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 humor or bent of the People.

Cursitors, c. Vagabonds; the first (old) Rank of Canters.

Curst, a curst Cur, a sower, surly, snarling, fierce Dog; a Curst Cow has short Horns.

Curtals, c. the Ele venth Rank of the Can ting Crew.

Curtail'd, cut off shorten'd.

Curtezan, a gentile fine Miss or Quality Whore

Curtain-Lecture, Womens impertinent Scolding at their Husbands.

Cushion, beside the Cushion, beside the Mark.

Cut, Drunk. Deep Cut, very Drunk. ''Cut in the Leg or Back'', very drunk. To Cut, c. to Speak. To Cut bene, c. to Speak gently, civilly or kindly; to Cut bene (or bennar) Whidds, c. to give good Words. To Cut quire whidds, c. to give ill Language. A Cut or Chop of Meat Cut ond come again, of Meat that cries come Fat me. A cutting wind, very sharp. ''Of the precize Cut or Stamp''. a demure starcht Fellow. ''No Present to be made of Knives, because they Cut kindness. Ready Cut and Dried, or turned for the purpose. Not Cut out for it'', nor turned for it. ''To Cut another out of any business'', to out-doe him far away, or excell, or circumvent. ''I'll cut you out business'', I'll find you Work enough. A Book with Cuts or Figures; Brass or Wooden Cutts or Prints from Copper-*plates, or Wood. A Cut thro at House or Town, where sharp and Large Reckonings are imposed, as at Gravesend, Deal, Dover, Portsmouth, Plimouth, Harwich, Helvoetsluyce, the Briel, and indeed all Sea-ports, nav and Common-wealths too, according to tbe observation of a late Learned Traveller in his ingenious Letters publish'd in Holland.