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8. A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.

Cutter bar. (Mach.) (a) A bar which carries a cutter or cutting tool, as in a boring machine. (b) The bar to which the triangular knives of a harvester are attached. -- Cutter head (Mach.), a rotating head, which itself forms a cutter, or a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine. Knight.

Cut"throat` (k?t"thr?t`), n. One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.

Cut"throat`, a. Murderous; cruel; barbarous.

Cut"ting (kŭt"t&ibreve;ng), n. 1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.

2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.

Cut"ting, a. 1. Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.

2. Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

3. Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.

Cut"ting*ly, adv. In a cutting manner.

Cut"tle (k?t"t'l), n. [OF. cultel, coltel, coutel, fr. L. cultellus. See Cutlass.] A knife. [Obs.] Bale.

{ Cut"tle (kŭt"t'l), Cut"tle*fish` (- f&ibreve;sh`), } n. [OE. codule, AS. cudele; akin to G. kuttelfish; cf. G. k÷tel, D. keutel, dirt from the guts, G. kuttel bowels, entrails. AS. cwi■ womb, Goth. qi■us belly, womb.] 1. (Zo÷l.) A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

&fist; It has an ink bag, opening into the siphon, from which, when pursued, it throws out a dark liquid that clouds the water, enabling it to escape observation.

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

Cut"tle bone` (bōn`). The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.

Cut*too" plate` (k?t-t??" pl?t`). A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.

Cut"ty (kŭt"t&ybreve;), a. [Cf. Ir. & Gael. cut a short tail, cutach bobtailed. See Cut.] Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark. [Scot.]

Cut"ty (k?t"t?), n. [Scotch.] 1. A short spoon.

2. A short tobacco pipe. Ramsay.

3. A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott.

Cut"ty*stool` (-st&oomac;l`), n. 1. A low stool. [Scot.]

2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.

||Cut"wal (kŭt"w&add;l), n. [Per. kotwāl.] The chief police officer of a large city. [East Indies]

Cut"wa`ter (kŭt"w&add;`t&etilde;r), n. (Naut.) 1. The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.

2. A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.

3. (Zo÷l.) A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.

Cut"work` (kŭt"wűrk`), n. (Fine Arts) An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

Cut"worm` (-w?rm`), n. (Zo÷l.) A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvŠ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.