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Word Meanings - CUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue. 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

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1. The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue. 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. When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. Shak. 3. A hint or intimation. Give them their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house. Swift. 4. 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. 5. Humor; temper of mind. Dickens. 6. A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

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    Having no distinct or distinctive features.
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    fashion, make, fr. L. factura a making, formation, fr. facere, 1. The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature
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    Gr. 1. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else. Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. Macaulay. 2. According to symptoms; as, a
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    Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.
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    Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.
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    1. Shaped; fashioned. How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak. 2. Having features; formed into features. The well-stained canvas or the featured stone. Young.
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    To make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease.
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    Changed in features; deformed. Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.
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    1. Overthrow; defeat. "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl. 2. Disfigurement; deformity. "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.
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