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scissor, v.|ˈsɪzə(r)|
Also 7 cizar, 9 scissar.
[f. scissors n.]
1. trans. To cut with scissors, to cut up, off, or into pieces with scissors. Also, † to prepare or trim (the beard) with scissors.
1612Two Noble K. i. ii. 59 My poore Chinne too, for tis not Cizard iust To such a Favorites glasse. 1840L. Hunt Seer ix. 21/2 The young shoots of it [sc. ivy]..point in a most elegant manner over the edge of a glass or decanter, seeming to have been newly scissared forth by some fairy hand. 1885Fenn Brownsmith's Boy 24, I scissored off two or three berries in the way he had taught me. 1886Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Sept. 1 When the luckless Abdul Aziz was scissored into a bloody grave. 1894D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 31 Each folio being scissored into half a dozen pieces.
2. a. To clip out (extracts) from newspapers or the like. Also absol.
1865Dubl. Univ. Mag. I. 146 Lucy surreptitiously scissored these charming songs, and kept them in a little volume. 1893Leland Mem. II. 133, I had for a long time, at intervals, been at work on a book to be entitled the ‘Origin of American Popular Phrases’. I had scissored from newspapers, collected from negro minstrels [etc.].
b. fig. To excise.
1890G. B. Shaw in Star 19 Apr. 2/6 The first act was vigorously scissored. 1968Listener 10 Oct. 462/1, I was invited by the BBC to cut a single sentence from a broadcast talk I had recorded previously... I refused to do this, and accordingly the talk was hastily scissored out of the Third Programme. 1977Time 24 Oct. 23/3 The Finance Committee scissored the entire wellhead tax scheme out of the bill.
3. a. To cause (one's legs) to move like scissors. b. To fix (a person) in the scissors hold or with a grip resembling it (cf. scissors n. pl. 2 a).
1961Rogue May 14 Feathertop watched the smooth scissoring of her slim, trim legs as she walked to the bags. 1968A. Keith Compl. Guide to Championship Wrestling v. 76 Scissoring the bottom leg frees the hips. Ibid. 77 A scissors his right leg through underneath the left. 1973Funk & Wagnalls New Encycl. XXII. 366 The legs are then scissored while the upper arm pushes toward the feet and the lower arm returns to the chest. 1974J. Irving 158-Pound Marriage i. 12 When he rode you with a cross-body ride—your near leg scissored, your far arm hooked—Severin said Jones cut off your circulation somewhere near your spine. 1975R. H. Rimmer Premar Experiments (1976) ii. 162 With her legs scissored around me, I found it impossible not to pat her smooth black behind.
4. intr. Rugby Football. To execute a scissors movement. Cf. scissors n. pl. 2 d.
1970Financial Times 23 Mar. 3/8 Robertson and Turner scissored impeccably for Turner to score a try that Brown converted. 1975Sunday Times 23 Feb. 28/2 Smaje scissored with Aitchison to get the Lancashire try, converted by Gullick. |