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A person who cuts wood.

The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.

a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; toto cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deut. xxxiv. 7.

A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.

ally of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [R.] Crabb.

Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.

To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.

That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly. [Obs.] What abridgment have you for this evening What mask What music Shak.

Suddenly terminating, as if cut off. Gray.

To cut off. [R.] "Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest." Johnson.

The act or process of cutting off. "Not to be cured without the abscission of a member." Jer. Taylor.

The center of an escutcheon.

p.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary…

To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise. This that is written must yet be accomplished in me. Luke xxii. 37.

ies in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29.

Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [Obs.] Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. Bacon.

e division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.