Word Meanings - CORNUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold. Burton.

Related words: (words related to CORNUTE)

• CUCKOLD
  coucoul, cucuault, the last syllable being modified by the OE. suffix -wold ; 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
• HORNSTONE
  A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
• CUCKOLD'S KNOT
  A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
• CUCKOLDOM
  The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively. Addison.
• CUCKOLDRY
  The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.
• CUCKOLDIZE
  To cuckold. Dryden.
• BESTOWMENT
  1. The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal. If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view. Chauncy. 2. That which is given or bestowed. They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments. I. Taylor.
• BURTON
  A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.
• BESTOWAL
  The act of bestowing; disposal.
• BESTOW
  Etym: 1. To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. "He bestowed it in a pouch." Sir W. Scott. See that the women are bestowed in safety. Byron. 2. To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some
• CUCKOLDLY
  Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking. Shak.
• HORNSNAKE
  A harmless snake , found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below.
• BESTOWER
  One that bestows.
• THORNSET
  Set with thorns. Dyer.
• MISBESTOW
  To bestow improperly.
• MISBESTOWAL
  The act of misbestowing.