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

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

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

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

Clip :: Clip (v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin..

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..

Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..

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..

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

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..

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

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

Snip :: Snip (n.) A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip..

Disheartening :: Disheartening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishearte.

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth..

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

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..

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..

Disanimate :: Disanimate (v. t.) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.

Disheart :: Disheart (v. t.) To dishearten.

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