8. (a) The act of dividing a pack cards. (b) The right to divide; as, whose cut is it
9. Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment. With eyes severe and beard of formal cut. Shak.
10. A common work horse; a gelding. [Obs.] He'll buy me a cut, forth for to ride. Beau. & Fl.
11. The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise. [College Cant]
12. A skein of yarn. Wright. A cut in rates (Railroad), a reduction
in fare, freight charges, etc., below the established rates.
— A short cut, a cross route which shortens the way and cuts off a
circuitous passage.
— The cut of one's jib, the general appearance of a person.
[Colloq.] — To draw cuts, to draw lots, as of paper, etc., cut
unequal lengths.
Now draweth cut . . . The which that hath the shortest shall begin.
Chaucer.
CUT
Cut (kt), a.
1. Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
2. Formed or shaped as by cuttting; carved.
3. Overcome by liquor; tipsy. [Slang] Cut and dried, prepered beforehand; not spontaneous. — Cut glass, glass having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures. — Cut nail, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail. — Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry.
CUTANEOUS
Cu*ta"ne*ous (k-t"n-s), a. Etym: [Cf. F. cutan, fr. L. cutis skin.
See Cuticle.]