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Cul*dee" (k&?;l-d&?;" or k&?;l"d&?;),
n. [ Prob. fr. Gael. cuilteach; cf. Ir.
ceilede.] One of a class of anchorites who lived in
various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

The pure Culdees

Were Albyn's earliest priests of God.

Campbell.

||Cul`-de-sac" (ku`de-s?k" or kul`de-s?k"),
n.; pl. Culs-de-sac
(ku`- or kulz`-). [ F., lit., bottom of a bag.]

1. A passage with only one outlet, as a
street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.

2. (Mil.) a position in which an
army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front.

3. (Anat.) Any bag-shaped or
tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.

Cul"er*age (k?l"?r-?j), n.
(Bot.) See Culrage.

||Cu"lex (k?"l?ks), n. [L., a
gnat.] (Zoöl.) A genus of dipterous insects,
including the gnat and mosquito.

Cu*lic"i*form (k?-l?s"i-f?rm). a.
[L. culex a gnat + -form:cf. F.
culiciforme.] (Zoöl.


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