cumylide

[Eng. cumyl; -ide.] 1. Race, family, kin. "Seinte Katerine of noble cunne com." IMG:content-1545.png:[blocks in formation] Ger. chunnen.] Darius, Xerxes, and Hystaspes, and had thus obtained the true determination of nearly a third of the entire alphabet. English-speaking races were late in entering this field of inquiry, but they have since had very eminent students of cuneiform writ ing, such as Sir Henry Rawlinson, Mr. George Smith, of the British Museum, and others. The (English) Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , vol. x., and the first part of vol. xi. (the former published in 1846 and the latter in 1849), were entirely devoted to papers by Sir Henry Rawlinson on cuneiform writ "They sall not than a cherrie cun, That wald not enter pryse." Cherrie and Sloe, st. 47. B. In trans.: To try. "He wollde cunnen swa to brinngnen inn hi herte Erthlike thinge lufe." Ormulum , 12,187.