Suitable or fit; proper.
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
Tending to cut or tear.
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
The act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The material cut off in this way.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.