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

Scissor :: Scissor (v. t.) To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.

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

Wind :: Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing..

Unheart :: Unheart (v. t.) To cause to lose heart; to dishearten.

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..

Sheer :: Sheer (n.) Shears See Shear.

Shearmen :: Shearmen (pl. ) of Shearma.

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping.

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction..

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..

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..

Disheartenment :: Disheartenment (n.) Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

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

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

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

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

Shearbill :: Shearbill (n.) The black skimmer. See Skimmer.

Costotome :: Costotome (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections..

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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