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   Shear , v. t. [imp. Sheared  or Shore ;p. p. Sheared or Shorn ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shearing.] [OE. sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. skire, Gr. . Cf. Jeer, Score, Shard, Share, Sheer to turn aside.]
   To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
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   ☞ It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
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   To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
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   Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.
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   To reap, as grain. [Scot.]
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   Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
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   (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
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   Shore , imp. of Shear.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Shore, n. A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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   Shore, n. [OE. schore; akin to LG. schore, D. schoor, OD. schoore, Icel. skora, and perhaps to E. shear, as being a piece cut off.] A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging. [Written also shoar.]
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   Shore, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shoring.] [OE. schoren. See Shore a prop.] To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
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   Shore, n. [OE. schore, AS. score, probably fr. scieran, and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin to OD. schoore, schoor. See Shear, v. t.] The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
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   Michael Cassio,
   Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
   Is come shore.
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   The fruitful shore of muddy Nile.
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   In shore, near the shore. Marryat. -- On shore. See under On. -- Shore birds (Zool.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore. -- Shore crab (Zool.), any crab found on the beaches, or between tides, especially any one of various species of grapsoid crabs, as Heterograpsus nudus of California. -- Shore lark (Zool.), a small American lark (Otocoris alpestris) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear tufts. Called also horned lark. -- Shore plover (Zool.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc. -- Shore teetan (Zool.), the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). [Prov. Eng.]
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   Shore , v. t. To set on shore. [Obs.]
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