Curtail :: Curtail (v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce..

Curtail :: Curtail (n.) The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc..

Curtail Dog :: Curtail dog () A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting..

Curtailed :: Curtailed (imp. & p. p.) of Curtai.

Curtailer :: Curtailer (n.) One who curtails.

Curtailing :: Curtailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curtai.

Curtailment :: Curtailment (n.) The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.

Curtain :: Curtain (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage..

Curtain :: Curtain (n.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

Curtain :: Curtain (n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc..

Curtain :: Curtain (n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.

Curtain :: Curtain (v. t.) To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

Curtained :: Curtained (imp. & p. p.) of Curtai.

Curtaining :: Curtaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curtai.

Curtal :: Curtal (a.) Curt; brief; laconic.

Curtal :: Curtal (n.) A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short..

Curtal Ax :: Curtal ax () Alt. of Curtelass.

Curtal Friar :: Curtal friar () A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.

Curtana :: Curtana (n.) The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor..

Curtate :: Curtate (a.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic..

Curtation :: Curtation (n.) The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.

Decurtation :: Decurtation (n.) Act of cutting short.

Encurtain :: Encurtain (v. t.) To inclose with curtains.

Incurtain :: Incurtain (v. t.) To curtain.

Uncurtain :: Uncurtain (v. t.) To remove a curtain from; to reveal.

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