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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..

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

Clip :: Clip (v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin..

Discourageable :: Discourageable (a.) Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.

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

Deject :: Deject (v. t.) To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.

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..

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

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..

Shearmen :: Shearmen (pl. ) of Shearma.

Snip :: Snip (n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

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..

Lambale :: Lambale (n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

Disheartened :: Disheartened (imp. & p. p.) of Dishearte.

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

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

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

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

Amate :: Amate (v. t.) To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt.

Shears :: Shears (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe..

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