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Corvees
- noun - unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
Curfews
- 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
Curlers
- noun - a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight"
- A person who participates in the sport of Curling.
Curlews
- noun - large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill
Current
- adjective - a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes"
- a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water"
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
- occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"
Curtesy
- - the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands.
Curvets
- noun - a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
- perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse
Darkens
- verb - become dark or darker; "The sky darkened"
- make dark or darker; "darken a room"
- tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good name"