cutting thrust (kutingthrust)

A tool for making grooves in the sides of boxes, etc. cuttlel (kut'l), n. [Early mod. E. also cuttel; It is somewhat strange, that... only the blood of the cuttle should be as black as ink. Bacon . Shel-fish they eat, and the cutle , whose bloud, if I may so term it, is like inke: a delicate food, and in great request. Sandys , Travailes, p. 64. 2. Cuttlebone. cuttle2+ (kut'l), n. [ cutwater cephalopodous mollusk, with a depre ed body, inclosed in a sac. The shorter arms or feet, eight in number, covered with four rows of raised disks or suckers, are arranged around the mouth, and from the midst of them extend two long tentacles, also furnished with. disks. These mem bers the animal uses in walking, for attaching itself to objects, and for seizing its prey. A tube or funnel exists below the head and leads from the gills, through which the water admitted to these organs is expelled; and the creature, by ejecting the water with force, can dart backward with amazing velocity. In a sac on the back of the mantle there is a light, porous, calca reo us shell formed of thin plates; this is the cuttlebone or sepiost, correspond ing to the calamary or pen of the squids. (See calamary.) The cuttlefish has the power of ejecting a IMG:content-1892.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-1893.png:[blocks in formation] of one of the tentacles, showing the suckers. 3. Cuttlebone (the interior shell). 4. Upper view of central part of animal, showing the mouth (c), arms ( a, a ), and tentacles (b, b). 5. The beak or mouth. 6. One of the suckers. black, ink-like fluid, the sepia of artists (see sepia ), from a bag or sac, so as to darken the water and conceal itself from pursuit. From this usage the term cuttlefish is extended not only to all the forms of Sepiidæ and related decapod cephalopods, but also to the octopod members of the same cla . When the octopods are called cuttlefishes, the decapods are commonly distinguished as squids. The two figures illustrate the two principal types. See Decapod a, Octopod a, and Cephalopod a, and cuts under Di branch i at a, ink - bag, and Sepia.