Scissor
['sɪzə] or ['sɪzɚ]
Definition
(v. t.) To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.
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To dream of scissors is an unlucky omen; wives will be jealous and distrustful of their husbands, and sweethearts will quarrel and nag each other into crimination and recrimination. Dulness will overcast business horizons. To dream that you have your scissors sharpened, denotes that you will work to do that which will be repulsive to your feelings. To break them, there will be quarrels, and probable separations for you. To lose them, you will seek to escape from unpleasant tasks.
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Examples
- The seal was too beautiful to be broken, so I cut it round with my scissors. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Eliza turned to the glass, and the scissors glittered as one long lock after another was detached from her head. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The teeth were never intended to take the place of nut-crackers nor to rival scissors in cutting thread. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set: what think you of the odd half of a pair of scissors? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Major Dobbin, if you please not to break my scissors. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then, said Maria, I will borrow the scissors of Pilar and cut thy hair. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Within the lid of the box, I carefully graved with my scissors' point certain initials. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Graham waxed inexorable on hearing the pleading tone; he took the scissors from his mother's work-basket. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Who invented the scissors and shears for cutting and trimming it when soft? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Well, never mind; I'll look your box over,--thimble, wax, two spools, scissors, knife, tape-needle; all right,--put it in here. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Give me a pair of scissors! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Désirée was not to be so cheated: she had learned to bring falsehood to the aid of theft, and would deny having touched the brooch, ring, or scissors. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Hammers (Fig. 102), tack-lifters, scissors, forceps, are important levers, and if you will notice how many different levers (fig. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Cut my shirt away from the collar; there's a pair of scissors on that table. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Miss Ophelia came, with her scissors. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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