Scis·sors n. pl. 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. [Formerly written also cisors, cizars, and scissars.]
Scissors grinder Zool., the European goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]
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pair of scissors
n : and edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades [syn: scissors]