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Of or pertaining to a spline. Splining machine, a machine tool for cutting grooves, key seats, or slots; a slotting machine.

The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.

A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting. [R.] Holished.

An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.

The operation of removing a staphyloma by cutting.

Fixed; settled. [Obs.] "The set and statary times of paring of nails and cutting hair." Sir T. Browne.

The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting.

A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber. Withered sticks to gather, which might serve Against a winter's day. Milton.

A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.

The act of cutting down, as of trees; the act of cutting off. [R.]

To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. Carew.

belt by which a sword is suspended, and borne at the side. -- Sword blade, the blade, or cutting part, of a sword. -- Sword cane, a cane which conceals the blade of a sword or dagger, as in a sheath. -- Sword dance. (a) A dance in which swords are brandished and clashed together by the male dancers. Sir W. Scott. (b…

The operation of cutting for anal fistula.

A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.

in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges. On tap. (a) Ready to be drawn; as, ale on tap. (b) Broached, or furnished with a tap; as, a barrel on tap. -- Plug tap (Mech.), a screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering end. -- Tap bolt, a bolt with a head on…

The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages.

The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels. [Written also teaselling, teazling.]

A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk. Tenon saw,…

The line of continuous maximum descent from any point on a land surface, or that cutting all contours and angles.

The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.