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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..

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

Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine..

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

Shearing :: Shearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shea.

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

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..

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

Shearling :: Shearling (n.) A sheep but once sheared.

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

Flock :: Flock (sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose..

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

Dispirited :: Dispirited (a.) Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted.

Shearmen :: Shearmen (pl. ) of Shearma.

Shearer :: Shearer (n.) A reaper.

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

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 product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth..

Clip :: Clip (n.) A cutting; a shearing.

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