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Shearwater :: Shearwater (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon..

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears..

Sheared :: Sheared (imp.) of Shea.

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..

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

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.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth..

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

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4..

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

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..

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

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

Lewisson :: Lewisson (n.) A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.

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

Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt..

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

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

Sheep-shearer :: Sheep-shearer (n.) One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep..

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