shorn

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SHORN participle passive 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.
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