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4. To castrate or geld; as, to cut
a horse.

5. To form or shape by cutting; to make
by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.

Why should a man. whose blood is warm within,

Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?

Shak.

Loopholes cut through thickest shade.

Milton.

6. To wound or hurt deeply the
sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts
to the quick.

The man was cut to the heart.

Addison.

7. To intersect; to cross; as, one line
cuts another at right angles.

8. To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as,
to cut a person in the street; to cut one's
acquaintance. [Colloq.]

9. To absent one's self from; as, to
cut an appointment, a recitation. etc. [Colloq.]

An English tradesman is always solicitous to
cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.

Thomas Hamilton.


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