Culdean (kuldean)

Pertaining or belonging to the Culdees: as, the Culdee (kul'dē), n. [ Culdean doctrines. Stormonth . fraternity of priests, constituting an irregular monastic order, existing in Scotland, and in smaller numbers in Ireland and Wales, from the ninth or tenth to the fourteenth or fifteenth century. cul-de-four (kül'de-för'), n.; pl. culs-de- four. [F., lit. bottom of an oven: cul, bottom, cul-de-lampe short of the bottom, as at the end of a chapter. The name is derived from the most common form, which is a series of scrolls broad above and terminating in a point below, suggestive of an ancient lamp. Hence-2. In other decorative work, an arabesque of a similar form. cul-de-sac (kül'dė-sak'), n.; pl. culs-de-sac. [F., lit. the bottom of a bag: cul de (see cul - de - four ); sac, It [El-Medinah] contains between fifty and sixty streets, including the alleys and culs - de-sac. R. F. Burton , El-Medinah, p. 239. The north of the Pacific ocean is very much more of a cul-de-sac than that of the Atlantic. J. J. Rein, Hist. Japan (trans.), p. 24. Specifically-2. In an at . and zoöl . , a diverticulum ending blindly; a cæcum or blind gut; some tubular, saccular, or pouch-like part open only at one end.-3. An inconclusive argument.-4. Milit ., the situation in which an army finds itself when it is hemmed in and has no exit but by the front. - Le er cul-de-sac. Same as antrum pylori (which see, under antrum ). -cule. [F. and E. -cule,