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Cumulative poison, a poison the action of
which is cumulative. -- Cumulative vote or
system of voting (Politics), that
system which allows to each voter as many votes as there are
persons to be voted for, and permits him to accumulate these
votes upon one person, or to distribute them among the candidates
as he pleases.

Cu"mu*lose` (k?"m?-l?s`), a. [From
Cumulus.] Full of heaps.

Cu"mu*lo*stra"tus (k?"m?-l?-str?"t?s),
n. (Meteor.) A form of cloud. See
Cloud.

||Cu"mu*lus (k?"m?-l?s), n.;
pl. Cumuli (-l&?;). [L., a heap. See
Cumber.] (Meteor.) One of the four principal
forms of clouds. SeeCloud.

Cun (k?n), v. t. [See Cond.]
To con (a ship). [Obs.]

Cun, v. t. [See 1st Con.]
To know. See Con. [Obs.]

||Cu*nab"u*la (k?-n?b"?-l?), n. pl.
[L., a cradle, earliest abode, fr. cunae cradle.]
1. The earliest abode; original dwelling
place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human
race.

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