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A knife. [Obs.] Bale.

The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.

A foul-mouthed fellow. "An you play the saucy cuttle me." Shak.

The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like. Scuttle butt, or Scuttle cask (Naut.), a butt or cask with a large hole in it, used to contain the fresh water for daily use in a ship. Totten.

e division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.

The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle.

A cuttlefish. See Cuttlefish.

The dark coloring matter of the liquid of the cuttlefish.

The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish.

A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.

To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.

To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle. [Prov. Eng.]

The common European cuttlefish.

Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia.

The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.

covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.