Word Meanings - SCISSOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

SCISSORSTAIL
A tyrant flycatcher 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.
SHEARS
The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe. Rotary shears. See under Rotary. (more info) 1. A cutting instrument. Specifically: An instrument consisting
SCISSORS
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 grinder , the European goatsucker. (more
PREPARER
One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.
SCISSORS-TAILED
Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
SCISSORSBILL
See SKIMMER
PREPARED
Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n.
PREPARE
1. To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden. 2. To procure
DISPREPARE
To render unprepared. Hobbes.