To commit adultery against. See bewhore, v.

To ‘give horns to’; to cuckold.

transitive. To make a cuckold of.

figurative. Also in phrases †to go in stag: To go naked. †to make (a husband) a stag, to make to wear the stag's crest = to cuckold. (Obsolete.)

transitive. To give ‘horns’ to, to ‘horn’; i.e. to make a cuckold of.

transitive. To fit with horns (chiefly in a figurative sense); to cuckold (a person). Also in extended use. See horn, n. 7a.

To make horned, ‘give horns to’; to cuckold.

transitive. To furnish with horns like a ram's; cf. horn, v. 2. Obsolete. rare.

= capricorn, v.

transitive. To fit with ‘horns’; to cuckold. Obsolete.

transitive. To make a cuckold of; to dishonour (a husband) by adultery; said of a wife.

transitive. To make a cuckold of, to be unfaithful to. Cf. Vulcan, n. 2a.

(transitive) to make a wittol of.

To furnish with branches or branching horns. Also figurative.

transitive. To cuckold. (Cf. horn, v. 2) Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To fit with (goat's) horns; to horn.

transitive. To make a cuckold.

slang, in to liquor (a person's) boots: (a) to cuckold (him); (b) (see quot. 1785).

transitive. To make a cuckold of. Cf. ram-head, n. 2.