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Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping.

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..

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

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..

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..

Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth..

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

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..

Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) Act of shearing sheep.

Amate :: Amate (v. t.) To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt.

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

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..

Shears :: Shears (n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances..

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

Wind :: Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing..

Skimmer :: Skimmer (n.) Any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus Rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible immersed, thus skimming out small fishes. The American species (R. nigra) is common on the southern coasts of the United States. Called also scissorbill, and shearbill..

Unman :: Unman (v. t.) To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To reap, as grain..

Shearbill :: Shearbill (n.) The black skimmer. See Skimmer.

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