The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ostracion triqueter
Cuckold \Cuck"old\ (k?k"?ld), n. [OE. kukeweld, cokewold, cokold, fr. OF. coucoul, cucuault, the last syllable being modified by the OE. suffix -wold (see Herald); cf. F. cocu a cuckold, formerly also, a cuckoo, and L. cuculus a cuckoo. The word alludes to the habit of the female cuckoo, who lays her eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.]
A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
--Shak.-
(Zo["o]l.)
A West Indian plectognath fish ( Ostracion triqueter).
The cowfish.