Cŭt'tle or Cŭt'tle-fish, n.
n. [1. O. Fr. cultel, coltel, coutel, now couteau, knife, from Lat. cultellus, diminutive of culter, a knife. 2. A-S. & O. L. Ger. cudele, Ger. kuttel-fisch; from Ger. kötel, kötel, D. keutel, dirt from the guts; from L. Ger. küt, Eng. gut, H. Ger. kuttel, bowels, entrails, A-S. cwið, Icel. gviðr, O. H. Ger. quiti, Goth. qvithus, belly, womb.]
Sense 1. A knife. [Obs.] Bale.
Sense 2. (Zoöl.) A molluscous animal, of the order Cephalopoda and genus Sepia, having ten arms furnished with cupules or sucking cups, by means of which it attaches itself tenaciously to other bodies, two of these arms being longer than the rest.
☞ It has a kind of gland, called the ink-bag, situated near the liver, from which, when pursued, it throws out a brownish-black liquor that darkens the water, enabling it to escape observation. The material within the ink-bag, when dried, is the sepia of painters.
Sense 3. A foul-mouthed fellow. [Obs.]
