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{ Cu*ra"re Cu*ra"ri } (k?-r?"r?),
n. [Native name. Cf. Wourall.] A
black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians
from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S.
toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken
internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood,
and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. [Written also
urari, woorali, woorari, etc.]

Cu"ra*rine (k?"r?-r?n or k?-r?"r?n; 104),
n. (Chem.) A deadly alkaloid
extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos
toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless
salts.

Cu"ra*rize (-r?z), v. t. To
poison with curare.

Cu*ras"sow (k?-r?s"s?), n. [Native
name in Brazil.] (Zool.) A large gallinaceous bird of
the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the
family Cracidæ.

&fist; The crested curassow (Crax alector) is black,
and about the size of a small hen-turkey, with an erectile crest
of curled feathers. It ranges from Mexico to Brazil. The galeated
curassow or cushew bird (Ourax Pauxi) is similar in size,
and has a large, hollow, blue, pear-shaped protuberance on the
head.


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