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The Manx shearwater.

at what is desired. Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast. Milton.

dle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use. The sharp-edged scythe shears up the spiring grass. Dryden. The scythe of Time mows down. Milton.

To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide. [Obs.] The shared visage hangs on equal sides. Dryden.

esicles or pocks upon the skin. -- Sheep scabious. (Bot.) Same as Sheep's bit. -- Sheep shears, shears in which the blades form the two ends of a steel bow, by the elasticity of which they open as often as pressed together by the hand in cutting; -- so called because used to cut off the wool of sheep. -- Sheep sorre…

To shear. [Obs.] Dryden.

The shearwater.

See Shearn. [Obs.]

imp. of Shear. Chaucer.

ct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing. [Prov. Eng.]

p. p. of Shear.

igra) is common on the southern coasts of the United States. Called also scissorbill, and shearbill.

s furnished with ribs entering between similar ribs in the other roller, and cutting like shears, -- used in slitting metals.

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. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of t…

The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards. Knight.

es according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress. Rankine. Stress is the mutual action between portions of matter. Clerk Maxwell.

irection of the motion without changing the velocity. -- Tangential stress. (Engin.) See Shear, n., 3.

yellow for axes, chisels, and plane irons; yellow tinged with purple for table knives and shears; purple for swords and watch springs; blue for springs and saws; and very pale blue tinged with green, too soft for steel instruments.

icrous. I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor. Bentley.

A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.