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CUT 
CUT, part. adj. Prepared for ufe ; a metaphor from - 
hewn timber: „ 
Sets of ph.rafes, cut and dry. 
Evermore thy tongue fupply. Swift. 
CUT, f. The aftion of a fliarp or edged inftrument ; 
the blow of an ax or fword. Tiie impreflion or repara¬ 
tion of continuity, made by an edge or fliarp inftrument; 
difliinguiflied from that made by perforation with a' 
pointed inftrument. A wound made by cutting.—Sharp 
weapons, according to the force, cut into the bone many 
ways ; which cuts are called fedes, and are reckoned 
among the fractures. Wife man .—A channel made by art. 
—This great cut or ditch Sefoftris the rich king of Egypt,' 
and long after hint Ptolemeus Philadelphus, purpofed 
to have made a great deal wider and deeper, and thereby 
to have let the Red Sea into the Mediterranean. Knolles. 
—A part cut off from the relt.—Suppofe a board to be 
ten foot long, and one broad, one cut is reckoned fo many 
foot. Mortimer. —A fntall particle; a Aired.—It hath a 
number of fliort cuts or fhreddings, which may be better 
called wiflies than prayers. Hooker .—A lot made by cut¬ 
ting a flick.—My lady Zelmane and my daughter Mopfa 
may draw cuts, and the fliorteft cut fpeak firfl. Sidney .•—• 
A near padage, by which fome angle is cut off.—-The ig¬ 
norant took heart to enter upon this great calling, and 
inflead of their cutting their way to it through the know¬ 
ledge of the tongues, the fathers, and councils, they have 
taken another and a fliorter cut. South .—There is a Ihorter 
cut, an eafier paffage. Decay of Piety .—A pi ft tire cut or 
carved upon a ftamp of wood or copper, and impreffed 
from it.—In this form, according to his defeription, he 
is fet forth in the prints or cuts of martyrs by Cevallerms. 
Drown. —It is perhaps ufed improperly by Addifon.— 
Madam Dacier, from fome old cuts of Terence, fancies 
that the larva or perfona of the Roman *iftors was not 
only a vizard for the face, but had falfe hair to it. Addi¬ 
fon. —.The ftamp on which a pifture is carved, and by 
which it is impreffed. The aft or praftice of dividing a 
pack of cards : 
How can the nmfe her aid impart, 
Unfkill’d in all the terms of art > 
Or in harmonious numbers put, 
The deal, the ftiuffle, and the cut? Swift. 
Falhion; form; fliape ; manner of cutting into fliape.—. 
They were fo familiarly acquainted with him, as to 
know the very cut of his beard. Stillingfleet .—Children 
love breeches, not tor their cut or eale, but becaufe the 
having them is a mark or ftep towards manhood. Locke. 
f Formerly] a jade, of a horfe.—The milk-maids’ cuts 
ihall turn the wenches off. Merry Devil of Edmonton.— It 
feems anciently to have (ignified a fool or cully. To cut 
ftill dignifies to cheat, in low language.—Send her money 
knight; if thou haft her not in the end, call me cut. 
Shakejpearc. 
Cut and long tail. A proverbial expreflion for men of 
all kinds. It is borrowed from dogs —He will maintain 
you like a gentlewoman.-Ay, that I will, come cut 
and long tail, under the degree of a fquire. Shakejpearc. 
Come cut and long tail ; for there be 
Six bachelors as bold as he. Ben Jonfon. 
CUT-THROAT,yi A ruffian; a murderer; a butcher 
of men ; an affaflin.—Perhaps the cut-throat may rather 
take his copy from the Farilian maffacre, one of the hor- 
rideft inftances of barbarous inhumanity that ever was 
known. South. 
The ruffian robbers by no juftice aw’d, 
And unpaid cut-throat foidiers, are abroad ; 
i liofe venal fouls, who, harden’d in each ill, 
To favc complaints and profecution, kill. Drydcn. 
CUT-THROAT, adj. Cruel; inhuman; barbarous. 
C U T 
—If to take above fifty in the hundred be extremity, 
this in truth can be none other than cut-throat and abomi¬ 
nable dealing. Carew. 
CUTA'NEOUS, adj. [from cutis, Lat. the fkin.] Re¬ 
lating to the fkin.—Some forts of cutaneous eruptions are 
occafioned by feeding much on acid unripe fruits and fa¬ 
rinaceous fubftances. Arbuthnot. 
CUTCHf a country of Hindooftan, bounded on the 
north by fandy deferts, which-feparate it from the coun¬ 
try of Agimere; on the eaft by Guzerat; on the fouth 
by an arm of the fea, called the gulf of Cutch ; and on the 
weft by the Sinde. The principal towns are Booge-booge 
and Tahej. 
CUTH, or Cutha, the fame with Cush, which fee. 
CUTFI, fignifies knowledge or (kill. So Cuthwin is a 
knowing conqueror; Cuthred, a knowing counfellor; 
Cuthbert, famous for (kill. Much of the fame nature as 
Sophocles and Sophianus. Gibfon. 
CU'TICLE,^. [cuticula, Lat.] The firft and outer- 
mod: covering of the body, commonly called the fcarf- 
flein. This is that foft fkin which rifes in a blifter upon 
any burning, or the application of a bliftering plaifter. 
It flicks clofe to the furface of the true fkin, to which it 
is alfo tied by the veffels which nourifh it, though they 
are fo fmall as not to be feen. When the fcarf-fkin is 
examined with a microfcope, it appears to be made up 
of feveral lays of exceeding fmall feales. Quincy. —In 
each of the very fingers there are bones and griftles, and 
ligaments and membranes, and mufcles and tendons, and 
nerves and arteries, and veins and fkin, and cuticle and 
nail. Bentley. —A thin fkin formed on the furface of any 
liquor..—.When any {aline liquor is evaporated to cuticle, 
and let cool, the fait concretes in regular figures; which 
argues that the particles of the lalt, before they con¬ 
creted, floated in the liquor at equal diftances in rank 
and file. Newton. 
CUTI'CULAR, adj. [from cutis, Lat.] Belonging to 
the fkin. ■* 
CUT'LASS,/ \_coutelas, Fr. This word is written 
fometimes cut/ace, fometimes cuttleax ; in Shakefpeare, cur- 
tleaxe ; and in Pope, cutlafi. ] A broad cutting fword ; the 
word is much in ufe among feamen : 
To the lodgements of his herd he run, 
Where the fat porkets flept beneath the fun ; 
Of two his cutlafi launch’d the fpouting blood, 
Thefe quarter’d, fing’d, and fix’d on forks of wood. Pope, 
CUT'LER, f. [ coutelicr, Fr.] One who makes or fells 
knives.—In a bye cutler’s fhop he bought a tenpenny 
knife ; fo cheap was the inftrument of this great attempt. 
Wot ton. 
CUT'PURSE, f, One who fteals by the method of 
cutting purfes: a common praftice when men wore 
their purl’es at their girdles, as was once the cuftom. A 
thief; a robber.—To have an open ear, a quick eye, 
and a nimble hand, .is neceflary for a cut-purfe. Shakejpearc.. 
Was there no felony, no bawd, 
Cutpurfe, nor burglary abroad ? Hudibras. 
If any perfon clam & fccrclc, and without the know¬ 
ledge of another, cut his purfe or pick his pocket, and 
fteal from thence to the value of i2d. it is felony with¬ 
out benefit of clergy. 8 Eliz. c.4. 
CUT'TF.R, f. An agent or inftrument that cuts any 
thing.— pinafores .] The teeth that cut the meat.—The 
molares, or grinders, are behind, neared the centre of 
motion, becaufe there is a greater ftrength 01 force re¬ 
quired to chew the meat than to bite a piece ; and the 
cutters before, that they may be ready to cut off a model 
from any folid food, to be tranlmitted to the grinders. 
Ray. —A fwaggering fellow.—By cutter’s law we are 
bound to relieve one another. Rowley’s Match at Midnight. 
—From this fenfe of the word, Cowley named the prin¬ 
cipal character in his comedy, called, Cutler of Cole¬ 
man Street. Mafon’s Supplement to JoinJon. 
CUT'TER 
