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as the dirub grows, it puflies out, towards right and left, 
long twiggy branches, which apply themfelves to the 
trunks of large trees, and infenfibly climb to their tops, 
where they fpread themfelves, and many of which hang 
pendent to within fix or eight feet of the ground. Thefe 
branch.esare knotty, covered with areddifh down, and bear 
at each knot a pair of oppofite leaves, difpofed crolfwife ; 
they are entire, wrinkled, oval, green above, beneath red- 
di(h and downy. The border of thefe leaves is often a 
little rolled inwards ; the nerves are prominent; the foot- 
Italk fltort. At the bafe of the leaves, on each fide, is a 
large weak (lipule, which is downy and foon falls elf; the 
larged: leaves are about four inches and a half long, and 
about three broad. The flowers, which are fmall, grow 
in fpikes,, proceeding from the bofoms of the leaves to¬ 
wards the extremities of the twigs : their colour is blu- 
ifh ; the calyx reddifh. This flirub is found on trees 
which grow near the crique de Galibis. 
CUN'NINGLY, adv. Artfully; (lily; fubtilcly; by 
fraudulent contrivance ; craftily : 
When dock is high, they come between, 
Making by fecond-hand their offers ; 
Then cunningly retire unfeen, 
With each a million in his coffers. Swift.- 
CUNNINGMA'N,/. A man who pretends to tell for¬ 
tunes, or teach how to recover dolen goods : 
He fent him for a drong detachment 
Of beadle, conflable, and watchmen, 
T’ attack the cunningman, for plunder 
Commited falfely on his lumber. Hudibras. 
CUN'NINGNESS,/ Deceitfulnefs; flinefs. 
CUN'NOR, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Tave, in the county of Glamorgan. 
CUN'NUS,/. [from D53 canas, to cohabit, Chald. or 
xvu, to bring forth.] The pudendum muliebre. 
CUNOCE'PHALI, f. [from kvuv, dog, and y.'tpa.'hr,, 
head.] In mythology, animals with heads like dogs, 
emblems of which are preferved with great veneration 
by the Egyptians in many of their temples. It is re¬ 
lated, that by their aflldance the Egyptians found out 
the particular periods of the fun and moon ; and that 
one half of the animal was often buried, while the other 
half furvived ; and that they could read and write. This 
legend, Dr. Bryant imagines, relates to the prieds of 
Egypt, diled caken , to the novices in their temples, and 
to the examinations they were obliged to undergo, be¬ 
fore they could be admitted to the priedhood* The 
Egyptian colleges, were fituated upon rocks or hills, 
called capk, and from their confecration to the fun, caph- 
t.l\ -whence the Greeks deduced y.ttpaXr,, and from cahcn- 
capk-el they formed KwouBpaMi;. So that cahcn-caph-cl 
was fome royal feminary in Upper Egypt, whence they 
drafted novices to fupply their colleges and temples. 
By this etymology he explains the above hiflory. The 
death of one part, while the other furvived, denoted the 
regular fucceflion of the Egyptian priedhood. The cu- 
nocephali are alfo found in India and other parts of the 
world. Thefe and the acephali were thus denominated 
from their place of refidence and from their worfhip. 
CUNO'NIA,/ [from Jok. Chrijl. Cuno, of Amderdam, 
who deferibed his own garden in Dutch verfe, 1750.3 
In botany, a genus of the clafs decandria, order digynia, 
natural oYder faxifraga?. The generic characters are— 
Calyx : perianthium flve-leaved, very fmall ; leaflets 
ovate, concave, acute. Corolla : petals five, obovate, 
fpreading, fefiile. Stamina : filaments ten, fubulate, the 
length of the'corolla; antherae roundifh, twin. Piltil- 
lum : germ conic ; fiyles two, fubulate, longer than the 
corolla ; fiigmas obtufe. Pericarpium : capfule oblong, 
acuminate, two-celled. Seeds: very many, roundifh.— 
EJfcntial CharaEler. Corolla, five-petalled; calyx, five¬ 
leaved ; capfule, two-celled, acuminate, many-leeded ; 
fiyles longer than the flower. 
C U F 
Cunonia Capcnfis, or Cape cunonia, the only fpecies,. 
is a flirub ; leaves oppofite, pinnate, with an odd leaflet, 
feflile, and not longer than the red ; leaflets often (even, 
lanceolate, fmooth, ferrate ; racemes terminating, in 
pairs, Ample, with many one-flowered fcattered pedicels 
fpringing from one point. Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope. See Antholyza. 
CUNUGNA'TI, cr Cunugnales, or Nueva Ville 
Rie, a town of South America, in the government of 
Buenos Ayres, and province of Paragua. 
CU'NY, a fmall illand of Ireland, in Sligo Bay : five 
miles wed of Sligo. 
CUOLA'GH BAY, a bay of Ireland, on the fouth-wed 
coad of the county of Cork, at the fouth fide of the en¬ 
trance into Kenmare river. Lat. 51.38. N. Ion. 9. 53.W. 
Greenwich. 1 
CUO'MI, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Chan-Tong: fifteen miles north-wed of Kiao. 
CUP,/, [cup, Sax. hop, Dut. coupe, Fr.] A fmall vef- 
fel to drink in.—Thou (halt deliver Pharoah’s cup into 
his hand, after the former manner when thou wad his 
butler. Genefis. 
Ye heav’nly povv’rs, that guard 
The Britidi ides, fuch dire events remove 
Far from fair Albion ; nor let civil broils 
Ferment from focial cups. Philips's 
The liquor contained in the cup ; the draught; 
All friends (hall tade 
The wages of their virtue, and all foes 
The cup of their defervings. Skakefpeare . 
The bed, the deared fav’rite of the (ky 
Mud tade that cup ; for man is born to die. Pope. 
[In the plural.] Social entertainment; merry bout.—- 
It was near a miracle to fee an old man filent, (nice talk¬ 
ing is the difeafe of age ; but, amongd dips, makes fully 
a wonder. Ben JonJbn. 
Then (hall our names, 
Familiar in their mouth as houfehold words. 
Be in their flowing cups frefhly remember’d. Shahfpeare , 
Any thing hollow like a cup : as, the hulk of an acorn ; 
the bell of a flower.—A pyrites of the fame colour and 
Ihape placed in the cavity of another of an hemifpheric 
figure, in much the fame manner as an acorn in its cup. 
Woodward. —Cup and Can. Familiar companions. The 
can is the large velfel out of which the cup is filled, and 
to which it is a condant aifociate : 
You bonding tell us where you din’d. 
And how his lordfliip was fo kind ; 
Swear he’s a mod facetious man ; 
That you and he are cup and can. Swift. 
[ Couper , Fr. to fcarify.] A glafs to draw the blood in 
fcarification.—Hippocrates tells you, that in applying of 
cups , the fcarification ought to be made with crooked 
inlbuments. Arbuthnot. 
“ When the Cup’s full, carry it even.” A proverbial 
admonition to thofe who are arrived at power and w'ealth, 
to bear their good fortune with a deady even temper, 
and not to fuffer themfelves to be hurried away into info- 
lence, pride, and oppreflion. The Latins fay ; 
Fortunam reverenter babe quicunque repente , 
Dives ab exili progrediere loco. 
To CUP, v. a. To fupply with cups. ThisJcnJe is cbm 
foletc : 
Piumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne, 
In thy vats our cares be drown’d ; 
With thy grapes our hairs be crown’d ! 
Cup us, till the world go round. Shakefpeare. 
[ Couper , to cut, Fr.] To fix a glafs-bell or cucurbite up¬ 
on the (kin, to draw the blood in fcarification.—You 
have quarter’d all the foul language upon me, that 
could be raked out of the air of Billinglgate, without 
knowing 
