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  • 111shear´er — shear «shihr», verb, sheared or (Archaic) shore, sheared or shorn, shear|ing, noun. –v.t. 1. to cut with shears or scissors, especially in order to remove (wool or fleece): »to shear wool from sheep …

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  • 112SOBIBOR — (Sobibór), one of the six Nazi death camps situated in German occupied Poland, three miles west of the Bug River and five miles south of Wlodawa in the General Gouvernment. It was situated in a wooded area near a small village by the same name in …

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  • 113lamb — See: GOD TEMPERS THE WIND TO THE SHORN LAMB, IN TWO SHAKES OF A LAMB S TAIL …

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  • 114temper — See: GOD TEMPERS THE WIND TO THE SHORN LAMB, HOLD ONE S TEMPER or KEEP ONE S TEMPER, LOSE ONE S TEMPER …

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  • 115wind — See: GET WIND OF, GOD TEMPERS THE WIND TO THE SHORN LAMB, GONE WITH THE WIND, IN THE WIND, IT S AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD, SECOND WIND, STRAW IN THE WIND, TAKE THE WIND OUT OF ONE S SAILS, THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND or THREE SHEETS TO THE… …

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  • 116lamb — See: GOD TEMPERS THE WIND TO THE SHORN LAMB, IN TWO SHAKES OF A LAMB S TAIL …

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  • 117temper — See: GOD TEMPERS THE WIND TO THE SHORN LAMB, HOLD ONE S TEMPER or KEEP ONE S TEMPER, LOSE ONE S TEMPER …

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  • 118wind — See: GET WIND OF, GOD TEMPERS THE WIND TO THE SHORN LAMB, GONE WITH THE WIND, IN THE WIND, IT S AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD, SECOND WIND, STRAW IN THE WIND, TAKE THE WIND OUT OF ONE S SAILS, THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND or THREE SHEETS TO THE… …

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  • 119Anthus obscurus — Shore 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… …

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  • 120Beaverteen — Bea ver*teen, n. A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds. [1913 Webster] …

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