cudgel play

Fighting with cudgels. "Near the dying of the day There will be a cudgel - play , Where a coxcomb will be broke, Ere a good word can be spoke." IMG:content-1506.png:[blocks in formation] Witts Recreations (1654). (Nares.) Able to resist a blow of a IMG:content-1507.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1508.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Lit .: Beaten with a cudgel; thrashed. 2. Fig .: Embroidered thickly. an Irish footman with a jacket cudgeld down the shoulders and skirts with yellow or orange tawny lace, ."-Taylor: Works (1630). ( Nares .) cŭdg'-el-er, s. [Eng. cudgel; -er.] One who beats another with a cudgel. "They were often liable to a night-walking cudgeler , IMG:content-1509.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small] 2. A hint, intimation or direction. ""The Whig papers are very subdued,' continued Mr. Rigby. 'Ah! they have not the cue yet,' said Lord Eskdale."- Disraeli : Coningsby, bk. i., ch. v. 3. The part which any person is to play. "Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Shakesp.: Othelo, i. 2 Without a prompter." 4. A humor, disposition, or turn of mind. "My uncle was in thoroughly good cue."- Dickens Pickwick, ch. xlix. B. Technically: 1. Billiards : A staff with the end of which the billiard ball is struck. It is usually shod with vul canite or leather. This end is known as the tip. 2. Theatr .: The last words of a speech, which the player who answers or follows waits for, and regards as an intimation to begin. 3. Old Arm.: A support or rest for a lance. cue-ball, a. Piebald, skewbald. "A gentleman on a cue - ball horse was coming slowly down the hill."- Black more : Lorna Doone, ch. xxxix. cue-fellows, s . pl . Players who act together. "You have formerly heard of the names of the priests, graund rectors of this comedie, and lately of the names of the devils, their cue - fellowes in the play."-Decline of Popish Impost., H., 2. ( Nares .) *cue (2), cũ, s . [Q should seem to stand for quad rans, a farthing; but Minshew, who finished his first edition in Oxford, says it was only half that sum, and thus particularly explains it: "Because they set down in the battling or butterie bookes in Oxford and Cambridge, the letter q for half a farthing; and in Oxford when they make that cue or q a farthing, they say, cap my q, and make it a farthing, thus But in Cambridge they use this letter, a little f; thus f, or thus s, for a farthing. He translates it in Latin calculus pan is ." ( Nares .)] 1. A half-farthing. IMG:content-1510.png:[ocr errors] " Cu , halfe a farthynge, or q. ( cue P.) Calcus, minutum." - Prompt . Parv. 2. A small portion of bread or beer; a term formerly current in both the English universities, the letter q being the mark in the buttery books to denote such a piece. "To size your belly out with shoulder fees, With kidneys, rumps, and cues of single beer." Beaum. & Fletch.: Wit at Several Weapons , il. Mr. Way, in his note in the Prompt ., s. v. Cue, suggests that cue or q may have been an abbreviation for " calcus , quart a pars dol i . " cûe, v . t . [CUE (2), s.] To curl, to twist. "They separate it into small locks which they woold or "-Cooki oue round with the rind of a small plant, Voyage : vol. iv., bk. iii., ch. vi. IMG:content-1511.png:[blocks in formation] B. Trans.: To embrace, to hug, to fondle. cuddle-me-to-you, s. [CULL-ME-TO-YOU.] cud-dlie, s . [Prob. from cuddle , v. (q. v.)] A whispering or secret muttering among a number of people.