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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..

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..

Shore :: Shore () imp. of Shear.

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..

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

Shears :: Shears (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge..

Dishearten :: Dishearten (v. t.) To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.

Sheep-shearing :: Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.

Sheartail :: Sheartail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.

Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

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

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.

Poll :: Poll (v. t.) To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree..

Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts..

Shears :: Shears (n.) A pair of wings.

Sheartail :: Sheartail (n.) The common tern.

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

Steam Engine :: Steamboating (n.) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards..

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

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

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