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Shear v. t. [imp. Sheared or Shore p. p. Sheared or Shorn p. pr. & vb. n. Shearing.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.]
4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
5. Mech. To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
shorn
adj : having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears
or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the
floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep" [syn: sheared]
[ant: unsheared]