a. [ad. L. cubitālis, f. cubitus cubit, elbow.]
1. Of the length of a cubit.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., IV. 431. And cubital let make her longitude.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. xi. 207. The towers … being so high, that unto men below they [the watchmen] appeared in a cubitall stature.
1867. Ecclesiologist, 223. Lines chiselled in cubital letters on its frieze.
2. Anat. Pertaining to the forearm, or the ulna.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Artere, The cubitall arterie, a branch of th’ Axillaire.
1802. Paley, Nat. Theol. (1804), 127. The inferior cubital nerves.
b. Zool. Pertaining to the corresponding part in animals, or to the cubit of an insect’s wing.
1828. Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., II. 338. Gen[us] Cinips.… Upper wings with one radial triangular cell, and two or three cubital ones.
1874. Coues, Birds N. W., 703. Cubital edge of fore-arm rather darker than other upper parts.
