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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

directly; "he fell sheer into the water"

cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle"

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

directly; "he fell sheer into the water"

cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle"

Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.

Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.

Clean; quite; at once.

To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.

The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.

The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.

A turn or change in a course.

Shears See Shear.

Very thin or transparent; - applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.

Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.

Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.

Clean; quite; at once.

To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.

The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.

The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.

A turn or change in a course.

Shears See Shear.

Very thin or transparent; - applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.

Downright; utter; absolute; as, sheer folly; very thin or transparent: as, a sheer fabric; straight up and down; vertical; steep; as, a sheer precipice.

Perpendicularly; straight.

To turn aside from the proper course.

Pure: unmingled: simple: without a break, perpendicular.

Clear: quite: at once.

To deviate from the line of the proper course, as a ship: to turn aside.

The deviation from the straight line, or the longitudinal curve or bend of a ship's deck or sides.

Clear; quite; vertically.

Curve of a ship's deck or sides.

Pure; mere; perpendicular.

To turn from a course.

To swerve; turn aside.

Unmitigated; absolute; down right; perpendicular; steep.

A swerving or curving.

Pure; clear; unmingled; simple; thin; precipitous.

The longitudinal curve or bend of a ship's deck or sides; the position an which a ship is sometimes kept at single anchor, to keep her clear of it.

To slip or move aside. Sheer off, to move to a distance.

Pure; separate from anything else; mere; unmingled.

The longitudinal curve or line which a ship's deck or sides presents to the eye.

Among seamen, to deviate from the line of the proper course, as a ship when not well steered; to turn aside.

n. The longitudinal curve or bend of a ship's deck or sides.

adv. Clean; right off;—at once; quick.