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Webster 1913 Edition
Cuckold
Cuck′old
(k?k′?ld)
, Noun.
[OE.
kukeweld
, cokewold
, cokold
, fr. OF. coucoul
, cucuault
, the last syllable being modified by the OE. suffix -wold
(see Herald
); cf. F. cocu
a cuckold, formerly also, a cuckoo, and L. cuculus
a cuckoo. The word alludes to the habit of the female cuckoo, who lays her eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.] 1.
A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
Shak.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A West Indian plectognath fish (
Ostracion triqueter
). (b)
The cowfish.
Cuck′old
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cuckolded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cuckolding
.] To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cuckold
CUCKOLD
,Noun.
CUCKOLD
,Verb.
T.
1.
To make a man a cuckold by criminal conversation with his wife; applied to the seducer.2.
To make a husband a cuckold by criminal conversation with another man; applied to the wife.