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The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.

irst degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders.

A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.

The part of a toolrest in which a cutting tool is clamped.

Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening. [R.] "The topiarian artist." Sir W. Scott. All the pedantries of the topiarian art. C. Kingsley.

Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian. Topiary work, arbors, shrubbery, hedges, or the like, cut and trimmed into fanciful forms, as of animals, building, etc.

Any device for cutting off tops; as, a turnip topper.

The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top.

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like. The wide wound that the boar had trenched In his soft flank. Shak. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. Shak.

A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.

The cutting region of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part. That of a lower molar is the Tri"go*nid.

To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree. " And trimmed the cheerful lamp." Byron.

A knife; a cutting tool. Tusser.

he trigon or trigonid and this stage the tritubercular or trigonodont. The trigon being a cutting apparatus, an extension of the posterior part of the crown was developed in lower molars for crushing, and a smaller corresponding part appeared in upper molars. Another large cone then arose, usually from the cingulum. In…

The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

cess of providing or covering with turf. Turfing iron, or Turfing spade, an implement for cutting, and paring off, turf.

To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal. I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned. Shak.

Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.

Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding.

To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.