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  • English Word Cubited Definition Having the measure of a cubit.
  • English Word Cubless Definition Having no cubs.
  • English Word Cubo-octahedral Definition Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.
  • English Word Cubo-octahedron Definition A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.
  • English Word Cuboid Definition Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot.
  • English Word Cuboid Definition The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.
  • English Word Cuboidal Definition Cuboid.
  • English Word Cuca Definition See Coca.
  • English Word Cucking stool Definition A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool.
  • English Word Cuckold Definition A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
  • English Word Cuckold Definition A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).
  • English Word Cuckold Definition The cowfish.
  • English Word Cuckold Definition To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.
  • English Word Cuckold's knot Definition A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck.
  • English Word Cuckolded Definition of Cuckold
  • English Word Cuckolding Definition of Cuckold
  • English Word Cuckoldize Definition To cuckold.
  • English Word Cuckoldly Definition Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking.
  • English Word Cuckoldom Definition The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively.
  • English Word Cuckoldry Definition The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.
  • English Word Cuckoo Definition A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.
  • English Word Cuckoobud Definition A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup.
  • English Word Cuckooflower Definition A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi).
  • English Word Cuckoopint Definition A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake-robin.
  • English Word Cucquean Definition A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her.
  • English Word Cucujo Definition The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.
  • English Word Cucullate Definition Alt. of Cucullated
  • English Word Cucullated Definition Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.
  • English Word Cucullated Definition Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.
  • English Word Cucullated Definition Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects.