Cufic – Curzola
Cufic
pertaining to Cufa, a town founded by Omar I., in A. D. 637, the ruins of the Parthian capital Ctesiphon having been largely used for the purcoins bearing the kinji or Cufic writing, pose; also relating to inscriptions and or old Arabic. a Russian composer. He was born at Vilna,
Culloden Moor
a heath in Scotland, 4 miles E. of Inverness, celebrated for the victory obtained April 27, 1746, by the Duke of Cumberland over Prince Charles Edward Stuart (the Pretender) and his adherents. The battle was the last fought on British soil, and the termination of the attempts of the Stuart family to recover the throne of England.
Cumberland
a river of the United States which runs through Kentucky Tennessee into the Ohio, having a course of about 600 miles, navigable for steamboats to Nashville, nearly 200 miles .
Cumberland Island
a peninsula (so-called), of Baffin Land, extending into Davis Strait.
Cumberland University
a coeducational institution in Lebanon, Tenn.; organized in 1842, under the auspices of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 21; students, 225; number of graduates, 4,386; president, Andrew B.
Buchanan.
Cumbrian Mountains
a range of hills, England, occupying part of the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland and North Lancashire. The mountains rise with steep acclivities, inclosing in some part narrow but well-cultivated valleys with numerous picturesque lakes; this being the English "Lake Country," so much frequented by tourists.
Cumulative Voting
a system of voting at elections by which the voter is allowed to cast as many votes as there are candidates for a given office, distributing his votes or giving all of them to a single candidate. It is claimed that the proportional result is a more faithful reflex of the will of a community than the majority method.
Cunliffe
WALTER, BARON, a British financier, born in 1855, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, 6
Curfew Laws
in the United States, laws intended to keep young people off the streets after a certain hour at night.
Curia
anciently one of the 30 divisions of the Roman people, which Romulus is said to have established; also the place of assembly for each of these divisions. The comitia curiata was the assembly of the people in curiæ.
Curve
a line made by a moving point which continually changes its direction in contradistinction to a straight line. A curve which lies wholly in a plane is called a plane curve or curve of simple curvature; but when a curve lies partially outside of a plane it is called a GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Curzola
the most beautiful of the Dalmatian islands, in the Adriatic, stretching W. to E. about 25 miles, with an average breadth of 4 miles; area, 85 square miles. It is covered in many places with magnificent timber. The fisheries are very productive. It contains a town of the same name.