CUT
CUT, verb transitivepreterit tense and prepositioncut [Latin, to thrust, to drive, to strike.]1. To separate the parts of any body by an edged instrument, either by striking, as...
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CUT-THROAT
CUT-THROAT, noun A murderer; an assassin; a ruffian.CUT-THROAT, adjective Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
CUT-WATER
CUT-WATER, noun The fore part of a ships prow, or knee of the head, which cuts the water. Also, a water-fowl, a species of gull; or rather, the Rynchops, or razorbill.
CUT-WORK
CUT-WORK, noun Embroidery. [Not in use.]
CUTANEOUS
CUTANEOUS, adjective [See Cuticle.] Belonging to the skin, or cutis; existing on, or affecting the skin; as a cutaneous disease; cutaneous eruption.
CUTH
CUTH, in Saxon, signifies known, or famous. Hence, Cuthwin, a famous conqueror; Cuthred, a famous or knowing counselor; Cuthbert, known bright, or famous for skill.
CUTICLE
CUTICLE, noun [Latin, skin, the same as hide, which see.]1. The scarf-skin; the thin exterior coat of the skin, which rises in a blister; a thin pellucid membrane covering the t...
CUTICULAR
CUTICULAR, adjective Pertaining to the cuticle or external coat of the skin.
CUTLAS
CUTLAS, noun [Latin, to cut.] A broad curving sword; a hanger; used by soldiers int he cavalry, by seamen, etc.
CUTLER
CUTLER, noun [Latin, a knife.] One whose occupation is to make knives and other cutting instruments.
CUTLERY
CUTLERY, noun The business of making knives; or more generally, knives and other edged instruments in general.
CUTLET
CUTLET, noun A small piece of meat for cooking; as a veal cutlet
CUTPURSE
CUTPURSE, noun [cut and purse.] One who cuts purses for stealing them or their contents; a practice said to have been common when men wore purses at their girdles. One who steal...
CUTTER
CUTTER, noun1. One who cuts or hews.2. An instrument that cuts; as a straw-cutter.3. A fore tooth, that cuts meat, as distinguished from a grinder.4. A small boat used by ships ...
CUTTING
CUTTING, participle present tense [See Cut.]1. Dividing by an edged instrument; cleaving by the stroke or motion of an edged instrument, as by a knife, ax, or saw; hewing; carvi...
CUTTLE
CUTTLE, CUTTLE-FISH, n.1. A genus of mollusca, called Sepia. They have small arms, with serrated cups, by which they lay fast hold of any thing. They have also two tentacula lon...
CUTTLE-FISH
CUTTLE, CUTTLE-FISH noun1. A genus of mollusca, called Sepia. They have small arms, with serrated cups, by which they lay fast hold of any thing. They have also two tentacula lo...
CYANITE
CYANITE, noun [Gr. Sky-colored.] A mineral of a berlin blue color, passing into gray and green; called by Hauy, disthene.
CYANOGEN
CYANOGEN, noun [Gr., blue, and to beget.] Carbureted azote, or carburet of nitrogen, the compound base of Prussic acid; otherwise called Prussine.
CYATHIFORM
CYATHIFORM, adjective [Latin, a cup; Gr.] In the form of a cup, or drinking glass, a little widened at the top.
CYCLADES
CYCLADES, nounplural [Gr., a circle.] A number of isles arranged round the isle of delos, in the Grecian Sea, in the form of a circle.
CYCLE
CYCLE, noun [Gr. Latin, an orb or circle.]1. In chronology, a period or series of numbers, which regularly proceed from first to last, and then return to the first, in a perpetu...
CYCLOGRAPH
CYCLOGRAPH, noun [circle, and to describe.] An instrument for describing the arcs of circles.
CYCLOID
CYCLOID, noun A geometrical curve on which depends the doctrine of pendulums; a figure made by the upper end of the diameter of a circle, turning about a right line. The genesis...
CYCLOIDAL
CYCLOIDAL, adjective Pertaining or relating to a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between the cycloid and its substance. Or the space contained between th...
CYCLOLITE
CYCLOLITE, noun A name given to Madrepores.
CYCLOMETRY
CYCLOMETRY, noun [Gr., circle, to measure.] The art of measuring cycles or circles.