Cutting

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.

II. Cutting ·adj Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.

III. Cutting ·adj Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

IV. Cutting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cut.

V. Cutting ·noun The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, ·etc.

VI. Cutting ·noun Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, ·etc.; a cut.

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