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Webster 1913 Edition

Culmen

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Cul′men

(k?l′m?n)

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Noun.

[L., fr.

cellere

(in comp.) to impel; cf.

celsus

pushed upward, lofty.]

1.

Top; summit; acme.

R. North.

2.

(Zool.)

The dorsal ridge of a bird’s bill.