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▪ I. † ˈcurbing, vbl. n.1 Obs.
[f. curb v.1]
Curving, curvature.
1601Holland Pliny II. 315 The curbing or crookednesse of the ridge-bone.
▪ II. curbing, vbl. n.2|ˈkɜːbɪŋ|
[f. curb v.2]
1. The action of the verb curb; checking.
1661Feltham Resolves ii. lvii. 306 The curbings and the stroaks of Adversity. 1846D. King Lord's Supper iv. 102 The partial curbing of vicious lusts.
2. a. The furnishing of a side-walk, etc. with a curb. b. concr. The stones collectively forming a curb. (In this sense commonly spelt kerbing.)
1838J. Hall Notes Western States viii. 106 After removing the rich soil, a stratum of hard clay presents itself, then gravel, and then another layer of clay, all of which are so compact as to require no curbing. 1869Daily News 2 Feb., The granite kerbing on the sea wall. 1892Times 14 Mar. 3/2 No paving, curbing, or channelling has been done to..the road.
†3. Thieves' cant. (Cf. curber 2.) Obs. [Perhaps a distinct word.]
1591Greene Disc. Coosnage (1859) 53 The nature of the Lift, the Black art, and the Curbing law, which is the Filchers and theeves that come into houses..or picklocks, or hookers at windowes.
▪ III. ˈcurbing, ppl. a.
[f. curb v.2]
That curbs; restraining.
1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) VI. 319 Who from thinking are free, That curbing Disease i' the Mind. 1794Sullivan View Nat. IV. 66 ‘To say..that religion is not a curbing motive, because it does not always restrain, is’ [etc.]. |
