Custom

kus'tum. n. Way of acting habitual prac- tice habitual buying of goods: busine support: patronage. (Law.) Lons established practice, or usage, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent. The eustomary tolCtax, or tribute, pi. Duties imposed on commodities imported or exported. [OF. costume, custume, LL. costuma, L. consuescere, -suetum, to accustom, sun, cube, full moon, cow, oil linger CUTLET con and suere, to be accustomed; perh. suus, one's own.] — Cus'tomable. a. Common; habitual; subject to the payment of duties.— Cus'tomably, -arily, -rY-lY, adv. In a customary manner habitually.— Cus'tomary, a. According to custom established by common usage; conventional. (Law.) Holding or held by custom. — Cus'tomer, n. One who frequents a place to buy; a purchaser buyer.— Ugly customer. One difficult to manage. — Cus'tom house, n. The building where duties are paid, and ve els entered or cleared. Cut, kut, [cut, cutting.] To separate the parts of with a sharp instrument to make an incision in, divide, sever; to hew, as wood; or mow and reap, as grain or corn to remove bv cutting; to dock to shape by cutting, carve, hew out to wound the sensibilities of to intersect, cro to castrate or geld. — v. To serve in dividing or gashing; to admit of incision or severance to divide, sever, intersect, etc.: to run rapidly to divide a pack of cards, to decide the deal or trump, —n. An opening made with a sharp instrument a cleft gash wound a stroke with an edged instrument; that which wounds the feelings; a notch, pa age, or channel made by cutting surface left by a cut portion severed or cut off an engraved block impre ion from such an engraving; act of dividing a pack of cards: right to divide: manner in which a thing cut or formed; shape style fashion. [W. cwtau, Ga. cutaich,U shorten, dock W. acta, short, bob-tailed, cwtws, e lot, Ga. cutach, short, cut, a bob-tail, piece, Ir. cut, t short cot. a part, share.] — A short cut. A cros path which shortens the way.— Cut and dried. Pre pared beforehand not spontaneous. — C. gla . Gla having the surface shaped by grinding and polishing.— To a dash, or a figure. To make a display. — To capers. To play pranks, frolic. — To c. doicn. To fell: to abash, shame: to le en, diminish. — To out. To remove from the midst: to shape by cutting, fashion to take the place of, supersede. — To short. To arrest or check abruptly, abridge. — To under. To undersell. — To up. To cut to pieces, damage, destroy. — To the acquaintance of. or to a person. To drop intercourse with, avoid recognizing. — To the cards. To divide a pack into portions. — To the teeth. To put forth teeth, — To acro . To pa through in the most direct way.— To in. To divide, or turn a card, for determining who are to play. — To in or into. To interrupt. — Cut'ter, n. One who. or an instrument which, etc. a front tooth, that cuts: an incisor. (Naut.) A small boat used by ships of war a sloop-rigged ve el with a bowsprit which may be run in upon deck. A one-horse sleigh. — Cut'- ting, n. Act or operation of, etc. something cut, cut off, or cut out. as a twig cut from a stock for grafting; an excavation cut through a cutter. hill. — Cut'off, n. That which cuts off or shortens. (3fach.) An attachment to a steam-engine which cuts off the pa age of steam from the steam-chest — to the cylinder. purse, n. One who cuts purses, to steal their contents, — said when purses were worn at the girdle a thief pickpocket. — -throat, n. One who cuts throats; a murderer ruffian a a in. — a. Murderous; cruel. — -water, n. (Naut.) Fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water see Ship. Part of the pier of a bridge, formed with — an angle directed up the stream. worm, n. Alarve or caterpillar which eats or cuts awav plants.