n. [ See Accurate. ] The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The professed end [ of logic ] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides. Lardner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accuratus, p. p. and a., fr. accurare to take care of; ad + curare to take care, cura care. See Cure. ] 1. In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Correct; exact; just; nice; particular. -- Accurate, Correct, Exact, Precise. We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a correct likeness, a man of correct deportment. We speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate statement, an accurate detail of particulars. We speak of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundance; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth, an exact likeness. We speak of a thing as precise when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. assecuratio, fr. assecurare. ] Assurance; certainty. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the family including the crayfish.
Syn. -- Astacidae, family Astacidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ [ LL. camera chamber + L. obscurus, obscura, dark. ] (Opt.) 1. An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Photog.) An apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface placed at the back of an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modified; -- commonly called simply the camera. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. cicurare to tame, fr. cicur tame. ] To tame. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cicuration. ] The act of taming. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being curable; curableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. curable. See Cure, v. t. ] Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. “Curable diseases.” Harvey. -- Cur"a*ble*ness, n. -- Cur`a*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

{ } n. A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with the peel from the sour orange, and sometimes with cinnamon and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaçcao in the Netherlands Antilles near Venezuela. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n.; pl. Curacies [ See Cure, Curate. ] The office or employment of a curate. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Native name. Cf. Wourall. ] A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (Strychnos toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. [ Written also urari, woorali, woorari, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To poison with curare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Native name in Brazil. ] (Zool.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The crested curassow (Crax alector) is black, and about the size of a small hen-turkey, with an erectile crest of curled feathers. It ranges from Mexico to Brazil. The galeated curassow or cushew bird (Ourax Pauxi) is similar in size, and has a large, hollow, blue, pear-shaped protuberance on the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ SeeCuirass. ] A cuirass or breastplate. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. curatus, prop., one who is charged with the care (L. cura) of souls. See Cure, n., and cf. Curé ] One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

All this the good old man performed alone,
He spared no pains, for curate he had none. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A curacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF.curacion. ] Cure; healing. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F.curatif. See Cure, v. t. ] Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. curare to take care of, fr. cura care. ] 1. One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to curator; as, curatorial duties. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The office of a curator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] 1. A woman who cures. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A woman who is a guardian or custodian. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Inaccuracies [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy or exactness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; not quite correct; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc. The term inaccurate is usually used when an assertion or result is near to the truth, but not exactly, or has some basis for belief; however, it is sometimes used as a gentle euphemism for wrong even if the error is flagrant. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The expression is plainly inaccurate. Bp. Hurd.

Syn. -- Inexact; incorrect; erroneous; faulty; imperfect; incomplete; defective. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incicur not tame; pref. in- not + cicur name. ] Untamable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incurabilité incurability, LL. incurabilitas negligence. ] The state of being incurable; irremediableness. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person diseased beyond cure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rancorous and incurable hostility. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance. Sir J. Stephen.

Syn. -- Irremediable; remediless; irrecoverable; irretrievable; irreparable; hopeless. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being incurable; incurability. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably. “Incurably diseased.” Bp. Hall. “Incurably wicked.” Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Mercuric + ammonium. ] (Chem.) A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obscurans, p. pr. of obscurare to obscure. ] One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The system or the principles of the obscurants. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Obscurant. Ed. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obscurativ: cf. F. obscuration. See Obscure, v. t. ] The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. poco curante caring little. ] A careless person; a trifler. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Carelessness; apathy; indifference. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being procured; obtainable. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Procuracies [ LL. procuratia: cf. F. procuratie. See Procuration, and cf, . Proxy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Authority to act for another; a proxy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. procuratio: cf. F. procuration. See Procure. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of procuring; procurement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The management of another's affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Ch. of Eng.) A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called also proxy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Procuration money (Law), money paid for procuring a loan. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. procurateur. See Procure, and cf. Proctor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Law) One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor. Chaucer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rom. Antiq.) A governor of a province under the emperors; also, one who had charge of the imperial revenues in a province; as, the procurator of Judea. [ 1913 Webster ]

Procurator fiscal (Scots Law), public prosecutor, or district attorney. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. procuratorius. ] Tending to, or authorizing, procuration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be secured. [ 1913 Webster ]