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▪ I. ˈtweezer, n.
Also 8 tweeser.
[f. tweeze n., or twees, tweeze pl. of twee1. Also, in mod. use, a back-formation from tweezers.]
†1. A case of small instruments; an etui, a tweezer-case. Obs.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. vii. 111 His signe..is as attractive as..his Plaister-box (if he be a Chyron too) or if not, as his Tweezer. 1745Gentl. Mag. Jan. 34/2 They admired my tweeser, and the trinkets in it. 1746Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 22. (1748) IV. 187 Her maid..went privately away in the night, taking with her..her watch, tweezer, a diamond solitaire, and several other trinkets.
2. = tweezers 2; also attrib. formed like tweezers.
1904H. G. Wells Food of Gods i. iv. 105 His hand upon the tweezer of his balance weights. 1909Westm. Gaz. 18 Nov. 4/2 Vertical springs in front and half-‘tweezer’ cross-springs in the rear.
▪ II. ˈtweezer, v.
[f. tweezers: cf. prec. 2.]
intr. To use tweezers; trans. to pull out with tweezers; also to pinch or pluck with or as with tweezers. Hence ˈtweezering vbl. n.
1806W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) II. 146 There is less micrology, less tweezering at trifles, in his erudition. 1848in Q. Rev. Mar. 446 A hero..who when he has ‘tweezered out the slender blossom of manhood that lives on his lip and cheek’, passes well for a tall young lady. 1911Blackw. Mag. July 48/2 If he halted he was tweezered into activity again. |