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

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

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

Mishear :: Mishear (v. t. & i.) To hear incorrectly.

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

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

Snip :: Snip (n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

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

Shears :: Shears (n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances..

Sheared :: Sheared (imp.) of Shea.

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

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

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

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..

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

Tubinares :: Tubinares (n. pl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils..

Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact..

Shearer :: Shearer (n.) One who shears.

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..

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

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