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cue

cue is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 7 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.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.
  2. 2.A hint or intimation. Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house. Swift.
  3. 3.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.
  4. 4.Humor; temper of mind. [Colloq.] Dickens.
  5. 5.A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.
  6. 6.To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
  7. 7.A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing. [Obs.] Note: 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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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