cucurbitula

[Lat. dim in. from cucurbit a =(1) a gourd, (2) a cupping-gla .] A cupping gla . The cucurbitula cruenta is designed to draw blood The cucurbitula sicca is for dry cupping, and is a local vacuum apparatus. The cucurbitula cum ferro is armed with iron. ( Knight .) cu-curd, s. [Etym. unknown.] A plant, Bryonia dioica (?). ( Britten & Holland.) cud, *code, *cudde, *cude, *quede, *quide, s. [A. S., connected with A. S. ceówan to chew.] 1. That food which is deposited by ruminating animals in the first stomach, thence to be drawn and chewed over again at leisure. "Neverthele these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof."Lev. xi. 4. 2. A quid or lump of tobacco chewed in the mouth. [QUID.] To chew the cud: (1) Lit .: Tochew a second time the food deposited in the first stomach of ruminating animals. (2) Fig.: To ruminate, to ponder, to reflect. cud-bear, s. [For etym. see extract.] 1. The name given in Scotland to a crimson dye manufactured by heating certain lichens, especially Lecanora tartare a , with an alkali. Glasgow was the first place of its manufacture, and the lichens were collected principally in the northern part of the island. Now they come chiefly from Sweden and Norway. 2. The lichen, Lecanora tartare a, itself. "At Glasgow it is called oudbear-a denomination which it has acquired from a corrupt pronunciation of the Christian name of the chemist who first employed it on the great scale (Dr. Cuthbert Gordon); at least it is the principal species used in the cudbear manufacture."Edin. Encycl., xii. 739. *cud-den, *cud-din, s. [Etym. doubtful: perhaps related to coddle or cuddle .] 1. A clown, a stupid lout, a blockhead. "The slavering cudden , propp'd upon his staff, Stood ready gaping with a grinning laugh."" Dryden: Cymon and Iphigenia , 179, 180. 2. The coalfish, Merlangus carbonarius . cud-die, s . [Etym. unknown.) The coalfish. "The fish which frequent the coast are herrings, ling, cod, skate, mackerel, haddocks, flounders, sye, and cuddies."-P. Durinish: Sky, Statist . Acc ., iii. 131. cud-ding, 8. [Gael. cud an .] The char. "In both loch and river [Doon] there are salmon, red and white trouts, and cuddings , or charr."- P . Strait on: Ayrs. Statist . Acc . , iii. 589.