- 2. Sculpture, carve, chisel.
- 3. Cross, intersect.
- 4. Wound, hurt, touch, move, pierce.
- 5. (Colloq.) Slight (by not recognizing), avoid recognizing.
Cut, n.
- 1. Gash, incision.
- 2. Channel, passage.
- 3. Slice, piece.
- 4. Sarcasm, fling, taunt, cutting remark.
- 5. Fashion, style, form, shape.
- 6. Path, way.
- 7. Engraving, engraved picture.
Cut a dash. Make a display or great figure, make a show, show off, cut a figure.
Cut a figure. See cut a dash.
Cut and dried. Prepared beforehand, got up for the occasion.
Cut capers. Frolic, be merry, be frolicsome, play pranks, cut didos.
Cutch, n. Catechu, gambier, Japan earth, Terra Japonica.
Cut didos. See cut capers.
Cut down.
- 1. Fell.
- 2. Diminish, lessen, abridge, abbreviate, curtail, retrench.
Cuticle, n. Epidermis, scarf-skin.