cutting 
tool ; serving to penetrate or divide ; sharp. 
2. Wounding or deeply affecting the feelings, 
as with pain, shame, etc.; satirical; severe: 
applied to persons or things : as, he was very 
cutting; a cutting remark. 
But lie always smiled ; and audacious, cool, and cutting, 
and very easy, he thoroughly despised mankind. 
Ditradi, Henrietta Temple, ii. 15. 
He [Sedley] was reprimanded by the court of King's 
Bench in the most tutting terms. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., VI. 
The collision duly took place. ... An insulting sneer, 
a contemptuous taunt, met by a nonchalant but most cut- 
ting reply, were the signals. 
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xxxiii. 
3f. Thieving; swaggering; bullying. 
Wherefore have I such a companie of cutting knaves to 
waite upon me ? Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. 
Y. Low, He's turn'd gallant. 
E. Lone. Gallant ! 
Y. Lorn. Ay, gallant, and is now call'd 
Cutting Morecraft. 
Beau, and Fl., Scornful Lady, v. 4. 
Cutting-down line, in ship-building, a curve in the sheer- 
draft corresponding to the upper surface of the throats 
of the floors amidships, and to the under side of the keel- 
son. 
cutting (kut'ing), n. [ME. cuttynge, kitting; 
verbafn. of cut, v.] 1. A piece cut off; a slip; 
a slice; a clipping. Specifically (o) A small shoot 
or branch cut from a plant and placed in the earth, or in 
sand, etc., to root and form a new plant. 
Propagation by cuttinys has been long known, and is 
abundantly simple when applied to such free-growing 
hardy shrubs as the willow and the gooseberry. 
London, Encyc. of Gardening, p. 657. 
(4) A section ; a thin slice used for microscopical purposes, 
(c) A slip cut from a newspaper or other print contain- 
ing a paragraph or an article which one wishes to use or 
preserve. 
2. An excavation made through a hill or rising 
ground, in constructing a road, railway, canal, 
etc.: the opposite of a filling. 3. The action 
of a horse when he strikes the inner and lower 
part of the fetlock-joint with the opposite hoof 
while traveling. 4f. A caper; a curvet. 
Changes, cuUinqx, turnings, and agitations of the body. 
Florio, tr. of Montaigne's Essays, p. 228. 
5. In coal-mining, work done in mining or getting 
coal so that it may be broken down. The holing 
or undercutting is parallel with the stratification and at 
the bottom of the mass ; the cutting is at right angles to 
this, and the effect of the two operations is to isolate a 
certain quantity of coal, which is afterward broken down 
by powder or wedges. Sometimes called carving. 
6. pi. The refuse obtained from the sieve of 
a hutch. 7. pi. Bruised groats, or oats pre- 
pared for gruel, porridge, etc. 8. See the ex- 
tract. 
When the goods show a bright orange colour they are 
lifted and winced in water. This process, the reduction 
of the reds and pinks to the depth of shade they are to 
have when finished, is called cutting. 
W. Crookes, Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. .176. 
cutting-board (kut'ing-bord), n. A board used 
on a bench or on the lap in cutting leather or 
cloth. 
cutting-box (kut'ing-boks), n. 1. A machine 
in which hay, straw, corn-stalks, etc., are cut 
into short pieces as feed for cattle. 2. In 
diamond-cutting, a box into which the diamond- 
dust falls when the diamonds which are ce- 
mented into the cutter and setter are rubbed 
against each other. 
cutting-compass (kut'ing-kum"pas), . A 
compass one of the legs of which carries a 
cutter, used for making washers, wads, 
disks, etc. E. H. Knight. 
cutting-engine (kut'ing-en'jin), . In silk- 
manuf., a machine for cutting refuse or 
floss silk, after it has been disentangled and 
straightened, into short lengths that may 
be worked upon cotton-machinery. 
cutting-file (kut'ing-fil), . The toothed cut- 
ter of a gear-cutting engine. E. If. Knight. 
cutting-gage (kut'ing-gaj), . A tool having a 
lancet-shaped knife, for cutting veneers and 
thin wood. 
cutting-line (kut'ing-lin), re. In 'bookbinding, a 
sketch-line drawn on a folded sheet of book- 
paper, showing where the cutting-knife will 
trim the margin. 
cutting-lipper (kut'ing-lip'er), n. A cyprinoid 
fish of the tribe Chondrostomi or subfamily 
Chondrostomime, haying trenchant jaws. 
cuttingly (kut'ing-li), adv. In a cutting man- 
ner. 
cutting-nippers (kut'ing-nip"erz), n. pi. A 
pair ot nippers with sharp jaws especially adapt- 
ed for cutting. The cutters may be placed 
either parallel to the axis or at various angles 
with it. Also rntliii//-/i/iers. 
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CUtting-plane (kut'ing-plan), n. A carpenters' 
smoothing-plane. E. H. Knight. 
cutting-pliers (kut'ing-pli"erz), n. pi. Same as 
cutting-nippers. 
cutting-press (kut'ing-pres), . 1. A screw- 
press or a fly-press used in cutting shapes or 
planchets from strips of metal. 2. In bookbind- 
ing, a wooden screw-press of small size to which 
is attached a knife sliding in grooved bearings, 
used for trimming single books. Also called 
plow-press or plow and press. 
cutting-punch (kut'ing-punch), n. A punch 
with a circular face for cutting grommet-holes 
in sails, disks or wads from leather, cloth, 
metal, etc., tongue-holes in leather straps, and 
for various similar uses. 
cutting-shoe (kut'ing-sho), n. A horseshoe 
having nails on one side only; a feather-edge 
shoe : used for horses that cut or interfere. E. 
H. Knight. 
cutting-spade (kut'ing-spad), . A sharp flat 
implement, resembling a broad thin chisel, fixed 
to a pole ten feet or more in length, used to cut 
the blubber from a whale. C. M. Scammon, 
Marine Mammals. 
cutting-thrust (kut'ing-thrust), n. A tool for 
making grooves in the sides of boxes, etc. 
cuttle 1 (kut'l), n. [Early mod. E. also cuttel; 
< ME. cotul, cotull, codull, codulle, < AS. cudele, 
the cuttlefish (L. sepia) ; also called wdse-scite, 
lit. ooze-discharger, with reference to its dis- 
charge of sepia. The change to cuttle may have 
been due to association with cuttle^, a knife, or 
with cut, with reference to the shape of the 
cuttlebone. Cf. W. morgyllell, the cuttlefish, 
lit. sea-knife (< mor, sea, + cyllcll, knife); F. 
dial, cousteau (F. couteau) demcr, cuttlefish, lit. 
sea-knife.] 1. A cuttlefish. 
It is somewhat strange, that . . . only the blood of the 
cuttle should be as black as ink. Bacon. 
Shel-flsh they eat, and the cutle, whose bloud, if I may 
so term it, is like inke : a delicate food, and in great re- 
quest. Sandy*, Travailes, p. 64. 
2. Cuttlebone. 
CUttle 2 t (kut'l), . [< OF. coutel, cultcl, a knife : 
see cultel, cutler, cutlas. Cf. cutting.] 1. A 
knife, especially one used by cutpurses or pick- 
pockets. 
Dismembering himself with a sharp cuttle. 
Bp. Bale, English Votaries, ii. 2. 
2. Same as cutter 1 , I (e). 
Ill thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, if you play 
the saucy cuttle with me. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 
CUttle 3 t (kut'l), !'. i. [Var. of cutter^, q. v.] To 
talk; chat. 
I have been to town on purpose to wait on him, . . . 
recollecting how you used to cuttle over a bit of politics 
with the old Marquis. Walpole, Letters, II. 55. 
cuttlebone (kut'1-bon), . The internal plate 
of Sepia officinalis, consisting of a friable cal- 
careous substance, formerly much used in med- 
icine as an absorbent, but now chiefly for pol- 
ishing wood, paint, varnish, etc., and for pounce 
and tooth-powder. A cuttlebone is often hung in the 
cage of canaries, its slightly saline taste being relished by 
the birds and acting as a gentle stimulus to their appe- 
tite, and its substance affording lime for the shells of their 
eggs. Also called xepiost. See cut under Dibranchiata. 
cuttlefish (kut'1-fish), . [< cuttle^- + fish* ; cf. 
D. kuttelvisch (Kilian; now inktvisch, inkfish), 
Cuttlefish of the Octopod Type (Octopus tuber, 
G. Tcnttelfisch, both prob. of E. origin.] A ceph- 
alopod; specifically, a cephalopod of the ge- 
nus Sepia and family Sepiidie; a dibrauchiate 
cutwater 
cephalopodous mollusk, with a depressed body, 
inclosed in a sac. The shorter arms or feet, eight in 
number, covered with four rows of raised disks or suckers, 
are arranged around the mouth, and from the midst of 
tliL'in extend two 
long tentacles, also 
furnished with 
disks. These mem- 
bers the animal uses 
in walking, for at- 
taching itself to ob- 
jects, and for seiz- 
ing its prey. A tube 
or funnel exists be- 
low the head and 
leads from the gills, 
through which the 
water admitted to 
these organs is ex- 
pelled ; and the 
creature, by eject- 
ing the water with 
force, can dart back- 
ward with amazing 
velocity. In a sac 
on the back of the 
mantle there is a 
light, porous, calca- 
reous shell formed 
of thin plates ; this I. Cuttlefish of the Decapod Type (Sepia 
ia tlm cntHphnnp nr ojficinnlis] : a, a, arms with suckers ; 0, 0, 
e , r tentacles with suckers on the ends. 2. End 
seplost, correspond- of onc of th(! tentacles, showing the suckers. 
ing to the calamary 3. Cuttlebone ( the interior shell). 4. Up- 
or pen of the squids, per view of central part of animal, showing 
i<.-<> ,<!,< ...,,,-ti \ Thp the mouth (c), arms (a, a}, and tentacles 
! (,). 5. The beak or mouth. 6. Oueofthe 
cuttlefish has the s u jkirsT 
power of ejectfng a 
black, ink-like fluid, the sepia of artists (see sepia), from a 
bag or sac, so as to darken the water and conceal itself 
from pursuit. From this usage the term cuttlefish is ex- 
tended not only to all the forms of Sepiitlce and related 
decapod cephalopods, but also to the octopod members 
of the same class. When the octopods are called cuttle- 
fishes, the decapods are commonly distinguished as squids. 
The two figures illustrate the two principal types. See 
Decapoda, Octopoda, and Cephalopoda, and cuts under Z>r- 
branchiata, ink-bag, and Sepia. 
cuttlefish-bone (kut'1-fish-bon), n. Same as 
cuttlebone. 
CUtto, cuttoe (kut'o), n. [< F. couteau, a knife : 
see cutlas. ] A large knife formerly used in New 
England. Bartlett. 
There were no suits of knives and forks, and the family 
helped themselves on wooden plates, with cuttoen. 
S. Judd, Margaret, i. 2. 
cuttoo-plate (kut'o-plat), n. [< "ei/ttoo, of un- 
known origin, + plate.] In a vehicle, a hood 
secured to the axle or bolster, and extending 
over the nave or hub, to protect the axle from 
mud. 
cut-toothed (cut'tothd), a. In bot., toothed 
with deep incisions. 
cutty (kut'i), a. and . [Sc., also cuttic, etc., 
dim. from cut.'] I. a. 1. Cut short; short: as, 
a cutty spoon. 
Her cutty sark o' Paisley ham. Burnt, Tain o' Shanter. 
That was the only smoke permitted during the enter- 
tainment, George \Varrington himself not being allowed 
to use his cutty pipe. Thackeray, Newcomes, xxiii. 
2. Testy; hasty. 
II. n. ; pi. cutties (-iz). 1. A short spoon. 
It is better to sup with a cutty than want a spoon. 
Scotch proverb. 
2. A short-stemmed tobacco-pipe. 
I'm no sae scant o' clean pipes as to blaw wi' a brunt 
cutty. Scotch proverb. 
3. A popgun. Also called e utty-gun. 4. The 
common hare, Lepus timidns. 5. A short, 
thick-set girl. 6. A slut; a worthless girl or 
woman; a wanton. Also cutty-quean. 
cutty-gun (kut'i-gun), n. [Sc.J Same as 
ciitti/, 3. 
cutty-quean (kut'i-kwen), u. 1. Same as 
cutty, 6. 2. The cutty-wren. Montagu. 
cutty-stool (kut'i-stol). . 1. A low stool. 
2. A seat in old Scottish churches in which 
acknowledged female offenders against chas- 
tity were placed during three Sundays, and pub- 
licly rebuked by their minister. 
Cutty-wren (kut'i-reu), n. The wren. Mon- 
tagu. 
cutwal (kut'wal), n. [< Hind, and Per. kotwal, 
the chief officer of police, Mahratta kotirar, the 
village watchman and messenger.] In the East 
Indies, the chief police officer of a city. 
cutwater (kut'wa/'ter), n. [< cut, v., + obj. (ra- 
ter.] 1. The fore part of a ship's prow, which 
cuts the water. Also called false sti-m. 
It [a shot) struck against the head of a bolt in the cut- 
U'dtrr of the Dartmouth ship, and went no further. 
HViiM/v,//. Hist. New England, II. -239. 
2. The lower portion of the pier of a bridge, 
formed with an angle or edge directed up the 
stream, so as more effectually to resist the ac- 
tion of the water, ice, etc. 3. The razorbill, 
or black skimmer, Hliuurln>p iiiyra. 
