Cubital. World English Historical Dictionary

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a. [ad. L. cubitālis, f. cubitus cubit, elbow.]

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  1.  Of the length of a cubit.

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c. 1420.  Pallad. on Husb., IV. 431. And cubital let make her longitude.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. xi. 207. The towers … being so high, that unto men below they [the watchmen] appeared in a cubitall stature.

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1867.  Ecclesiologist, 223. Lines chiselled in cubital letters on its frieze.

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  2.  Anat. Pertaining to the forearm, or the ulna.

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1611.  Cotgr., s.v. Artere, The cubitall arterie, a branch of th’ Axillaire.

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1802.  Paley, Nat. Theol. (1804), 127. The inferior cubital nerves.

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  b.  Zool. Pertaining to the corresponding part in animals, or to the cubit of an insect’s wing.

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1828.  Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., II. 338. Gen[us] Cinips.… Upper wings with one radial triangular cell, and two or three cubital ones.

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1874.  Coues, Birds N. W., 703. Cubital edge of fore-arm rather darker than other upper parts.

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