Cube ore(Min.), pharmacosiderite. It commonly crystallizes in cubes of a green color. — Cube root. (Math.), the number or quantity which, multiplied into itself, and then into the product, produces the given cube; thus, 3 is the cube root of 27, for 3x3x3 = 27. — Cube spar(Min.), anhydrite; anhydrous calcium sulphate.

Cube
(Cube), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cubed (k?bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cubing.] To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

Cubeb
(Cu"beb) n. [F. cubbe (cf. It. cubebe, Pr., Sp., Pg., & NL. cubeba), fr. Ar. kabbat.] The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

Cubebic
(Cu*beb"ic) a. Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid

Cubhood
(Cub"hood) n. The state of being a cub. [Jocose] "From cubhood to old age." W. B. Dawkins.

Cubic
(Cu"bic Cu"bic*al) (-b?- kal), a. [L. cubicus, Gr. : cf. F. cubique. See Cube.]

1. Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.

2. (Crystallog.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization.

Cubic equation, an equation in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a cube. — Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions. — Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See Cube. — Cubical parabola(Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.

Cubic
(Cu"bic), n. (Geom.) A curve of the third degree.

Circular cubic. See under Circular.

Cubically
(Cu"bic*al*ly), adv. In a cubical method.

Cubicalness
(Cu"bic*al*ness), n. The quality of being cubical.

Cubicle
(Cu"bi*cle) n. [L. cubiculum.] A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

Cubicular
(Cu*bic"u*lar) a. [L. cubicularis, fr. cubiculum a sleeping room, fr. cubare to lie down.] Belonging to a chamber or bedroom. [Obs.] Howell.

Cubiform
(Cu"bi*form) a. Of the form of a cube.

Cubby
(Cub"by Cub"by*hole`) n. [See Cub a stall.] A snug or confined place.

Cubdrawn
(Cub"*drawn`) a. Sucked by cubs. [R.]

This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch.
Shak.

Cube
(Cube) n. [F. cube, L. cubus, fr. Gr. a cube, a cubical die.]

1. (Geom.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

2. (Math.) The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.

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