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incised, ppl. a.|ɪnˈsaɪzd| [f. incise v. + -ed1.] 1. a. Cut into, having an incision made in it; marked by cutting.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 20 b/1 Thrust cleane through the incisede skinne. 1743Lond. & Country Brewer (ed. 4) 292 The best Staple incised Isinglass, two Ounces. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 80 No inflammation could be traced on the margin of the incised gums. 1853G. Tate Addr. Berwick. Naturalists' Club, Sketches of incised rocks at Ford and Bewick. b. Bot. and Zool. Having marginal notches, as if cut or slashed; as a leaf or an insect's wing. Also in comb. = inciso-, as in incised-crenate.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 295 Incised, cut into equal marginal segments. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 292 Lamium album..leaves..rarely deeply incised. Ibid. 294 Teucrium chamædrys; leaves petioled ovate incised-crenate. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §4. 98 The blade [of a leaf] is said to be Incised, when cut by sharp and irregular incisions more or less deeply. 2. Produced by cutting or incision; engraved.
1807–26S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 119 An incised wound, made with a clean sharp instrument..can have no foreign bodies in it. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. xxi. §23 The ornaments on the armour are simply drawn with incised lines. 1879Lubbock Addr. Pol. & Educ. ix. 173 Two stones, with incised crosses. 3. Geol. Of the channel of a stream, esp. a meander: cut abnormally deeply into underlying deposits or bedrock. Also, of a landform: cut by channels.
1899W. M. Davis Physical Geogr. ix. 254 Incised meanders and cut-off spurs occur on the Allegheny river above Pittsburg. 1906Bull. Geogr. Soc. Philadelphia IV. iv. 1 (heading) Incised meandering valleys. Ibid. 9 The Potomac river..exhibits some well-defined incised meanders in a valley of monoclinal strata. 1944A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xi. 198 In Utah, where recent uplift has made possible the development of many deeply incised meanders.., there are several examples of such arches. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 332/2 (caption) Incised etchplain. Ibid. 548/2 A meandering river valley that has cut down its bed into the bedrock, because of uplift or lowered base level, is called incised, intrenched, entrenched, inclosed or ingrown. |