Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A case for carrying tweezers safely, as about the person, or on a journey.
- noun Same as
tweeze , 1.
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Examples
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Alice was sensible that the tweezer-case mentioned in the indictment had been given her, and was under a thousand frights and fears that it should be discovered and was above all wondrous careful of her landlady, that she did not go any more to the trials that Sessions.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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Alice was sensible that the tweezer-case mentioned in the indictment had been given her, and was under a thousand frights and fears that it should be discovered and was above all wondrous careful of her landlady, that she did not go any more to the trials that Sessions.
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735
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A very rich tweezer-case, containing twelve instruments for the use of each hour in the day.
Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer Richard Steele 1700
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