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Intimidate :: Intimidate (v. t.) To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash..

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..

Belt :: Belt (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep..

Forfex :: Forfex (n.) A pair of shears.

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

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

Snip :: Snip (v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away..

Dispirited :: Dispirited (a.) Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted.

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..

Shearer :: Shearer (n.) A reaper.

Shore :: Shore () imp. of Shear.

Lambale :: Lambale (n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

Shears :: Shears (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe..

Shern :: Shern (n.) See Shearn.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress..

Shearer :: Shearer (n.) One who shears.

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..

Clip :: Clip (n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

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

Sheard :: Sheard (n.) See Shard.

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