Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument used for making sections for microscopic work.
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Examples
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My taste was specialized in a totally different direction, and I had no more desire or ability to be a microscopist and section-cutter than to be a mathematician.
I. Boyhood and Youth 1913
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My taste was specialized in a totally different direction, and I had no more desire or ability to be a microscopist and section-cutter than to be a mathematician.
Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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