קְצִיצָה f. (קָצַץ) 1) cutting, felling. B. Kam. 91ᵇ אילן העומד לק׳ (Ms. F. לִיקָּצֵץ) a tree which must be cut. Lam. R. introd. (R. Z’ʿera) שבו זמן ק׳ יפה וכ׳ on it (the 15^ᵗʰ of Ab) begins the good season for cutting trees for fuel, v. מַאֲכוֹלֶת. Bekh. 34ᵇ (in Chald. dict.) איכוין … בהאי ק׳ וכ׳ he intended to make himself appear clean by cutting off (the leprous spot), and the rabbis punished him for this very cut (so that he could never be declared clean from this cut-off leprous spot); a. e. —2) stipulation (of price &c.), bargain. Shebu. 45ᵇ ק׳ ודאי וכ׳ stipulations of prices one surely remembers, v. קִיצוּתָא. —3) pl. קְצִיצוֹת cut fruits. Maasr. III, 4 מצא ק׳ בדרך ואפי׳ בצד שדה ק׳ (Ms. M. קציעות) if one finds cut fruit (single berries) on the road or even beside a field where cut fruit has been spread to dry; B. Mets. 21ᵇ Var. (ed. קציעות). —4) (v. קְצִיצָה a. next w.) the capsule of the T’fillin containing Biblical sections. Ber. 24ᵃ. Succ. 26ᵇ top. Kel. XVIII, 8 התיר ק׳ וכ׳ if he opened the first of the four compartments of the T’fillin and repaired it; a. e.—Pl. קְצִיצִין, v. next w. —5) separation, severance of connection, v. קְצָצָה.