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CUT'TER, yi A fmall veffel, commonly navigated 
in tine channel of England. It is furniftied with one 
mad, and rigged as a Hoop. Many of thefe veflels are 
tifed in an illicit trade, and others are employed by go¬ 
vernment to take them; the latter of which are either 
under the direction of the admiralty or cuftom-houfe. 
Alfo a fmall boat ufed by (hips of war. 
CUT'TER of the TAL'LIES, f. An officer in the 
exchequer, to whom it belonged to provide wood for the 
tallies, and to cut the fum paid upon them. 
CUT'TER A, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
©f Oude : twenty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Bereiliy. 
CUT'TING, f. A piece cut off; a chop.—The burn¬ 
ing of the cuttings of vines, and calling them upon land, 
-doth much good. Bacon. —Many are propagated above 
ground by (lips or cuttings. Ray. 
CUT'TLE,y. A fifn, which, when purfued by a fifli 
of prey, throws out a black liquor, by which he darkens 
the water and efcapes. See Septa.'—H e that ufes many 
words for the explaining any fubject, doth, like the cuttle 
fifti, hide himfelf for the molt part in his own ink. Ray. 
CUT'TLE, f. A foul-mouthed fellow ; a fellow who 
blackens the character of others. Hanmer. —Away, you 
cutpurfe rafcal; you filthy bung, away : by this wine 
I’ll thruft my knife in your mouldy chaps, if you play 
the fancy cuttle with me. Shakefpeace. 
CUTTS, J\ Elat-bottomed boats built low and com- 
modioufiy, ufed in the channel for tranlporting of horfes. 
'Stow. Annal. 
CUTTS (John lord), a foldier of great bravery in 
king William’s wars, Ion of Richard Cutts, efq. of 
Matching, in Effex, where the family were fettled about 
the time of Henry VI. and had a great eflate. He en¬ 
tered early into the fervice of the duke of Monmouth, 
was aid-de-camp to the duke of Lorraine in Hungary, 
and fignalized himfelf in a very extraordinary manner at 
the taking of Buda by the Imperialifts in 1686 ; which 
important place had been for near a century and a half 
in the hands of the Turks. Mr. Addifon, in a Latin 
poem worthy of the Auguftan age, hints at Mr. Cutts’s 
diftinguiftied bravery at that fiege. Returning to England 
at the revolution, he had a regiment of foot; was created 
baron of Gowran in Ireland, December 6, 1690 ; appoint¬ 
ed governor of the ille of Wight, April 14, 1693 ; was 
made major-general; and, when the affaffmation project 
was difeovered, in 1695-6, was captain of the king’s guard. 
In 1698 he was complimented by Mr. John Hopkins, as 
one to whom “ a double crown was due,” as a hero and 
a poet. He was colonel of the Coldltream regiment of 
guards, in 1701 ; when Mr. Steele, who was indebted 
to his intereft for a military commiflion, inferibed to 
him his firfl work, The Chriftian Hero. On the acceiiion 
of queen Anne, he was made a lieutenant-general of the 
forces in Holland; commander in chief of the forces in 
Ireland, under the duke of Ormond, March 23, 1704-5 ; 
and afterwards one of the lords juftices of that kingdom, 
to keep him out of the way of aCtion ; a circumftance 
which broke his heart. He died at Dublin, January 26, 
1706-7, and is buried there in the cathedral of Chrift- 
church. He wrote a poem on the death of queen Mary ; 
and publifhed, in 1687, Poetical Exercifes, written upon 
feveral Occafions, and dedicated to Mary princefs of 
Orange. It contains, befides verfes to that princefs, a 
poem on Wifdom ; another to Mr. Waller ; feven other 
pieces, (one of them called La Mufe Cavalier , which had 
been aferibed to lord Peterborough, and as Rich men¬ 
tioned by Mr. Walpole in the lift of that nobleman’s 
writings,) and eleven fongs ; the whole compofing one 
thin volume. 
CUTTS ISLAND, a fmall ifland of North America, 
on the coaft of York county, Maine. 
CUTTUPDE'A, an ifland in the north-eaft part of the 
bay of Bengal. Lat. 21.53. N. Ion. 92. o. E. Greenwich. 
CUT'WALL, f The name of the chief magiftrate in 
the towns and cities of Hindooftan, who have authority 
CUT 
to fuperintend the markets, and to try and decide all 
petty thefts and mifdemeanours. 
CUVA'GNA, a town of Italy, in the territory of 
Friuli, belonging to the date of Venice : five miles north 
of Udina. 
CUVE, [ A French word, in Englifh heeve, from 
whence comes keever , a tub or vat for brewing. Cowel. 
CU'VES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Channel: ten miles eaft of Avranches. 
CUVET'TE, or Cunette, f. in fortification, a kind 
of ditch within a ditch, being a deep trench, about four 
fathoms broad, funk and running along the middle of 
the great dry ditch, to hold water ; ferving both to keep 
off the enemy, and prevent him from mining. 
CUVIL'LY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Somme : feven miles fouth-eaft of Montdidier. 
CUX'AC, a town of France, in the department of th© 
Aude : five miles north-eaft of Narbonne. 
CU'YA, or Cutio, a province of Chili, in South 
America, and in the government of Santa Cruz in the 
Sierra. The principal commodities are honey and wax. 
The chief town is St. John de Frontiers. 
CU'YCK., a town of Brabant, in a fmall territory of 
the fame name, of which Grave is the capital: four miles 
eaft-foutb-eall of Grave, and twelve weft of Cleves. 
CU'YOS, or Cufto, or Chiquito, a province of 
South America, in the government of Buenos Ayres, 
bounded on the north by Tucuman; on the eaft by the 
province of Cordova; on the fouth and weft by Chili. 
As far as is known, which is but little, it refembles Tu- 
cuman in its climate and productions. 
CUY'PERS (William), a learned Flemifli Jefuit, born 
at Antwerp in 1686. In the courfe of his education, in 
a college belonging to the fociety of Jefuits, in his na¬ 
tive city, and afterwards at Douay, he afforded evidence 
of abilities and application that ftrongly recommended 
him to the fathers of that order, into which he entered, 
at Mechlin, in 1704. The progrefs which he afterwards 
made corresponded with the promife of his earlier years, 
and induced the continuators of Bollandus’s ACta Sanc¬ 
torum, to engage his afliftance in completing that im- 
menfe work. His contributions may be met with in the 
firft fix volumes of “ The Lives of the Saints of the 
Month of July,” and the firft fix “ of the Month of 
Auguft j” and are diftinguiflied by genuine and extenfive 
erudition, as well as valuable and fagacious criticifm. 
Father Cuypers died in 1741. 
CUZACAT'TAN, or St. Salvador, a town of 
North America, in the province of Guatimala : 165 miles 
eaft-fouth-eaft of Guatimala. 
CUZEAU', a town of France, in the department of 
the Saone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diltriCt of Louhans: three leagues and a half fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Louhans. 
CU'ZUMEL, an ifland in the province of Yucatan, 
and audience of Mexico, fituated in the bay of Honduras ; 
fifteen leagues long and five broad : its principal town is 
Santa Cruz. Lat. 19. N. Ion. 87. 
CYA'NA, f. in botany. See Gentiana. 
CYA'NE, in fabulous hiftory, a nymph of Syracufe, 
to whom her father offered violence in a fit of drunken- 
nefs. She dragged her raviftier to the altar, where (he 
facrificed him, and killed herfelf to flop a peftilence, 
which, from that circumftance had already begun to af¬ 
flict the country. Plutarch. —A nymph of Sicily, who en¬ 
deavoured to affift Proferpine when (he was carried away 
by Pluto. The god changed her into a fountain. Ovid. 
CYANE'Ai, "two rugged iflands at the entrance of 
the Euxine fea.- One of them is on the fide of Afia, 
and the other on the European coaft, and, according to 
Strabo, there is only a fpace of twenty furlongs between 
them. The waves of the fea, which continually break 
againft them with a violent noife, fill the air with a dark¬ 
ening foam, and render the paffage extremely dangerous. 
The ancients fuppofed that thefe iflands floated, and 
even 
