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Scissor [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.

Scissors [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. siz'zors, plural [Latin scissor, from scindo, to cut, Gr.]

2. A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades movable on a pin in the center, by which they are fastened. Hence we usually say, a pair of scissors

Scissors [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Scissors-tailed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.

Scissorsbill [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Skimmer.

Scissorstail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.