470 CUN 
There is but one fpecies, cuminum cyminum, or 
cumin. Root annual, round, fcarcely branched. Stem 
a palm in height ; Miller fays it feldom rifes more than 
nine or ten inches high in the warm countries where it is 
cultivated, and that he has never feen it grow more than 
three or four inches high in England. It is fmooth, ftri- 
ated, branched from the bottom, flexuofe, and divari¬ 
cately panicled. Leaves fub-biternate, the lateral leaf¬ 
lets being binate or bifid, and the end one trifid; all the 
fegments unequal, filiform, and an inch long ; the upper- 
mod leaves are only ternate, the middle leaflet longer 
than the two others. According to Miller, the leaves 
are divided into long narrow fegments like thofe of fen¬ 
nel, but much finaller; they are of a deep green, and 
generally turn back at the end. Fruit oblong, thicker 
in the middle, the fame fize with that of fennel, and aro¬ 
matic ; feeds convex on one fide, on which are nine ftreaks, 
and minute bridles fcattered over it ; the other fide flat. 
Native ot Egypt. It flowers in June and July. Culti¬ 
vated in 1594, by fir Hugh Plat. Gerarde fays, he has 
proved the feeds in his garden, where “ they have 
brought forth ripe feed much fairer and greater titan any 
that cometh from beyond the feas.” He lowed it in the 
midfi of May, it fprung up in fix days, and the feed was 
ripe in the end of July. It is Angular, therefore, that 
the cumin ihould never produce feeds with Mr. Miller. 
It is cultivated in the fouth of Europe, and all Lefler 
Alia. In the illand of Malta, where it is much propa¬ 
gated for fale, it is called cumino aigro, hot cumin, to dif- 
tinguifh it from anife, which they call cumino dolce, or 
fweet cumin. 
Propagation and Culture. If the feeds of this plant are 
fovvn in final 1 pots filled with light kitchen-garden earth, 
and plunged into a very moderate, hot-bed to bring up 
the plants, and thefe, after having been gradually inured 
to the open air, turned out of the pots, and planted in a 
warm bolder ot good earth, preferving the balls of earth 
to their roots, and afterwards kept clean from weeds, 
the plants will flower pretty well, and by thus bringing 
them forward in the fpring, they may perfect: their feeds 
in very warm feafons. See Hyfecoum, Lagoecia, and 
PlMPINELLA. 
CUMMASHA'WAS, or Cummashawaa, on the eaft 
fide ot Walhington ifland, and on the north-weft coaft of 
North America. The port is capacious and lafe, and its 
mouth lies in lat. 53. 2. 30. N. and in Ion. 228. 22. W. 
In this port captain Ingraham remained fome time ; and 
lie obferves, in his journal, that here, in diredt oppofition 
to moll other parts of the world, the'women maintained 
a precedency to the men in every point ; infomuch that 
a man dares not trade without the concurrence of his 
wife; and that he has often been witnefs to men’s being 
abided for parting with Ikins before their approbation 
was obtained : and this precedency often occafioncd much 
difturbance. 
CUM'MINGTON, a townfhip of the American States, 
in Hampfhire county, Maflachufects, having 873 inhabi¬ 
tants ; lying about twenty miles north-weft of Northamp¬ 
ton, and 120 north-weft by weft of Bolton. It w r as incor¬ 
porated in 1779. 
CUMPULUN'GO, a town of Wallachia: fifty-fix 
miles north-north-vyeft of Buchareft. 
To CU'MULATE, v. a. [cumutp, . Tat.] To heap to¬ 
gether.—A man that beholds the mighty Ihoals of fhells, 
bedded and cumulated , heap upon heap amongft earth, 
will fcarcely conceive which way thefe could ever live. 
JVoodward. 
CUMULA'TION, f. The a£l of heaping together. 
To CUN, v. n. [a lea term.] To direct the perfon at 
the helm how to fleer. 
CUNfE'US (Peter), a lawyer, and. philologift, fon of 
a.merchant of Plufliing, born in 1586. He was fent to 
the itniverfity. of Leyden, at the age of fourteen, where 
he lhidied medicine and jurifprudenee, but particularly 
oriental literature, under Drtifius. Pie taught Latin anil 
CUN 
politics at Leyden, and in 1613 was made profeflor of 
law there. In this employment he continued till his 
death, in 1638. Of his works, the belt known is a trea- 
tife De Rcpublica Hebraorum , of which the belt edition is 
that of 1703, 4to. It has been tranllated into French. 
He alfo wrote, 1. Sardi Pennies , Leyden, 1612, re-printed 
in the Tres Satyrae Menippete of Corte, Leipfic, 1720. 
2. Animadvcrfioncs in Nouni Dionyfiaca. 3. Juliani CaJarcs 
ex Graco verji. 4. Orationes Inaugur. See. After his death 
a collection of his letters was publilhed, by Burnian, 
which contains many anecdotes of the literary hiftory of 
the time. 
CUNA'XA, a place of Aflyria, five hundred ftadia 
from Babylon,- famoirs for a battle fought there between. 
Artaxerxes and his brother, Cyrus the younger, before 
Chrift, 401. The latter entered the field of battle with 
113,000 men, and the former’s forces amounted to 900,000 
men. The valour and the retreat of the ten thoulhnd 
Greeks, who were among the troops of Cyrus, are well 
known, and have been celebrated by the pen of Xeno¬ 
phon, who was prefent at the battle, and who had the 
principal care of the retreat. Cttjias. 
CUNCTA'TION,/. [cunElatio , Lat.] Delay; procraf- 
tination ; dilatorinels.—The fwifteft animal, conjoined 
with a heavy body, implies that common moral, fejliva 
lente ; and that celerity Ihould always be contempered 
with cun&ation. Brown. 
CUNCTA'TOR, f. [Lat.] One given to delay; a 
lingerer; an idler; a lluggard. Not in ufe. —Others, being 
unwilling to dificourage finch cunElators , always keep them 
up in good hope, that, if they are not yet called, they 
may yet, with the thief, be brought in at the laft hour. 
Hammond. 
CUNCTI'POTENT, adj. [cunElus, Lat. all, and ppffum t 
to be able.] Allpowerful; able to do all things. Scott. 
CUNCT ITE'NENT, adj. [ cunElus , Lat. all, and tenco, 
to hold.] Holding all things ; poflefling all things. Scott. 
To CUND, v. n. [from honnen, to know, Dutch.] To 
give notice : a provincial or obfolete word. —They are di¬ 
rected by a balker or huer on the cliff, who, dificerning 
the courle of the pilchard, cundet/i, as they call it, the 
mailer of each boat. Cartw. 
CU'NEAL, adj. [ cuneus , Lat.] Relating to a wedge ; 
having the form of a wedge. 
CU'NEATED, adj. [cuneus, Lat.] Made in form of 
a wedge. 
CU'NEIFORM, adj. [from cuneus and forma, Lat.] 
Having the form of a wedge ; wedge-fhaped. 
CUNI'LA,/ [fuppofed to be fo called from the flowers 
growing in a head, refembling a cone or ftrobile.] In bo¬ 
tany, the Virginian Penny-roval; a genus of the 
clafs diandria, order monogynia, natural order verticil, 
latte, or labiatpe. The generic characters are—Calyx : 
perianthium one-leafed, cylindric, permanent, ten-ftreak- 
cd ; mouth fomewhat lipped, five-toothed, permanent. 
Corolla : one-petalled, ringent ; upper lip eredt, flat, 
emarginate ; lower lip three-parted ; divifions rounded, 
middle one emarginate. Stamina: filaments two, fili¬ 
form, and two rudiments of filaments ; antherte roundifli, 
twin. Piftillum: germ four-parted; ftylefiliform, length 
of the ftamens; ftigma two-cleft, ftiarp. Pericarpium, 
none; calyx with its throat doled with fliaggy hairs. 
Seeds: four, oval, minute.— EJfential CharaEler. Corolla, 
ringent; upper lip erect, flat; filaments two, barren; 
feeds four. 
Species. 1. Cunila mariana, or mint-leaved cunila: 
leaves ovate, ferrate; corymbs terminating, dichotomous. 
Perennial. Native of North America ; flowers from July 
to September, and was cultivated in 1760 by Mr. James 
Gordon. There are two varieties of this; one has nar¬ 
rower leaves and larger heads, and the leaves have very 
little feent; whereas thofe of the common fort fmell fo 
like pennyroyal as not to be diftinguiftied from it. 
2. Cunila pulegioides, or pennyroyal-leaved cunila; 
leaves oblong, two-toothed; flowers in whorls. Annual; 
a fpan 
