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will, that his valuable library fhould be Told piece-meal 
by auction, led, it it were to fall into one hand, feme 
crude publications, under his name, might be made from 
his marginal notes and inanuferipts. 
CUJ A'VI A, a province of Poland, on the banks of the 
"Viltula, the fee of a bifliop, fulfragan of Gnefna, whofe 
refidence was at Waldiilaw, the capital, and was long 
called the bifhop of Krufvitz, becaufe he redded at a 
town of that name. It is now under the dominions of 
Pruflia. 
CUJA'VUS,/ in botany. See Psidium. 
CUJE'TE,/ in botany. See Crescentia. 
CUIL'LE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Mayenne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftribt of 
Craon : five leagues weft-fbuth-wed of Laval. 
CUIL'LI, a town of Swiderland, in the canton of Bern, 
fituated on the north coad of the lake of Geneva, fur- 
rounded with walls and ditches : five miles fouth-ead of 
Laufanne. 
CUI'NAGE,/ The making up of twine into fuch 
forms, as it is commonly framed into for carriage to other 
places. Cowell. 
CUI'RASS, f. [ cuirajfe , Fr. from cuir, leather, corac- 
da, Ital.] A piece of armour called a bread-plate: 
The lance purfu’d the voice without delay, 
And pierc’d his cuir a ft, with fuch fury fent, 
And lign’d his bofum with a purple tint. Drydcn. 
CUIR ASSIE'R, f. A man at arms ; a foldier in ar¬ 
mour.—The picture of St. George, wherein he is de- 
feribed like a cuiraffier, or horfeman completely armed, is 
rather a fymbolical image than any proper figure. Brown. 
The field, all iron, cad a gleaming brown, 
Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on each horn 
Cuirajjurs , all in deel, for (landing fight. Milton. 
CUI'SERY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Saone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of Chalons fur Saone : four leagues and a half 
loLith-fouth-ead of Chalons. 
CUISH, ft. [ cuijft , Fr.] The armour that covers the 
thighs 
I faw young Harry, with his beaver on. 
His cuip.es on his thighs, gallantly arm’d, 
Rife from the ground like a feather’d Mercury. Shakefp. 
CUIZEAU'. See Cuz.eau. 
CUL de COI- 1 E, a bay of the ifland of Martinico, on 
the north part of the Cul de Sac Royal. 
CUL de I.AMPE,yi [Fr.] In mafonry, a decoration 
in vaults and cielings, to furnifli the lower part of the 
work ; in printing, a tail-piece. Afi. 
CUL de SAC, a general term for a bay in the Weft- 
India ifiands. 
CUL de SAC des ANGI.OIS, a bay of the ifland 
of Martinico, on the fouth-ead coad, a little to the fouth 
of Cape Ferre. 
CUL de SAC FRANCOIS, a bay of the ifland of 
Martinico. Lat. 14. 34.N. Ion. 43.7. W. Ferro. 
CUL de SAC (Grand), a bay on the wed coad of the 
ifland of St. Lucia. 
CUL de SAC (Grand), a bay on the north coad of 
the ifland of Guadeloupe. Lat.-16. 30. N. Ion. 44. 7. W. 
Ferro. 
CUL de SAC MARIN, a bay on the fouth coad of 
the ifland of Martinico. Lat. 14. 31. N. Ion. 42. 59. W. 
Ferro. 
CUL de SAC (Petit), a bay of Guadaloupe : feven 
miles fouth of Grand Cul de Sac. 
CUL de SAC (Robert), a bay of the ifland of Mar¬ 
tinico, on the ead coad. Lat. 14. 34. N. Ion. 43. 13. W. 
Ferro. 
CUL de SAC (Royal), a bay on the wed coad of the 
ifland of Martinico. Lat. 14. 30. N. Ion. 43.13.W. Ferro. 
CUL de SAC (Vache), a bay of the ifland of Marti- 
niec. Lat. 14. 31. N. Ion, 43, 11, W. Ferro. 
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CU'LAGE, f. in old records, the laying up a fliip, in 
the dock, in order to be repaired ; the expence incurred 
by the fame. 
CULDE'ES,y. in church-hidcry, monkifli prieds for¬ 
merly inhabiting Scotland and Ireland. Being remark¬ 
able for the religious exercifes of preaching and pray¬ 
ing, they were called, by way of eminence, cultores Dei; 
from whence is derived the word euldees. They made 
choice of one of their own fraternity to be their fpiritual 
head, who was afterwards called the Sects bi/hep. 
CU'LEMBURG, a town of the United Dutch States 
in Guelderland, fituated on the fouth lide of tire Leek. 
It was taken by the French in 1672, who difmantled it 
two years after. The lords of Culemburg have been il- 
ludrious, and were very powerful in 1150. It was eredted 
into a comte in 1555, b Charles V. in favour of Florent 
de Pallant. This Florent de Pallant was among the con¬ 
federate nobles, who prefented the remondrance againd 
the inquifition, and in favour of liberty of confidence, to 
the duchefs of Parma, the 5th of April, 1566. During 
the fucceeding troubles, he retired to Culemburg, where 
he lived peaceably, and died in 1598. Dying without 
children, the comte defeended to the comte de Waldeck, 
who had married the heirefs by a collateral line : twen- 
ty-feven miles fouth-fouth-ead of Amderdam, and fix- 
teen north of Bois-le-Duc. 
CU'LEUS, or CuLLEUs,yi A Roman meafure, cor. 
taining twenty amphorae ; the larged liquid meafure 
among the Romans. Sometimes it fignifies a leather facie. 
CU'LEX, f. fab aculco, named from its ding.) The 
Gnat; inentomology, agenus ot infects belonging to the 
order of diptera. The mouth is formed by a flexible 
(heath, inclofing bridles pointed like (tings. The an¬ 
tennae of the males are filiform ; thofe of the females 
feathered. There are fourteen fpecies. Thefe infedts, 
too w'ell known by the fevere pundtures they inflidt, 
and the itchings thence arifing, afford a mod intereding 
hidory. Before they turn to flying infedts, they have 
been in fome manner fifties, under two different forms. 
“ You may oblerve, (fays Barbiit,) in dagnate waters, 
from the beginning of May till winter, (mail grubs with 
their heads downwards, their hinder-parts on the furface 
of the w'ater ; from which part arifes (ideways a kind of 
vent-hole, or (mail hollow tube, like a funnel, and this 
is the organ of refpirution. The head is armed with 
hooks, that ferve to feize on infedts, and bits of grabs 
on which it feeds. On the (ides are placed four (mall 
fins, by the help of which the infedt fwims about, and 
dives to the bottom. Thefe larvae retain their form 
during a fortnight or three weeks, after which period 
they turn to chryfalids. All the parts of the winged in¬ 
fect are diftinguifhable through the outward robe tlntr 
flirouds them. The chryfalids are rolled up into fpirals. 
The (ituation and lhape of the windpipe is then altered; 
it confifts of two tubes near the head, which occupy the 
place of the ftigmata, through which the winged infedt 
is to breathe. Thefe chryfalids, conltantly on the fur- 
face of the water in order to draw breath, abftain now 
from eating; but upon the lead motion are feen to un¬ 
roll themfelves, and plunge to the bottom, by means of 
little paddles fituated at their hinder-part. After three 
or four days (tridt fafting, they pafs to the (late of gnats. 
A moment before, water was its element; but now, be¬ 
come an aerial infedt, he can no longer exift in it.- He 
fwells his head, and burfts his inclolure. The robe it 
lately wore turns to a (hip, of which the infedt is the 
malt and fail. If at the inftant the gnat difplays his 
wings there arifes a breeze, it proves to him a dreadful 
hurricane ; the water gets into the (hip, and the infect, 
w ho is not yet loolened from it, finks and is loft. But 
in calm weather the gnat forfakes his Hough, dries him- • 
felf, flies into the air, feeks to pump the alimentary 
juice of leaves, or the blood of men and beads. The 
(ting, which our naked eye difeovers, is but a tube, con¬ 
taining fivfe or fix Ipicula’of exquifite miiuiterrefs, fome 
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