custos oculi

Surg.: An instrument to fix the eye during an operation. custos rotulorum, s . The chief civil officer or Lord Lieutenant of a county in England, to whose custody are committed the records and rolls of the se ions. He must be a justice of the peace and the profane and irreverent use of God's name, quorum in the county for which he is appointed. by cursing, or customary swearing II. Eng . Law: ."-Til lots on. 1. Holding under the customs of a manor, as, a customary tenant who is a copyholder. 2. Held under the customs of a manor, as, a customary freehold. "Copyhold lands and such customary estates as are holden in ancient demesne." - Black stone : Comment., bk. ii., ch. xix. 3. Acquired held by the local *cus-trěl, *cus-trěll, s . [O. Fr. coustillier , from coustille a long knife, a dagger; coustel , coutel ; Lat. cultellus a little knife, dim in. of culter =a knife.] 1. An armor-bearer, a squire, or a knight. " Custrell , or page whyche beareth hys master's buckler, shyelde, or target. Scutiger ulus ."- Huloet . 2. A fool, a silly fellow. (Scotch.) cut, *cutt, *cutte, *cuttyn, *kitt, *kitte, "kut, of some (pa. t. * cutte , citte , cut, * kette , kuttelytakyt, & i . [Wel.cwtau to shorten, to curtail; cwta =short, abrupt, bobtailed; cutogi to shorten; cut us a lot, a scut, a short tail: cut a tail, a skirt; Gael. cutaich to shorten, to curtail; cutach =short, docked; cut =a bob-tail, a piece. ( Skeat .)] 2. The house or office where ve els enter and clear, and where the proper customs or duties are paid. 3. That department of the government which has to do with the collection of duties. Custom - house broker : A person authorized to act for others in the entry and clearance of ve els, payment of customs, . *custom-shrunk, a. than usual. Having fewer customers "What with the gallows, and what with poverty, I am ustom-shrunk."-Shakesp.: Meas. for Meas ., 1. 2. , fat, färe, amidst, what, fall versal usage of the kingdom. I shall here mention three sorts of customary interests viz., heriots, mortuaries, and heirlooms." only, Black stone: Comment ., bk. ii, ch. xxiv. B. As substantive: 1. A book descriptive or explanatory of the customs of a manor, city, . "As appear eth by their custumary."-Spelman: Origi. nals of Terms , ch. xiv. *2. The office of the customs. (O. Fr. coustumerie.) anent is his office of thesaurarie of the custum arie of the burg he of Edinburgh."-Acts Ja. V., 1540 (ed. 1814), p. 354. IMG:content-1642.png:[blocks in formation] = a. qu = IMG:content-1643.png:[blocks in formation] At loopholes cut through thickest shade." Milton; P. L. , ix. 1,109, 1,110. "And when two hearts were join'd by mutual love, The sword of justice cuts upon the knot, And severs 'em forever." (4) To make a way by dividing or cutting. the teeth are ready to cut , IMG:content-1644.png:[blocks in formation] "And frankly leave us human elves To cut and shuffle for ourselves." (1) Cards : To divide a pack of cards. (2) Cricket: To make a cut. IMG:content-1645.png:[blocks in formation] (i) To reduce, to curtail, to retrench. (ii) To compre , to abridge. "So great is his natural eloquence that he cuts down the finest orator, ."-Add is on: Count Tariff . (2) Ship build .: To reduce in height for the pur- ."-Southey: Letters, vol. iv., pose of converting into a different kind of ve el, as from a line-of-battle ship to a frigate. (4) To pierce or wound deeply. "The man was cut to the heart with these consol a three-decked line-of-battle ship, tions."-Add is on. ."-Brit. Quart. IMG:content-1646.png:[blocks in formation] "And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, .."-1 Sam . xxx i. 9. IMG:content-1647.png:[blocks in formation] " Cut off in the fresh ripening prime of manhood." Philips: Distrest Mother, v. 1. (d) To put an end to; to obviate, to prevent. "To cut off contentions, commi ioners were appointed to make certain the limits." - Hayward. IMG:content-1648.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1649.png:[blocks in formation] *20. To cut lots : To draw lots. *21. To cut the gra under one: The same as To cut the ground . "My Lord Clifford cutte the gra e under his feet." Evelyn Diary (August 18, 1673). 22. To cut the ground under or from under one: To disconcert or leave a person without any plea or ground to stand on. 23. To cut the round, To cut the volt : Manége: To change the hand when the horse volts upon one tread, so that, dividing the volt into two, he turns upon a right line to commence another volt. 24. To cut the neck: Husb.: To cut the last handful of standing corn, which was the signal for merry-making. 25. To cut one's teeth : To pa or force the young teeth through the gum. 25. To cut one's eye-teeth: To become knowing or sharp. ( Stang .) 21. To cut one's way To make one's way or force a pa age through opposing forces. 28. To cut rates: To reduce the fare, or price of transportation, on railroads, etc., below the usual established rates. 29. To cut a splurge : To make a show or great display. 30. To cut a dido: To play a fantastic, unexpected trick, to caper about. 31. To cut one's wisdom teeth : To arrive at an age of discernment. cut, *cutt, *cutte, *kut, s. [CUT, v.] A. Ordinary Language: I. Literally: 1. The action of a sharp or edged instrument; a blow with a sharp or edged instrument or body. 2. The opening, notch, or gash made by a sharp or edged instrument; a wound made by cutting. "Sharp weapons, according to the force, cut into the bono many ways; which cuts are called sedes , and are reckoned among the fractures."-Wiseman: Surgery. 3. A slit made in a dre . "Cloth of gold and cuts and laced with silver."Shakesp.. Much Ado about Nothing , iii. 4. 4. A channel, canal, or ditch made by excavation; a groove, a furrow. "This great cut or ditch Sesostris the rich king of Egypt, and long after him Ptolomeus Philadelphus, purposed to have made a great deal wider and deeper, and thereby to have let in the Red Sea into the Mediterranean."-Knolles: History of the Turks. 5. A part cut off from the main body. "Suppose a board to be ten foot long, and one broad, one cut is reckoned so many foot." - Mortimer: Whole Art of Husbandry . 6. A small piece; a fragment, a shred, a portion cut off; as, "a cut off the joint." *7. A gelding. "The collier's cut , the courtier's steed, will tire." Gas coigne, in Paradise of Dainty Devices (1592). 8. In the same sense as B. 6 (1). II. Figuratively : cut. 1. The surface made or left by a cut; as, a clean 2. A short or near way or path by which an angle or corner is cut off. "But the gentleman would needs see me part of my way, and carry me a short cut through his own ground, -Swift : Examiner. 3. A near way or means to an end. "The evidence of my sense is simple and immediate, and therefore I have but a shorter cut thereby to the a ent to the truth of the things so evidenced." - Hale: Origin, of Mankind. 4. The fashion, manner, shape, or form in which anything is cut or made. "Their clothes are after such a Pagan cut, too." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., i. 3. 5. A lot, from being made of pieces of stick, straw, paper, ., cut to different lengths. [1] "The cut fil to the knight." -Chaucer: C. T., 847. or acknowledgment; the shunning an acquaint6. The act of pa ing a person without recognition "We met and gave each other the out direct that night." ance. -Thackeray: Book of Snobs, ch. ii. 7. Figure, style. "There must have been something very innocent and confiding in the cut of our jib."-Lord Duffer in: Letters from High Latitudes ; Lett. xiii., p. 386 (1857), B. Technically : 1. Spinning, & c .: A term for a certain quantity of yarn; the half of a heer (q. v.). "A stone of the finest of it [wool] will yield 32 slips of yarn, each containing 12 cuts , and each cut being 120 rounds of the legal reel."-P. Gala shiels, Roxburghs. Statist . Acc . , ii. 308. 2. Mach .: The style of the notches of a file; as, Rough cut , bastard cut , second cut , smooth cut , dead-smooth cut . 3. Typo.: Cut of a letter: its size and shape. 4. Engin .: Cut of a pontoon-bridge; the waterway between the pontoons. 5. Games: B. As adj.: Connected with the manufacture of cut-gla ; dealing in or making cut-gla . one of the first cut - gla manufacturers in the kingdom, "-Anecdotes of the Life of Bp. Watson, vol. i., p. 285. cut-gra , 8. A gra , Leersia oryzoides, the leaves being so rough as to cut the hand.