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USB
Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. A "plug-and-play" interface, it allows a device to be added without an adapter card and without rebooting the computer (the latter is known as hot-plugging). The USB standard, developed by several major computer and telecommunications companies, supports data-transfer speeds up to 12 megabits per second, multiple data streams, and up to 127 peripherals.


cusk
Long-bodied food fish (Brosme brosme) of the cod family, found along the bottom in deep, offshore waters on either side of the N. Atlantic. It is a small-scaled fish with a large mouth and a barbel (fleshy feeler) on its chin. It has one dorsal and one anal fin, both long and both connected to the rounded tail. It may grow about 3-3.5 ft (90-110 cm) long. It varies from yellowish or brownish to a slaty color and when young may be vertically barred with yellow.


cusp
In architecture, the intersection of lobed or scalloped forms, particularly in arches (cusped arches) and tracery. Thus the three lobes of a trefoil (cloverleaf form) are separated by three cusps. Cusped forms appear in early Islamic work and were especially common in the Moorish architecture of N. Africa and Spain. The form was adopted wholeheartedly by European Gothic architecture.


custom
In law, long-established practice common to many or to a particular place or institution and generally recognized as having the force of law. In England during the Anglo-Saxon period, local customs formed most laws affecting family rights, ownership and inheritance, contracts, and personal violence. The Norman conquerors granted the validity of customary law, adapting it to their feudal system. In the 13th-14th cent., English law was given statutory authority under the crown, making the "customs of the realm" England's common law. See also culture, folklore, myth, ritual, taboo.


Lesbos
Third largest island (pop., 1991 est.: 104,000) in the Aegean Sea. It occupies an area of 630 sq mi (1,640 sq km), and with two other islands forms a Greek department. Its main town is Mytilene. It was the birthplace of the poet Sappho, and thus is the source of the term "lesbian." Inhabited since c.3000 BC, it was settled in c.1050 BC by the Aetolians. After being under Persian rule (527-479 BC) it joined the Delian League. In the Peloponnesian War, it fell to Sparta (405 BC), then was recovered for Athens (389 BC). It later flourished under Byzantium. It was ruled by the Turks 1462-1911, then was annexed by Greece. Fishing is important economically, as is the export of olives.


Lisbon
City (pop., 1991: 678,000), capital of Portugal. The country's chief seaport and largest city, it lies on the Tagus River near the river's entrance into the Atlantic Ocean. It was under Rome from 205 BC; Julius Caesar made ...

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