Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CU-BO-DO-DEC-A-HE'DRAL, a.

Presenting the two forms, a cube and a dodecahedron. – Cleaveland.

CU'BOID, a.

Having the form of a cube, or differing little from it.

CU-BOID'AL, a. [Gr. κυβος, cube, and ειδος, form.]

Cubiform; in the shape of a cube; as, the cuboidal bone of the foot. – Walsh.

CU-BO-OC-TA-HE'DRAL, a. [cube and octahedral.]

Presenting a combination of the two forms, a cube and an octahedron. – Cleaveland.

CUCK'ING-STOOL, n. [Qu. from choke.]

An engine for punishing scolds and refractory women; also brewers and bakers; called also a tumbrel and a trebuchet. The culprit was seated on the stool and thus immersed in water. – Old Eng. Law.

CUCK'OLD, n. [Chaucer, cokewold. The first syllable is Fr. cocu, which seems to be the first syllable of coucou, cuckow; W. cog; Sw. gök; Dan. giög. The Dutch call a cuckold, hoorndraager, a horn-wearer; and the Germans, hahnrei, from hahn, a cock; the Spaniards and Portuguese cornudo, Ital. cornuto, horned; Fr. cornard, (obs.) See Spelman's Glossary, voc. Arga.]

A man whose wife is false to his bed; the husband of an adulteress. – Swift.

CUCK'OLD, v.t.

1. To make a man a cuckold by criminal conversation with his wife; applied to the seducer. – Shak.
2. To make a husband a cuckold by criminal conversation with another man; applied to the wife. – Dryden.

CUCK'OLD-DOM, n.

The act of adultery; the state of a cuckold. – Johnson. Dryden.

CUCK'OLD-ED, pp.

Made a cuckold by criminal conversation.

CUCK'OLD-LY, a.

Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean; sneaking. – Shak.

CUCK'OLD-MAK-ER, n.

One who has criminal conversation with another man's wife; one who makes a cuckold. – Dryden.

CUCK'OO, n. [L. cuculus; Gr. κοκκυξ; Fr. coucou; Arm. coucouq; Sax. geac; Dan. giög; Sw. gök; W. cog; D. koekoek; G. kuckuck; Sp. cuco or cuclillo; It. cucolo. See Gawk.]

A bird of the genus Cuculus, whose name is supposed to be called from its note. The note is a call to love, and continued only during the amorous season. It is said the cuckoo lays its eggs in a nest formed by another bird, by which they are hatched.

CUCK'OO-FLOW-ER, or CUCK'OO-BUD, n.

A plant, a species of Cardamine.

CUCK'OO-LIKE, a.

Like the cuckoo.

CUCK'OO-PINT, n.

A plant, of the genus Arum.

CUCK'OO-SPIT, or CUCK'OO-SPIT-TLE, n.

A dew or exsudation found on plants, especially about the joints of lavender and rosemary. – Brown. Or a froth or spume found on the leaves of certain plants, as on white field-lychnis or catch-fly, called sometimes Spatling-poppy. – Encyc.

CUC'QUEAN, n. [Fr. coquine.]

A vile lewd woman. [Not in use.] – B. Jonson.

CU'CUL-LATE, or CU'CUL-LA-TED, a. [L. cucullatus, from cucullus, a hood, a cowl.]

1. Hooded; cowled; covered as with a hood.
2. Having the shape or resemblance of a hood; or wide at the top and drawn to a point below, in shape of a conical roll of paper; as, a cucullate leaf.

CU'CUM-BER, n. [Fr. coucombre, or concombre, from L. cucumer or cucumis; Sp. cohombro; D. komkommer; Ir. cucamhar.]

The name a plant and its fruit, of the genus Cucumis. The flower is yellow and bell-shaped; and the stalks are long, slender and trailing on the ground, or climbing by their claspers.

CU'CUR-BIT, or CU-CUR'BITE, n. [L. cucurbita, a gourd; It. id.; Fr. cucurbite; from L. curvitas.]

A chimical vessel in the shape of a gourd; but some of them are shallow, with a wide mouth. It may be made of copper, glass, tin or stone ware, and is used in distillation. This vessel, with its head or cover, constitutes the alembic.

CU-CUR-BIT-A'CEOUS, a.

Resembling a gourd; as, cucurbitaceous plants, such as the melon and pumpkin or pompion. – Milne. Martyn.

CU-CUR'BI-TIVE, a.

A word applied to small worms shaped like the seeds of a gourd.

CUD, n. [As this word is often vulgarly pronounced quid, I suspect it to be a corruption of the D. kaauwd, gekaauwd, chewed, from kaauwen, to chew, Arm. chaguein, Sax. ceowan. See Chew and Jaw.]

1. The food which ruminating animals chew at leisure, when not grazing or eating; or that portion of it which is brought from the first stomach and chewed at once.
2. A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed.
3. The inside of the mouth or throat of a beast that chews the cud. – Encyc.

CUD'BEAR, n. [A corruption of Cuthbert, with a French pronunciation, so called after a man of this name, who first brought it into notice.]

A plant, the Lecanora Tatarea, of the order of Lichens, much employed in dyeing. It gives a purple color.

CUD'DEN, or CUD'DY, n.

A clown; a low rustic; a dolt. [Not used.] Dryden.