cur

All the setting was small and homelike and simple, like the village itself and the cur.

He cursed himself for a cur and a coward, but somehow he could not force the words to his lips.

Cur ineffabiles et innarrabiles affectus communibus verbis conamur exprimere?

The cur was a all time absent, and when he return had no good news for Robert; his errand had been ineffectual.