Cutting the hair also may be a sign of mourning.

Cutting off one's hair is often associated with religious faith: Catholic nuns often cut their hair very short, and men who joined Catholic monastic orders in the eighth century adopted what was known as the tonsure, which involved shaving the tops of their heads and leaving a ring of hair around the bald crown.

Cutting the hair is also restricted during the 30-day mourning period after the death of a close relative, known in Hebrew as the Shloshim ( thirty ).

# Cutting hair: Cutting hair is strictly forbidden in Sikhism.

Cutting his hair for the first time caused him to lose his divine power.

Cutting on glass tends to dent, roll or even chip knife edges in a rapid manner.

Cutting across this is the irony of the fact that spring tends to obliterate the memory of winter, whereas human beings enjoying love and peace retain an uneasy sense of the horrors of hatred and war ....

The Cutting Edge Band had various members from 1992 to 1996 before the decision was made to take the band full-time as Delirious?

Cutting fluid may also take the form of a paste or gel when used for some applications, in particular hand operations such as drilling and tapping.

Cutting a single letter could take a craftsman a day of work.

Cutting himself off from Charles, he flees to Cyprus where he awaits a ship that will take him to Lebanon.

Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines.

Cutting off vines is not sufficient for an immediate kill.

: Cutting his hands off, down in Hell.

" Cutting off the nose to spite the face " is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive over-reaction to a problem: " Don't cut off your nose to spite your face " is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger.

During his time off, he starred in his own talk show segment on Raw entitled The Cutting Edge, dubbing himself the " Rated-R Superstar ".

Cutting off the end of the barrel removes the choke, which generally only extends about two inches ( about 5 cm ) inward from the muzzle.

* Cutting off of larger pieces of tissue with a snare device ( e. g. polyps, endoscopic mucosal resection )

Cutting off Brahma's fifth head made him guilty of the crime of killing a Brahmin, and as a result, he was forced to carry around the head for years and roam as Bhikshatana, a mendicant, until he had been absolved of the sin.

* Cutting others off in a lane, or deliberately preventing someone from merging.

Cutting down his pace and the length of his run up, Lillee now concentrated on moving the ball off the seam with an occasional faster or slower ball for variation.

* Cutting small pieces off something

Cutting off subventions would make it even harder for ESF to maintain its status as a good quality international school foundation.

Cutting this off at a late stage of development (" purple eye stage ") and discarding it reduces the mite load on the colony.

Cutting a small hole in the resonant head can also produce a more muffled tone.

The more analytical The Cutting Edge, an appraisal of modern cricket, appeared in 1992.

Seventy acres of the Leake, later Norton property, extending north from 42nd to 46th Street and from Broadway to the river, had been purchased before 1807 by John Jacob Astor and William Cutting, who held it before dividing it into building lots as the district became more suburban.

In the second half of the 18th century, the situation of the population in the lower Glarus valley, the Linth Plain and around Lake Walen, was pretty disastrous: Cutting down the woods of the Glarus valley during early industrialization led to more and more gravel coming down with the yearly spring high water which was deposited at the joining of Linth and Maag, the outflow of the Lake Walen, in the plain between Lake Walen and Lake Zurich.

Warning: Cutting the manifold along the tori bounding the characteristic submanifold is also sometimes called the JSJ decomposition, though it may have more tori than the JSJ decomposition defined in the introduction.

It was originally called but its name was later changed to the more popular Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi (" Grass Cutting Sword ").

Cutting is the separation of a physical object, or a portion of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force.

Cutting the honeysuckle to within 5 – 10 cm of the ground and then applying glyphosate has proven to be more effective, provided that the mixture is rather concentrated ( 20 – 25 %) and is applied immediately after making the cut.

Works generally attributed to Liáng Kǎi: painting of the poet Li Bai, the Drunken Celestial ( aka A Sage ), The Sixth Patriarch Cutting Bamboo, and in a more academic style, a series called the Eight Eminent Monks paintings.

Cutting Social Security benefits beyond the already scheduled increase in the retirement age from 65 to 67 would create even more needless hardship for millions of vulnerable Americans .” This was in response to President Obama giving the task of cutting government spending to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, on October 15, 2010.

It can also be accessed by a short, steep, unpathed climb from Jubilee Drive on the western side, or reached by a more leisurely stroll along the crest of the ridge from a car park near the Wyche Cutting, a mile or so to the south of the town centre.

Cutting the Fuse adds substantially to Pape's earlier work on terrorism, evaluating more than 2100 suicide attacks ( 6 times the number evaluated in Dying to Win ), developing a new social logic of transnational suicide terrorists, identifying the key factors that explain the ebb and flow within suicide terrorist campaigns, conducting detailed case studies of the 8 largest campaigns ( Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Al Qaeda, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka ), and offering expanded policy recommendations-particularly the political and economic empowerment of local groups as a key transition step toward off-shore balancing strategies.

Cutting out all of the soundcheck recordings and leaving merely the concert highlights ( hence the album's title ), this set is notable for the exclusive inclusion of " All My Trials ", not found on the more complete Tripping the Live Fantastic set or on the US commercial release version, where it was replaced by " Put It There ", but it was issued on the Columbia House mail-order Highlights release.

Cutting a Möbius strip along the center line with a pair of scissors yields one long strip with two full twists in it, rather than two separate strips ; the result is not a Möbius strip.

The Cutting Halo does have drawbacks, however ; a Baltan alien was able to deflect a Halo with his barrier, Gubira was lucky enough to catch a second Halo on his nose rather than be sliced by it, and Keelar was just as lucky to catch a third Halo with his tail.

Trepanation instruments are now available with diamond coated rims ( Diamond Bone Cutting System ), which are less traumatic than the classical trephines with sharp teeth.

Cutting marginal tax rates can also be perceived as primarily beneficial to the wealthy, which commentators such as Paul Krugman see as politically rather than economically motivated.

Cutting exploits the ability of plants to grow adventitious roots ( i. e. root material that can generate from a location other than the existing or primary root system, as in from a leaf or cut stem ) under certain conditions.

Cutting speeds are lower in roughing than in finishing.

* Cutting ( in line ), the act of entering a queue at any position other than the end

Cutting tools made of high speed steel allowed steel rather than wrought iron to be used for parts.

* Brush hook: Cutting tool used to clear brush, longer than a machete, usually with a heavy, solid, curved blade bolted to the end of an arm's-length handle.