Cutting
(Cut"ting) n.
1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or
of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or
elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.
Cutting
(Cut"ting), a.
1. Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.
2. Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.
3. Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.
Cuttingly
(Cut"ting*ly), adv. In a cutting manner.
Cuttle
(Cut"tle) n. [OF. cultel, coltel, coutel, fr. L. cultellus. See Cutlass.] A knife. [Obs.] Bale.
Cuttle
(Cut"tle Cut"tle*fish`) (- fish`), n. [OE. codule, AS. cudele; akin to G. kuttelfish; cf. G. kötel, D.
keutel, dirt from the guts, G. kuttel bowels, entrails. AS. cwiþ womb, Goth. qiþus belly, womb.]
1. (Zoöl.) A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished
with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to
dibranchiate cephalopods generally.
It has an ink bag, opening into the siphon, from which, when pursued, it throws out a dark liquid that
clouds the water, enabling it to escape observation.
2. A foul-mouthed fellow. "An you play the saucy cuttle with me." Shak.
Cuttle bone
(Cut"tle bone`) The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making
polishing powder, etc.
Cuttoo plate
(Cut*too" plate`) A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the
axle.
Cutty
(Cut"ty) a. [Cf. Ir. & Gael. cut a short tail, cutach bobtailed. See Cut.] Short; as, a cutty knife; a
cutty sark. [Scot.]
Cutty
(Cut"ty) n. [Scotch.]
1. A short spoon.
2. A short tobacco pipe. Ramsay.
3. A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott.
Cuttystool
(Cut"ty*stool`) n.
1. A low stool. [Scot.]
2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
Cutwal
(||Cut"wal) n. [Per. kotwal.] The chief police officer of a large city. [East Indies]
