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

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..

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

Forfex :: Forfex (n.) A pair of shears.

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

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

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

Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.

Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.

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

Shears :: Shears (n.) A cutting instrument.

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

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