n. [ In the language of the (Arawak or Taino) Indians of Guiana, barbacoa a frame on which all kinds of flesh and fish are roasted or smoke-dried. ] 1. a framework of metal or brick, usually with a grill on top, in which a fire is lighted and on which food is cooked, usually outdoors; -- also called a barbecue grill. [ PJC ]

2. A social entertainment, where people assemble, usually in the open air, at which a meal is prepared on a barbecue grill. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Barbecued p. pr. & vb. n. Barbecuing. ] 1. To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. [ 1913 Webster ]

They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog. [ 1913 Webster ]

Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Cooked on a barbecue.
Syn. -- grilled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A hint or intimation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give them [ the servants ] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play. [ 1913 Webster ]

Were it my cueto fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Humor; temper of mind. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form into a cue; to braid; to twist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From q, an abbreviation for quadrans a farthing. ] A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hast thou worn
Gowns in the university, tossed logic,
Sucked philosophy, eat cues? Old Play. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. cuerpo, fr. L. corpus body. See Corpse. ] The body. dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena! (1996) [ 1913 Webster ]

In cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exposed in cuerpo to their rage. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping. [ Southwestern U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. caracole. ] Some thing curled or spiral, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. [ Sometimes written curlycue or carlicue. ] [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. caracole. ] Some thing curled or spiral, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. Same as curlicue. [ Sometimes written carlicue. ] [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To cut a curlycue, to make a flourish; to cut a caper. [ 1913 Webster ]

I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot. McClintock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. festu, OF. festu, F. fétu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw. ] 1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. “Pedantic fescue.” Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The style of a dial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus Festuca. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fescue grass (Bot.), a genus of grasses (Festuca) containing several species of importance in agriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is meadow fescue. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ imp. & p. p. Fescued p. pr. & vb. n. Fescuing. ] To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Billiards) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To make a mistake; especially to fail to execute a necessary or expected action at the proper time, such as making a play in sports, or saying one's line in a drama. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rescued p. pr. & vb. n. Rescuing. ] [ OE. rescopuen, OF. rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; L. pref. re- re- + excutere to shake or drive out; ex out + quatere to shake. See Qtash to crush, Rercussion. ] To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Had I been seized by a hungry lion,
I would have been a breakfast to the best,
Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release; save. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Rescue, v.; cf. Rescous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained. (b) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment. (c) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rescue of a prisoner from the court is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rescue grass. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Bot.) A tall grass (Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without rescue or release. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rescues. [ 1913 Webster ]