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Cursing
- verb - exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
- heap obscenities upon; "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"
- utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"
Cursive
- adjective - having successive letter joined together; "cursive script"
- rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper
Cursors
- noun - (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions
Cursory
- adjective - hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"
Curtail
- verb - place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school"
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"
Curtain
- noun - a piece of material suspended at the top to form a covering or screen, typically one of a pair at a window.
- any barrier to communication or vision; "a curtain of secrecy"; "a curtain of trees"
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- provide with drapery; "curtain the bedrooms"
Curtana
- - The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.
Curtate
- - 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.