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Cube [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In geometry, a regular solid body, with six equal sides, and containing equal angles.

2. In arithmetic, the product of a number multiplied into itself, and that product multiplied into the same number; or it is formed by multiplying any number twice by itself; as, 4 times 4 = 16, and 16 times 4 = 64, the cube of 4.

3. The law of the planets is, that the squares of the times of their revolutions are in proportion to the cubes of their mean distances.

4. CUBE root, is the number or quantity, which, multiplied into itself, and then into the product, produces the cube; or which, twice multiplied into itself, produces the number of which it is the root; thus, 3 is the cube root or side of 27, for 3 times 3 = 9, and 3 times 9 = 27.

Cube [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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

Cube [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

Cube-ore [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Hexahedral olivenite, or arseniate or iron, a mineral of a greenish color.

Cubeb [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The small spicy berry of the Piper cubeba, from Java and the other E. India isles. It was formerly called, from its short stems, Piper caudatum, or tailed pepper. It resembles a grain of pepper, but is somewhat longer. In aromatic warmth and pungency, it is far inferior to pepper.

Cubeb [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs).

Cubebs Encyclopedia Britannica

CUBEBS (Arabic, kabábahst, the fruit of species of plants belonging to the genus Cubeba, natural order Piperaceae. The cubebs of pharmacy are produced by C. officinalis (Piper Cubeba, Linn.), a climbing woody shrub indigenous to South Borneo, Sumatra, Prince of Wales Island, and Java. It has round, ash-coloured, smooth branches; oblong, or ovate-oblong, coriaceous, shining leaves, 4 to 6 j inches long, and 1∣ to 2 inches broad; and dioecious flowers. The fruits are small, globose, about ¾th inch in diameter, and not so large as white pepper; their contracted bases or pedicles are between ⅜ and ¾ inch in length; and from forty fo fifty of them are borne upon a common rachis. Commercial cubebs consist of the dried ripe berries, usually with their pedicles attached; the pericarp is greyish-brown, or blackish and wrinkled; and the seed, when present, is hard, white, and oily. The odour of cubebs is agreeable and aromatic; the taste, pungent, acrid, slightly bitterish, and persistent. About 15 per cent, of a volatile oil, polymeric with oil of turpentine, is obtained by distilling cubebs with water; after rectification with water, or on keeping, this deposits rhombic crystals of camphor of cubebs or hydrate of cubebene, C 30 H 48 ,2H 2 O; cubebene, the liquid portion, has the formula C 30 H 48 . Cubebin is a crystalline substance existing in cubebs, discovered by Soubeiran and Capitaine in 1839; it may be prepared from cubebene, or from the pulp left after the distillation of the oil. The drug, along with gum, fatty oils, and malates of magnesium and calcium, contains also about 1 per cent, of cubébic acid, and to this and to a resin Bernatzik and Schmidt attribute its therapeutic effects. Cubebs are administered for arresting excessive mucous urethral discharges, ...

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 6, p. 683
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Cubed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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