Part 2646

<cs><col>Cube ore</col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>pharmacosiderite. It commonly crystallizes in cubes of a green color.</cd> -- <col>Cube root</col>. <fld>(Math.)</fld>, <cd>the number or quantity which, multiplied into itself, and then into the product, produces the given cube; thus, 3 is the cube root of 27, for <mathex>3x3x3 = 27</mathex>.</cd> -- <col>Cube spar</col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>anhydrite; anhydrous calcium sulphate.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cube</h1> <Xpage=353>

<hw>Cube</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cubed</er> <tt>(k?bd)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cubing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.</def>

<h1>Cubeb</h1> <Xpage=353>

<hw>Cu"beb</hw> <tt>(k?"b?b)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>cub<?/be</ets> (cf. It. <ets>cubebe</ets>, Pr., Sp., Pg., & NL. <ets>cubeba</ets>), fr. Ar. <ets>kab<?/bat</ets>.]</ety> <def>The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (<spn>Piper Cubeba</spn>; <fld>in med.</fld>, <spn>Cubeba officinalis</spn>), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.</def>

<h1>Cubebic</h1> <Xpage=353>

<hw>Cu*beb"ic</hw> <tt>(k?-b?b"?k)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; <as>as, <ex>cubebic</ex> acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs)</as>.</def>

<h1>Cubhood</h1> <Xpage=353>

<hw>Cub"hood</hw> <tt>(k?b"h??d)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being a cub.</def> <mark>[Jocose]</mark> "From <i>cubhood</i> to old age."

<i>W. B. Dawkins.</i>

<h1>Cubic kbk, Cubical</h1> <Xpage=353>

<hw><hw>Cu"bic</hw> <tt>(k?"b?k)</tt>, <hw>Cu"bic*al</hw> <tt>(-b?-k<it>a</it>l)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cubicus</ets>, Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/<?/: cf.F. <ets>cubique</ets>. See <er>Cube</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>Isometric or monometric; <as>as, <ex>cubic</ex> cleavage</as>. See <er>Crystallization</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Cubic equation</col>, <cd>an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube.</cd> -- <col>Cubic foot</col>, <cd>a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions.</cd> -- <col>Cubic number</col>, <cd>a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See <er>Cube</er>.</cd> -- <col>Cubical parabola</col> <fld>(Geom.)</fld>, <cd>two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cubic</h1> <Xpage=353>

<hw>Cu"bic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>A curve of the third degree.</def>

<cs><col>Circular cubic</col>. <cd>See under <er>Circular</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cubically</h1> <Xpage=353>

<hw>Cu"bic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a cubical method.</def>

<h1>Cubicalness</h1> <Xpage=353>

<hw>Cu"bic*al*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being cubical.</def>

<h1>Cubicle</h1> <Xpage=353>

<hw>Cu"bi*cle</hw> <tt>(k?"b?-k'l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cubiculum</ets>.]</ety> <def>A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.</def>

<h1>Cubicular</h1> <Xpage=353>

<hw>Cu*bic"u*lar</hw> <tt>(k?-??k"?-l?r)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cubicularis</ets>, fr. <ets>cubiculum</ets> a sleeping room, fr. <ets>cubare</ets> to lie down.]</ety> <def>Belonging to a chamber or bedroom.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Howell.</i>

<h1>Cubiform</h1> <Xpage=353>

<hw>Cu"bi*form</hw> <tt>(k?"b?-f?rm)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of the form of a cube.</def>