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

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..

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..

Shearer :: Shearer (n.) A reaper.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge..

Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

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..

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

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

Snip :: Snip (n.) A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip..

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

Procellarian :: Procellarian (n.) One of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridae) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather..

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

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

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

Belt :: Belt (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep..

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

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..

Stress :: Stress (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress..

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

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