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noun

Cub n.

A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.

Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy. "O, thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?"

Cub n.

A stall for cattle. (Obs.) "I would rather have such...in cub or kennel than in my closet or at my table."

A cupboard. (Obs.)

verb

Cub v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. cubbed; pres. part. cubbing) To bring forth; said of animals, or in contempt, of persons. "Cubb'd in a cabin."

Cub v. t. To shut up or confine. (Obs.)

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"Cub" Quotes from Famous Books

... sat up all night. Nothing occurred to arouse his suspicion. Next day they went out lion hunting without dogs. Nance got a shot at a cat, but missed him. The next day the Professor killed a cub that was hiding in a juniper tree. It was his first kill and put the Professor in high good humor. He explained all about it that night as they sat around the camp fire. Then the boys made him ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch • Frank Gee Patchin

... a cub wolf scents blood. He crossed the arbor and took up a position behind Forrest's chair. The latter was a picture of contentment, smiling at the assurance of his caller, and qualifying his remarks with ...

— Wells Brothers • Andy Adams

... position, before the brigade had crossed over, but it was not there; then passing through the woods, where, in the morning, we had first formed line, we approached the blacksmith's shop, but there found a detachment of the secession cavalry and thence made a circuit, avoiding Cub Run Bridge, into Centreville, where I found General McDowell, and from him understood that it was his purpose to rally the forces, and make a ...

— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman

... smoke and manufacture. Here lives and flourishes Thomas Gradgrind, "a man of realities; a man of facts and calculations;" not essentially a bad man, but bound in an iron system as in a vice. He brings up his children on knowledge, and enlightened self-interest exclusively; and the boy becomes a cub and a mean thief, and the girl marries, quite without love, a certain blustering Mr. Bounderby, and is as nearly as possible led astray by the first person who approaches her with the language ...

— Life of Charles Dickens • Frank Marzials

... disturb the voluptuousness of his attachment. He owns that child, and he is going to make it the object of his eternal delights, God's rights and the child's own interests to the contrary notwithstanding. This fellow is not a parent; he is a pure animal, and the cub will, one day make good returns for ...

— Explanation of Catholic Morals - A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals • John H. Stapleton

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