cusp (kusp)

[L. cuspis, a point, spear, javelin, lance, string, etc.] 1. In astron., the point or horn of a crescent, specifically of the crescent moon.-2. In astrol., the beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculation of nativities. IMG:content-1865.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1866.jpg:[blocks in formation] -2. Specifically, having a single cusp, as a (as if cuspides, n. Plural of cuspis . cuspidine (kus'pi-din), n. [L. cuspis ( cuspid- ), a spear, + -ine2 .] A mineral occurring on Mt. Vesuvius in pale rose-red, spear-shaped crys- tals. It is probably a fluosilicate of calcium. cuspidor, cuspidore (kus'pi-dôr, -dōr), n . [ cuspir , cospir , spit, conspuere , spit upon, con- (intensive) + spuere , spit, = E. spew , q. v.] A spittoon. cuspis (kus'pis), n.; pl. cuspides (-pi-dēz). [L. cuspis ( cuspid- ), a point, spear, etc.: see cusp .] In zoöl . and an at . , a cusp; a point, tip, or mucro. cu l (kus), n. [A vulgar pron. of curse : see curse, curse2 .] 1. A curse: used both in the proper sense, as an imprecation, and (as equiv - alent to curse2 ) as a symbol of worthle ne : see cursel , curse2 .-2. [A particular use of the preceding, but perhaps in part a ociated with customer , somewhat similarly used.] A fellow; a perverse or refractory person: a general term of contempt or reproach (sometimes very slight or jocose): usually with an epithet: as, a hard cu ; a mean cu ; a little cu . [Low or hu- morous, U. S.] The concern is run by a lot of cu es who have failed in various branches of literature themselves. custodee (kus-to-de'), n. [As custode + -eel.] A custodian. custodes, n. Plural of custos . custodia (kus-tō'di-ä), n.; pl. custodia (-ē). [ML. in these senses; L. custodia , keeping, watch, guard, a prison: see custody .] Eccles ., any ve el or receptacle used to contain sacred objects. Specifically - (a) A shrine in which the sacra- ment was exposed to the people or carried in proce ion, See monstrance and ostensoir. (b) A reliquary. Also cus- tode, custodial . custodiall (kus-to'di-al), a . [ custody + -al . ] Relating Rel to or of the nature of custody or custodial2 (kus-tō'di-al), n. [ custodia + -al . ] Same as custodia . C. Reade. custodiam (kus-to'di-am), n. [L. custodiam (acc. of custodia , stodia , custody: see custody), occur- ring in the L. form of the lease.] A lease from the crown under the seal of the E which the custody of lands, etc., seized into the Exchequer, by king's hands, is demised or committed to some person as custodee or le ee thereof. Tomlin. Also called custodiam lease. [Eng.] custodian (kus-tō'di-an), n. [ custodi- anus , implied in custodian at us, custodian, custodian, custodia , custody: see custody .] mous tod i an at us , the office of a One who has the care or custody of anything, as of a a library, library, a a public public building, building, a a lunat lunatic, etc.; a keeper or guardian. IMG:content-1867.jpg:[graphic] cu edne (kus'ed-nes), n. [A vulgar pron. of cursedne ; used with some ref. also to cu 1, n . , 2, a perverse or refractory person.] Cursed- ne ; perversene ; cantankerousne . [Low or humorous, U. S.] cu er (kus'èr), n. [Also cooser, couser , as- similated forms of cursour , a stallion, steed, courser1 .] A stallion. [Scotch.] Then he rampauged and drew his sword - for ye ken a fle man and a cu er fears na the deil. IMG:content-1868.png:[blocks in formation] cu -word (kus'wėrd), n . profane expletive; custard (kus'tärd), (kus'tärd), n. [A corruption of ME. custade , prop. and usually crustade , a pie, tart, croustade , a pie, tart, = Pr. crusta do (Roque fort) = It. crost at a , a pie, tart, also the crust of a pie, cru status , crusted, pp. of crust are, crust, An imprecation; a xpletive; an oath. [Low, [Low, U. S.] custard-apple (kus'tärd-ap"l), n . The fruit of Anona reticulata , a native of the West Indies, but cultivated in all tropical countries. It is a large, dark-brown, roundish fruit, sometimes called bul- lock's- heart from its size and appearance. custard-coffint (kus'tärd-kof"in), n. A piece of raised pastry, or the upper crust, which covers a custard. IMG:content-1869.png:[blocks in formation] custock (kus'tok), n. [Also written custoc , cas- tock , castack , prob. a corruption of * cole - stock , kail - stock or -stalk , cabbage-stalk.] The pith or core of a cabbage or colewort; a cabbage- stalk. [Scotch.] An' gif the custoc's sweet or sour, Wi' joctelegs they taste them. IMG:content-1870.jpg:[blocks in formation] custom, etc., a contraction and modification (as if through a form * consuetumen , pl.- tumina ) of L. consuetudo (consuetudin-), custom, habit (see consuetude ), , be ac- customed, suere , be acc us- tomed, perhaps suus , one's own, his own: see consuetude.] I. n. 1. The common use or prae- tice, either of an individual or of a community, but especially of the latter; habitual repetition of the same act or procedure; established man- ner or way. And we do not as custome is, We are worth to be blamyd, i-wy e, I wolde we dyd nothing amys custom The country custome maketh things decent in vse, as in Asia for all men to weare long gownes both a foot and horsebacke. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 239. I know this Custom in you yet is but a light Disposition; Howell , Letters, I. v. 11. it is no Habit, I hope. I may notice that habit is formed by the frequent repetition of the same action or pa ion, and that this repetition is called consuetude, or custom . The latter terms, which properly signify the cause, are not unfrequently abusively employed for habit, their effect. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., x. We are all living according to custom; we do as other people do, and shrink from an act of our own. Emerson, Fortune of the Republic. 2. In law, collectively, the settled habitudes of a community, such as are and have been for an indefinite time past generally recognized in it as the standards of what is just and right; an cient and general usage having the force of law. Some writers use the word without qualification, as meaning only general customs -that is, such as are prevalent throughout the nation; and some as meaning only local or particular customs, such as obtain only in a particular cla , vocation, or place. In modern use, custom is more appropriate to immemorial habitudes, either general or characteristic of a particular district and having legal force, and usage to the habitudes of a particular vocation or trade. In the history of France the term custom is applied specifically to numerous systems of ancient usage which were judicially recognized as binding upon their respective communities before the revolution of 1789, or until the promulgation of the Code Napoléon: as, the custom of Normandy, of Britt any, of Orleans, etc. There were 60 general customs (each extending over a whole province) and 165 particular customs (those of cities, bishoprics, etc.) reduced to writing. The custom of Paris was established by the French as the law of Canada, and many of its provisions were embodied in the Code Napoléon. The new tenant may not challenge any by costome , but [only] by sufferance of the ould tenants. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 437. The fraunchisez and free custumes whiche beth gode in the saide toune I shall meyntene. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 416. Customs within each country existed before statutes, and so observances come imperceptibly and control the conduct of a circle of nations. Woolsey , Introd. to Inter. Law, § 28. 3. The buying of goods or supplying of one's current needs; the practice of having recourse to some particular place, shop, manufactory, house of entertainment, etc., for the purpose of purchasing or giving orders. It is much to be doubted, there will neither come cus tome nor any thing from thence to England within these few yeares. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, II. 80. Let him have your custom , but not your votes. Add is on . 4. Toll, tax, or duty; in the plural, specifically, the duties imposed by law on merchandise imported or exported. In the United States customs are by the Constitution confined to duties on imports (on which alone they are now levied in European countries 1413 ural, depends in part on the artificial influences to which the mind has been subjected. H. Spencer , Study of Sociol., p. 314. Usages, no matter of what kind, which circumstances have established. become sanctified. H. Spencer , Prin, of Psychol., § 522. To my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance. Shak ., Hamlet, i. 4. It was once the practice of nations to slaughter prisoners of war; but even the Spirit of War recoils now from this bloody sacrifice. Sumner , Orations, I. 50. In words, as fashions , the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old. Pope, E ay on Criticism, 1. 333. 4. Duty, Impost, etc. See tax, n. II. a. 1. Done or made for individual customers, or to order: as, custom work; custom shoes.-2. Engaged in doing custom work: as, a custom tailor. customt (kus'tum), v. [ And yat menn of craftes and all othir menn yat fyndes torches, yat yai come furth in array and in ye manere as it has been vsed and customed before yis time, noght haueyng wapen, careynge tapers of ye pagentz. Proclamation by Mayor of York, 1394, quoted in [York Plays, Int., p. xxxiv. 2. To give custom to; supply with customers. If a shoemaker should have no shoes in his shop, but only work as he is bespoken, he should be weakly customed. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 219. 3. To pay duty for at the custom-house. He hath more or le e stolen from him that day they custome the goods. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 237. II. in trans. To be accustomed; be wont. For on a Bridge he custom eth to fight. Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 7. customable (kus'tum-a-bl), a. [ 3. Habitual; in common practice: as, customary vices. We should avoid the profane and irreverent use of God's Til lots on. name, by cursing or customary swearing. 4. In Eng. law: (a) Holding by the custom of the manor: as, customary tenants, who are copyholders. (b) Held by the custom of the manor: as, a customary freehold. - Customary court. See court. Customary freehold, a superior kind of copyhold, the tenant (who is called a customary tenant ) holding, as it is expre ed, by copy of court-roll, but not at the will of the lord. - Customary law. See consuetudinary.=Syn. 1-3. Usual, Common, etc. (see habitual ); accustomed, ordinary, conventional. II. n.; pl. customaries (-riz). [ML. custuma rius : see above.) A book or document containing a statement or account of the legal customs and rights of a province, city, manor, etc.: as, the customary of Normandy. Formerly also written custumary, cos to mary. A trew coppy of the Cos to mary of the mannor of Tettenhall Regis, coppied out of one taken out of the Origin all, the 22d of July 1604. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 432. It was drawn from the old Germanic or Gothick custum ary, from feudal institutions which must be considered as an emanation from that custumary. Burke, A Regicide Peace, i. customed (kus'tumd), a. [ custom + -ed2. Cf. accustomed .] Customary; usual; common; accustomed. See accustomed . [Rare.] No common wind, no customed event. Shak., K. John, iii. 4. Gray, Elegy. One morn I mi ed him on the customed hill. ble, Their trials and recoueries are.. vpon customable law, which consist eth vppon laudable customes. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 438. They use the customable adornings of the country. Artif. Handsomene , p. 39. 2. Subject to the payment of the duties called customs; dutiable. [Rare.] customable ne (kus tum-a-bl-nes), n. eral use or practice; conformity to custom. [Rare.] Gen constituted more than half the receipts of the national government. Their management is intrusted to an officer of the Treasury Department called the Commi ioner of Customs. See tariff. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom ; fear to whom fear. Rom. xiii. 7. The customs and subsidy of wool, so fruitful of revenue in former times, were indeed abolished, in consequence of the prohibition, in 1647, of the exportation of wool. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, II. 6. Commi ioner of Customs. See commi ioner. - Custom of merchants, or lex mercat or i a, the unwritten law relating to bills of exchange, mercantile contracts, sale, purchase, and barter of goods, freight, insurance, etc. - Custom of war, the unwritten military law derived from military usage; the common law of courts martial. - General custom. ( a ) In Eng, law, a custom which, though it not be universal, prevails throughout the kingdom at large, as distinguished from one which is merely local. (b) In old French law, a system of customary law common to a whole province. Guardian by custom. See guardian. Heir by custom. See heir. Heriot custom. See heriot. Syn. 1. Custom, Habit, Usage, Practice, Fashion, rule, wont. Custom implies continued volition, the choice to keep doing what one has done; as compared with manner and fashion, it implies a good deal of permanence. Habit is a custom continued so steadily as to develop a tendency or inclination, physical or moral, to keep it up: as, the habit of early rising; the habit of smoking. Habit and practice apply more often to the acts of an individual; fashion and usage more often to many; the others indifferently to one or more. Manner ranges in meaning from custom to habit: as, it was the manner of the country. Practice is nearly equivalent to custom, but is somewhat more emphatically an act. Fashion is applied to those customs which go by caprice or fancy, with little basis in reason; it especially applies to trifling things, and those things which have little permanence: as, it is the fashion of the time; hence its application to the constantly changing styles of dre . Ill customs by degrees to habits rise, Ill habits soon become exalted vice. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Pythag. Phil., 1. 682. In some royal houses of Europe it was once a custom that every son, if not every daughter, should learn a trade. De Quincey , Secret Societies, i. Right thinking in any matter depends very much on the habit of thought; and the habit of thought, partly nat to custom; in a customary manner; habitually. [Obsolete or rare.] IMG:content-1871.png:[blocks in formation] A close re-examination of the Custumals or manuals of feudal rules, plentiful in French legal literature, led to some highly interesting results. Maine, Early Hist. of Institutions, p. 6. customarily (kus'tum-ā-ri-li), adv . In a customary manner; commonly; habitually. He underwent those previous pains which customarily antecede that suffering. Bp. Pearson, Expos. of Creed, iv. customarine (kus'tum-a-ri-nes), n. The quality or state of being customary or usual; habitual use or practice. A vice which for its guilt may justify the sharpest, and for its customarine the frequentest invectives which can be made against it. Government of the Tongue. customary (kus'tum-ā-ri), a. and n. [ 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black. Shak ., Hamlet, i. 2. IMG:content-1872.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1873.png:[blocks in formation] The customer received the duties; the comptroller (contra rotula tor) enrolled the payments at the custom house, and thus raised a charge against the customer ; while the searcher received from the customer and the comptroller the document authorising the landing of goods, which was termed the warrant, and, for exportation, the document authorising the shipment of goods, which was termed the cocket; and thereupon allowed the goods mentioned in the document he received to be landed or shipped. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, I. 138. 2. One who purchases goods or a supply for any current need from another; a purchaser; a buyer; a patron, as of a house of entertainment. If you love yourselves, be you customers at this shop of heaven; buy the truth. Bp . Hall , Best Bargain. 31. A prostitute. I marry! - what? a customer ! Shak., Othello, iv. 1. 4t. One who has special customs, as of the country or city. And such a country customer I did meet with once. Heylin, Cosmographie, Pref. 5. Any one with whom a person has to deal; especially, one with whom dealing is difficult or disagreeable; hence, a fellow: as, a queer cus tomer; a rough customer. [Colloq.] Customer for you; rum customer , too. Bulwer , Eugene Aram, i. 2. He must have been a hard hitter if he boxed as he preached-what "The Fancy" would call "an ugly cus Dr. J. Brown, Rab, p. 6. tomer." II. a . 1. Being a customer or customers; purchasing; buying. Such must be her relation with the customer country in respect to the demand for each other's products. J. S. Mill . 2. Made to the order of or for a customer; specially ordered by a customer and made for him: opposed to ready - made , or made for the market generally: as, customer work. [Used chiefly in Scotland.]