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SCISSORS , a cutting See also:

instrument, consisting of. two crossed See also:blades with the inner edges sharpened, pivoted at the See also:crossing, and terminating with two looped handles for the insertion of the fingers of the See also:person using them. The See also:term is usually See also:con-fined to small cutting implements, the larger being known as " See also:shears " (q.v.). The See also:modern See also:form of the word points to a derivation from See also:Lat. scindere, to cleave or cut, and is no doubt due to Lat. scissor, a cutter, which was used only of a See also:carver, a See also:butcher and a class of See also:gladiators, never of a cutting instrument; but the earlier forms, cysowres, sisoures, cisors, cissers, sizars, &c., show. the origin to be found in 0. Fr. cisoires, shears, mod. ciseaux, plural of ciseau, earlier cisel, a See also:chisel, and therefore to be referred to Lat. caedere, to cut, cisorium, a cutting instrument.

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