SCISSORS  , a cutting See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument, consisting of. two crossed See also:

• BLADES, WILLIAM (1824-1890)

blades with the inner edges sharpened, pivoted at the See also:

• CROSSING

crossing, and terminating with two looped handles for the insertion of the fingers of the See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person using them . The See also:

• TERM

term is usually See also:

• CON

con-fined to small cutting implements, the larger being known as " See also:

• SHEARS

shears " (q.v.) . The See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the word points to a derivation from See also:

• LAT

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, JOHN (x575?-1621)
• CARVER, JONATHAN (c. 1725-1780)

carver, a See also:

• BUTCHER

butcher and a class of See also:

• GLADIATORS (from Lat. gladius, sword)

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 (from the O. Fr. cisel, modern ciseau, Late Lat. cisellum, a cutting tool, from caedere, to cut)

chisel, and therefore to be referred to Lat. caedere, to cut, cisorium, a cutting instrument .