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he dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting. Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Shak.

The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. Bancroft.

A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short. [Obs] Nares.

A corruption of Cutlass.

a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf;

A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.

The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.

Having a variously cut or incised margin; -- said of leaves.

To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment. [Obs.] Wright.

An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans. [Obs.] Halliwell.

loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. Prov. xxvi. 6. Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. Bacon.

aving large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.

To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.

ifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc. And bonds without a date, they say, are void. Dryden.

ate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law. Burril. Bouvier. Dative executor, one appointed by the judge of probate, his office answering to that of an administrator.

A picture coarsely executed. Did you . . . take a look at the grand picture . . . 'T is a melancholy daub, my lord. Sterne.

See Dawk, v. t., to cut or gush.

To cut or mark with an incision; to gash. Moxon.

Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.