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- courbaril noun Animé, the resin of the tree, used in varnishes.
- courtesan noun The mistress of a royal or noble.
- courtesy noun A curtsey.
- cove noun Man; fellow.
- cover verb To put on one's hat.
- covered adj Wearing one's hat.
- covey noun A male person, a man; a chap, a chappie.
- cow-pilot noun A fish, the mojarra.
- cowpoke noun A 19th-century device used around the necks of cows and other livestock to prevent them from challenging fencing. The action of the device…
- cowrie noun Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell.
- coy adj Bashful, shy, retiring.
- crab noun An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
- crack noun An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave…
- crack on verb To put on.
- crack up verb To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown.
- crafty adj Magical or occult, or allegedly so.
- cram noun Information hastily memorized.
- crammer noun A liar.
- cranioscopy noun Phrenology.
- crank noun A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.
- crankness noun Liability to capsize (said of a ship or other vessel).
- crayon noun A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
- cream puff noun A gay man.
- crescent adj marked by an increase; waxing, like the Moon.
- crevalle noun A fish, the cavally or jurel.
- crew noun The Manx shearwater.
- cripple adj Crippled.
- crisp adj Of hair: curling, especially in tight, stiff curls or ringlets; also (obsolete), of a person: having hair curled in this manner.
- Crispin noun A shoemaker.
- Cro-Magnard noun Cro-Magnon, the earliest known form of modern humans, Homo sapiens, to be found in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic; a person…
- croaker noun A vocal pessimist, grumbler, or doomsayer.
- Croat noun An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.
- croggle verb To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.
- Crookes space noun The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a…
- cross channel adj Relating to the body of water between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland (the Irish Sea, Saint George's Channel, and the North…
- cross purposes noun A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas.
- cross-border ticket noun A multi-sector airline ticket, issued for travel from a place that the passenger does not intend to fly from, in order to get a lower fare.
- Cross-worshipper noun A Christian.
- crotonine noun A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, later found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil.
- crown noun The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
- crumb up verb To mess up (something); to make (something) dirty.
- crummy adj Full of crumb or crumbs.
- crumpet noun A sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women.
- crusade noun A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.
- crush noun A party or festive function.
- crush room noun A large room in a theater, opera house, or other public building, where the public may stand during the intermissions; a foyer or lobby.
- crusher noun A policeman.
- crust noun The head.
- crutches for lame ducks noun Conventional reply to an inquisitive child who asks what something is, or what is inside a container.
- cube noun An extremely socially conventional or conservative person, moreso than even a square.
- cuddy noun A blockhead; a lout.
- cuisine noun A kitchen or cooking department.
- cumber verb To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.
- cunnilingus noun Someone who performs oral sex on the vulva.
- cunning adj Cute, appealing.
- cup noun A British unit of measure equal to ¹⁄₂ imperial pint (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300 mL.
- cupola noun a small viewing window in the top of the caboose for looking over the train, or the part of the caboose where one looks through this window.
- cur noun A contemptible or inferior dog.
- curatrix noun A female curator, guardian, or custodian
- curiousness noun The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.
- curlycue noun A flourish; a caper.
- curse noun A woman's menses.
- cursed adv Damnably; awfully.
- cursefully adv Peevishly; while cursing.
- curvesome adj Curvy.
- Cushite noun A member of one of various peoples native to the Horn of Africa, generally restricted to those that speak Cushitic languages.
- cuss noun A fellow, person.
- cussed adj Cursed, damned.
- cut noun The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
- cut a shine verb To make a fine impression (by making a show or display).
- cut down verb To slay, often in great numbers.
- cut in verb To dance with someone who is already dancing by replacing his or her partner.
- cut up verb To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism.
- cuteness noun acuteness; cunning
- cyber verb To engage in cybersex.
- cyberspace noun The Internet as a whole.
- cycler noun Synonym of cyclist.
- cyclist noun A motorcyclist.
- cygnine noun An alkaloid from plants of genus Gastrolobium, found in Australia, principally Western Australia, highly toxic to introduced animals.
- Cyrenæan adj Dated form of Cyrenian.
- Czecho- prefix Combining form of Czechoslovakia and Czechoslovakian.
- dab noun Fingerprint.
- daddy noun Chiefly used as a term of address: a man who is not one's father, often but not necessarily older than oneself.
- daffy noun Gin.
- dago noun A person of Southern European descent.
- daisy cutter noun A well-struck ground ball.
- Daltonian noun A color blind person.
- dame noun A woman.
- dance noun Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.
- dance card noun A card on which a person (usually a woman) lists those with whom they have agreed to dance.
- dance on a rope verb To be hanged.
- dandiprat noun An insignificant or contemptible person
- dangerous adj In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
- dangle verb To trail or follow around.
- darkey noun A person with dark skin.
- dash verb To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
- dashed adj Damned.
- dasymeter noun An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an…
- data base noun Dated form of database.
- data controller noun A clerk who scheduled batch jobs on a mainframe computer, and who distributed printed output