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Cut
King James Dictionary
or CUT, pret. and prep. cut. L., to thrust, to drive, to strike.
1. To separate the parts of any body by an edged instrument, either by striking, as with an ax, or by sawing or rubbing to make a gash, incision or notch, which separates the external part of a body, as to cut the flesh. It signifies also, to cut into pieces to sever or divide as, to cut timber in the forest. But when an entire separation of the body is intended, it is usually followed by off, down, asunder, in two, in pieces, or other word denoting such severance.
Ye shall not cut yourselves, that is, ye shall not gash your flesh. Deuteronomy 14 .
2. To hew.
Thy servants can skill to cut timber. 2 Chronicles 2 .
3. To carve, as meat to carve or engrave in sculpture.
4. To divide to cleave, by passing through as, a ship cuts the briny deep.
5. To penetrate to pierce to affect deeply as, a sarcasm cuts to the quick.
6. To divide, as a pack of cards as, to cut and shuffle.
7. To intersect to cross. One line cuts another at right angles. The ecliptic cuts the equator.
8. To castrate.
To cut across, to pass by a shorter course, so as to cut off an angle or distance.
To cut asunder, to cut into pieces to divide to sever.
He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. Psalms 129 .
To cut down, to fell to cause to fall by severing.
Ye shall cut down their groves. Exodus 34 .
Hence, to depress to abash to humble to shame to silence as, his eloquence cuts down the finest orator.
This phrase is not elegant, but is in popular use.
To cut off,
1. To separate one part from another as, to cut off a finger, or an arm to cut off the right hand figure to cut off a letter or syllable.
2. To destroy to extirpate to put to death untimely.
Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord. 1 Kings 18 .
Evil doers shall be cut off. Psalms 37 .
3. To separate to remove to a distance, or to prevent all intercourse. A man in another country or in prison is cut off from his country or his friends.
4. To interrupt as, to cut off communication.
5. To separate to remove to take away as, to cut off ten years of life.
6. To intercept to hinder from return, or union. The troops were cut off from the ships.
7. To end to finish as, to cut off all controversy.
8. To prevent or preclude as, to cut off all occasion of blame.
9. To preclude or shut out. The sinner cuts himself off from the benefits of Christianity.
10. To stop, interrupt or silence.
The judge cut off the counsel very short.
To cut on,
1. To hasten to run or ride with the utmost speed a vulgar phrase.
2.To urge or drive in striking to quicken blows to hasten.
To cut out,
1. To remove a part by cutting or carving as, to cut out a piece from a board to cut out the tongue. Hence,
2. To shape or form by cutting as, to cut out a garment to cut out an image to cut out a wood into walks. Hence,
3. To scheme to contrive to prepare as, to cut out word for another day. So we say, to strike out.
4. To shape to adapt. He is no cut out for an author. Not elegant.
5. To debar. Not common.
6. To take the preference or precedence of as, to cut out a prior judgment creditor.
7. To step in and take the place of, as in courting and dancing. A vulgar phrase.
8. To interfere as a horse, when the shoe of one foot beats off the skin of the pastern joint of another.
To cut short,
1. To hinder from proceeding by sudden interruption.
Achilles cut him short.
2. To shorten to abridge as, to cut short of provisions or pay to cut the matter short.
To cut up,
1. To cut in pieces as, to cut up beef.
2. To eradicate to cut off as, to cut up shrubs.
CUT,
1. To pass into or through and sever to enter and divide the parts as, an instrument cuts well.
2. To be severed by a cutting instrument as, this fruit cuts easy or smooth.
3. To divide by passing.
The teeth are ready to cut.
4. To perform a surgical operation by cutting, especially in lithotomy.
He saved lives by cutting for the stone.
5. To interfere, as a horse.
To cut in, to divide, or turn a card, for determining who are to play.
CUT, pp. Gashed divided hewn carved intersected pierced deeply affected castrated.
Cut and dry, prepared for use a metaphor from hewn timber.
CUT, n.
1. The action of an edged instrument a stroke or blow, as with an ax or sword.
2. A cleft a gash a notch a wound the opening made by an edged instrument, distinguished by its length from that made by perforation with a pointed instrument.
3. A stroke or blow with a whip.
4. A channel made by cutting or digging a ditch a groove a furrow a canal.
5. A part cut off from the rest as a good cut of beef a cut of timber. Also, any small piece or shred.
6. A lot made by cutting a stick as, to draw cuts.
7. A near passage, by which an angle is cut off a shorter cut.
8. A picture cut or cared on wood or metal, and impressed from it.
9. The stamp on which a picture is carved, and by which it is impressed.
10. The act of dividing a pack of cards. Also, the right to divide as, whose cut is it?
11. Manner in which a thing is cut form shape fashion as the cut of a garment the cut of his beard.
12. A fool a cully a gelding. Not in use.
Cut and long tail, men of all kinds a proverbial expression borrowed from dogs.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Cut'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/c/cut.html.
