Vocabulary : Curtain to Curtein

Curtain : 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. ;; That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion. ;; That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc. ;; A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt. ;; To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
Curtained : of Curtain
Curtaining : of Curtain
Curtal : Curt; brief; laconic. ;; A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.
Curtal ax : Alt. of Curtelasse

Curtal friar : A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.
Curtana : 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 : 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 : The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.
Curtein : Same as Curtana.

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