cub 
coarse or uncouth boy or girl : in contempt or 
reprobation. a cubbyhole. [Rare or obsolete.] 
ii, th liHembllng </..' what wilt thoiibe CUbby 1 (kill. ' i), a. [Cf. 
1385 
IjG.kubjc: see </*".] A snug, confined place : 
or obsolete.] 
n.] Sim-; 
When Ii hath sow il ii gri//.lc <>u tli> 
close 
,s7ia*.,T. N., v. 1. cubby-(kuli'i), .; pi. rubbin (-i/.). [See cw/AJ 
Hence 3f. An assisiani ta physician or sur- A creel or basket of straw carried on the back 
geon in a hospital. [London, Kng.] and fastened by a strap across the chest : useil 
At St. Thomas's Hospital, a i 17":), tin- grand commit- in the Orkney and Shetland islands. 
tee resolved " that no mirgeon should have more than three cubbyhole (kub'i-hol), n. A small, close apart - 
''"'' - v - "'"' V-. ""' st ''" " :1 "J ment, or inclosed space; a closet, or any simi- 
lar confined place ; hence, humorously, a very 
small house ; a cot. 
cub 1 (kub), r. ; prct. and pp. rubbrtl, ppr. cub- 
bhiii. | <</<', H.) I. /1'rtii.v. To bring forth, as 
a cub or cubs. 
II. iiitmnx. Contemptuously, to bring forth 
young, as a woman. To cub it, to live as or act the 
part of a cub. (Kan-.| 
I.OMU liefore Kiiiuultis i-utili^l it with \V"lve*, iilxl KrmiK 
scorned earth-world. T. Wi'iiHtm/i. I Veil Urceme, iv. 
cub- (kub), u. [E. dial., prob. a var. (the more 
orig. form) of chub in the general sense of 
One place, a queer little "cubby-hole," has the apjicar- 
ancc of having been a Koman Catholic chajiel. 
0. W ;/"/m..', niir Hundred l>ays in Europe, Iv. 
cubby-house (kub'i-hous), n. A little house, as 
a doll-house, built by children in play. 
We used to 1'iiitii cttbby-huutts and fix 'em out with 
liroken chiny and posies. 
H. T. Conke, Somebody's Neighbors, p. 0. 
ion of co- 
a'ci^ f *!' lp h cubby-yew (kub'i-u), n. [A corrupt! 
(dim., > E. cubbyl), to-kuMe, also Mbbung, a n^PT- 
cubicula 
pepiier, " illi..u( Hi. |,,-culi:ir im-dieinal pi./i^-rties of East 
I mli:in .lltM-l.- 
CUbebic (ku-bcb'ik). . [<//<+ -ic.] Per- 
tuining to or di-rivcil t'rntn eubebs. Cubebic 
add, r i|Hl'-.|. ;ll) aln->rph"ii- >cllnu -nl.Nt;u,i, ,..u- 
tailli'il ill rul'i-lj-., t" tthicll tin.- illlu- In , II, . t ..f tin- ill IIU 
i* >ai'l tu he ilile. 
cubebin (ku'beb-in), n. K cubeb + -i2.] An 
odorless substance (CmH 1() O;j) erystiilli/.ing 
in small needles or scales, found in cubcbs. 
Physiologically it seems to be inactive. 
cube-ore (kub or), n. A mineral crystallizing 
in cubic crystals of a greenish color ; a hydrous 
arseniate of iron. Also called jiharmacoitidcritt. 
cube-powder (kub'pou'der), . Gunpowder 
made iu largo cubical grains, and burning more 
slowly than small or irregular grains, used in 
heavy ordnance. It is made by cutting press-cake In 
two directions at right angles to each other, so as to pro- 
duce cubes with edges 0.75 inch iu length. There are 
ali nit 72 grains to the pound. Also called cubical powder. 
cube-spar (kub'spar), . Anhydrous sulphate 
of calcium ; anhydrite. 
cubhood (kub'hud), . [< CM&! + -hood.} The 
character or condition of a cub; the state of 
being a cub. 
shed or lean-to for cattle ; bekubbelt, narrow, con- 
tracted, crowded for room; cf. also D. kub, 
kubbe, a fish-trap, which suggests a connection 
with cubbf, a creel In the sense of ' cupboard ' cube (kiib) r< p cube _ s p g _ It cubo _ 
cub may be an abbr. of the old form cubbord.] a Dan kubus f> an . a i so ^6e = Sw. hub, < L. 
1. A stall for cattle; a crib. 
This night, wherein the cub-drawn l>ear would couch, 
The lion and the belly-pinched wolf 
Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, 
And bids what will take all. Shale., Lear, 111. 1. 
The shaping of the earth from the nebulous 
of its youth . . . to its present form. 
if, Lay Sermons, p. 243. 
I would rather have such in cub or kennel than iu my 
closet or at my table. Laiidur. 
2. A chest; a bin. 
When the ore [in copper-smelting] Is sufficiently calcined, 
it is let down into the cubt or vaults beneath. 
Encyc. Brit., VI. 348. 
3. A cupboard. 
The great leidger-book of the statutes is to be placed In 
mvliivis among the university charters, and not in any 
ctib of the library. 
Abp. Laud, Chancellorship at Oxford, p. 132. 
[Local or obsolete in all uses.] 
CUb 3 t (kub), v. t. [See cub&, n.] To 
confine. 
To be cubbed up on a sudden, how shall he be perplexed, 
what shall become of him? Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 211. 
Art i Ii. in of Bethlem's noble college free, 
Stark staring mad, that thou wouldst. tempt the sea, 
Cukb'd in a cabin? Dryden, tr. of I'ersius's Satires, v. 
Cuba bast. See basft, 1. 
cubage (ku'bai), . [< cube + -age.'] 1. The act 
or process of determining the cubic contents of 
something; cubature. 
The next chapter on the cubage of the cranial cavity. 
Nature, XXXIII. 4. 
2. The cubic contents measured. 
Cuban (ku'ban), . and n. [< Cuba + -.] 
I. a. Of or pertaining to Cuba, a large island 
of the West Indies belonging to Spain. 
U. n. 1. A native or an inhabitant of Cuba. 
2. [/. c.] Same as cubanite. 
cubangle (kub'ang'gl), n. [< L. cubus, cube, 
cubus, < Gr. /ci'/Joc, a die, a cube, a cubic num- 
ber.] 1. In geom., a regular 
body with six square faces ; 
a rectangular parallelepiped, 
having all its edges equal. The 
cube is used as the measuring unit 
of solid content, as the square is of 
superficial content or area. Cubes 
of different sides are to one another 
as the third power of the number of 
units in one of their sides. Cube. 
2. In arith. and alg., the pro- 
duct obtained by multiplying the square of a 
aim*- nn nr quantity by the quantity itself ; the third power 
of a quantity : as, 4 X 4 X 4 = 64, the cube of 4 ; 
a 3 is the cube of a. Crookes's cube. See vacuum, 
and radiant energy, under energy. Cube root, the num- 
ber or quantity or which a given number or quantity is the 
cube. The easiest way of extracting a cube root i by Hor- 
ner's method. See methoit. Cyclical cube. See cycli- 
cal. Duplication of the cube. See duplication. Les- 
lie's cube, a cubical vessel filled with hot water and used, 
under varying conditions, in measuring the reflecting, 
radiating, and absorbing powers of different substances. 
Truncated cube, a tessarescie-decahedron (or fourteen- 
sided body), formed by cutting off the (aces of the cube 
1>arallel to those of the coaxial octahedron far enough to 
eave them regular octagons, while adding eight triangular 
faces. It is one of the thirteen Archimedean solids. 
cube (kub), v. t,-. pret. and pp. cubed, ppr. mb- 
ing. [< cube, n.] To raise to the cube or third 
power. See cube, n., 2. 
cubeb (ku'beb), . [ME. corruptly cucube, qui- 
bibe; = F. cubebe = Pr. Sp. cubeba = Pg. cubebns, 
cobebas, pi., = It. cubebe, < ML. cubeba, < Ar. 
Pers. kababa, Hind, kabdba, kabdb-chini.] The 
, angle.? "The solid angle formed bv sma11 8 P ic / berry of the Piper Cubeba, a climbing 
three lines meeting at right angles to one an"- shrub of Java and other East Indian islands. It 
other, as in a corner of a cube. 
cubanite (ku'ban-it), n. [< Cuban + -ite^.] A 
sulphid of copper and iron, of a bronze-yellow 
color, intermediate between pyrite and chalco- 
pyrite, first found in Cuba. Also called ctihtin. 
CUbationH (ku-ba'shon), n. [< L. cubatio(n-), < 
ciibiire, lie down.] The act of lying down; a 
reclining. Aeh. 
cubation- (ku-ba'shon), n. Same as cubature. 
cubatoryt (ku'ba-to-ri), a. and n. [< ML. *cu- 
bittnritus (neut. cubatoriuni, n., bedstead, bed- 
room), < LL. eubator, one who lies down, < L. 
citbare, lie down.] I. a. Lying down ; reclin- 
ing; recumbent. 
II. . A place for lying down ; a bedroom ; 
a dormitory. Bailey. 
cubature (ku'ba-tur), n. K NL. as if "ciibatura, 
< L. Cuban, cube.] 1. The act or process of 
finding the solid or cubic contents of a body ; 
cubage. 
Hitherto anthropologists have chiefly employed solid 
particles, such us shut or seeds, in the cubaturr of skulls. 
ScieiKf, V. 499. 
2. The cubic contents thus found. 
cubbordt, . An obsolete spelling of </<//</. 
cubbridge-head (kub'rij-lietl), . [< eubbridiji: 
perhaps for "eiibbni-dage ((cubbord for cupboard 
+ -</), + liriut.] \niit., a partition made of 
boards, etc., across the forecastle and half -deck 
of a ship. 
cubby 1 (kub'i), .; pi. cubbirx (-i/.). [Usually 
in eomp. cubbyhole; prob. of LG. origin; < 
resembles a grain of pepper, but is somewhat longer. In 
Cut*b (Pifer Cattta). 
aromatic warmth and pungency cubebs are far inferior t<> 
pepper ; but they are much valued for their use in diseases 
of the urinary system ami of the hnmrlii;il tubes, s.mn- 
times railed cubfb ;';')*''' African cubebs, the fruit 
of l'ii*r Clutii. which h;\s the hot t:istc and odor of black 
cubic (ku'bik), . and n. [= F. cttbigue = Sp. 
cubico = Pg. It. cubico, < L. cubicua, < Gr. nvjii- 
KOC., < Kt)/?or, a die, cube: see cube.] 1. a. 1. Hav- 
ing the form of a cube. 2. Solid; three-dimen- 
sional: said of a unit of volume related to a unit 
of length of the same name as a cube is re- 
lated to its edge. Thus, a cubic yard is the volume or 
solid contents of a cube whose edges are each a yard long. 
Abbreviated c. 
3. In alg. and geom., being of the third order, 
degree, or power Cubic alum. See alum. Cubic 
curve. See curve. Cubic or cubical determinant. 
See determinant. Cubic elliptois, a curve whose equa- 
tion is fi,i/ :l = .r'-'C' z). It is a cuspidal cubic tangent to the 
line at infinity. Cubic equation, in alg., an equation in 
which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a 
cube. Cubic number, cubic quantity. Same as cube, 
2. Cubic surface, a surface whose point-equation is 
of the third degree; a surface cut by every line in space 
in three points, real or imaginary.- Cubic system, in 
crystal., same as imnnelric gytttem. See cryxtallvuraphy. 
Plane cubic parabola, a cubic of the form a'^i=u''>. It 
is a cubic of tne third class, having a cusp at infinity and 
a single point of inflection (which is a center). Twisted 
Cubic Curve. See ticiitted cubic, lielow. 
II. ii. In math., a cubical quantic, equation, 
or curve Binary, ternary, quaternary cubic, a 
homogeneous entire function of the third degree, contain- 
ing two, three, or four variables. Characteristic of a 
cubic. See characterise. Circular cubic, cuspidal 
cubic. See the adjectives. Twisted cubic, a curve ill 
space which is cut by every plane in three points, real or 
imaginary. 
cubica (ku'bi-ka), n. [Origin uncertain.] A 
fine kind of shalloon used for linings, ranging 
in width from 32 to 36 inches. Viet, of Needle- 
work. 
cubical (ku'bi-kal), a. 1. Of or pertaining to a 
cube. 2. Cubic Cubical coefficient of expan- 
sion. See coefficient. Cubical ellipse, hyperbola, hy- 
perbolic parabola, parabola, twisted cubics distin- 
guished by their intersections with tin- plane at infinity ; 
the ellipse having only one real intersection, the hyper- 
bola three, all distinct, the hyperbolic parabola three, of 
which two fall together, and the paraliola three, all coin- 
cident. Cubical figure, a figure in three dimensions. 
Cubical powder. Same as mbe-puicder. 
CUbically (ku'bi-kal-i), adv. In a cubic man- 
ner; by cubing; with reference to the cube or 
its properties. 
Sixty-four, . . . made by multiplying . . . four cubicall;/. 
I>r. II. Hare, Conjecture Cabbalistiea, p. 217. 
cubicalness (ku'bi-kal-nes), . The character 
of being cubical. 
cubicite, cubizite (ku'bi-sit, -zit), . [< cubic 
+ (:eol)ite, or < ctibi(c) + z(eol)ite.'] Cubic zeo- 
lite, or aim lei m. 
CUbiclet (ku'bi-kl), n. [Also cubiculc ; < L. cubi- 
ciilum, a bedroom, < cubare, lie down.] A bed- 
room ; a chamber. [Rare.] 
Two messengers from the flock of cardinals, invading 
the sanctity of bis (Pole's) nightly cubicle, broke his slum- 
bers with the news of his proffered iloi^nation. 
It. 1C. />wi, Hist. Church of Eng., xvii. 
cubicone (ku'bi-kon), . [< cubi(c) + cone.] 
A conical surface of the third degree, 
cubicontravariant (ku-bi-kon-trii-va'ri-ant), M. 
[< cnbi(r) + contrarariaHt.] A contravariant 
of the third degree, 
cubicovariant (ku'bi-ko-va'ri-ant), . [< <- 
bi(c) + cotariant.] A covariant of the third 
degree, 
cubicriticoid (ku-bi-krit'i-koid), . [< cubi(c) 
+ I'riticoid.] A criticoid of the third degree, 
cubicula, n. Plural of cubiculuM. 
