action, rather than by skill or patience. — To cut lots, to determine lots by cuttings cards; to draw lots.
— To cut off. (a) To sever; to separate.
I would to God, . . .
The king had cut off my brother's.
Shak.
(b) To put an untimely death; to put an end to; to destroy. "Irenæus was likewise cut off by martyrdom."
Addison. (c) To interrupt; as, to cut off communication; to cut off (the flow of) steam from (the boiler
to) a steam engine. (d) To intercept; as,, to cut off an enemy's retreat. (e) To end; to finish; as, to cut
off further debate. — To cut out. (a) To remove by cutting or carving; as, to cut out a piece from a
board. (b) To shape or form by cutting; as, to cut out a garment. " A large forest cut out into walks."
Addison. (c) To scheme; to contrive; to prepare; as, to cut out work for another day. "Every man had
cut out a place for himself." Addison. (d) To step in and take the place of; to supplant; as, to cut out
a rival. [Colloq.] (e) To debar. "I am cut out from anything but common acknowledgments." Pope.
(f) To seize and carry off (a vessel) from a harbor, or from under the guns of an enemy. - - To cut
to pieces. (a) To cut into pieces; as, to cut cloth to pieces. (b) To slaughter; as, to cut an army to
pieces. — To cut a play (Drama), to shorten it by leaving out passages, to adapt it for the stage. —
To cut rates (Railroads, etc.), to reduce the charges for transportation below the rates established
between competing lines. — To cut short, to arrest or check abruptly; to bring to a sudden termination.
"Achilles cut him short, and thus replied." Dryden. — To cut stick, to make off clandestinely or precipitately.
[Slang] — To cut teeth, to put forth teeth; to have the teeth pierce through the gum and appear. —
To have cut one's eyeteeth, to be sharp and knowing. [Colloq.] — To cut one's wisdom teeth,
to come to years of discretion. — To cut under, to undersell; as, to cut under a competitor in trade.
— To cut up. (a) To cut to pieces; as, to cut up an animal, or bushes. (b) To damage or destroy; to
injure; to wound; as, to cut up a book or its author by severe criticism. "This doctrine cuts up all government
by the roots." Locke. (c) To afflict; to discourage; to demoralize; as, the death of his friend cut him up
terribly. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
Cut
(Cut) v. i.
1. To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
2. To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese.
Holmes.
3. To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.
He saved the lives of thousands by manner of cutting for the stone.
Pope.
4. To make a stroke with a whip.
5. To interfere, as a horse.
6. To move or make off quickly. [Colloq.]
7. To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the
cards to be dealt.
To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct way; as, to cut across a field. — To cut and
run, to make off suddenly and quickly; — from the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to
raise the anchor. [Colloq.] — To cut in or into, to interrupt; to join in anything suddenly. — To cut
up. (a) To play pranks. [Colloq.] (b) To divide into portions well or ill; to have the property left at one's
death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. [Slang.] "When I die, may I cut
up as well as Morgan Pendennis." Thackeray.
Cut
(Cut), n.
