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

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..

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

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates..

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

Shearer :: Shearer (n.) One who shears.

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

Shearwater :: Shearwater (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon..

Scissors :: Scissors (n. pl.) A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors..

Intimidate :: Intimidate (v. t.) To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash..

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..

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..

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..

Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.

Sheer :: Sheer (v. t.) To shear.

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

Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts..

Nott :: Nott (v. t.) To shear.

Crew :: Crew (n.) The Manx shearwater.

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

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