Obs. 1 cúþe, 4–5 couthe, etc. [OE. cúþe, adv. from cúþ: see prec.] Clearly, manifestly; familiarly.
c. 1000. Ags. Ps. lxxxviii[i]. 3. Ic minum ʓecorenum cuðe ʓesette.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, II. 249. Loo this sentence ys knowen kouthe Of every Philosophres mouthe.
c. 1450. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 254. A blisful bryd … Cowþe ykid in euery cost.
