Part 2703

<hw>Cut"ty</hw> <tt>(k?t"t?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Scotch.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A short spoon.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A short tobacco pipe.</def>

<i>Ramsay.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A light or unchaste woman.</def>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Cuttystoo</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cut"ty*stoo`</hw> <tt>(-st??l`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A low stool</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.</def>

<h1>Cutwal</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cut"wal</hw> <tt>(k?t"w?l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Per. <ets>kotw<?/l</ets>.]</ety> <def>The chief police officer of a large city.</def> <mark>[East Indies]</mark>

<h1>Cutwater</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cut"wa`ter</hw> <tt>(k?t"wa`t?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a birdge, 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.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A sea bird of the Atlantic (<spn>Rhynchops nigra</spn>); -- called also <altname>black skimmer</altname>, <altname>scissorsbill</altname>, and <altname>razorbill</altname>. See <er>Skimmer</er>.</def>

<h1>Cutwork</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cut"work`</hw> <tt>(k?t"w?rk`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Fine Arts)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Cutworm</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cut"worm`</hw> <tt>(-w?rm`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>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 larv\'91 of various species of <spn>Agrotis</spn> and related genera of noctuid moths.</def>

<h1>Cuvette</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cu*vette"</hw> <tt>(k?-w?t")</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., dim. of <ets>cuve</ets> a tub.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>A cunette.</def>

<-- <p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Spectrometry)</fld> <fld>(Analytical chemistry)</fld> <def>A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.</def> <note>The shape and materials vary; for ultraviolet spectrometry, quartz is typically used. For visible-light spectrometry, plastic cuvettes may be employed. Occasionally, small vessels used for other laboratory purposes are called <ex>cuvettes.</ex></note>

<cs><col>cuvette holder</col>, <fld>(Spectrometry)</fld> <cd>A small device used to hold one or more cuvettes, shaped specifically to fit in the sample chamber of a particular type of spectrometer, with openings to permit light to pass through the holder and the cuvettes, and designed so as to hold the cuvette accurately and reproducibly within the light path of the spectrometer. For cuvettes with a square horizontal cross-section, the compartments will have a corresponding square cross-section, usu. slightly larger than the cuvette.</cd></cs> -->

<h1>Cyamelide</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy*am"e*lide</hw> <tt>(s?-?m"?-l?d &or; -l?d; 104)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.</def>

<h1>Cyamellone</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy*am"el*lone</hw> <tt>(s?-?m"?l-l?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem)</fld> <def>A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also <altname>hydromellonic acid</altname>.</def>