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covering them over with earth about half an inch. After 
this, if you find your bed very warm, you muff give air 
in the day-time by railing the glades ; but, if the bed is 
cool, you muft cover it well with mats every night, as 
alfo in bad weather. In four or five days after, you muft' 
prepare another hot-bed to receive thefe plants, which 
will be fit to tranfplant in ten days, or a fortnight at 
mod, after the feeds are fown ; this bed need not be very 
large, for a few of thefe plants will fill a large quantity of 
frames, when they are planted out for good; and, while 
the plants are young, there may be a great quantity kept 
in one light; fo that thole perfons who raife early cu¬ 
cumbers and mufk-melons, may alfo raife thefe plants in 
the fame bed ; for two or three lights will be fufficient 
to raife plants of all three kinds, to fupply the largeft 
families, until they are planted out for good. In the 
management of thefe plants while young, there is little 
difference from the directions given for raiding mufk-me¬ 
lons. See Cucumis, p.444. The chief thing to be ob- 
ferved, is, to let them have a large fhare of air whenever 
the weather will permit, otherwife the plants will draw 
up weak, and be good for little. 
As thefe plants will require two or three hot-beds to 
bring the fruit to perfection, it will be the better way to 
put the plants into bafkets, when they have gotten four 
ieaves, as is directed for raifing early cucumbers ; but 
you fhould not plant more than two plants in each bafket, 
for if one of them lives it will be fufficient ; therefore, 
when both tire plants fucceed, you fhould draw out the 
weakeft and rnoft unpromifing, before they begin to put 
out their fide fhoots, otherwife they will entangle and 
render it difficult to be performed, without greatly in¬ 
juring the remaining plant. The bafkets in which thefe 
plants are to be planted, need not be more than a foot 
diameter; fo that one light will contain eight of them, 
which will be fufficient for twenty-four lights when they 
are planted out for good; for, where the plants are vi¬ 
gorous, one fingle plant will fpread fo far as to fill three 
lights; and, if they have not room, they feldom fet their 
fruit well. Thefe bafkets may remain in the nurfery-beds 
until the plants have fpread, and put out many runners; 
for when the heat of this bed declines, it is foon revived 
by adding a proper lining of warm dung to the fides of 
the bed quite round; fo that when they are taken out of 
this bed, and placed in the ridges where they are to re¬ 
main, the heat of the beds will laft fo long as to fet their 
fruit, which is of great confequence; for, when the 
plants are ridged out very young, the beds are generally 
made of great thicknefs in dung, in order to continue 
their he it; fo that for fome time after they are made, 
they arr fo extremely hot, as to endanger the fcalding of 
the plaats ; and by the time the fruit begins to appear, 
there is little heat left in the beds, which often occafions 
the fruit to drop off, and come to nothing. After thefe 
plants are placed in the beds where they are to remain, 
carefully lead the fhoots as they are produced, fo as to 
fill each part of the frame, but not to croud each other; 
and be careful to keep them clear from weeds, as alfo to 
admit freffi air whenever the weather will permit; they 
muft alfo be frequently watered, but do not give it them 
in great quantities. In fhort, there is little difference to 
be obferved in the management of thefe from that of 
mufk-melons, but only to give them more room, and to 
keep the beds to a good temperature of heat, and when 
the fruit appears to admit air freely to the plants, in or¬ 
der to fet their fruit; but, when the nights are cold, the 
glaffes muft be covered with mats to keep the beds warm. 
See Tricosanthes. 
CUCUBI TACE'fE,/! [from cucurbita, a gourd.] In 
botany, the forty-fifth order in Linnaeus’s Fragments of 
a Natural Method ; and the thirty-fourth of his Natural 
•Orders. 
CUCUBITI'FERA,/. in botany. See Crat^Eva 
$nd Crescentia. 
CUD 
CUCURO'N, a town of France, in the department of 
the mouths of the Rhone, and chief place of a canton 
in the diftribt of Apt: feven miles fouth of Apt. 
CUD ,f. [cu6, Saxon.] i hat food which is repofited 
in the firft ftomach, in order to rumination, or to be 
chewed again.—Many times, when my mafter’s cattle 
came hither to chew their cud in this frefh place, I Plight 
fee the young bull teftify his love. Sidney. 
You range the pathlefs wood, 
While on a flow’ry bank he chews the cud. Dryden. 
CUDDALO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, on the coaft 
of Coromandel, in the Carnatic, (ituated near Fort St. 
David; this town was taken by the French, under the 
command of general Lally, in 1758. It is fifteen miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Pondicherry, and eighty-five north- 
eaft of Trichinopoly. Cuddalore (lands on a branch of 
the fame river as St. David’s does, about a mile to the 
fouth of the fort, and divided by a very fmall branch 
from the fea. It is a populous place, the emporium of 
that diftrict, and moftly inhabited by commercial people. 
The abbe Raynal makes the number of inhabitants amount 
to (ixty thoufand. A little above the town ftands the 
pagoda Trivada, which forms a citadel to a large pettah, 
or town, which are frequently built under the protec¬ 
tion of places ufed as fortreffes both in Europe and Hin¬ 
dooftan. This town was often the feene of adtion be¬ 
tween our troops and the French, from 1750 to 1753. 
Lat. 11.40. N. Ion. 79. 55. E. Greenwich. 
CUDDAPA', a town of Hindooftan, and capital of a 
province to which it gives name, belonging to the Nizam 
of the Deccan. It is 116 miles north-weft of Madras, 
and fifty-eight weft of Nellore. Lat. 14. 25. N. Ion. 78. 
57. E. Greenwich. 
CUDDAPA', a country of Hindooftan, bounded on 
the north by the country of Golconda, on the eaft by 
the Carnatic, and on the fouth-weft and weft by the My. 
fore, ceded to the Nizam of the Deccan by Tippoo Sul- 
taun. The principal towns are Cuddapa, Gandicotta, 
and Combam. 
CUD'DEN, or Cud'dy, f. [without etymology.] A 
clown ; a ftupid ruftic ; a low dolt: a low bad word. 
The Havering cudden, propp’d upon his ftaff. 
Stood ready gaping with a grinning laugh. Dryden. 
To CUD'DLE, v. n. [<z low word , without etymology. J 
To lie clofe; to fquat : 
Have you mark’d a partridge quake. 
Viewing the tow’ring falcon nigh ? 
She cuddles low behind the brake ; 
Nor would (lie ftay, nor dares (he fly. Prior. 
CUD'DY, f. in a firft-rate man of war, is a place lying 
between the captain’s and the lieutenants cabbins, under 
the poop, and divided into partitions, for the mafter’s 
and fecretary’s offices. 
CUD'GEL, f. [ kudfe , Dut.] A ftick to ftrike with, 
lighter than a club, (horter than a pole.—Vine twigs, 
while they are green, are brittle; yet the wood, dried, 
is extreme tough; and was ufed by the captains of ar= 
mies, amonft the Romans, for their cudgels. Bacon. 
Do not provoke the rage of ftones 
And cudgels to thy hide and bones. Hudzbras. 
To crojs the Cudgels, is to forbear the conteft, from the 
practice of cudgel-players to lay one over the other.—It 
is much better to give way, than it would be to contend 
at firft, and then either to crofs the cudgels, or to be baffled 
in the conclufion. L'EJlrange. 
To CUD'GEL, v. a. To beat with a ftick.—The afs 
courting his mafter, juft as the fpaniel had done, inftead 
of being ftroked and made much of, is only rated off and 
cudgelled for all his courtftiip. South. 
Three duels he fought, thrice ventur’d his life ; 
Went home, and was cudgclTd again by his wife. Swift. 
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