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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

... a lion brought up in my palace, with which, as a cub, she had played when a child. As a woman, she had complete mastery over the noble animal. Both as a child and as a woman, she, with the lion, formed the subject of many of the beautiful ...

— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)

... simply can't. If you knew how she grates upon me! Oh, it's too much! I'd rather have a bear cub or a monkey for a room-mate! Please, please don't make us stop together! If you won't move her, move me! I'd sleep in an attic if I could have ...

— For the Sake of the School • Angela Brazil

... pardon, when it is I who should ask it?" said Bois-Rose; "you were more generous than I, Fabian. Never did a lioness snatch her cub from the hands of the hunters, and carry it to her den, with a more savage love than I dragged you from the habitations of men to hide you in the desert. I was happy, because all my affections were centred in you; and I believed that you might also be so. You did not murmur; you sacrificed, ...

— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid

... handing his rifle to Bela Moshi, and before his companions could grasp the situation the subaltern plunged into the grass, made a sudden dash, and was back with a healthy young lion cub in his arms. ...

— Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force • Percy F. Westerman

... have got the roughness rubbed off you already, and will get on capitally with the regiment. I can't say as much for that young fellow Stapleton. He seems to be completely puffed up with the sense of his own importance, and to be an unlicked sort of cub altogether. However, I have known more unlikely subjects than he is turn out decent fellows after a course of instruction from the boys; but he will have rather a rough time of it at first I expect. You will be doing him ...

— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty

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