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kuslum,?i. Way of acting; habitual practice habitual; buying of goods; busine support; patronage. (Law.) Long established practice, or usage, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent. The customary toll, tax, or tribute, pi. Duties imposed on commodities imported or exported.— Cuslomable, a. Common; subject to the payment of duties.— Cus'tomably, -arily, com- -rY-lY, adv. In a customary manner; habitually. — pro- Cuslomary, a. According to custom; established — by common usage; conventional. (Law.) Holding or held by custom. — Cuslomer, n. One who freacquents a place to buy; a purchaser; buyer. — Cus'est i tom house, n. The Building where duties are paid, and ve els entered or cleared. drawn A race Cut, kut, v. t. [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 by cutting; to dock; to rub, or shape by cutting, carve, hew out; to wound the Curlier, sensibilities of; to intersect, cro ; to castrate or -kom, geld. — v. i. To serve in dividing or gashing; to admit of incision or severance; to divide, sever, inter con sect, etc.; to run rapidly; to divide a pack of cards, fish, to decide the deal or trump. — n. An opening made curry. with a sharp instrument; a cleft; gash; wound; a stroke with an edged instrument; that which wounds upon, the feelings; a notch, pa age, or channel made by use pro cutting; surface left by a cut; portion severed or of evil; cut oft; an engraved block; impre ion from such evil or an engraving; act of dividing a pack of cards; right by, or to divide; manner in which a thing is formed; shape; fashion. — A short cut. A cro path which shortens the way. — Cut and dried. Prepared be- — Cur''- forehand not; spontaneous. — C. gla . Gla havpering the surface shaped by grinding and polishing. — To c. a dash, or a figure. To make a display. —; con- To c. capers. To play pranks, frolic. — To c. down. -taK, To fell; to abash, shame; to le en, diminish. — To c. out. To remove from the midst; to shape by short, cutting, fashion; to take the place of, supersede. — or cover- To c. slwrt. To arrest or check abruptly, abridge. Part of — To c. under. To undersell. — To c. up. To cut to of two pieces, damage, destroy. — To To c. the acquaintance of, or to c. a person. To drop inter to a course with, avoid recognizing. — To c. the cards. To divide a pack into portions. curved. — To c. the teeth. To put forth teeth. — To c. acro . To pa .through in the most direct way. — To c. in. To divide, or turn a card, for determining.— Cutler, n. One crook who, or an instrument -chur, n which, etc.; a front tooth, Cutter. fare; 6nd, eve, tSrm; Yn, ice; fidd, tSne, 6r; CUTE 93 that cuts; an incisor. (j\~aut.) 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. — Cufting, 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 hill. — Cut'off, n. That which cuts off or shortens. (Mach.) An attachment to a steam-engine which cuts off the pa age of steam from the steam-chest to the cylinder. 105