† Qu, Q

var. of CUE sb.¹, half-a-farthing. Obs.

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c. 1440, 1617. [see CUE].

2

1594. Lyly, Moth. Bomb., in Old Pl. (1814), I. 264. [To Halfpenny] Rather pray there be no fall of money for then wilt thou go for a q.

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1597. 1st Pt. Return fr. Parnass., I. i. 434. Adew single beare and three qus of breade.

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1674. Jeake, Arith. (1696), 77. Some … divide the Farthing into 2 Ques, the Q into 2 Cees.

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