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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..

Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

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

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

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..

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

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..

Sheard :: Sheard (n.) See Shard.

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..

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..

Dispirit :: Dispirit (v. t.) To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.

Sheared :: Sheared (p. p.) of Shea.

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..

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

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

Share :: Share (v. t.) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

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

Shern :: Shern (n.) See Shearn.

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

Despond :: Despond (v. i.) To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view..

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