Word Meanings - WOOLFELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.

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• SHEAR
  To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. (more info) shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear
• SHEARS
  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. Rotary shears. See under Rotary. (more info) 1. A cutting instrument. Specifically: An instrument consisting
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SHEARBILL
  The black skimmer. See Skimmer.
• SHEARN
  Dung; excrement. Holland.
• PULLICATE
  A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.
• SHEARWATER
  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 , the dusky shearwater , and the greater shearwater , are well-known species
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SHEARMAN
  One whose occupation is to shear cloth.
• SHEARLING
  A sheep but once sheared.
• PULLULATION
  A germinating, or budding. Dr. H. More.
• PULLEY
  A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. Note: The pulley, as one
• PULLMAN CAR
  A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman.
• SHEAR STEEL
  See SHEAR
• SHEARING
  The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. Shearing machine. A machine with blades, or rotary disks, for dividing plates or bars of metal. A machine for shearing cloth. (more info) 1. The act or operation
• PULLEN
  Poultry.
• PULL
  To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. (more info) 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. Shak. He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in. Gen. viii.
• PULLER
  One who, or that which, pulls. Proud setter up and puller down of kings. Shak.
• PULLED
  Plucked; pilled; moulting. " A pulled hen." Chaucer.
• PULLAIL
  Poultry. Rom. of R.
• CONE PULLEY
  A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• REPULLULATE
  To bud again. Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell.
• WIRE-PULLER
  One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer. Political wire-pullers and convention packers. Lowell.
• DISHEARTEN
  To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. Macaulay. Syn. -- To dispirit; discourage; depress; deject; deter; terrify.
• WIRE-PULLING
  The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.
• AMPULLATE; AMPULLATED
  Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.