Scissile

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scissile \Scis"sile\, a. [L. scissilis, fr. scindere, scissum,
     to cut, to split: cf. F. scissile. See {Schism}.]
     Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible. [R.] --Arbuthnot.
     [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "scissile":
     alienable, breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, crackable, crisp,
     crispy, crumbly, crushable, delicate, dissoluble, dissolvable,
     divisible, fissile, fissionable, flimsy, fracturable, fragile,
     frail, frangible, friable, lacerable, separable, severable,
     shatterable, shattery, shivery, splintery, vulnerable