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

Flock :: Flock (sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose..

Stress :: Stress (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress..

Unheart :: Unheart (v. t.) To cause to lose heart; to dishearten.

Shearing :: Shearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shea.

Shorn :: Shorn () p. p. of Shear.

Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact..

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

Disheartenment :: Disheartenment (n.) Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

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

Sheared :: Sheared (imp.) of Shea.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Shore :: Shore () imp. of Shear.

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

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