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Curare
- noun - a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; "curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction"
Curari
- - A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (Strychnos toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison.
Curate
- noun - a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"
- To organise
Curbed
- verb - keep to the curb; "curb your dogs"
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "
- place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school"
- to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"
Curdle
- verb - go bad or sour; "The milk curdled"
- turn from a liquid to a solid mass; "his blood curdled"
- turn into curds; "curdled milk"
Curets
- noun - a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity
Curfew
- noun - a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions
- an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited
- the time that the curfew signal is sounded
Curial
- - Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican. -- n. A member of a curia, esp. of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.
Curing
- verb - be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"
- provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne";
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue"