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To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress. Shak.

ed to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To cuckold. Dryden.

Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking. Shak.

The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively. Addison.

The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.

Cuckold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Cuckolded. [R.] "My being cornuted." LEstrange.

A man that wears the horns; a cuckold. [R.] Shak.

A cuckold maker. [R.] Jordan.

A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy. [Obs.] What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face We are a king, cotquean, and we will reign in our pleasures. B. Jonson.

icorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.

An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural. "Thicker than a cuckold's horn." Shak. Horn block, the frame or pedestal in which a railway car axle box slides up and down; -- also called horn plate. -- Horn of a dilemma. See under Dilemma. -- Horn distemper, a disease of cattle, affecting the internal substan…

One who horns or cuckolds. [Obs.] Massinger.

To horn; to cuckold. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead. Dost make a mummer of me, oxhead Marston.

A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest. [Obs.] Shak.

Like a wittol; cuckoldly. [Obs.] Shak.