the aromatic pungent berries of Piper cubeba, sometimes used in medicine as a stomachic, and in certain forms of gonorrhoea. See Botany, vol. v., p. 207.

CUBIT, in Mensuration, the length of a man's arm from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. The ancient cubit varied among different nations. Arbuthnot gives the Roman cubit at $17\frac{1}{2}$ inches; the cubit of the Cubicularii Scriptures at rather less than 22 inches; and the English cubit at 18 inches.