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be maintained ; as thefe titles are only binding upon tbofe 
who give them, while they conti ue incumbents in the 
church for which fuch curate is appointed. Doug. 137. 
No curate, or mini Iter, ought to perform the duties of 
any church, before he has obtained a licence from the 
bilhop. 2 Burn. 58. The bifhop cannot increafe the fa- 
lary of the curate, where there is a ecific agreement 
between the incumbent and the curate. Frecm. 70. Every 
clergyman that officiates in a church, (whether incum¬ 
bent or fubftitute,) is in cur liturgy called a curate, from 
cure, Fr. which fignifiesa rettor or vicar ; whil evicairc, Fr. 
means what we call a curate. Curates muff fubfcribe 
the declaration, according to the a£t of uniformity, or 
they are liable to imprifonment. 
CUR ATE L'LA, f. In botany, a genus of the clafs 
polyandria, order digynia, natural order magnolias ? The 
generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium, five-leav¬ 
ed, rounded ; leaflets roundiffi, concave ; the fifrh inte¬ 
rior extremely like the petals. Corolla: petals three or 
four, roundiffi, concave, very like the calyx. Stamina : 
filaments very many, filiform, fliorter than the corolla; 
antherae roundiffi. Piftillum : germ two-parted, round¬ 
iffi ; Ityles two, filiform, ereCt, length of the fiamens ; 
ftigmas headed. Pericarpium : capfule nvo-celled, two- 
f iarted ; lobes roundiffi, one-celled. Seeds: in pairs, cb- 
ong, fhining.— EJJential CharaEler. Calyx, five-leaved ; 
petals, four; ftyles, two; caplule, two-parted, with two 
feeds in a cell. 
Curatelht Americana, the only fpecies known, is of 
the ftature of coccoloba ; leaves alternate, fubfeffile, ob¬ 
long, large, very rough ; flowers in racemes, from the 
axils of the leaves which have already fallen, the divi- 
fions of the raceme having two bradles. Native of South 
America. 
CU ; RATESHlP,yi The fame with curacy. 
CU'RATIVE, adj. Relating to the cure of difeafes ; 
not prefervative.—The therapeutic or curative phyfic, we 
term that which refiores the patient unto fanity. Brown. 
CU'RATOR,yi [Lath] One that has the care and 
fuperintCndance of any thing. A guardian appointed by 
law.—A minor cannot appear as a defendant in court, 
but by his guardian and curator. Aylijfc. 
CURB, /. [ courier, Fr. to bend.] A curb is an iron 
chain made faff to the upper part of the branches of the 
bridle, in a hole called the eye, and running over the 
beard of the horfe.—The ox hath his bow, the horfe his 
curb, and the faulcon his bells; fo man hath his defires. 
SAakcfpearc. 
So four fierce courfers, ftarting to the race. 
Scour through the plain, and lengthen ev’ry pace ; 
Nor reins, nor curbs , nor th.rCat’ning cries, they fear. Dryd. 
Reftraint; inhibition; oppofition; hindrance: 
By thefe men, religion, that ffiould be 
The curb, is made the fpur to tyranny. Denham. 
A curb is a bard and callous tumour, which runs along 
the infide of a horfe’s hoof; that is, on that part of the 
hoof that is oppofite to the leg of the lame fide. 
To CURB, v. a. To guide or reftrain a horfe with a 
curb.—Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming (teed. 
Miltcn. —To reftrain; to inhibit; to check; to confine ; 
to hold back.—Iffenfe and learning are fuch unlbciable 
imperious things, he ought to keep down the growth of 
his reafon, and curb his intellectuals. Collier. 
Nature to all tilings fix’d the limits fit, 
And wifely curb'd proud man’s pretending wit. Pope. 
Sometimes with from: 
Yet you are curb’d from that enlargement by 
The ccnfequence- of the crown. Shakefpeare. 
In the following palfage it fignifies, as in French, to bend. 
s -~Though the courfe of the iuu be curbed between the 
tropics, yet are not thole parts diredtly fubjett to his per¬ 
pendicular beams unhabitable, or extremely hot. Ray. 
CUR 479 
CURB-STONE, f A thick Jtind of ftone placed at 
the edge of a.ftone pavement. Mafon’s Supp. 
CUR'CAS, f. A name given in Egypt to an efculent 
root of the colocafia fpecies. It is a!fo a name ufed in 
Malabar for a fmall fruit of the fttape and fize of an ha¬ 
zel nut. Both thefe have the credit of being ftrong 
provocatives. See Iatropha. 
CUR'CO, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Caramania : thirty-five miles fouth-weft of Tarfus. 
CURCULI'GO, f. [from curculio, one of the coleop¬ 
terous inledts; the feed having a procefs refembling: 
the roftrum or beak of that animal.] In botany, a genus- 
of the olafs polygamia, order monoecia. The generic 
characters are—I. Hermaphrodite flowers few, below. 
Calyx : none. Corolla : petals fix, oblong, fpreading, 
withering. Stamina: ( laments fix, very (hort; antherte 
linear, eredt. Piftillum: germ feffile, lanceolate; ftyle 
very lhort ; ftigma large, tapering, with a three-clefc 
apex. Pericarpium: caplule, when a germ, three-celled, 
with the rudiments of fix or eight feeds in each cell : 
when ripe appearing one celled. Seeds: one to four, 
ftiinii'g, black, beaked. II. Male flowersleveral,above. 
Corolla and ftamens as above ; piftillum wanting.— EJfcn- 
tial CharaEler. Calvx, none; corolla, (ix-petalled; 
me its, fix ; piftillum, one; feeds, beaked. 
Curculigo orchioides, (Angle fpecies.) Root tube¬ 
rous, with many flelhy vermicular fibres; leaves nume¬ 
rous, all radical, petioied, fword-form, nerved, flender, 
with a very few loft white haips on them when youn^g 
from fix to eighteen inches long, half or three quarters 
of an inch broad ; flowers piefry large, yellow; the one 
or two lowermoft hermaphrodite; above all male; pe¬ 
duncle fo long as to elevate the flower above the earth 
above one inch, hairy, three-fided. When the feeds are 
ripe, their number is from one to four, and they leem as 
if in a tranlparent, flelhy, one-celled, caplule, and are 
feparated by a fpongy, flelhy, fubftance. Native of 
Ihady uncultivated places about Samulcotah, but by no 
means common. It is the nallatady of the Telingas. 
Gaertner remarks, that this plant differs from all others 
in the Angular Itructure of the ftyle and capfule, and 
the rjundiih horny procefs from the outer and upper 
part of the feed, thickening upward’s, and. Aightiy in¬ 
curved, fo as to refemble the .beak of a curculio, whence 
he gave it the name. 
CURCU'LIO, f. [ ya.gya.qtuv, Gr. of m 3 -D kark.arah, 
Heb. the throat.] A genus of infedts belonging to the 
order of coleoptera. The antennae are clavate'd, and 
reft upon the fnout, which is prominent and horny; 
feelers four,- filiform. Thefe infedts are divided into 
the following families. 1. Thofe which have the rof¬ 
trum longer than the thorax, and whole thighs are 
Ample. 2. Thofe which have the roftrum longer than 
the thorax, and the thighs thicker, and rrutffe for leaping. 
3. Thofe which have the roftrum longer than the tho¬ 
rax, and the thighs-dentared. 4. Thofe Which have 
dentated thighs, and a roftrum Alerter than tlie thorax. 
5. Thofe whole thighs are without teeth or fpines, and 
the roftrum lhorter than the thorax. Upwards of fix 
hundred fpecies of this, infect are now known ; many of 
them exceeding in brilliancy and luftre all powers of de» 
feription, principally diftinguiflied by their colour. 
The larvae of this fplendid-tribe -differ not from-thofe 
of molt other coleopterous infects. They bear a refem- 
blance to obiong loft worms. They are provided ante¬ 
riorly-with fix lcaiy legs, and their head is likewife fealy. 
But the places where, thole larvae dwell, and their trunk 
formation?, afford many Angularities. One of the mi¬ 
nuted lpecies of curculio, at lirft hardly- difccrnible 
without the help of a miorofcope, is the gran dr ins, or 
weevil, by iome called the bond. The larvae of thefe are 
dreaded for che mifchief they do in granaries, where 
they rind means to introduce themfeives into grains of 
corn, and there take up their abode. It is difficult- to 
dilcover them, as they lie concealed within tire grain. 
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