▪ 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.
| c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 118 The namys of swete wynes y wold þat ye them knewe..wyne Cute. 1574 T. Hill Ord. Bees xviii, The sweet lycour named Cuyte. 1598 Florio, Vin cotto, a kinde of sodden wine which we call cute, to put into other wines, to make them keep the longer. 1601 Holland Pliny xxii. xiii. 121 Nettleseed taken in wine cuit as a drinke openeth the matrice. 1615 Markham Eng. Housew. ii. iv. (1668) 116 If it be Spanish Cute, two gallons will go further than five gallons of Candy Cute. 1703 Art & Myst. Vintners 33 Two Gallons of Cutt to every Butt so that it be Spanish Cutt. 1756 Dict. Trade & Commerce, Wine Cuit, or boiled wine..by that means still retains its native sweetness. |
2. Boiling or seething; a boil.
| c 1460 J. 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.