Cuba.

The Roman deity who kept guard over infants in their cribs and sent them to sleep. Verb cubo, to lie down in bed.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Cry of Animals (The)
Cry (To)
Cry Cavē (To)
Cry Havock!
Cry Quits
Cry Vinegar (To)
Cry Wolf
Crystal Hills
Crystalline
Cub
Cuba
Cube
Cucking-stool (The)
Cuckold
Cuckold King (The)
Cuckold’s Point
Cuckoo
Cuckoo (A)
Cuckoo Oats and Woodcock Hay
Cuckoo - Spit
Cucumber Time

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