Part 2688

<blockquote>So when the sun in bed <b>Curtained</b> with cloudy red. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Curtal</h1> <Xpage=358>

<hw>Cur"tal</hw> <tt>(k?r"t<it>a</it>l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>courtault</ets>, F. <ets>courtaud</ets>, having a docked tail (cf. It. <ets>cortaldo</ets>), fr. <ets>court</ets> short, L. <ets>curtus</ets>. See <er>Curt</er>, and <er>Curtail</er>.]</ety> <def>Curt; brief; laconic.</def>

<blockquote>Essays and <b>curtal</b> aphorisms. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Curtal dog</col>. <cd>See <er>Curtail dog</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Curtal</h1> <Xpage=358>

<hw>Cur"tal</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.</def> <mark></mark>

<i>Nares.</i>

<h1>Curtal axks, Curtle ax, Curtelasse</h1> <Xpage=358>

<hw><hw>Cur"tal ax`</hw> <tt>(?ks`)</tt>, <hw>Cur"tle ax`</hw>, <hw>Curte"lasse</hw> <tt>(k?rt"l<it>as</it>)</tt><hw>. <def>A corruption of <er>Cutlass</er>.</def>

<h1>Curtal friar</h1> <Xpage=358>

<hw>Cur"tal fri`ar</hw> <tt>(fr?`?r)</tt>. <def>A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.</def>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Curtana</h1> <Xpage=358>

<hw>Cur*ta"na</hw> <tt>(k?r-t?"n?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the <altname>sword of Edward the Confessor</altname>.</def>

<h1>Curtate</h1> <Xpage=358>

<hw>Cur"tate</hw> <tt>(k?r"t?t)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>curtatus</ets>, p.p. of <ets>curtare</ets> to shorten, fr. <ets>curtus</ets>. See <er>Curt</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic.</def>

<cs><col>Curtate cycloid</col>. <fld>(Math.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Cycloid</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Curtation</h1> <Xpage=358>

<hw>Cur*ta"tion</hw> <tt>(k?r-t?"sh?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.</def>

<h1>Curtein</h1> <Xpage=358>

<hw>Cur*tein"</hw> <tt>(k?r-t?n")</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Curtana</er>.</def>

<h1>Curtes</h1> <Xpage=358>

<hw>Cur*tes"</hw> <tt>(k?r-t?s")</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Courteous.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Chaucer</i>.

<h1>Curtesy</h1> <Xpage=358>

<hw>Cur"te*sy</hw> <tt>(k?r"t?-s?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Curtesies</plw> <tt>(-s<?/z)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[Either fr. <ets>courlesy</ets>, the lands being held as it were by favor; or fr. <ets>court</ets> (LL. <ets>curtis</ets>), the husband being regarded as holding the lands as a vassal of the court. See <er>Court</er>, <er>Courtesy</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands.</def>

<i>Mozley & W.</i>

<h1>Curtilage</h1> <Xpage=358>