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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..

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth..

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

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

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece..

Shern :: Shern (n.) See Shearn.

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

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

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) Same as Shearling.

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..

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

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

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

Poll :: Poll (v. t.) To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass..

Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

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

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 (v. t.) To shear.

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

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