Vocabulary : Cucking stool to Cuculli

Cucking stool : A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool.
Cuckoo : A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.
Cuckoobud : A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup.
Cuckooflower : A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi).
Cuckoopint : A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake-robin.

Cucquean : A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her.
Cucujo : The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.
Cucullate : Alt. of Cucullated
Cucullated : Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. ;; Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet. ;; Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects. ;; Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.
Cuculli : of Cucullus

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