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Slope :: Slope (v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment..

Ring :: Ring (v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots..

Chopping :: Chopping (n.) Act of cutting by strokes.

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench..

Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast..

Bill :: Bill (n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill..

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.

Notching :: Notching (n.) A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting..

Precisive :: Precisive (a.) Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction..

Excision :: Excision (n.) The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.

Notching :: Notching (n.) The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows.

Concision :: Concision (n.) A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction.

Haymaking :: Haymaking (n.) The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.

Topiarian :: Topiarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening..

Keyseat :: Keyseat (v. t.) To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key..

Tenon :: Tenon (n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk..

Elinguation :: Elinguation (n.) Punishment by cutting out the tongue.

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Metrotomy :: Metrotomy (n.) The operation of cutting into the uterus; hysterotomy; the Caesarean section.

Recision :: Recision (n.) The act of cutting off.

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