(adv.) Clean; quite; at once. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) A turn or change in a course. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) Shears See Shear. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and   lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and   swinging clear of it. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere;   downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. i.) 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. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as,   sheer muslin. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. t.) To shear.