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Encyclopedia Britannica



SCISSORS

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 407 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SCISSORS , a cutting
instrument
 , consisting of. two crossed blades with the inner edges sharpened, pivoted at the
crossing
 , and terminating with two looped handles for the insertion of the fingers of the person using them. The
term
  is usually con-fined to small cutting implements, the larger being known as "
shears
  " (q.v.). The
modern
  form of the word points to a derivation from Lat. scindere, to cleave or cut, and is no doubt due to Lat. scissor, a cutter, which was used only of a
carver
 , a butcher and a class of
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 chisel, and therefore to be referred to Lat. caedere, to cut, cisorium, a cutting instrument.


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