1. (a.) Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.

2. (a.) of or pertaining to the incisors; incisor; as, the incisive bones, the premaxillaries.

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