Cuadrilla. Span. A band.
Cuarto. Span. A copper coin of the value of four maravedis, or about one English farthing. Lit. the fourth part of anything.
Cuenta. Span. Bill, reckoning.
Cuesta. Span. A hill, or mount.
Cuidado. Span. and Port. Care, anxiety. The Andalusians and Gitanos say cuidao.
Cul. Arab. Every, all.
Cura. Span. and Port. Parish priest. Fr. curé; not a “curate.” The writer usually known as El Cura de Fruime (i. 401) was D. Diego Antonio Zernadas de Castro, born at Santiago in 1698. He wrote various works in verse and prose, a complete edition of which, in seven volumes, was published by Ibarra (Madrid, 1778–81), and was followed by another, in three volumes, in 1783–9–90. A biography of the author, by D. Fernando Fulgosio, appeared in the Revista de España, tomos 27, 28 (1872). There was another Cura de Fruime, D. Antonio Francisco de Castro, who was also a poet, and who died in 1836.
Curelar. Rom. To do business. P. ii. 111; Pp. 281; M. vii. 88.
Cureló. Rom. Trouble, pain. P. ii. 115. See Curelar.
Curioso. Span. and Port. Inquiring, curious.