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Shear :: Shear (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction..

Woolfell :: Woolfell (n.) A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.

Snip :: Snip (n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

Scraber :: Scraber (n.) The Manx shearwater.

Reanimate :: Reanimate (v. t.) To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits..

Sheard :: Sheard (n.) See Shard.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Sheer :: Sheer (n.) Shears See Shear.

Snip :: Snip (n.) A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip..

Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts..

Hackbolt :: Hackbolt (n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4..

Shearn :: Shearn (n.) Dung; excrement.

Share :: Share (v. t.) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

Shearling :: Shearling (n.) A sheep but once sheared.

Shearwater :: Shearwater (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon..

Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.

Dispirit :: Dispirit (v. t.) To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.

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