accumulates; one who collects. [R.]

Cumulative
(Cu"mu*la*tive) a. [Cf. F. cumulatif.]

1. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated. "As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, not original." Bacon

2. Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.

The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative.
Trench.

3. (Law) (a) Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; — said of evidence. (b) Given by same testator to the same legatee; — said of a legacy. Bouvier. Wharton.

Cumulative action (Med.), that action of certain drugs, by virtue of which they produce, when administered in small doses repeated at considerable intervals, the same effect as if given in a single large dose. — Cumulative poison, a poison the action of which is cumulative. — Cumulative voteor system of voting (Politics), that system which allows to each voter as many votes as there are persons to be voted for, and permits him to accumulate these votes upon one person, or to distribute them among the candidates as he pleases.

Cumulose
(Cu"mu*lose`) a. [From Cumulus.] Full of heaps.

Cumulostratus
(Cu"mu*lo*stra"tus) n. (Meteor.) A form of cloud. See Cloud.

Cumulus
(||Cu"mu*lus) n.; pl. Cumuli [L., a heap. See Cumber.] (Meteor.) One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud.

Cun
(Cun) v. t. [See Cond.] To con [Obs.]

Cun
(Cun), v. t. [See 1st Con.] To know. See Con. [Obs.]

Cunabula
(||Cu*nab"u*la) n. pl. [L., a cradle, earliest abode, fr. cunae cradle.]