Crossword clues for tweeze
tweeze
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tweese \Tweese\, Tweeze \Tweeze\, n. [OE. tweeze, tweese, fr. F.
['e]tuis, pl. of ['e]tui a case, sheath, box; probably of
Teutonic origin; cf. MNG. stuche a wide sleeve in which
articles could be carried, OHG. st[=u]hha, G. stauche a short
and narrow muff. Cf Etui, Tweezers.]
A surgeon's case of instruments.
--Howell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to pluck with tweezers," 1921, back-formation from tweezers. Related: Tweezed; tweezing. Earlier verb was tweezer (1806).
Wiktionary
vb. To use tweezers to pluck something.
WordNet
v. pluck with tweezers; "tweeze facial hair"
Usage examples of "tweeze".
It takes a team of kids in India, Brandy says, four- and five-year-old kids sitting all day on wooden benches, being vegetarians, they have to tweeze out most of about a zillion gold threads to leave the pattern of just the gold left behind.
She has sniffed the aroma of festering emotions and now she moves in to tweeze and scrape and dig.
Her fingers tweezed nervously at a knot in the speaker wire of her stereo.
Carefully he tweezed a fragment of fruiting cup from its stem and deposited it in a waiting plastic vial.
Pulling open a bureau drawer, I riffled through folded underwear and tweezed out a pink panty.
They were tweezed very thin and gave her an owlish look behind the glasses.
I fed her a nub of hamburger meat and she tweezed the meat away with her cranelike limbs.
Lifting one perfectly tweezed brow, Aysla made a noble attempt at indignation but an amused twitch at the corner of her mouth gave her away.
The precious days of their fragile childhood spent tweezing silk threads out.
Why do you have forensic experts crawling around in there tweezing fibers out of the carpet and pulling hair samples out of the bathroom drains?
Then you might watch her tweezing her eyebrows, waxing her bikini line, washing her underwear.
She devoted the same attention to tweezing her eyebrows and shaving her legs.
Get an aesthetician to do it the first time for you and then keep the new shape clean by tweezing.
Pulling open a bureau drawer, I riffled through folded underwear and tweezed out a pink panty.
They were tweezed very thin and gave her an owlish look behind the glasses.