INCISION

n. I2n-si2/zhu3n. Lat., incisio, incisura (from in, into, and ccedere, to cut). Fr., i., decoupure. Ger., J., Indsur, Einschnitt, Schnitt. It., indsione. Sp., incision. 1. A division of parts with a cutting instrument. 2. In botany, an incisure, a cut or sinus of any sort in a plant-organ: in a special sense, a sharp cut deeper than the sinuses in dentation, not so deep as those in segmentation. [B, 1, 19, 123, 229, 291 (a, 24).] Crucial i. Lat., tntoo; U2, blue; U3, lull; U4, full; U, urn; U, like ii (German). [s. 443]