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[Fr.cupid ité, from Lat. cupid it us, from cupid us desirous; cupio = to desire, to long for.] *1. Love; the affection over which Cupid presides. "She calls her idle flame love -a cupidity which only Cupid. something she knew not what to make of."- Richardson: Sir C. Grand is on, vi. 179. IMG:content-1561.png:[blocks in formation] inches diameter, and 5 to 8 feet high; this is lined with fire clay, brick, or other refractory matter, which IMG:content-1562.png:[blocks in formation] contracts its internal diameter om te flame and gases, and for the admi ion of the charge, consisting of pig-iron, waste or old metal, coke, and lime in due proportion. The lime acts as a flux, and much a ists the fusion; chalk or oyster-shells are used where conveniently acce ible. At the back of the furnace are several tuyere-holes, one above another, through which the air is urged by a blower. As the fluid metal collects below, the air is admitted at a higher aperture, and the lower blast-hole is stopped. The front of the furnace has a large opening at which clinkers, slag, and unconsumed fuel are removed when cleaning the furnace. byistapertura of the furnace. This closed guard-plate, fixed on In the center of the guard-plate is the tapping-hole, which is closed during the melting by a ramming of sand. Some furnaces are made rectangular or cylindrical, with separate plates like staves, bound by hoops, so that the furnace may be taken down if the charge should accidentally become solidified therein. ( Knight .) IMG:content-1563.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1564.jpg:[graphic][merged small] ( Knight .) and named the poppy IMG:content-1565.jpg:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia "Opposite to this palace is a fair temple-cupoloed, compa ed with walls, and open to the air."- Sir T. Her. bert: Travels, p. 163. cup-pą, s. [Etym. unknown.] Her.: One of the furs composed of any metal and color. Called also Potent-counter-potent (q. v.). ( Ogilvie .) *I. Ord. Lang.: Intoxicated; in one's cups. "All night with one that had bin shrieve I sup'd, Well entertain'd I was, and halfe well cup'd ." cu-près-so-cri-nus, s. [Lat. cupre (us); o connective, and Lat. crinon; Gr. krinon a lily, specially Orange Lily (q. v.).] Zool .: A genus of Crinoideans, the typical one of the Devonian rocks. the family Cup res soc rin i dae (q. v.). It occurs in 1. Surg.: Bled by means of a cupping-gla . 2. Mech .: Depre ed at the center; dished. The depre ion around the eye of a millstone is called the bosom. (Knight.) cup-për, s. [Eng. cup , v.; -er.] One who bleeds by means of a cupping-gla ; a scarifier. 1. Bot .: A genus of Gymnogens, order Pinaceae, sub-order Cupre esæ, of which latter it is the type. The leaves are reduced to mere scales; the cones consist of peltate woody bracts; the seeds are small and angular, several in each bract; the fruit is like that of the juniper, but much larger. Cupres- sus sempervirens is the Common Cypre . [CY- PRESS.] There are other species. 2. Palæo-botany: The genus Cupre us is believed this country. to have been found fo il in the Cretaceous rocks of cu-pric, a . [Lat. cupr ( um )=copper, and Eng. suff.ic.] Having copper in its composition. Each IMG:content-1567.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1568.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1569.png:[blocks in formation] is obtained when sodium carbonate is added to a Chem.: A green, basic carbonate, CuCO3.Cu(OH)2 hot solution of cupric sulphate. It is used as a pigment, called verditer. IMG:content-1570.png:[blocks in formation] A. As adj .: Resembling copper. B. As substantive: IMG:content-1571.png:[blocks in formation] sulphuric acid, or by heating copper with sulphur, ure of cupric sulphate and ferrous sulphate. which forms cuprou t sulphide; this, when oxidized, 2KI+2CuSO4+2FeSO4=Cu2+KSO4+Fe2(SO4)3. yields cupric sulphate and oxide; this is thrown into dilute sulphuric acid and allowed to crystal- lize. Cupric sulphate crystallizes in large blue, triclinic prisms, soluble in four parts of cold, and in two parts of boiling, water When heated to 100°, it loses four molecules of water, and the re- ma maining molecule at about 200°. The anhydrous salt readily absorbs water, and is used to remove water from alcohol. It is insoluble in absolute alcohol. Cupric sulphate di olves in hydrochloric IMG:content-1572.png:[blocks in formation] cupula heating copper in sulphur vapor. When heated with cupric oxide it forms sulphur dioxide and metallic copper, Cu2S+2CuO=SO2+4Cu. The fine metal obtained in copper smelting is chiefly cuprous sulphide. cu-pu-lạ, s. [Lat. a little tub or cask, dim in. of cup a a tub or cask.] The same as CUPULE (q. v.). cupula-shaped, a. Bot .: Slightly concave, with a nearly entire margin, as the calyx of citrus, or the cup of an acorn. The same as CUPULIFORM. cũ-pu-lar, a . [CUPULA.] Having as an inflor escence a cupula; tub-shaped, cask-shaped. "It only differs from the true Dacrydia in wanting the cupular disk of the fruit."-Gardeners' Chronicle, No. 407 (1881), p. 503.