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- Scissors - n. pl. - 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-tailed - a. - Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
- Scissorsbill - n. - See Skimmer.
- Scissorstail - n. - A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) 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.
- Enterotome - n. - A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.
- Scissor - v. t. - To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.
- Grinder - n. - The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia; -- called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. It makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes.