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e of the grain rather than lengthwise. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.

A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.

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

To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.

A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.

Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.

That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.

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

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

Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Act of cutting short. [Obs.]

To clear or strip of wood (by cutting down trees). [R.] Fuller.

The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.

The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.

A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. Blue devils. See under Blue. -- Cartesian devil. See under Cartesian. -- Devil bird (Zoöl.), one of two or more South African drongo shrikes (Edolius retifer, and E. remifer), believed by the natives to be connected with sorcery. -- Devil may care, reckless, defian…

A cutting in two; a division. A general breach or dichotomy with their church. Sir T. Browne.

A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool. Cutting die (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper,…

A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.