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Scissors

noun

An edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades. Synonym: pair of scissors.

A wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze. Synonyms: scissor grip, scissor hold, scissors grip, scissors hold.

A gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move.

Scissor

verb

Cut with or as if with scissors.

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"Scissors" Quotes from Famous Books

... party was driving off again, Tavia indulging in the laughs she dared not take part in with the scissors at her ear, while Dorothy "scolded" the boys for making such ...

— Dorothy Dale • Margaret Penrose

... sat in the drawing-room by a lamp winding a ball of wool. Mr. Clutterbuck read the Times. In the distance stood a second lamp, and round it sat the young ladies, flashing scissors over silver-spangled stuff for private theatricals. Mr. ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

... held in one hand under water, and a pair of scissors in the other, it may be cut like brown paper; or if a red hot tobacco pipe be brought in contact with the edge of the glass, and afterwards traced on any part of it, the crack will follow the edge of ...

— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton

... cases in which the tumors have become indurated and very large it is impossible to effect cures by the foregoing or any other medical treatment. Various methods have been in use by the profession for the relief of the most severe cases. The most common is excision with the knife or scissors. Reference to the large vessels, shown in Fig. 3, which are affected in this disease, will at once show the sufferer the dangers of this method. The sudden removal of a tumor, which is connected with one or more of the large hemorrhoidal veins, is sure to be followed ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... "Never, never!—let them bring scissors, and shear my hair like that of the parish fool, whom I have so richly resembled—let them bid the monastery or the grave yawn for me, let them bring red hot basins to sear my eyes—axe or aconite—whatever they will, but Orleans shall not break his plighted faith ...

— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott

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