Curvilinearly, adv

In a curvilinear form or man ner. Cur vinerved, a. [Lat. curvus , and nervus, a nerve.] With the veins curved. Curviros'tra, n. (Zool.) The Cro -bills, a genus of birds, family Fringillid a , much resembling bullfinches, linnets, ., except in the bill, which is altogether singular, the two mandibles cro ing each other at the points, when the bill is closed. This bill, which at first seems to be "an error and defect in nature," is articulated to the head in such a manner, that the mandibles are capable not merely of vertical but of lateral motion; and muscles of extraordinary power are provided for moving them. The result of this is, that the cro bills readily obtain their principal food, the seeds of firs and pines, by tearing up the cones. They bring the points of the mandibles together - which they can do so as to pick up a very small seed - and insert it into the cone, when a powerful lateral movement widens the opening quite sufficiently; and