Word Meanings - PRESCINDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cutting off; abstracting. Cheyne.

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• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• ABSTRACTITIOUS
  Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb.
• ABSTRACTNESS
  The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
• CUTTING
  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
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• ABSTRACTIONIST
  An idealist. Emerson.
• ABSTRACTIVE
  Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. "The abstractive faculty." I. Taylor.
• CUTTLE BONE
  The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
• CUTTINGLY
  In a cutting manner.
• ABSTRACTIVENESS
  The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
• ABSTRACTLY
  In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.
• CUTTLE
  A knife. Bale.
• CUTTOO PLATE
  A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
• ABSTRACTER
  One who abstracts, or makes an abstract.
• CUTTER
  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.
• ABSTRACTIVELY
  In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. Feltham.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• CHALKCUTTER
  A man who digs chalk.
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• SCREW-CUTTING
  Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
• STONECUTTER
  One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
• SCUTTER
  To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle. A mangy little jackal . . . cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows. Kipling.
• WOODCUTTING
  1. The act or employment of cutting wood or timber. 2. The act or art of engraving on wood.