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a. Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. carbunculatio. ] The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ L. caruncula a little piece of flesh, dim. of caro flesh. ] 1. (Anat.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the
caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Dracunculi [ L., dim. of draco dragon. ] (Zool.) (a) A fish; the dragonet. (b) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Homunculi [ L., dim. of homo man. ] A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The type genus of the Juncaceae, comprising the rushes; they are perennial tufted glabrous marsh plants of temperate regions.
Syn. -- genus Juncus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. nuncupatus, p. p. of nuncupare to nuncupate, prob. fr. nomen name + capere to take. ] 1. To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it? Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dedicate by declaration; to inscribe; as, to nuncupate a book. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. nuncupatio. ] The act of nuncupating. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. nuncupativus nominal: cf. F. nuncupatif. ] 1. Publicly or solemnly declaratory. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Nominal; existing only in name. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Oral; not written. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nuncupative will or
Nuncupative testament, a will or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Nuncupative; oral. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. pédonculaire. ] Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Peduncle. ] (Zool.) A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Biol.) Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Ranunculus. ] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Ranunculuses L. Ranunculi [ L., a little frog, a medicinal plant, perhaps crowfoot, dim. of rana a frog; cf. raccare to roar. ] (Bot.) A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (Ranunculus Asiaticus, Ranunculus aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the siphuncle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a siphuncle. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Sipunculus, the typical genus. See Siphuncle. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Gephyrea, including those which have the body unarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. Sipunculus, the typical genus + -oid. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to the Sipunculoidea. -- n. One of the Sipunculoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) (a) Same as Gephyrea. (b) In a restricted sense, same as Sipunculacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot. & Zool.) Supported on, or growing from, a very short stem; having a short peduncle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A yellow flowered evening primrose (Taraxia ovata, syn. Oenothera ovata) native of California. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Zool.) The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inculpable; not blameworthy. [ R. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. un- not + L. cultus, p. p. of colere to cultivate. Cf. Incult. ] Not cultivated; rude; illiterate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of culture. “Idleness, ill husbandry . . . unculture.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ignorant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am young and uncunning, as thou wost [ knowest ]. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Ignorantly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ignorance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incurable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an uncurable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being curbed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + curl. ] To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly. [ 1913 Webster ]

He sheaths his paw, uncurls his angry mane. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become uncurled, or straight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not current. Specifically: Not passing in common payment; not receivable at par or full value; as, uncurrent notes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + curse. ] To free from a curse or an execration. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + curtain. ] To remove a curtain from; to reveal. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Unci [ L. ] (Zool.) A hook or claw. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not customable, or subject to customs duties. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Uncustomable; also, not having paid duty or customs. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not ground, or otherwise cut, into a certain shape; as, an uncut diamond. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not shortened; not condensed; unabridged; -- said of books, plays, and movies; as, an uncut edition of the film. [ PJC ]

4. Not diluted; -- said especially of illegal narcotic drugs; as, uncut heroin. Such illegal drugs are often diluted by admixture with harmless foodstuffs such as sugars. [ PJC ]

a. Unknown; strange. [ Obs. ] -- n. A stranger. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. A fabric woven like velvet, but with the loops of the warp threads uncut. [ 1913 Webster ]