Crossword clues for shorn
shorn
- Clipped, as sheep
- Bereft of locks
- Bereft of fleece
- " . . . all shaven and ___"
- Woolless, as sheep
- Relieved of wool
- Now fleeceless
- No longer sporting fleece
- Newly wool-less
- Naked, as a sheep
- Made less woolly
- Like some monks' heads
- Like sheep sans wool
- Like Samson, later
- Like many a sheep
- Like clipped sheep
- Like clipped ewes
- Like a sheep, after its wool is cut off
- Like a clipped sheep
- Lacking wool
- Lacking a wool coat, perhaps
- Having had its wool cut off
- Had a Mohawk
- Free of fleece
- Free of a wool coat, say
- Clipped, like Samson
- Clipped, as on a farm
- Clipped, as a sheep
- Like Samson, once
- Less woolly, perhaps
- Hairless, now
- Cut off, as wool
- Lacking its wool coat, as a sheep
- Lacking a coat, maybe
- Unlocked?
- Devoid of wool, now
- Fleeced but good
- Clipped, in a way
- Polled
- Like some lambs
- Like Samson at the end
- Shaven, as wool
- Wool-less
- With fleece removed
- Subjected to a shearing
- Second musical instrument cut
- Like sheep without fleeces
- Lacking locks
- Trimmed of wool
- Cut, as hair
- Like some sheep
- No longer woolly
- Like the weakened Samson
- Like many a cold sheep
- No longer hairy
- Like Samson, thanks to Delilah
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shear \Shear\ (sh[=e]r), v. t. [imp. Shearedor 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. ski?re, Gr. ???. Cf. Jeer, Score, Shard, Share, Sheer to turn aside.]
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To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Note: 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.
Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.
--Shak. To reap, as grain. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
(Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
Shorn \Shorn\, p. p. of Shear.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"shaven," late Old English scoren, past participle adjective from shear (v.).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastshear)
WordNet
Usage examples of "shorn".
I dipped to a vol-pique, but again a tentacle fell over the monoplane and was shorn off by the propeller as easily as it might have cut through a smoke wreath.
In the participle passive many of them are formed by en, as taken, shaken, forsaken, broken, spoken, born, shorn, sworn, torn, worn, woven, cloven, thriven, driven, risen, smitten, ridden, chosen, trodden, gotten, begotten, forgotten, sodden.
And when I dismounted from the wind and in the Sanhedrim my pinions were shorn, even then my ribs, my featherless wings, kept and guarded the song.
Looking thus at life, shorn of its superrational sanctions, Saxon floundered into the morass of pessimism.
She ended her question in midshout when she saw Hawkril shorn of his armor, a hairy muscled colossus in sweat-soaked leather breeches, hacking for all he was worth with the blades he held in both hands at three thrusting swords, or more, that were stabbing into the room from the dark passage outside.
Gallia Comata, the Arverni could expand their business ventures and increase their wealth shorn of fear of invasion, pillageand rape.
He was wearing a tuxedo: shorn, clean-shaven, with a white boutonniere tucked into his lapel.
Then came more meadows, some already shorn, some heavy with hay, and more dovecotes and orchards.
I declare, Miss Dunstable, the honour you are doing me is shorn of half its glory.
He was ruthless and quick, and soon stood before Yagharek with a pasty chin, inexpertly shorn of whiskers, bleeding and patched with copses of stubble.
The netman casts, and then hauls in his catch of metal dust, and scraps of burst balloons, and shorn butterfly wings carried aloft in the whirling unceasing wind.
The skinhead has raised an unexpected image, that of the shorn European Jew filmed by Allied liberators at places like Dachau and Nordhausen more than four decades ago.
It made Stark a First Cook with a First and Fourth, dropped Willard back to Second Cook and First and Sixth, and sent Pfc Sims back to straight duty shorn of his Sixth Class.
Shorn rhinos strained against leather traces, pulling massive blocks across rolling logs.
Behind them came gigantipithicus apes and shorn rhinos, goblins and mule men.