among shipwrights, signifies the fastening or letting one timber into another, so as not to slip out; as, for instance, the corlings into the beams of a ship.

CUMÆ, in Ancient Geography, a city of Campania, near Puteoli, supposed to have been founded by a colony from Chalcis and Cumæ of Æolis before the Trojan war. The inhabitants were called Cumæi; and one of the Sibyls having fixed her residence in a cave in the neighbourhood, was called the Cumæan Sibyl.