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more dangerous form of reasoning than the cum hoc, propter hoc. ' ” - Nineteenth Century, April, 1886.,

Cumberland Poet (The). William Wordsworth, born at Cockermouth. (1770-1850.)

Cummer A gammer, gudewife, old woman. A variety of gammer which is grande-mère (our grandmother), as gaffer is grand-père or grandfather. It occurs scores of times in Scott's novels.

Cunctator [the delayer ]. Quintus Fabius Maximus, the Roman general who baffled Hannibal by avoiding direct engagements, and wearing him out by marches, countermarches, and skirmishes from a distance. This was the policy by which Duguesclin forced the English to abandon their possessions in France in the reign of Charles V. (le Sage). (See Fabian.)

Cuneiform Letters Letters like wedges (Latin, cuneus, a wedge). These sort of letters occur in old Persian and Babylonian inscriptions. They are sometimes called Arrow-headed characters, and those found at Babylon are called nail-headed. This species of writing is the most ancient of which we have any knowledge; and was first really deciphered by Grotefend in 1802.

Cunning Man or Woman. A fortune-teller, one who professes to discover stolen goods. (Anglo-Saxon, cunnan, to know.)

Cuno The ranger, father of Agatha, in Weber's opera of Der Freischtütz.

Cunobelin's Gold Mines Caverns in the chalk beds of Little Thurrock, Essex; so called from the tradition that King Cunobelin hid in them his gold. They are sometimes called Dane-holes, because they were used as lurking-places by the Norsemen.