Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cut; an incision; a slit-like opening; a notch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cut; an incision; a gash.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy a
notch orindent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (anatomy) a notch or small hollow
Etymologies
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From Latin incisura.
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Examples
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a good old time, but rather as a violent but beneficial incisure in an old and rankling sore.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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