SHORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shorn mean? 

• SHORN (adjective)
  The adjective SHORN has 1 sense:

1. having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers

  Familiarity information: SHORN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers

Synonyms:

sheared; shorn

Context example:

naked as a sheared sheep

 Context examples 

"So do I, it was so smooth and pretty. But it will soon grow out again," said Beth, coming to kiss and comfort the shorn sheep.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I, the Socman, am shorn of my lands that you may snivel Latin and eat bread for which you never did hand's turn.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Shorn of its glamour and romance, Arctic travel became to them a reality too harsh for their manhood and womanhood.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The hay was all got in; the fields round Thornfield were green and shorn; the roads white and baked; the trees were in their dark prime; hedge and wood, full-leaved and deeply tinted, contrasted well with the sunny hue of the cleared meadows between.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"That's my only comfort." And, touching her hat a la Laurie, away went Jo, feeling like a shorn sheep on a wintry day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Foot by foot the Italian had retreated, his armor running blood at every joint, his shield split, his crest shorn, his voice fallen away to a mere gasping and croaking.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jo caught a bad cold through neglect to cover the shorn head enough, and was ordered to stay at home till she was better, for Aunt March didn't like to hear people read with colds in their heads.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the very foot of the stair, close to the open door of their chamber, lay the seneschal and his wife: she with her head shorn from her shoulders, he thrust through with a sharpened stake, which still protruded from either side of his body.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Nigel's shield was broken, his crest shorn, his armor cut and smashed, and the vizor torn from his helmet; yet he sprang hither and thither with light foot and ready hand, engaging two Bretons and a Spaniard at the same instant—thrusting, stooping, dashing in, springing out—while Alleyne still fought by his side, stemming with a handful of men the fierce tide which surged up against them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A Flandrish hat of beevor, bearing in the band the token of Our Lady of Embrun, was drawn low upon the left side to hide that ear which had been partly shorn from his head by a Flemish man-at-arms in a camp broil before Tournay.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)