ciss

Meaning

Verb

• To retract (from a uniform film applied to a damp, oily or nonabsorbent surface) and clump up into small droplets, or form craters.

Origin

• Perhaps ultimately derived in some way from *cisellum (from *caesellum, from caedō), whence e.g. cission, ciseau and other words with senses related to cutting and separating, or perhaps from the same root as scission (scissus, scindō), or even a conflation of the two as in scissor, whence sciss.