Shorn SHORN pp. of shear. 1. Cut off; as a lock of wool
shorn. 2. Having the hair or wool cut off or sheared;
as a shorn lamb. 3. Deprived; as a prince shorn of
his honors.
shorn
adj 1: 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, shorn] [ant: unsheared, unshorn]
shorn
1. If grass or hair is shorn, it has been cut very short. (LITERARY)
...his shorn hair.ADJ
2. If a person or thing is shornof something that was an important part of them,
it has been removed from them. (LITERARY)
She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity.ADJ: v-link ADJ of n
3. Shorn is the past participle of shear.
Shear \Shear\, 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.]
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.] --Jamieson.
4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See
Shear, n., 4.
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