Cudbear-plant (Leca- 
nora tartarea). 
cud 
CUd (klld), " [< Ml''. I'Hildf, fiiili. null', var. 
i/niili; i/ilrili- ( > K. (/lliil, (). v. ), < -\S. (//, i-iridii. 
cud (dof. l),als(i in Inr/l cuilii (also /<'<' cinnlii, 
cwiilu. circodn, gen. ciridura, UNOdowtl), mastic, 
lit. 'white cud'; usually derived, as 'I lint which 
is chewed,' from i-niirim, K. <7/r- ; but the orig. 
form of the word is ciriiln (whence the mod. 
form i/niil, i|. v.). and neither i-inln nor cir/i/i/ can 
be formed from ni'nraii. Tout. -y/ *ku, */.<, by 
any regular process. Tlie word agrees more 
nearly (though the coimoctiou is doubtful) with 
AS. firith = OII(i. iinhili = led. /r/<Mr = Goth. 
ktrilliHM, stomach, belly, womb (in AS. only in 
last sense), prob. = L. venter = Gr. yaari/p = 
Ski. jiitlnini, belly: see ventrr, n-ii/ral, etc., 
gimlrie, etc.] 1. A ]>rt ion of food voluntarily 
forced into the mouth from the first stomach 
by a ruminating animal, and leisurely chewed 
a second time. See ruminate, rumination. 2. 
A quid. To chew the cud. See chew. 
cudbear (kud'bar), n. [After Dr. Cuthbert 
Gordon, who first brought it into notice.] 1. 
A purple or violet powder, used in dyeing 
violet, purple, and crimson, prepared from va- 
rious species of lichens, especially from Leca- 
iinrn tiirtarea, which grows on rocks in north- 
ern Europe. It Is partially soluble in boiling water, 
and In red \vilh acids and \iolVi blue with alkalis. It is 
prepared nearly III the same way 
as aivhil, and is applied In silks 
and woolens, having no attinity for 
eotton. The color obtained from 
cudbear is somewhat fugitive, and 
it is used chiefly to give strength 
and brilliancy to blues dyed with 
indigo. 
2. The plant teeanora tar- 
tarea. Also called cudireed. 
cudden't (kud'n), H. [Cf. cuddy 1 .'] A clown; 
a dolt ; an idiot. 
The slavering cudden, propp'd upon his staff, 
Stood ready gaping with ti grinning laugh. 
Dryden, Cym. and Iph., 1. 179. 
cudden- (kud'n), . [Sc., also written cuddin, 
avid equiv. to cuddle = cuddy 3 and cuth : see 
cuddy 9 . Cf. cudding.~\ A local English name 
of the coalfish. 
cuddle, . See cuddy 3 . 
cudding(kud'ing), n. [Cf. cwrfrfcn 2 .] The char 
(a fish). [Scotch.] 
cuddle (kud'l), n. ; pret. and pp. cuddled, ppr. 
cuddling. [Origin uncertain ; perhaps freq. of 
ME. 'cudden for cuththcn (only once, in pret. 
kuththed), otherwise keththen, embrace (rare in 
this form and sense), another spelling or a 
secondary form of reg. ME. cut/ten, kuthen, later 
kithen (pret. cuddc, kidde, kedde), make known, 
manifest (hence, be familiar), < cutli, coutJi, 
known: see couth and kithe. Cf. E. dial, cuttle, 
talk, cutter, fondle, etc., Sc. cuttle, wheedle (see 
cuttle*, cutter 1 *, cuitle) ; OD. kudden, come toge- 
ther, flock together, D. kudde, a flock.] I. trans. 
To hug; fondle; embrace so as to keep warm. 
He'll mak 1 mickleo' you, and dandle and cuddle you like 
ane of his ain dawties. Tfnnant, Cardinal Beaton, p. 26. 
II. intrants. 1. To join in a hug; embrace. 
[Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 2. To lie close or 
snug ; nestle. 
She [a partridge] ruddles low behind the Brake : 
Nor would she stay : nor dares she fly. 
Prior, The Dove. 
By the social fires 
Sit many, cuddling round their toddy-sap. 
7Vmiaii(, Anster Fair, ii. 70. 
It [Cortonal is a pretty little village, cuddled down among 
the hills. l.nii-,-11, Fireside Travels, p. 275. 
cuddle (kud'l), H. [< cuddle, v.} A hug; an 
embrace. 
cuddle-me-to-you (kud'1-me-tS'u), . Same as 
ratt-iin'-to-i/oii. 
cuddy 1 (kiid'i), H. ; pi. ruddicn (-iz). [E. dial, 
and Sc. (Sc. also cuddle, comp. cuddy-ass), prob. 
a particular use of Cuddy, a proper name, fa- 
miliar abbr. of Cuthbert. Cf. ncddy and j'flcfc 1 .] 
1 . An ass ; a donkey. 
Just simple Cii'liti/ an' her foal ! 
Ituff, Poems, p. 96. (Jtiini''*"it.) 
While stud> Jim the puns asinorum in Euclid, he sntlercd 
every rinttlie upon the common to trespass upon a large 
field belonging to the Laird. 
>'<"", Heart of Mid-Lothian, ix. 
2. A stupid or silly fellow ; a clown. 
It rusts mure tricks ami troubles by half, 
Than it takes to cvhibil a llx-laggwl call 
To a hoothful of country ,-,/,//,... 
Ilinnl, 
3. A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting 
stones, leveling up railroad-ties, etc.; a lever- 
jack. /.'. //. l\ ni;/lil. 
cuddy- (ktid'i), .; pi. citdtlifK (-iz). [Origin 
obscure. < T. rnii/ii/i.'] 1. ffaut., a room or 
cabin abaft and under the poop-deck, in which 
the officers and cabin-passengers take their 
meals; al>o, a sort of cabin or cook-room in 
lighters, barges, etc. ; iu small boats, a locker. 
He threw himself in at the door of the rmtilit. 
H'lnthriiii, HUt. New IJrJalid, II. 4(1. 
Hence 2. Any small cupboard or storehouse 
for odds and ends. 
cuddy 3 (kud'i), n.; pi. cuddies (-iz). [E. dial. 
(North.) and Sc. cuddle ; also written cudden, 
cuddin, cuth, and cooth, the coalfish ; cf. Gael. 
/Hiliii;/, ciidaiiin, Ir. cudainn, a small fish, sup- 
posed to be the young of the coalfish.] A 
name of the coalfish. 
cuddy 4 (kud'i), ii.; pi. cuddies (-iz). [E. dial., 
prob., like cuddy 1 , a familiar use of the homely 
proper name Cuddy, abbr. of Cuthbert. Cf. E. 
dial. (Devon.) cuddian, a wren.] The galliuule, 
liiillsiiiiltichliironua. Montagu. [Local, British.] 
CUddy-legS (kud'i-legz), n. A local English 
name of a large herring. 
cudgel (kuj'el), 11. [< ME. kuggel, of Celtic 
origin ; W. cogyl, a cudgel, club ; orig. perhaps 
'distaff'; cf. W. cogail, a truncheon, distaff, = 
Gael, cuaille, a club, cudgel, bludgeon, cuigeal, a 
distaff, = Ir. cuaill, a pole, stake, staff, cuigeal, 
cnigcal, a distaff; cf. Ir. cuacli, a bottom of 
yarn, cuachog, a skein of thread. So E. distaff 
is named from the bunch of flax on the end.] 
A short thick stick used as a weapon ; a club; 
specifically, a staff used in cudgel-play. 
Mid te holie rode steane, thet him is lothest knytiel, leie 
on the deonel dogge. [With the staff of the holy rood, 
which Is to him the hatefulest cudgel, lay on the devil dog. ) 
Ancren Ritcle, p. 2SI2. 
Some have been l>eaten till they know 
What wood a cudgel'* ol by the blow. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, II. i. 222. 
To cross the cudgels. See crotai. To take up the 
cudgels, to engage in a contest or controversy (in self- 
defense or in behalf of another) ; accept the gage. 
The girl had been reading the "Life ol Carlyle," and nlie 
tottk up the cudgels for the old curmudgeon, as King called 
him. C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 96. 
cudgel (kuj'el), r. t. ; pret. and pp. cudgeled or 
cudgelled, ppr. cudgeling or cudgelling. [< cud- 
gel,' H.] Tostrike with a cudgel or club; beat, 
in general. 
If he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ill. :i. 
At length in a rage the forester grew, 
And cudgell'd bold Robin so sore. 
Robin Hood amt the Ranger (Child's Ballads, V. 209). 
To cudgel one's brains. See train. 
cudgeler, cudgeller (kuj'el-er), . One who 
strikes with a cudgel. 
They were often lyable to a night-walking cudgeller. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
cudgeling, cudgelling (kuj'el-ing), n. [Ver- 
bal n. of cudgel, r.] A beating with a cudgel. 
Ho must tight singly to-morrow with Hector; and is so 
Erophetically proud of an heroical cudgelling that he raves 
l saying nothing. Shak., f. and C., ill. 3. 
cudgel-play (kuj'el-pla), . 1. A contest with 
cudgels. 
Near the dying of the day 
There will be a cudgel-play, 
Where a coxcomb wiU be broke, 
Ere a good word can 1>e spoke. 
Wits' Recreations, 1654. (Hares.) 
2. The science or art of combat with cudgels. 
It includes the use ol the quarter-staff, back-sword, shil- 
lalab, single-stick, and other similar weapons. See these 
words. 
cudgel-proof (kuj'el-prof), a. Able to resist 
the blow of a cudgel; insensible to beating or 
not to be hurt by it. 
His doublet was ot sturdy buff, 
And though not sword, yet cudgel proof. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, 1. 1. 306. 
cudweed (kud'wed), . 1. The popular name 
of the common species of Gnaphaliwn. Also 
called chafai i /. 
There is a plant, which our herbalists call "herbam ini- 
piam," or wicked cuduwd, whose youuger branches still 
yield flowers to overtop the elder. 
r,i'. llall, Remains, Prolaneness, ii. 9. 
2. Same as cudbear, 2 chlldlag cudweed, (.'o- 
1'lniliuni Gi'i'nii'iii.-iiiii : so called from its throwing out a 
circle < if s] ts at the base, likened ti> a family of children. 
Golden cudweed, of Jamaica, the Pterocaulon mrga- 
tn in, a white tinneiitnsr herb resembling plants of the ge- 
nus GliHphiflnilfl. (Sec alsi. *i;r-rii'tirf?d.') 
cue 1 (ku), H. [Formerly also kite, and (in def. 
:t) i/n ; also often as F., queue ; < F. queue, < OF. 
cove, coe = Pr. coa = Sp. coda, now cola = Pg. 
cauda, coda = It. coda, < L. coda, cauda, a tail: 
see caiidn, caudal. Cf. coward, from the same 
ult. source.] 1. The tail; something hanging 
cuerpo 
down like a tail, as the long curl of a wig or a 
long roll or plait of hair. In this sense also 
1/nriif. See /iii/linl. 
K:i< ti uf those 'ii'--' in locks is somewhat thicker than 
eniiiiuim whj]<-c<>nl, and they look like a pan el of small 
strings hanging down from the crown of their In a<U 
Cook, \ OjngM, l\. ni. (i. 
2. A number of persons ranged in a line, await- 
ing their turn to be served, as at a bank or a 
ticket-office. In this sense also queue. 3. (a) 
Theat., words which when spoken at the end of 
a speech in the course of a play are the signal 
for an answering speech, or for the entrance of 
another actor, etc. 
You speak all your part at once, cue* and all. Pyranmit, 
eut.i ; your " is past ; it in "never tire." 
Shat., M. N. !>., III. 1. 
When my ''"' comes, call me, and 1 will answer. 
Shak., M. N. U., IT. 1. 
tin In music, a fragment of some other part 
printed in small notes, at the end of a long rest 
or silence occurring in the part of a voice or an 
instrument, to assist the singer or player in be- 
ginning promptly and correctly. Hence 4. 
A hint ; an intimation ; a guiding suggestion. 
"The Whig papers are very subdued," continued Mr. 
Rlgby. " Ah ! they have not the cue yet," said Lord Esk- 
dale. ftutraeli, Coningshy, 1. 5. 
Such Is the cue to which all Rome responds. 
Brooming, Ring and Book, It. 319. 
5. The part which one is to play; a course of 
action prescribed, or made necessary by cir- 
cumstances. 
Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it 
Without a prompter. Shak., Othello, i. 2. 
Tlie flexible conclave, finding they bad mistaken their 
cue, promptly answered in the negative. Prcscott. 
6. Humor ; turn or temper of mind. 
When they work one to a proper cue, 
What they forbid one takes delight to do. Crabbt. 
Was ever before such a grinding out of jigs and waltzes, 
where nolMxly was in the cue to dance? 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xix. 
My uncle [was] in thoroughly good cue. 
IHclcetu, Pickwick, xlix. 
7. A straight tapering rod tipped with a small 
soft pad, used to strike the balls in billiards, 
bagatelle, and similar games. 8. A support 
for a lance ; a lance-rest. 
CUeH (ku), r. i. [< cue 1 , M.] To tie into a cue 
or tail. 
They separate it into small locks which they woold or 
cue round with the rind of a slender plant, . . . and as 
the hair grows the woolding is continued. 
Coot, Voyages, IV. iii. 6. 
cue 2 (ku), n. [Formerly also qu ; < ME. cue, CM, 
or simply q. standing for L. quadrans, a far- 
thing, though the cue seems to have been used 
for half a farthing. See extract from Minsheu.] 
1. The name of the letter Q, q. 2f. (a) A 
farthing ; a half-farthing. 
A cue, 1. i. e. ] halfe a farthing, so called because they 
set down in the Battling or Hutterie l>ookes in Oxford 
and Cambridge the letter a. tor halfe a farthing, and In 
Oxford when they make that cue or '/. a farthing, they 
say, Cap. my </. and make it a farthing, thus, But in 
Cambridge they use this letter, a little s, ... for a 
farthing. Mimheu, 1617. 
(6) A farthing's worth ; the quantity bought 
with a farthing, as a small quantity of bread 
or beer. 
With rumps and kidneys, and cues of single beer. 
Beau, and Ft., Wit at several \Veapoiu, ii. 2. 
Cry at the buttery-hatch, Ho, Launcelot, a cue of 
bread, and a cue of beer ! Mitldleton, The black Book. 
cue-ball 1 (ku'bal), . In billiards and similar 
games, the ball struck by the cue, as distin- 
guished from the other balls on the table. 
cue-ball 2 (ku'bal), a. A corruption of sketc- 
bald. [Prov. Eng.] 
A gentleman on a cue-ball horse. 
R. [>. Blackinore, Lorna Doone, x\\i v 
cue-rack (ku'rak), n. A rack or stand for 
holding billiard-cues. 
cuerda (kwer'da), M. [Sp.. a measure of length 
(see def.), lit. a cord, = E. cord: see cord 1 . ~] 1. 
The name of several different Spanish units of 
length. The cuerda of Castile was variously 8{ and 8} 
varas, or 22 feet 11.2 inches and 23 feet T.4 inches. The 
cuerda of Valencia was equal to 122 English feet. The 
cuerda of Buenos Ayres is 151 vanu ol Castile, or 140 yards 
1 inch. English measure. 
2. In the province of La Mancha in Spain, 
a measure of land, one half of the seed-ground 
for a fanega of corn. 
cuerpo (kwer'pp), . [Sp., < L. corpus, body: 
see corpse.] The body. 
//<(. Cuerpa! what's that? 
Tip. Light-skipping hose and doublet. 
The horse-boy's garb ! B. Joiwm, New Inn, ii. -. 
