Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Set in by or as if by cutting; specifically, in printing, inserted in a reserved space of the text instead of in the margin: as, incut notes at the sides of the pages in a book.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Set in by or as if by cutting.
  • adjective printing Inserted in a reserved space of the text instead of in the main margin.

Etymologies

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From in- +โ€Ž cut.

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Examples

  • In my jacket pocket I held the hypodermic, one of Schree design, different from a modern medical hypodermic only in that it was decorated with incut figures of glorified Jivros, carved in the crystalline cylinder, and the metal was of gold.

    Valley of the Croen Lee Tarbell

  • Then four cones were laid out in a 10-yard square and he ran 10-yard-incut pass-routes at about half-speed and caught passes.

    Every Morning Quarterback 2009

  • Then four cones were laid out in a 10-yard square and he ran 10-yard-incut pass-routes at about half-speed and caught passes.

    Every Morning Quarterback 2009

  • Ill, ยง-265. โ€” for gross negligence in manjige incut of trains.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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