Chapter Cubital to Cuffy of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. A hint or intimation.

Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house.
Swift.

4. The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.

Were it my cueto fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter.
Shak.

5. Humor; temper of mind. [Colloq.] Dickens.

6. A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

Cue
(Cue), v. t. To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.

Cue
(Cue), n. [From q, an abbreviation for quadrans a farthing.] A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing. [Obs.]

The term was formerly current in the English universities, the letter q being the mark in the buttery books to denote such a portion. Nares.

Hast thou worn
Gowns in the university, tossed logic,
Sucked philosophy, eat cues?
Old Play.

Cuerpo
(||Cuer"po) n. [Sp. cuerpo, fr. L. corpus body. See Corpse.] The body.

In cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered.

Exposed in cuerpo to their rage.
Hudibras.

Cuff
(Cuff) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cuffed (kft); p. pr. & vb. n. Cuffing.] [Cf. Sw. kuffa to knock, push,kufva to check, subdue, and E. cow, v. t. ]

1. To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.

I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
Shak.

They with their quills did all the hurt they could,
And cuffed the tender chickens from their food.
Dryden.

2. To buffet. "Cuffed by the gale." Tennyson.

Cuff
(Cuff), v. i. To fight; to scuffle; to box.

While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.
Dryden.

Cuff
(Cuff), n. A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.

Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies;
Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff.
Spenser.

Many a bitter kick and cuff.
Hudibras.

Cuff
(Cuff), n. [Perh. from F. coiffe headdress, hood, or coif; as if the cuff were a cap for the hand. Cf. Coif.]

1. The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.

He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band, short cuffs, and a peaked beard.
Arbuthnot.

2. Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.