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Nott :: Nott (v. t.) To shear.

Shearman :: Shearman (n.) One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

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

Daunt :: Daunt (v. t.) To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.

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..

Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine..

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..

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

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth..

Shears :: Shears (n.) A cutting instrument.

Shorling :: Shorling (n.) The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing..

Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.

Sheartail :: Sheartail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears..

Deject :: Deject (v. t.) To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.

Tubinares :: Tubinares (n. pl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils..

Scissors :: Scissors (n. pl.) A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors..

Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece..

Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt..

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