culver (1), colver, colvere, colvyr, culfre, culvre, culvere, kulvre

[A. S. culfre, culufre, a corruption of Lat. columba =a dove.) A pigeon, a dove. whence, borne on liquid wing, The sounding culver shoots." 1222 C. As substantive Carp.: The method of fastening by culver tails. ( Ash .) *cul-vert-ship, *kül-vert-schipe, s. [Mid. Eng. culvert , a.; schipe Eng.ship.] Cowardice. "Brouhte so to grunde his kointe kuluertschipe ." - Ancren Kiwle , p. 294. Cum grano sal is: [Lat. with a grain of salt.] With allowance for exaggeration. cu-mā-çě-ą, s. pl . [Gr. kuma =anything swollen, a wave (?), and Lat. n. pl. adj. suff. -ace a .] Crus- taceans belonging to the Mala cost raca. ( Huxley : cumbrous Cumber land hawthorn, s. Pyrus aria , which, according to Gerarde, "delight eth to grow in our shadowie woods of Cumber land and West merl and.' ( Britten & Holland .) *cum-ber-ment, *com-bur-ment, s . [Eng. cum. ber; -ment. Cf. Fr. encombrement.] Trouble, em. barra ment, annoyance, or vexation. "To kepe hire fro cumberment ." -A lisa under , 471. cum'-běr-some, a. [Eng. cumber; -some.] 1. Unwieldly, unmanageable. "Very long tubes are cumbersome, "-Newton: Optics. . 2. Burdensome, embarra ing, vexatious, trouble some. Sidney. going to perform a cumbersome obedience." *cum-ber-some-ly, adv . [Eng. cumbersome, -ly .] In a cumbersome, burdensome, troublesome, or vexatious manner; so as to encumber or embarra .