SCISSORS
\sˈɪsəz], \sˈɪsəz], \s_ˈɪ_s_ə_z]\
Definitions of SCISSORS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
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and edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades
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a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
By Princeton University
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and edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades
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a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.
By Oddity Software
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A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.
By Noah Webster.
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A cutting instrument smaller than shears, having two opposite sharp edges which meet when moved on a pivot; frequently, a pair of scissors.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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A well-known instrument in common use, and often employed in surgery. Scissors are composed of two cutting blades, crossing each other and moving upon an axis. They are straight or curved. Sometimes the curve is on the flat side, when they are called, in France, Ciseaux a cuiller; at others, on their edges. The scissors, bent so that the blades make an obtuse angle with the handles are also much used. They are called in France Ciseaux comles. Scissors are used for dividing soft, loose, isolated parts, which it would be difficult to reach and to cut with the bistoury. They are employed, likewise, in the operation for harelip, and for re-moving warts, fungous excrescences, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
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