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Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.

In a cutting manner.

Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.

Hewing or dressing stone.

The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.

ally of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [R.] Crabb.

Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.

The act or process of cutting off. "Not to be cured without the abscission of a member." Jer. Taylor.

The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.

properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. "To annihilate the army." Macaulay.

ition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.

The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

d fruit. Temple. This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant. Lubbock.

the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water. Auger bit, a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger.

line which bisects a system of parallel chords of a curve; called a principal axis, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two axes of…

The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.

A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.