Cut \Cut\ (k[u^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cut; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cutting.]
[OE. cutten, kitten, ketten; prob. of Celtic
origin; cf. W. cwtau to shorten, curtail, dock, cwta
bobtailed, cwt tail, skirt, Gael. cutaich to shorten,
curtail, dock, cutach short, docked, cut a bobtail, piece,
Ir. cut a short tail, cutach bobtailed. Cf. Coot.]
1. To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp
instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to
divide.
You must cut this flesh from off his breast. --Shak.
Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, With
rapid swiftness cut the liquid way. --Pope.
2. To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering;
to hew; to mow or reap.
Thy servants can skill to cut timer. --2. Chron.
ii. 8
3. To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as,
to cut the hair; to cut the nails.
4. To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.
5. To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing,
etc.; to carve; to hew out.
Why should a man. whose blood is warm within, Sit
like his grandsire cut in alabaster? --Shak.
Loopholes cut through thickest shade. --Milton.
6. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce;
to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.
The man was cut to the heart. --Addison.
7. To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right
angles.
8. To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in
the street; to cut one's acquaintance. [Colloq.]
9. To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a
recitation. etc.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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