Sentence:  He held his usual levee at his lodgings; he spent the usual hours washing and dressing; he rubbed his teeth with a red root, <WSD>tweezed</WSD> out hairs with a silver tweezer, tied his cravat to admiration, and issued at four precisely as perfectly equipped as if the Rue Royale had been St. James's Street and the Prince himself had hung upon his arm. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To pluck or grasp using tweezers.