Pl. cuspides. [L.] = CUSP, q.v., in various senses.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 60. [The magnetized] Needle … will obvent or turne aside its lyllie or North point, and conforme its cuspis or South extreme unto the andiron.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, II. App. vii. The Cuspis of the Cone.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxxi. 475. Vallisneria has a cuspis on each petal.
