Defn: A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short. [Obs]
Nares.
CURTAL AX; CURTLE AX; CURTELASSE
Cur"tal ax`, Cur"tle ax`, Curte"lasse (krt"las).
Defn: A corruption of Cutlass.
CURTAL FRIAR
Cur"tal fri`ar (fr`r).
Defn: A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. Sir W.
Scott.
CURTANA
Cur*ta"na (kr-t"n), n.
Defn: 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 Cur"tate (kr"tt), a. Etym: [L. curtatus, p.p. of curtare to shorten, fr. curtus. See Curt.] (Astron.)
Defn: 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. Curtate cycloid. (Math.) See Cycloid.
CURTATION
Cur*ta"tion (kr-t"shn), n. (Astron.)