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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 act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates..

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

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

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

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..

Hagdon :: Hagdon (n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater..

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

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..

Sheerwater :: Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.

Sheartail :: Sheartail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.

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

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

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

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..

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

Snip :: Snip (v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away..

Shearer :: Shearer (n.) A reaper.

Shearman :: Shearman (n.) One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

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..

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