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Cutting :: Cutting (a.) Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind..

Former :: Former (n.) A cutting die.

Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die..

Apron :: Apron (n.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.

Hyperbola :: Hyperbola (n.) A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. o

Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..

Cut :: Cut (v. i.) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

Holing :: Holing (n.) Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass..

Exsect :: Exsect (v. t.) The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out..

Lithotomy :: Lithotomy (n.) The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder..

Cut :: Cut (n.) A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.

Secancy :: Secancy (n.) A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another..

Canoe :: Canoe (n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder..

Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..

Dagges :: Dagges (n. pl.) An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans..

Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting..

Verd :: Verd (n.) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.

Lop :: Lop (v. t.) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches..

Corncutter :: Corncutter (n.) An implement consisting of a long blade, attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn..

Chase :: Chase (v. t.) To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like..

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