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recipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle. With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron. Sir W. Scott.

s forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.

Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well- defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.

One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.

Hewing or dressing stone.

An instrument to cut straw for fodder.

Moderalely acute.

Situated under the skin; hypodermic. -- Sub`cu*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. Subcutaneous operation (Surg.), an operation performed without opening that part of the skin opposite to, or over, the internal section.

Situated under the cuticle, or scarfskin.

rtake; to pursue. [Obs.] To follow and detain him, if by any possibility he could be subsecuted and overtaken. E. Hall.

Following in a train or succession. [R.]

A plow for turning up grass land.

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.

A fabric woven like velvet, but with the loops of the warp threads uncut.

Unknown; strange. [Obs.] -- n.

To cut away, as the side of an object, so as to leave an overhanging portion.

Destitute of an escutcheon. [R.] Pollock.

Ventriloquism.

The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.

An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.