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  Cut \Cut\ (k[u^]t), v. i.
     1. To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or
        gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
  
     2. To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting
        instrument.
  
              Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese.
                                                    --Holmes.
  
     3. To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising,
        intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.
  
              He saved the lives of thousands by manner of cutting
              for the stone.                        --Pope.
  
     4. To make a stroke with a whip.
  
     5. To interfere, as a horse.
  
     6. To move or make off quickly. [Colloq.]
  
     7. To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the
        deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be
        dealt.
  
     To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct
        way; as, to cut across a field.
  
     To cut and run, to make off suddenly and quickly; -- from
        the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to
        raise the anchor. [Colloq.]
  
     To cut in or into, to interrupt; to join in anything
        suddenly.
  
     To cut up.
        (a) To play pranks. [Colloq.]
        (b) To divide into portions well or ill; to have the
            property left at one's death turn out well or poorly
            when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. [Slang.]
            ``When I die, may I cut up as well as Morgan
            Pendennis.'' --Thackeray.

  TO CUT, crim. law. To wound with an instrument having a sharp edge. 1 Russ. 
  on Cr. 577. Vide To Stab; Wound.