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Cue

Cue (cue)
n.(k1913 webster dictionary)
Cue
[ OF. coue, coe, F. queue, fr. L. coda, cauda, tail. Cf. Caudal, Coward, Queue.]
  1. The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
  2. The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword.

    When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.
    Shak.

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

Cue

Cue (cue)
n.
Cue
  1. 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.













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