The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not&?;) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man.
J. C. Shairp
||Cul"tus (k?l"t?s), n. sing. & pl.; E. pl. Cultuses (-&?;z). [L., cultivation, culture. See Cult.] Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2.
Cul"tus cod` (k?d`). [Chinook cultus of little worth.] (Zo÷l.) See Cod, and Buffalo cod, under Buffalo.
Cul"ver (k?"v?r), n. [AS. culfre, perh. fr. L. columba.] A dove. "Culver in the falcon's fist." Spenser.
Cul"ver, n. [Abbrev. fr. Culverin.] A culverin.
Falcon and culver on each tower
Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower.
Sir W. Scott.
Cul"ver*house` (-hous`), n. A dovecote.
Cul"ver*in (k?l"v?r-?n), n.[F. coulevrine, prop. fem. of couleuvrin like a serpent, fr. couleuvre adder, fr. L. coluber, colubra.] A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles.
Trump, and drum, and roaring culverin.
Macaulay.
Cul"ver*key` (-k?`), n. 1. A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree. Wright.
2. An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans). [Obs.]
A girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands.
Walton.
Cul"vert (k?l"v?rt), n. [Prob. from OF. coulouere, F. couloir, channel, gutter, gallery, fr. couler to flow. See Cullis.] A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
Cul"ver*tail` (k?l"v?r-t?l`), n. (Carp.) Dovetail.
Cul"ver*tailed` (-t?ld`), a. United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.
||Cu*ma"ce*a (k?-m?"sh?-? or -s?-?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo÷l.) An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.
Cum"bent (k?m"bent), a. [Cf. Recumbent, Covey.] Lying down; recumbent. J. Dyer.
Cum"ber (k?m"b?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cumbered (-b?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cumbering.] [OE. combren, cumbren,OF. combrer to hinder, from LL. cumbrus a heap, fr. L. cumulus; cf. Skr. &?;&?; to increase, grow strong. Cf. Cumulate.] To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.
Why asks he what avails him not in fight,
And would but cumber and retard his flight?
Dryden.
Martha was cumbered about much serving.
Luke x. 40.
Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
Luke xiii. 7.
The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory.
Locke.
Cum"ber (k?m"b?r), n. [Cf. encombre hindrance, impediment. See Cuber,v.] Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obs.] [Written also comber.]
A place of much distraction and cumber.
Sir H. Wotton.
Sage counsel in cumber.
Sir W. Scott.
Cum"ber*some (k&?;m"b&?;r-s&?;m), a. 1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
To perform a cumbersome obedience.
Sir. P. Sidney.