Crossword-Solution: FORFEX 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Forfex n. A pair of shears.

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pair of pincers, esp the paired terminal appendages of an earwig 1 answer
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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First he expands the glittering forfex wide To inclose the lock; then joins it to divide: The meeting points the sacred hair dissever, From the fair head for ever and for ever.
The Poetical Works Of Alexander Pope, Vol. 1 Alexander Pope et al 2005
Hither came the fair Belinda--Arabella Fermor--to play that game of ombre which the poet was to make famous; and here, her triumph at cards achieved, she was taking coffee-- "For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned The berries crackle and the mill turns round"-- when "the Peer", Lord Petre, "spreads the glittering forfex wide" and snips off the lock of hair! "Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
Hampton Court Walter Jerrold 2008
The peer now spreads || the glitt’ring forfex wide As ever sully’d || the fair face of light Repair’d to search || the gloomy cave of Spleen Nothing, to make || philosophy thy friend Shou’d chance to make || the well-dress’d rabble stare Or cross, to plunder || provinces, the main These madmen never hurt || the church or state How shall we fill || a library with wit What better teach || a foreigner the tongue? Sure, if I spare || the minister, no rules Of honour bind me, not to maul his tools.
Elements of Criticism, Volume II. Henry Home 2018