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pctalled ; calyx five-leaved; capsule two- 

 celled, acuminate, many -seeded; styles 

 longer than the flower. There is but 

 one species, viz. C. capensis, a native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 



CUP galls, in natural history, a name 

 given to a curious kind of galls found on 

 the leaves 'of the oak, and some other 

 trees. They derive their name from their 

 shape. Besides this species, the oak 

 leaves furnish us with several others, of 

 various shapes and sizes, which appear on 

 the leaves at different seasons of the year. 

 They all contain the worm of some small 

 fly, that passes through all its changes in 

 this habitation, being sometimes found in 

 the worm, sometimes in the nymph, and 

 sometimes in the fly state, in the cavity. 

 See CTTTIPS. 



CUPANIA, in botany, so named from 

 Francesco Cupani, of Sicily, a genus of 

 the Octandria Monogynia, or Polygamia 

 Monoccia class and order. Natural or- 

 der of Trihilatsc. Sapindi, Jussieu. Es- 

 sential character : calyx five-leaved ; pe- 

 tals five-cowled at the top ; style trind ; 

 capsule three-celled ; seeds solitary, aril- 

 led. There are two species, viz. C. to- 

 mentosa, and C..glabra, both natives of 

 the West Indies. 



CUPEL, in chemistry, a small vessel, 

 made generally of bone; it absorbs me- 

 tallic bodies when changed by fire into a 

 fluid scoria. See LABORATORY. 



CUPELLATION. See ASSATIWO. 



CUPOLA, in architecture, a vaulted 

 roof or covering, being the section of a 

 sphere or ellipsoid, formed upon a curvi- 

 linear or polygonal plan. 



CUPPING, in surgery, the operation of 

 applying cupping glasses for the dis- 

 charge of blood, and other humours, by 

 the skin. 



CUPRESSUS, in botany, a genus of the 

 Monoecia &Ionadelphia class and order. 

 Natural order of Coniferz. Essential cha- 

 racter : male calyx, scale of an ament ; 

 corolla none ; anthers four, sessile, with- 

 out filaments ; female calyx of a strobile ; 

 scales one-flowered ; corolla none ; styles, 

 concave dots ; nut angular. There are 

 seven species. These are very beautiful 

 and ornamental trees. C. horizontalis, 

 spreading cypress tree, is by far the larg- 

 est growing tree, and is the most com- 

 mon timber in some parts of the Levant; 

 it is said to resist the worm, moth, and 

 all putrefaction, and to last many hun- 

 dred years. The doors of St. Peter's 

 Church at Rome were framed of this ma- 

 terial, which lasted from Constantine to 

 Pope Eu genius the Fourth's time, which 



was eleven hundred years, and were then 

 sound and entire, when the Pope changed 

 them for gates of brass. The coffins 

 were made of this material, in which the 

 Athenians used to bury their heroes, and 

 the mummy chests brought with those 

 bodies out of Egypt are made of this 

 wood. 



CURATE, properly signifies the par- 

 son or vicar of a parish, who has the 

 charge or cure of the parishioners souls. 



CCRATF, also signifies a person substi- 

 tuted by the incumbent, to serve his cure 

 in his stead. A cure is to be licensed or 

 admitted by the bishop of the diocese, or 

 ordinary, having episcopal jurisdiction, 

 and when a curate hath the approbation of 

 the bishop, he usually appoints the sala- 

 ry too ; and in such case, if he be not 

 paid, the curate hath a proper remedy in 

 the ecclesiastical court, by a sequestra- 

 tion of the profits of the benefice ; but 

 if he have no licence from the bishop, he 

 is put to his remedy at common law, 

 where he must prove the agreement 



CURATELLA, in botany, a genus of 

 the Polyandria Digynia class and order. 

 Natural order of magnolia:, Jussieu. Es- 

 sential character : calyx five-leaved ; pe- 

 tals four : styles two ; capsule two-part- 

 ed, with two seeds in a cell. There is 

 but one species, viz. C. americana, a na- 

 tive of South America. 



CURATOR, among civilians, a person 

 regularly appointed to manage the affairs 

 of minors, or persons mad, deaf, dumb, 

 &c. In countries, where the civil law 

 prevails, minors Jiave tutors assigned 

 them, till they are of the age of fourteen, 

 between which and twenty-five they have 

 curators appointed them. There are al- 

 so curators for the estates of debtors, and 

 of persons dying without heirs. 



CURATOR of an university, in the Unit- 

 ed Netherlands, an officer that has the 

 direction of the affairs of the university, 

 such as the superintendance of the pro- 

 fessors, the management of the revenues, 

 &c. these officers, being elective, are 

 chosen by the states of each province. 

 Leyden has three curators. 



CURCULIGO, in botany, a genus of 

 the Polygamia Monoecia class and order. 

 Essential character : calyx none ; corolla 

 six-petalled ; filaments six; pistil one; 

 capsule ; seeds beaked. There is only 

 one species, viz. C. orchoides, native of 

 shady, uncultivated places about Sanml- 

 cotali, but by no means common. It is 

 the Nallatady of the Telingas. 



CURCULIO, weevil, in natural history, 

 a genus of insects of the order Coleopte- 



