cut 
I was in some grottos rut tmt of the roi-k, in long nar- 
rou gallarlee running parallel to one another, uml sume 
al.s" ri.^siuj; them at riuht angles. 
/W..I-/U, lleseriptloll "f Hi. l'.:i I, I I 
lli-inv (> Tu contrive ; prepare : as, tu rut nut ork for 
another day. 
Slltli'-irnt work . . . was '"' "i/t for tin- armies of I'.M^Ialiil. 
(Jiililnuiiili, seven Years' War, ii. 
(<it) To debar. 
I am rii' tin/ fniin anything Imt common ui-knuuli-d u - 
meiits. ur eoinmoii disenurse. l'"l 
(.) Tu takr tin- preference or precedence "f ' ax, tu cut mil 
a rival in love. 
lilting his best 
Tu perform tin- polite, uml tu cul 'nil the rest. 
lini-lniiii, In^oMsl'.v l.t-iiemls, II. a:t. 
(/) Naut., to capture and carry oh*, tut a vessel fnnn a liar 
I'mr or fr iiniliT the guns "t the enemy. (;;) To separate, 
as a beast from the lu-nl ; ili-ivi- apiirt fi-uni the drove : a 
term used on western ranches. |l . S. | 
The headlong ilash with which one |of the cowboys] will 
fut nut a eow niai-ki-il with his uwn brand from a herd of 
several hilinlred others. T. lliuu.crcll , Hunting Trips, p. . 
To cut short. () To interrupt ; bring to an nlirupt or 
smlilen pause. 
Achilles cut him short. Dryden, -ttneid. 
(b) To shorten ; abridge : as, to cut the matter nhort. 
And lest I should be weary'd, Mailani. 
To cut things short, come down to Adam. 
Priar, Alma, II. 
(c) To withhold from a pencil part of what is due. 
The soldiers werert/f nhort of their pay. Johnson. 
To cut the gold, in archery, to appear to drop across the 
gold or inner circle of the target, when falling short of the 
mark : said of the arrow. To cut the Oordlan knot. 
See ii.ii-iiiiin. To cut the (or ai knot, t" take short 
measures with any difficulty ; effect an object by the most 
direct and summary means. See Oordian knot, under 
Itiirdian. 
Decision by a majority Is a mode of cutting a knot that 
cannot l>e untied. 
Sir O. C. Letrit, Authority in Matters of Opinion. 
To cut the mark, in archery, to fly straight toward the 
mark, hut fall below it : said of an arrow. To cut the 
aallt, U> unfurl it and let it fall down. To cut the teeth, 
to have the teeth grow through the gums, as an infant. To 
cut the volt, or the round. See the nouns. To cut to 
pieces, to cut, hew, or hack into fragments ; disintegrate 
by cutting or slashing ; s]>eciflcally, in war, to destroy, or 
scatter with much slaughter, as a liody of troops, by any 
mode of attack. 
The Abyssinian horse, breaking through the covert, 
came swiftly upon them (the Moors], unable either to fight 
or to fly, and the whole body of them was cut to pieces 
without one man escaping. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 28. 
To cut up. (a) To cut in pieces : as, to cut up beef. (6) To 
break or destroy the continuity, unity, or uniformity of : 
as, a wall space cut up with windows. 
Making the great portal a semidome, and . . . cutting 
It "/' with ornaments and details. 
J. Fergusson, Hist. Arch., I. SS6. 
(c) To eradicate : as, to cut up shrubs. 
This doctrine cuts up all government by the routs. Locke. 
(d) To criticize severely or Incisively ; censure : as, the work 
was terribly cut up by the reviewer. 
A poem which was cut up by Mr. Rigby, with his usual 
urbanity. Thackeray, Mrs. Perkins's Ball. 
()To wound the feelings acutely; affect deeply: as, his 
wife's death cut him up terribly. 
Poor fellow, he seems dreadfully cut up. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, xxxii. 
II. intraiis. 1. To make an incision: as, he 
Cuts too deep. 2. To possess the incising, sev- 
ring, or gashing properties of an edged tool or 
instrument, or perform its functions: as, the 
knife cuts well. 3. To admit of being incised, 
sliced, severed, or divided with a cutting in- 
strument : as, stale bread cuts better than fresh. 
4. To turn out (well or ill) in course of being 
fashioned by cutting : as, the cloth ia too nar- 
row to cut well (that is, with advantage, or with- 
out waste). 5. To grow or appear through the 
guins : said of the teeth. 
When the teeth are ready to cut, the upper part is 
rubbed with bard substances. Arbtttlinot. 
6. To strike the inner and lower part of the 
fetlock with the other foot; interfere: said of 
a horse. 7. To divide a pack of cards, for de- 
termining the deal, or for any other purpose. 
8. To move off with directness and rapidity ; 
make off: sometimes with an impersonal it. 
[Colloq. or slang.] 
A ship appeared in sight with a ttag aloft : which we 
HI after, and by eleven at night came up with her, and 
took her. 
Retaking of the Inland of Saint a Helena (Art" 
ICaruer. I. _'). 
Cut and come again, take as much as you please ami 
.-nine back for more : used generally to denote al'umlanee. 
profusion, or no laek. 
I'nt 'i,f .-.!/;(, n. 1111,1 was the order of the evening, . , . 
and I had no time to ask questions, but help meat and 
ladle iitav\. Ii. It. l;fui'l.ti<i->. l.oi-na lioone. \\i\. 
To cut across, to pass over or through in the must iliivet 
w:i\ a-, he i'r orM the .oiiiiMoii. To cut and run 
(mint.), to cut the cable and set sail immediately, as in a 
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case of emergency ; hence, to make off suddenly ; be off ; 
in- i;one ; hurry away. 
1 might easily cut and run. CarluU, in Kroude, I. llii. 
To cut In. {a) To divide the pack and turn a card, for 
determining w h" are to play. ('<) To join in suddenly and 
nil. elemiiniollSly. 
"You think, then,' said Lord Eskdahvi<in./ in before 
i:iui'\, "that the Reform Bill has done us no harm?" 
Ditraeli, Coningsby, Iv. 11. 
To cut loose. () To run away; escape from custodj. 
('.i Tu separate one s self from anything; never connection 
or relation : as, the army nit loose from all cominunii -a 
tiolis. 
By moving against Jackson, I uncovered my own com- 
munication. So I finally decided to have none - to cut 
loose altogether from my base and move my whole force 
eastward. U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 499. 
(c) In xliinili/i'.i, to discharge a firearm. To cut on, to 
make baste forward ; move on with speed and directness. 
To cut up. () To turn out (well or ill) when divided 
into pieces or parts, as a carcass in the shambles : a butch- 
ers phrase, figuratively used of the division or segrega- 
tion of the parts of anything, and colloquially of a person 
as representing his estate : as, the sheep cul* up to advan- 
tage ; how does the old gentleman cut up' 
The only question of their Legendre, or some other of 
their legislative butchers, will be, how he cuti up. Burke. 
(6) To lie jolly, noUy, or riotous ; behave badly. [Slang. ] 
Now, say, what's the use 
of all this abuse, 
Of ruttiii'i up, and thus behaving rioty, 
And acting with such awful impropriety? 
C. O. Lfland, Melster Karl's Sketch-Book, p. 265. 
To cut UP rough, to become quarrelsome or obstreper- 
ous ; become dangerous. (Slang.] 
cut (kut), p. a. [Pp. of cut, .] 1. Gashed or 
wounded as with a sharp instrument: as, a cut 
finger. 2. In hot., incised ; cleft. 3. Hewn; 
chiseled; squared and dressed: as, cut stone. 
4. Manufactured by being cut by machinery 
from a rolled plate; not wrought or made by 
hand: as, cut nails. 6. Haying the surface 
shaped or ornamented by grinding or polish- 
ing ; polished or faceted : as, cut glass ; gems 
cut and uncut. 6. Severed or separated from 
the root or plant : as, cut flowers : said (a) dis- 
tinctively of flowers severed from the plant, as 
opposed to flowering plants growing in the 
ground or in pots ; (6) of flowers not made 
up into bouquets or ornamental pieces more 
properly, loose flowers, as distinguished from 
made-up flowers. 7. Castrated; gelded. 8. 
Tipsy; intoxicated; drunk. [Slang. ] Cut and 
dryt, cut and dried, prepared for use by cutting and 
seasoning, as hewn timber; hence, fixed or settled in ad- 
vance ; ready for use or operation at a moment's notice : 
as, their plans were all cut and dried for the occasion. 
Can ready compliments supply, 
On all occasions cut and dry. Siri/t. 
The uniformity and simplicity of the cut-and-dritd In- 
termediate examination was too tempting a trap for him 
to avoid. The Atheneeum, Jan. 14, 1888, p. 52. 
Cut and long tailt, people of all kinds or ranks ; literal- 
ly, dogs with cut tails and dogs with long tails. 
sliiillnir. He will maintain you like a gentlewoman. 
Slender. Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail, under 
the degree of a 'squire. Shak., M. \V. of W., 111. 4. 
Cut and mitered string. See firing. Cut cavendish. 
See cavendish. Cut glass. See glass. Cut-In notes, 
in printing, side-notes to a page coming within the lines 
of the space usually occupied by the text. Cut splice. 
Same as cont-tplite. Cut-under buggy. See ougi/y^. 
cut (kut), n. [< ME. cut, cutt, r a lot' (the other 
senses being modern) ; from the verb.] 1. The 
opening made by an edged instrument, dis- 
tinguished by its length from that made by 
perforation with a pointed instrument ; a gash ; 
a slash; a notch; a wound. Hence 2. A 
sharp stroke or gash as with an edged instru- 
ment or with a whip: as, a smart cut; a clean 
cut. 
This was the most unkindest cut of all. 
Shot., J. C., 111. 2. 
The General gives his near hone a cut with hU whip, 
and the wagon passes them. 
H'. M. Baker, New Timothy, p, 70. 
3. Anything that wounds one's feelings deeply, 
as a sarcasm, criticism, or act of ingratitude or 
discourtesy. 4. A slashing movement; spe- 
cifically, in saber-exercise, a slashing stroke of 
the weapon, more forcible than a thrust, but 
less decisive in result: distinguished as front 
cut, right cut, etc., according to the direction of 
the movement. 5. In cricket, a stroke given 
by the batsman to the ball, by which the ball 
is sent out in front of the striker and parallel 
to his wickets. 6. In lawn-tennis, such a blow 
with the racket that the ball is made to whirl 
rapidly, and on striking the ground to bound off 
at an irregular angle ; a ball thus struck. 7. A 
step in fancy d:ui<-ing. 8. A channel, trench, 
or groove made by cutting or digging, as a 
.litrli. a canal, or an excavation through rising 
ground for a railroad-bed or a road ; a cutting. 
cut-against 
This great cut or ditch Sesostris . . . purposed to have 
made a reat deal w ider and deeper. 
Knollet, Hist. Turks. 
9. In a pontoon bridge, the space or waterway 
between two pontoons. 10. A passage by 
which an angle is cut off: as, a short cut. 
The remaining distance . . . might be considerably re- 
duced by a abort i-tit across fields. 
1-1,,,,-ti.ii.- I: /.. Shirley, ii. 
11. A part cut off from the rest; u slice or 
division: as, a good cut; a cut of timber. 
They wanted only the best cult. He did not know what 
to do with the lower qualities of meat. 
The Century, XXXV :,77 
12. Two hanks of yarn. 13. The block or 
stamp on which a picture is engraved or cut, 
and by which it is impressed ; an engraving, 
especially an engraving upon wood ; also, the 
impression from such a block. See votxlnil. 
14. A tally; one of several lots made by 
cutting sticks, pieces of paper or straw, etc., 
to different lengths: as, to draw cuts. 
Wherfore I rede that cut among vs alle 
Be drawe, and lat see wher the cut wol falle. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 331. 
Id Child. Which cut shall speak ItV 
3d Chad. The shortest. 
lt chilli. Agreed : draw. 
B. Junion, Cynthia's ReveU, lud. 
15f. A gelding. 
All the sound horses, whole hones, sore hones, count- 
ers, curtals, jades, cutt, hacknies, and mares. 
Greene and Lodge, Looking class for Lond. and Eng. 
He's buy me a white cut, forth for to ride. 
Fletcher (and another). Two Noble Kinsmen, III. 4. 
16. A reduction: as, a cut in prices; a great 
cut in railroad-rates: often used as an adjec- 
tive : as, cut rates ; a cat-rate office. 17. The 
surface left by a cut : as, a smooth or clear cut. 
18. The manner in which a thing is cut; 
form ; shape ; fashion : as, the cut of a garment. 
The justice . . . 
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 
Pursew the cut, the fashion of the age. 
Mantun, What you Will, U. 1. 
There Is the new cut of your doublet or slash, the fash- 
Ion of your apparel, a quaint nit. 
Shirley, Witty Fair One, II. 1. 
A sailor has a peculiar cut to his clothes, and a way of 
wearing them which a green hand can never get. 
ft. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. -2. 
19. Specifically, in lapidary wort, the num- 
ber and arrangement of the facets on a pre- 
cious stone which has been polished or cut : as, 
the double-brilliant cut; the Lisbon cut; dental 
cut. 20. The act of deliberately passing an 
acquaintance without appearing to recognize 
him, or of avoiding him so as not to be accost- 
ed by him. 
We met and gave each other the cut direct that night. 
Thackeray, Book of Snobs, U. 
21. Absence when one should be present; a 
staying away, or a refusal to attend : as, a c ut 
from recitation. Brilliant cut, half -brilliant cut, 
double-brilliant cut, Lisbon cut, Portuguese cut, 
single CUt. See brilliant, n. Cut over point. In ftn- 
ciwj, a passing of the point of the weapon over that of 
the adversary in thrusting upon him. Rolando (ed. For- 
yth). Degree cut. same as trap cut. Dental cut. 
In gem-mttina, a style of ornamentation consisting of 
two rows of facets on the top of the stone. Rose cut, 
in gem-cutting, a form of ornamentation in which the 
upper part of' the stone has 24 triangular facets, and the 
back of the stone Is flat. When the base is a duplicate of 
the upper side, the stone becomes a double rote. Rose- 
cut diamonds are usually set with foil at the back. See 
brill in nl. flg. 7. Star CUt, in diamond-cutting, a form of 
brilliant-cutting in which the facets on the top and back 
are so arranged that they resemble a star. Step cut. 
same as trap cut. Table cut. In diamond-cutting, a form 
of ornamentation in which the stone is usually flat, and 
it cut with long (technically called luiilf) facets with 
beveled edges, or a border of small facets. The cut Of 
one's Jib, the shape or general appearance of a person : 
as, I knew him by the cut of hi* jib. (Originally a sailors' 
phrase with reference to the characteristic form of a ship s 
jib.) 
The young ladies liked to appear in nautical and lawn- 
tennis toilet, carried so far that one might refer to (V cut 
of their jib. C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 178. 
To draw cuts, to draw lots, as of little sticks, straws, 
papers, etc., cut of unequal lengths. 
I think it is best to draw cuts and avoid contention. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 86. 
Trap cut, in urui-cutting, a form of ornamentation in 
which one row or more of long step-like facets is arranged 
on the top or crown of the stone, around the table, and 
three, six, or more rows of similar steps or degree facets on 
the back or pavilion; or the top may be brilliant cut, and 
only the back trap cut, or vice versa. This form of cut 
intensities or darkens the color of a stone, and hence is 
used for tile sapphire, emerald, ruby, etc. Also called 
<< an. I -/. !. rMf. 
cut-against (kut'a-geust'), . In bookbinding: 
(a) The cut made by u bookbinders' knife on 
