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p. p. of Shear.

To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle. "Dishorn the spirit." Shak.

Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts. Hartshorn plantain (Bot.), an annual species of plantain (Plantago Coronopus); -- called also duck's-horn. Booth. -- Hartshorn shavings, originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly.…

NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

nt the growth or the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal (1886).

The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. Thackeray.

The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton.

ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden.

A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]

Shorn; shaven. [Obs.] See Nott.

Shorn. [Obs.]

(a) (Fort.) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch. [Written also ramshorn.] Farrow. (b) (Paleon.) An ammonite.

d. -- Salt of colcothar (Old Chem.), green vitriol, or sulphate of iron. -- Salt of hartshorn. (Old Chem.) (a) Sal ammoniac, or ammonium chloride. (b) Ammonium carbonate. Cf. Spirit of hartshorn, under Hartshorn. -- Salt of lemons. (Chem.) See Salt of sorrel, below. -- Salt of Saturn (Old Chem.), sugar of lead; lea…

measures; hygiene. How much sanitation has advanced during the last half century. H. Hartshorne.

Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance. Chambers.

Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay.

p (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. Shak.

To be occupied with making shocks. Reap well, scatter not, gather clean that is shorn, Bind fast, shock apace. Tusser.

The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing. [Prov. Eng.]