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Serer
- noun - a West African language closely related to Fula; spoken primarily in Senegal and Gambia
Sever
- verb - cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
- set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"
Sewer
- noun -
an underground conduit for carrying off drainage water and waste matter.
- a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; "his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet"
- someone who sews; "a sewer of fine gowns"
Shear
- noun - (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram"
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- cut or cut through with shears; "shear the wool off the lamb"
- cut with shears; "shear hedges"
- shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
Sheer
- adjective - cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle"
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"
- directly; "he fell sheer into the water"
- not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"
- so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
- straight up or down without a break
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
- very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front;
Shier
- adjective - lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"
- short; "eleven is one shy of a dozen"
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; "shy of strangers"
Shirr
- verb - bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set; "shirr the eggs"
- Verb - In sewing, to shirr (shirring) is to make two or more rows of gathers used to decorate parts of garments, usually the sleeves, bodice or yoke.
Shiur
- unknown - Talmudic study session
Shoer
- - One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses.