Cutis Cu"tis noun [ Latin See Cuticle .] (Anat.) See Dermis .

Cutlass Cut"lass (kŭt"l a s) noun ; plural Cutlasses (- ĕz). [ French coutelas (cf. Italian coltellaccio ), augm. from Latin cultellus a small knife, dim. of culter knife. See Colter , and confer Curtal ax .] A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax .

Cutlass fish , (Zoology) , a peculiar, long, thin, marine fish ( Trichiurus lepturus ) of the southern United States and West Indies; -- called also saber fish , silver eel , and, improperly, swordfish .

Cutler Cut"ler (kŭt"lẽr) noun [ Middle English coteler , French coutelier , Late Latin cultellarius , from Latin cultellus . See Cutlass .] One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.

Cutlery Cut"ler·y (kŭt"lẽr*ȳ) noun 1. The business of a cutler.

2. Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.

Cutlet Cut"let (kŭt"lĕt) noun [ French côtelette , prop., little rib, dim. of côte rib, from Latin costa . See Coast .] A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.

Cutling Cut"ling (kŭt"lĭng) noun , [ Confer Cuttle a knife.] The art of making edged tools or cutlery. [ Obsolete] Milton.

Cutose Cu"tose (kū"tōs) noun [ Latin cutis skin.] (Chemistry) A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.

Cutpurse Cut"purse` (kŭt"pûrs`) noun One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket

To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse .
Shak.

Cutter Cut"ter noun 1. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter ; a die cutter ; esp., one who cuts out garments.

2. That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter .

3. A fore tooth; an incisor. Ray.

4. (Nautical) (a) A boat used by ships of war. (b) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead. (c) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter .

5. A small, light one-horse sleigh.

6. An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.

7. A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. [ Obsolete]

8. A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.

Cutter bar . (Machinery) (a) A bar which carries a cutter or cutting tool, as in a boring machine. (b) The bar to which the triangular knives of a harvester are attached. -- Cutter head (Machinery) , a rotating head, which itself forms a cutter, or a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine. Knight.

Cutthroat Cut"throat` noun One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.

Cutthroat Cut"throat` adjective Murderous; cruel; barbarous.

Cutting Cut"ting (kŭt"tĭng) noun 1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.

2. 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.

Cutting Cut"ting adjective 1. Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.

2. Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

3. Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.

Cuttingly Cut"ting·ly adverb In a cutting manner.

Cuttle Cut"tle noun [ Old French cultel , coltel , coutel , from Latin cultellus . See Cutlass .] A knife. [ Obsolete] Bale.

Cuttle Cut"tle (kŭt"t'l), Cut"tle*fish` (- fĭsh`) noun [ Middle English codule , Anglo-Saxon cudele ; akin to German kuttelfish ; confer German kötel , Dutch keutel , dirt from the guts, German kuttel bowels, entrails. Anglo-Saxon cwiþ womb, Goth. qiþus belly, womb.] 1. (Zoology) A cephalopod of the genus Sepia , having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

» It has an ink bag , opening into the siphon, from which, when pursued, it throws out a dark liquid that clouds the water, enabling it to escape observation.

2. A foul-mouthed fellow. "An you play the saucy cuttle with me." Shak.

Cuttle bone Cut"tle bone` (bōn`). The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.

Cuttoo plate Cut·too" plate` (k?t-t??" pl?t`). A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.

Cutty Cut"ty (kŭt"tȳ) adjective [ Confer Ir. & Gael. cut a short tail, cutach bobtailed. See Cut .] Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark. [ Scot.]

Cutty Cut"ty noun [ Scotch.] 1. A short spoon.

2. A short tobacco pipe. Ramsay.

3. A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott.

Cuttystool Cut"ty·stool` (-stōl`) noun 1. A low stool. [ Scot.]

2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.

Cutwal Cut"wal (kŭt"wal) noun [ Persian kotwāl .] The chief police officer of a large city. [ East Indies]

Cutwater Cut"wa`ter (kŭt"wa`tẽr) noun (Nautical) 1. The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.

2. A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.

3. (Zoology) A sea bird of the Atlantic ( Rhynchops nigra ); -- called also black skimmer , scissorsbill , and razorbill . See Skimmer .

Cutwork Cut"work` (kŭt"wûrk`) noun (Fine Arts) An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

Cutworm Cut"worm` noun (Zoology) A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

Cuvette Cu·vette" noun [ French, dim. of cuve a tub.]

1. A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

2. (Fort.) A cunette.

Cyamelide Cy·am"e·lide (si*ăm"e*lĭd or -līd; 104) noun (Chemistry) A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.

Cyamellone Cy·am"el·lone (si*ăm"ĕl*lōn) noun (Chem) A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid .

Cyanate Cy"a·nate noun [ Confer French cuanate . See Cyanic .] (Chemistry) A salt of cyanic acid.

Ammonium cyanate (Chemistry) , a remarkable white crystalline substance, NH ₄ .O.CN, which passes, on standing, to the organic compound, urea, CO.(NH ₂ ) ₂ .

Cyanaurate Cy`an·au"rate noun See Aurocyanide .

Cyanean Cy·a"ne·an adjective [ Greek kya`neos dark blue.] Having an azure color. Pennant.

Cyanic Cy·an"ic adjective [ Greek ky`anos a dark blue substance: confer French cyanique . Confer Kyanite .] 1. Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.

2. Of or pertaining to a blue color.

Cyanic acid (Chemistry) , an acid, HOCN, derived from cyanogen, well known in its salts, but never isolated in the free state. -- Cyanic colors (Botany) , those colors (of flowers) having some tinge of blue; -- opposed to xanthic colors . A color of either series may pass into red or white, but not into the opposing color. Red and pure white are more common among flowers of cyanic tendency than in those of the other class.

Cyanide Cy"a·nide noun [ Confer French cyanide . See Cyanic .] (Chemistry) A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.

Cyanin Cy"a·nin noun [ See Cyanic .] (Chemistry) The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin .

Cyanine Cy"a·nine noun (Chemistry) One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

Cyanite Cy"a·nite noun [ See Cyanic .] (Min.) A mineral occuring in thin- bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium. [ Written also kyanite .]

Cyanogen Cy·an"o·gen noun [ Greek ky`anos a dark blue substance + -gen : confer French cyanogène . So called because it produced blue dyes.] (Chemistry) A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C ₂ N ₂ , with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.

» Cyanogen is found in the commercial substances, potassium cyanide, or prussiate of potash, yellow prussiate of potash, Prussian blue, Turnbull's blue, prussic acid, etc.

Cyanometer Cy`a·nom"e·ter noun [ Greek ky`anos a dark blue substance + -meter : confer French cyanomètre .] An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.

Cyanopathy Cy`a·nop"a·thy noun [ Greek ky`anos a dark blue substance + pa`qos affection.] (Medicine) A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.

Cyanophyll Cy·an"o·phyll noun [ Greek ky`anos a dark blue substance + fy`llon leaf.] (Botany) A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll.

Cyanosed Cy"a·nosed adjective [ See Cyanic .] Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient aëration of the blood.

Cyanosis Cy`a·no"sis noun [ New Latin See Cyanic .] (Medicine) A condition in which, from insufficient aëration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy .

Cyanosite Cy·an"o·site noun [ See Cyanic .] (Min.) Native sulphate of copper. Confer Blue vitriol , under Blue .

Cyanotic Cy`a·not"ic adjective (Medicine) Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin.

Cyanotype Cy·an"o·type noun [ Cyanide + -type .] A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.

Cyanurate Cy"an"u·rate noun (Chemistry) A salt of cyanuric acid.

Cyanuret Cy·an"u·ret noun (Chemistry) A cyanide. [ Obsolete]

Cyanuric Cy`a·nu"ric adjective [ Cyanic + uric : Confer French cyanurique .] (Chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids.

Cyanuric acid Cyanuric acid (Chemistry) , an organic acid, C ₃ O ₃ N ₃ H ₃ , first obtained by heating uric acid or urea , and called pyrouric acid ; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid . It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide .

Cyathiform Cy·ath"i·form adjective [ Latin cyathus a cup (Gr, ky`aqos ) - form :cf. F. cyathiforme .] In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.

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