a term used in various fenest and various arts; in the general it implies a division or separation.

Cutting is particularly used in heraldry, where the shield is divided into two equal parts, from right to left, parallel to the horizon, or in the fesse-way.

The word is also applied to the honourable ordinaries, and even to animals and moveables, when they are divided equally the same way; fo, however, as that Cutting. one moiety is colour, the other metal. The ordinaries are said to be cut, couped, when they do not come full to the extremities of the shield.

Surgery, denotes the operation of extracting the stone out of the bladder by section. See Lithotomy, Surgery Index.

coinage. When the laminae or plates of the metal, be it gold, silver, or copper, are brought to the thickness of the species to be coined, pieces are cut out, of the thickness, and nearly of the weight, of the intended coin; which are now called planchets, till the king's image hath been stamped on them. The instrument wherewith they cut, consists of two pieces of steel, very sharp, and placed over one another; the lower a little hollow, representing a mortar, the other a pelle. The metal put between the two, is cut out in the manner described under Coinage.

Note. Medallions, where the relievo is to be great, are not cut, but cast or moulded.

the manege, is when the horse's feet interfere; or when with the shoe of one foot he beats off the skin from the pattern joint of another foot. This is more frequent in the hind feet than the fore: the causes are either weariness, weakness in the reins, not knowing how to go, or ill shoeing.

painting, the laying one strong lively colour over another, without any shade or softening. The cutting of colours has always a disagreeable effect.