Part 2664

<h1>Cumshaw</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cum"shaw</hw> <tt>(k?m"sha)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Chin. <ets>kom-tsie</ets>.]</ety> <def>A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton.</def>

<i> S. Wells Williams.</i>

<h1>Cumshaw</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cum"shaw</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To give or make a present to.</def>

<h1>Cumu-cirro-stratus</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cu"mu-cir`ro-stra"tus</hw> <tt>(k?`m\'b5-s?r`r?-str?"t?s)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Meteor.)</fld> <def>Nimbus, or rain cloud. See <er>Nimbus</er>, and <er>Cloud</er>.</def>

<h1>Cumulate</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cu"mu*late</hw> <tt>(k?"m?-l?t)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cumulated</er> <tt>(-l?`t?d)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cumulating</er> <tt>(-l?`t?ng)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>cumulatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>cumulare</ets> to heap up, fr. <ets>cumulus</ets> a heap. See <er>Cumber</er>.]</ety> <def>To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.</def>

<blockquote>Shoals of shells, bedded and <b>cumulated</b> heap upon heap. <i>Woodward.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cumulation</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cu`mu*la"tion</hw> <tt>(k?`m?-l?"sh?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>cumulation</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of heaping together; a heap. See <er>Accumulation</er>.</def>

<h1>Cumulatist</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cu"mu*la*tist</hw> <tt>(k?"m?-l?-t?st)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who accumulates; one who collects.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Cumulative</h1> <Xpage=355>

<hw>Cu"mu*la*tive</hw> <tt>(k?"m?-l?-t?v)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>cumulatif</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated.</def> "As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is <i>cumulative</i>, njt original."

<i>Bacon</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; <as>as, a <ex>cumulative</ex> argument, <ex>i</ex></as>. <i>e</i>., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.</def>

<blockquote>The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and <b>cumulative</b>. <i>Trench.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.</def>

<i>Bouvier.</i> <i>Wharton.</i>

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<cs><col>Cumulative action</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>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.</cd> -- <col>Cumulative poison</col>, <cd>a poison the action of which is cumulative.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Cumulative vote</col> &or; <col>system of voting</col></mcol> <fld>(Politics)</fld>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cumulose</h1> <Xpage=356>

<hw>Cu"mu*lose`</hw> <tt>(k?"m?-l?s`)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Cumulus</er>.]</ety> <def>Full of heaps.</def>

<h1>Cumulostratus</h1> <Xpage=356>

<hw>Cu"mu*lo*stra"tus</hw> <tt>(k?"m?-l?-str?"t?s)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Meteor.)</fld> <def>A form of cloud. See <er>Cloud</er>.</def>