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A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.

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  1. n. A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
  2. n. A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).
  3. n. The cowfish.
  4. v. t. To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.
  5. n. a man whose wife committed adultery
  6. v. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
  7. 1. A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress. Shak. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter). (b) The cowfish. To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress. Shak.
  8. To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or byher becoming an adulteress. Shak.
  9. v:49/n:51 n. a man whose wife committed adultery