Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume C

3. (Zoöl.) A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.

Cut"work` (kŭt"wûrk`), n. (Fine Arts) An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

Cut"worm` (-w?rm`), n. (Zoöl.) A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

Cu·vette" (k?-w?t"), n. [F., dim. of cuve a tub.]

1. A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

2. (Fort.) A cunette.

Cy·am"e·lide (s·ăm"·lĭd or -līd; 104), n. (Chem.) A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.

Cy·am"el·lone (s·ăm"ĕl·lōn), n. (Chem) A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.

Cy"a·nate (s?"?-n?t), n. [Cf. F. cuanate. See Cyanic.] (Chem.) A salt of cyanic acid.

-- Ammonium cyanate (Chem.), a remarkable white crystalline substance, NH₄.O.CN, which passes, on standing, to the organic compound, urea, CO.(NH₂)₂.

Cy`an·au"rate (s?`?n-?"r?t), n. See Aurocyanide.

Cy·a"ne·an (s?-?"n?-a]/>n), a. [Gr. κυανεοσ dark blue.] Having an azure color. Pennant.