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

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

Discourageable :: Discourageable (a.) Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.

Sheard :: Sheard (n.) See Shard.

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

Procellarian :: Procellarian (n.) One of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridae) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather..

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

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

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

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

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

Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

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

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.

Hag :: Hag (n.) The hagdon or shearwater.

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