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Curets
- noun - a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity
Curfew
- noun - a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions
- an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited
- the time that the curfew signal is sounded
Curial
- - Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican. -- n. A member of a curia, esp. of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.
Curing
- verb - be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"
- provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne";
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue"
Curios
- noun - something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
Curium
- noun - a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
Curled
- verb - form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
- of hair having curls
- play the Scottish game of curling
- shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"
- twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
- wind around something in coils or loops
Curler
- noun - a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight"
- A person who participates in the sport of Curling.
Curlew
- noun - large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill