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▪ I. † cuit, cute Obs.
Also 6 cuyte, cuite, 8 cutt.
[a. F. cuit:—L. coctus cooked, boiled, pa. pple. of cuire:—L. coquĕre. In sense 2, perh. repr. F. cuite n. a boiling, a boil.]
1. Orig. adj. in wine cuit, subsequently used absol.: New wine boiled down to a certain thickness and sweetened.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 118 The namys of swete wynes y wold þat ye them knewe..wyne Cute. 1574T. Hill Ord. Bees xviii, The sweet lycour named Cuyte. 1598Florio, Vin cotto, a kinde of sodden wine which we call cute, to put into other wines, to make them keep the longer. 1601Holland Pliny xxii. xiii. 121 Nettleseed taken in wine cuit as a drinke openeth the matrice. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. iv. (1668) 116 If it be Spanish Cute, two gallons will go further than five gallons of Candy Cute. 1703Art & Myst. Vintners 33 Two Gallons of Cutt to every Butt so that it be Spanish Cutt. 1756Dict. Trade & Commerce, Wine Cuit, or boiled wine..by that means still retains its native sweetness.
2. Boiling or seething; a boil.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 138 Sugre of iij. cute white hoot & moyst in his propurte. Ibid. 159 Gynger of iij. cute.
▪ II. cuit
var. of coot2 Sc., ankle. |