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CUBJAC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Dordogne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Exideuil: three leagues and a half eaft of Perigueux. 
CU'BIC, or Cubical, adj. Having the form or pro¬ 
perties of a cube.—It is above a hundred to one, again(l 
any particular throw, that you do not call any given fet 
ot faces with four cubical dice ; becaufe there are fo many 
. feveral combinations of the fix faces of four dice. Bentley. 
—It is applied to numbers.—The number of four, mul¬ 
tiplied into itfelf, produceth the fquare number of fix- 
tcen ; and that again multiplied by four, produceth the 
cubic number of fixty-four. If we Ihould fuppofe a mul¬ 
titude adlually infinite, there mull be infinite roots, and 
fquare and cubic numbers; yet, of neceflity, the root is 
but the fourth part of the fquare, and the fifteenth part 
of the cubic number. Hale's Origin of Mankind. 
CU'BICALNESS, f. The Hate or quality of being 
cubical. 
CUBI'CULARY, adj. [cubiculwn, Lat.] Fitted for the 
pofture of lying down.—Cuftom, by degrees, changed 
their cubiculary beds into difeubitory, and introduced a 
falhion to go from the baths unto thefe. Brown. 
CU'BIFORM, adj. Of the Ihape of a cube. 
CU'BIT,/; [from cubitus, Lat.] A meafure in ufe 
among the ancients; which was originally the diftance 
from the elbow, bending inwards to the extremity of the 
middle finger. This meafure is the fourth part of a well- 
proportioned man’s ftature. Some fix the Hebrew cubit 
at twenty inches and a half, Paris meafure; and others 
at eighteen. Calmct. —From the tip of the elbow to the 
end ot the long finger, is half a yard, and a quarter of the 
ftature ; and makes a cubit, the firft meafure we read of, 
the ark of Noah being framed and meafured by cubits. 
Holder. —The Jews tiled two forts of cubits-, the facred, 
and the profane or common one. Arbuthnot. 
When on the goddefs firft I call my fight. 
Scarce feem’d her ftature of a cubit height. Pope. 
CU'BITAL, adj. [cubitalis, Lat.] Containing only the 
length of a cubit.—The watchmen of Tyre might well 
be called pygmies, the towers of that city being fo high, 
that unto men below they appeared in a cubital ftature. 
Brown. 
CU'BLANC, a town of France, in the department of 
the Dordogne: ten miles fouth-weft of Brive. 
CUCA'NA, a town of Italy, belonging to the ftate of 
Venice, in the country of Friuli: feven miles weft of 
Palma la Nuova. 
CUCCHIA'RA, a fmall ifland in the Adriatic, near 
the coaft of Naples : fix leagues north-weft from Viefte. 
CUCHECUN'NA, a town of Alia, in the country of 
Candahar: fixty-eight miles weft-north-weft of Candahar. 
CUCK.'FIELD, a fmall town in the county of Suftex, 
fituated on a conliderable eminence, nearly in the center 
of the county, forty miles fouth of London, and fourteen 
north of Brighthelmftone. Here is a free grammar-fehool, 
founded in the reigraof queen Elizabeth, by the munifi¬ 
cence of fome private individuals, for the inltruftion of 
youth in the Latin language ; for the mailer of which a 
houfe was afterwards built by lady Dorothy Shirley. The 
church is fpacious and handfome. The market was char¬ 
tered for Mondays, but afterwards changed to Fridays. 
Fairs^ Thurfday in Whitfun-week, and September 16, 
for cattle and horfes. 
CUCK'ING-STOOL, f. An engine invented for the 
punilhment of fcolds and unquiet women, which, in an¬ 
cient times, was called tumbrel. See Castigatory, 
vol. iii. p. 884. 
Thefe mounted on a chair-curule. 
Which moderns call a cucking-fool, 
March proudly to the river’s fide. Hudibras. 
CUCK'MERE, a river of England, which runs into 
the fea, three miles weft of Beachy-head. 
CUCK'OLD,/. [cocu, Fr. from coukoo. ] One that is 
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married to an adulterefs ; one whofe wife is falfe to his 
bed.—Ever fince the reign of king Charles II. the aider- 
man is made a cuckold, the deluded virgin is debauched, 
• and adultery and fornication are committed behind the 
feenes. Swift. 
There have been, 
Or I am much deceiv’d, cuckolds ere now ; 
And many a man there is, ev’n at this prefent, 
Now while I fpeak this, holds his wife by th’ arm, 
That little thinks Ihe has been fluic’d in’s abfence. Skakef 
To CUCK'OLD, v. a. To corrupt a man’s wife; to 
bring upon a man the reproach of having an adulterous 
wife ; to rob a man of his wife’s fidelity.—If thou canft 
cuckold him, thou do’ft thyfelf a pleafure, and me a fport* 
ShakeJpcare. —To wrong a hulband by unchaftity : 
But fuffer not thy wife abroad to roam, 
Nor ftrut in ftreets with amazonian pace; 
For that’s to cuckold thee before thy face. Drydcn. 
CUCK'OLD-TREE, f. in botany. See Mimosa. 
CUCK'OLD’s POINT, a cape on the eaft coaft of the 
ifland of Barbadoes. Lat. 13. 32. N. Ion. 58. 28. W. 
Greenwich. 
CUCK'OLDLY, adj. Having.the qualities of a cuck¬ 
old; poor; mean; cowardly; breaking.—Poor cuckcldly 
knave, I know him not: yet I wrong him to call him 
poor; they fay the jealous knave hath maffes of money. 
Shakefpeare. 
CUCK'OLDMAKER, f. One that makes a praftice 
of corrupting wives.—If I fpared any that had a head to 
hit, either young or old, he or Ihe, cuckold or cuckold- 
maker, let me never hope to fee a chine again. Shakefpeare. 
—One Hernando, cuckcldmaker of this city, contrived to 
fteal her away. Dryden. 
CUCK'OLDOM, f. The aft of adultery.—She is 
thinking on nothing but her colonel, and confpiring 
cuckoldtnn againft me. Dryden. —The ftate of a cuckold.—. 
It is a true laying, that the laft man of the parifli that 
knows of his cuckoldom, is himfelf. Arbuthnot. 
CUC'KOO, or Cuckow, f. [ cuculus , Latin; czucctu, 
Welfli ; cocu, French; cokkock, Dutch.] A bird which 
appears in the fpring, and is faid to fuck the eggs of 
other birds, and lay her own to be hatched in their place: 
from which praftice, it was ufual to alarm a hulband, 
at the approach of an adulterer, by calling cuckoo-, which, 
by miftake, was in time applied to the hulband. This 
bird is remarkable for the uniformity of his note, from 
which his name in moft tongues feem* to have beea 
formed. See the article Cuculus. 
I deduce, 
From the firft note the hollow cuckoo fings, 
The fymphony of Ipring; and touch a theme 
Unknown to fame, the paifion of the grove. Thomfon. 
It is a name of contempt.—Why, what a rafeal art thou, 
then, to praife him fo for running! -A-horfeback, ye 
cuckoo -, —but a-foot, he will not budge a foot. Shakefpeare. 
CUCK'OO FLOWER, f. in botany. See Cardamine. 
CUCK'OO PINT, or Pintle. See Arum. 
CUCK'OO-SPITTLE, f: Cuckoofpittle, or woodfeare, 
is that fpumous dew or exudation, or both, found upon 
plants, efpecially about the joints of lavender and rofe- 
mary ; oblervable with us about the latter end of May. 
Brown. 
CUCQ^_a town of France, in the department of the 
Tarn, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of La- 
vaur : fifteen miles north-eaft of Caftres. 
CUCU'BALUS, f. [from xaxo?, bad, and ( 3 xM.v, to 
eaft.] In botany, the Berry-bearing Campion,, or 
Chickweed; a genus of the clafs decandria, order tri- 
gynia, natural order of caryophyllei. The generic cha- 
rafters are—Calyx : perianthium one'-leafed, tubular, 
five-toothed, permanent. Corolla: petals five; claws the 
length of the calyx ; border flat; divifions often bifid j 
nettary none, crowning the corolla. Stamina; filaments 
