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She

SHE, pronoun personal of the feminine gender. [She is perhaps the Heb. a woman or wife. Latin quoe.]

1. A pronoun which is a substitute for the name of a female, and of the feminine gender; the word which refers to a female mentioned in the preceding or following part of a sentence or discourse.

Then denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. Genesis 18:15.

2. She is sometimes used as a noun for waman or female, and in the plural; but in contempt or in ludicrous language.

Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive. Shak.

The shes of Italy shall not betray

My interest. Shak.

3. She is also used in composition for female, representing sex; as a she-bear; a she-cat.

Sheading

SHE'ADING, noun In the isle of Man, a riding, tithing or division, in which there is a corner or chief constable. The isle is divided into six sheading.

Sheaf

SHEAF, noun plural sheaves. [Latin scopa, scopo.]

1. A quantity of the stalks of wheat, rye, oats or barley bound together; a bundle of stalks or straw.

-The reaper fills his greedy hands,

And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands. Dryden.

2. Any bundle or collection; as a sheaf of arrows.

SHEAF, verb transitive To collect and bind; to make sheaves.

Sheal

SHEAL, to shell, not used.

Shear

SHEAR, verb transitive preterit tense sheared; participle passive sheared or shorn. The old preterit tense shore is entirely obsolete.

1. To cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades; to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. It is appropriately used for the cutting of wool from sheep on their skins, for clipping the nap from cloth, but may be applied to other things; as, a horse shears the ground in feeding much closer than an ox.

2. To separate by shears; as, to shear a fleece.

3. To reap. [Not in use.] Scotish.

SHEAR, To deviate. [See Sheer.]

Shear-Water

SHE'AR-WATER, noun A fowl. [Larus niger.] A species of petrel, (Procellaria puffinus, Linn.) found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. The cut-water, (Rhryncops nigra.)

Shearbill

SHE'ARBILL, noun [shear and bill.] A fowl, the black skimmer or cut-water.

Sheard

SHEARD, noun A shard. [See Shard.]

Sheared

SHE'ARED, participle passive Clipped; deprived of woll, hair, nap.

Shearer

SHE'ARER, noun One that shears; as a shearer of sheep.

Shearman

SHEARMAN, noun sher'man. One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

Shears

SHEARS, noun plural [from the verb.]

1. An instrument consisting of two blades with a bevel edge, movable on a pin, used for cutting cloth and other substances by interception between the two blades. shears differ from scissors chiefly in being larger.

Fate urg'd the shears and cut the sylph in twain. Pope.

2. Something in the form of the blades of shears

3. Wings. [Not in use.]

4. An engine for raising heavy weights. [See Sheers.]

5. The denomimation of the age of sheep from the cutting of the teeth; as sheep of one shear, two shear, etc. [Local.]

Sheat

SHEAT. [See Sheet.]

Sheath

SHEATH, noun

1. A case for the reception of a sword or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard. A sheath is that which separates, and hence a defense.

2. In botany, a membrane investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.

3. Any thin covering for defense; the wing-case of an insect.

SHEATH, verb transitive

Sheath-Winged

SHE'ATH-WINGED, adjective [sheath and wing.] Having cases for covering the wings; as a sheath-winged insect.

Sheathe

SHEATHE,

1. To put in a case or scabbard; as, the sheathe a sword or dagger.

2. To inclose or cover with a sheath or case.

The leopard-deeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes. Grew.

'Tis in my breast she sheathes her dagger now. Dryden.

3. To cover or line; as, to sheathe the bowels with demulcent or mucilaginous substances.

4. To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious or sharp particles.

5. To fit with a sheath.

6. To case or cover with boards or with sheets of copper; as, to sheathe a ship to protect it from the worms.

To sheathe the sword, a figurative phrase, to put an end to war or emnity; to make peace. It corresponds to the Indian phrase, to bury the hatchet.

Sheathed

SHE'ATHED, participle passive

1. Put in a sheath; inclosed or covered in a case; covered; lined; invested with a membrane.

2. adjective In botany, vaginate; invested by a sheath or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses.

Sheathing

SHE'ATHING, participle present tense Putting in a sheath; inclosing in a case; covering; liningl investing with a membrane.

SHE'ATHING, n, The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; or the materials for such covering.

Sheathless

SHE'ATHLESS, adjective Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.

Sheathy

SHE'ATHY, adjective Forming a sheath or a case.

Sheave

SHEAVE, noun In seamen's language, a wheel in which the rope works in a block. It is made of hard wood or a metal. When made of wood, it is sometimes bushed, that is, has a piece or perforated brass let into its center, the better to sustain the friction of the pin.

SHEAVE, verb transitive To bring together; to collect. [Not in use.]

Sheave-Hole

SHE'AVE-HOLE, noun A channel cut in a mast, yard or other timber, in which to fix a sheave.

Sheaved

SHE'AVED, adjective Made of straw. [Not in use.]

Shecklaton

SHECK'LATON, noun A kind of gilt lether. [Not in use.]

Shed

SHED, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive shed.

1. To pour out; to effuse; to spill; to suffer to flow out; as, to shed tears; to shed blood. The sun sheds light on the earth; the stars shed a more feeble light.

This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Matthew 26:28.

2. To let fall; to cast; as, the trees shed their leaves on autumn; fowls shed their fethers; and serpents shed their skin.

3. To scatter to emit; to throw off; to diffuse; as, flowers shed their sweets of fragrance.

SHED, verb intransitive To let fall its parts.

White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.

Mortimer.

SHED, noun

1. A slight building; a covering of timber and boards, etc. for shelter against and the inclemencies of weather; a poop house or hovel; as a horse-shed.

The first Aletes born in a lowly shed. Fairfax.

Sheds of reeds which summer's heat repel. Sandys.

2. In composition; effusion; as in slood-shed. [See the Verb.]

SHED, verb transitive To keep off; to prevent from entering; as a hut, umbrella or garment that sheds rain.

Shedder

SHED'DER, noun One that sheds or causes to flow out; as a shedder of blood.

Shedding

SHED'DING, participle present tense Effusing; causing to flow out; letting fall; casting; throwing off; sending out; diffusing; keeping off.

Sheen

SHEEN, adjective Bright; glittery; showy.

Sheeny

SHEE'NY,

Up rose each warrior bold and brave,

Glist'ring in filed steel and armor sheen. Fairfax. [This word is used only in poetry.]

SHEEN, noun Brightness; splendor.

Sheep

SHEEP, noun sing. and plu.

1. An animal of the genus Ovis, which is one of the most useful species that the Creator has bestowed upon man, and its wool constitutes a principal material of warm clothing, and its flesh is a great article of fool. The sheep is remarkable for its harmless temper ant its tmidity. the varieties are numerous.

2. In contempt, a silly fellow.

3. Figuratively, God's people are called sheep, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.

Sheep-Bite

SHEE'P-BITE, verb transitive [sheep and bite.] To practice petty thefts. [Not in use.

Sheep-Biter

SHEE'P-BITER, noun One who practices petty thefts. [Not in use.]

Sheep-Market

SHEE'P-M'ARKET, noun noun A place where sheep are sold.

Sheep-Master

SHEE'P-M'ASTER, noun [sheep and master.] A feeder of sheep; one that has the care of sheep.

Sheep-Shank

SHEE'P-SHANK, noun [sheep and shank.] Among seamen, a knot in a rope make to shorten it, as on a runner or a tie.

Sheep-Shearer

SHEE'P-SHEARER, noun [sheep and shear.] One that shears or cuts off the wool from sheep.

Sheep-Shearing

SHEE'P-SHEARING, noun

1. The act of shearing sheep.

2. The time of shearing sheep; also, a feast make on that occasion.

Sheep-Stealer

SHEE'P-STEALER, noun [sheep and steal.] One that steals sheep.

Sheep-Stealing

SHEE'P-STEALING, noun the act of stealing sheep.

Sheep-Walk

SHEE'P-WALK, noun [sheep and walk.] Pasture for sheep; a place where sheep feed.

Sheepcot

SHEE'PCOT, noun [sheep snd cot.] A small inclosure for sheep; a pen.

Sheepfold

SHEE'PFOLD, noun [sheep and fold.] A place where sheep are collected or confined.

Sheephook

SHEE'PHOOK, noun [sheep and hook.] A hook fastened fastened to a pole, by which shepherds lay hold holsd on hte legs of their sheep.

Sheepish

SHEE'PISH, adjective

1. Like a sheep; bashfus; timorous to excess; over-modest; meanly diffident.

2. Pertaining to sheep.

Sheepishly

SHEE'PISHLY, adverb Bashfully; with mean timidity or diffidence.

Sheepishness

SHEE'PISHNESS, noun Bashfulness; excessive modesty or diffidence; mean timorousness.

Sheeps-Eye

SHEE'P'S-EYE, noun [sheep and eye.] A modest diffident look, such as lovers casst at their mistresses.

Sheeps-Head

SHEE'P'S-HEAD, noun [sheep and head.] A fish caught on the shores of Connecticut and of Long Island, so called from the resemblance of its head to that of a sheep. It is esteemed delicious food.

Sheepskin

SHEE'PSKIN, noun The skin of a sheep; or the lether prepared from it.

Sheer

SHEER, adjective

1. Pure; clear; separate from anything foreign; unmingled; as sheer ale. But this application is unusual. We saysheer argument, sheer wit, sheer falsehook, etc.

2. Clear; thin; as sheer muslin.

SHEER, adverb Clean; quite; at once. Obs.

SHEER, verb transitive To sheer [Not in use.]

SHEER, verb intransitive [See Shear, the sense of which is to separate.]

1. In seamen's language, to decline or deviate from the line of the proper course, as a ship when not steered with steadiness.

2. To slip or move aside.

To sheer off, to turn or move aside to a distance.

To sheer up, to turn and approach to a place or ship.

SHEER, noun

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

2. The position in which a ship is sometimes kept at single anchor, to keep her clear of it.

To break sheer, to deviate from that position and fisk fouling the anchor.

Sheer-Hulk

SHEER-HULK, noun An old ship of war, fitted with sheers of apparatus to fix or take out the masts of other ships.

Sheerly

SHEE'RLY, adverb At once; quite; absolutely. Obs.

Sheers

SHEERS, noun plural An engine consisting of two or more pieces of timber or poses, fastened together near the top; used for raising heavy weights, particularly for hoisting the lower masts of ships.

Sheet

SHEET, noun [Latin schenda; Gr. The Greek and Latin words signify a table or plate for writing on; Latin scindo, Gr.]

1. A broad piece of cloth used as part of bed-furniture.

2. A broad piece of paper as it comes from the manufacturer. Sheets of paper are of different sizes, as royal, demi, foolscap, pot and post-paper.

3. A piece of paper printed, folede and bound, or formed in to a book in blank, and making four, eight, sixteen or twenty-four pages, etc.

4. Any thing expanded; as a sheet of water or of fire; a sheet of copper, lead or iron.

5. Sheets, plural a book or pamphlet. The following sheets contains a full answer to my opponent.

6. A sail.

SHEET, noun In nautical language, a rope fastened to one or both the lower corners of a sail to extend and retain it in a particular situation. When a ship sails with a side-wind, the lower corners of the main and fore-sails are fastened with a tackand a sheet.

SHEET, verb transitive

1. To furnish with sheets. [Little used.]

2. To fold in a sheet [Little used.]

3. To cover as with a sheet; to cover with something broad and thin.

When snow the pasture sheets. Shak.

To sheet home, is to haul home a sheet or extend the sail till the clew is close to the sheet-block.

Sheet-Anchor

SHEET-ANCHOR, noun

1. The largest anchor of a ship, which in stress of wheather is sometimes the seaman's last refuge to prevent the ship from going ashore. Hence,

2. The chief support; the last refuge for safety.

Sheet-Copper

SHEET-COPPER, noun Copper in broad thin plates.

Sheet-Iron

SHEET-IRON, noun Iron in sheets or broad thin plates.

Sheet-Lead

SHEET-LEAD, noun Lead in sheets.

Sheeting

SHEE'TING, noun Cloth for sheets.

Sheik

SHEIK, noun In Egypt, a person who has the care of a mosk; a kind of priest.

Sheild

SHEILD, noun

1. A broad piece of defensive armor; a buckler; used in war for the protection of the body. The shields of the ancients were of different shapes and sizes, triangular, square, oval, etc. made of lether or wood covered with lether, and borne on the left arm. This species of armor was a good defence angainst arrows , darts, spears, etc. but would not protect against bullets.

2. Defense; shelter; protection; or the person that defends or protects; as a chief, the ornament and the shield of the nation.

Fear not, Abram; I am they shield and thy exceedind great reward. Genesis 15:1.

3. In heraldry, the escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.

Shekel

SHEK'EL, noun [Heb. to way; Low Latin siclus.] An ancient weight and coin among the Jews and other nations of the same stock. Dr. Arbuthnot makes the weight to have been equal to 9 pennyweights, 2 4/7 grains, Troy weight, and the value of 2 Samuel 3:1 3/8d. sterling, or about half a dollar. Others make its value 2 Sam 6d. sterling. The golden shekel was worht 1. 16. 6. pounds sterling, about $8, 12.

Sheldafle

SHELD'AFLE, noun A chaffinch. This word is also written shell-apple.

Sheldrake

SHEL'DRAKE, noun An aquatic fowl of the duck kind, the Anas tadorna. It has a greenish black head, and its body is variegated with white.

Shelduck

SHEL'DUCK, noun A species of wild duck.

Shelf

SHELF, noun plural shelves.

1. A platform of boards or planks, elevated above the floor, and fixed and set on a frame or contiguous to a wall, for holding vessels, utensils, books and the like.

2. A sand bank in the sea, or a rock or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow and dangerous to ships.

3. In mining, fast ground; the part of the internal structure of the earth which lies in an even regular form.

Shelfy

SHELF'Y, adjective

1. Full if shelves; abounding with with sand bank or rocks lying near the surface of the water and rendering navigation dangerous; as a shelfy coast.

2. Hard; firm. [See Shelf, No. 3.] [Not in use.]

Shell

SHELL, noun

1. The hard and stony covering of certain fruits and of certain animals; as the shell of a nut; the shell of an oyster or lobster. the shells of animals are crustaceous or testaceous; crustaceous as that of the lobster, and testaceous as that of the oyster and clam.

2. The outer coat of an egg.

3. The outer part of a house unfinished. We say of a building that wants the interior timbers or finishing, that it is a mere shell.

4. An instrument of music, like testudo in Latin; the first lyre being make, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell

5. Oute ror superficial part; as the shell of religion.

6. A bomb.

Fossil shells, dug up from the earth.

SHELL, verb transitive

1. To strip or break off the shell; or to take out of the shell; as, to shell nuts or almonds.

2. To separate from the ear; as, to shell maiz.

SHELL, verb intransitive

1. To fall off, as a shell crust or exterior coat.

2. To cast the shell or exterior covering. Nuts shell in falling.

3. To be disengaged from the husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.

Shell-Fish

SHELL'-FISH, noun An aquatic animal whose covering consists of a shell, crustaceous or testaceous; as lobsters, crabs, oysters, clams, etc.

Shelled

SHELL'ED, participle passive Deprived of the shell; also, separated from the ear; as, shelled corn or maiz.

Shelling

SHELL'ING, participle present tense

1. Taking off the shell; casting the external hard covering; separating from hte husk and falling.

2. Separating from the ear, as maiz.

SHELL'-MEAT, noun Food consisting of shell fish.

SHELL'-WORK, Work composed of shells, or adorned with them.

Shelly

SHELL'Y, adjective

1. Abounding with shells; as the shelly shore.

2. Consisting of shells. Lobsters disengage themselves from their shelly prisons.

Shelter

SHEL'TER, noun [Latin celo.]

1. That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance. A house is a shelter from rain and other inclemencies of the weather; the foliage of a tree is a shelter from the rays of the sun.

The healing plant shall aid,

From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. Pope.

2. The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.

Who into shelter takes their tender bloom. Young.

3. He that defends or guards from danger.

SHEL'TER, verb transitive

1. To cover from violence, injury, annoyance or attack; as a valley sheltered from the north wind by a mountain.

Those ruins shelter'd once his sacred head. Dryden.

We besought the deep shelter to us. Milton.

2. To defend; to protect from danger; to secure or render safe; to harbor.

What endless shall you gain,

to save and shelter Troy's unhappy train? Dryden.

3. To betake to cover or a safe place.

They sheltered themselves under a rock. Abbot.

4. To cover from notice; to disguise for protection.

In vain I strove to check my growing flame,

Or shelter passion under friendship's name. Prior.

SHEL'TER, verb intransitive To take shelter

There the Indian herdsman shunning heat,

Shelters in cool. Milton.

Sheltered

SHEL'TERED, participle passive Covered from injury or annoyance; defended; protected.

Sheltering

SHEL'TERING, participle present tense Covering from injury or annoyance; protecting.

Shelterless

SHEL'TERLESS, adjective Destitute of shelter or protection; without home or refuge.

Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.

Sheltery

SHEL'TERY, adjective affording shelter. [Little used.]

Sheltie

SHEL'TIE, noun A small but strong horse in Scotland; so called from Shetland, where it is produced.

Shelve

SHELVE, verb transitive shelv. To place on a shelf or on shelves. [Not in use.]

SHELVE, verb intransitive to incline; to be sloping.

Shelving

SHELV'ING, participle present tense or adjective Inclining; sloping; having declivity.

With rocks and shelving arches vaulted round. Addison.

Shelvy

SHELV'Y, adjective Full of rocks or sand banks; shallow; as a shelvy shore. [See Shelfy.]

Shemitic

SHEMIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah. The Shemetic languages are Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Samaria, Ethiopic and Old Phoenician.

Shend

SHEND, verb transitive ptet. and participle passive shent.

1. To injure, mar or spoil. Obs.

That much I fear my body willbe shent. Dryden.

2. To blame, reproach. revile, degrade, disgrace.

The famous name of knighthood foully shend. Spenser.

3. To overpower or surpass.

She pass'd the rest as Cynthia doth shend

The lesser stars.

Shent

SHENT, participle passive Infured. Obsolete unless in poetry.

Shepherd

SHEP'HERD, noun

1. A man employed in tending, feeding and gaurding sheep in the pasture.

2. A swain; a rural lover.

3. The pastor of a parish, church or congregation; a minister of the gospel who superintends a church or parish, and gived instruction in spiritual things. God and Christ are in Scripture dinominated Shepherds, as they lead, protect and govern their people, and provide for their wilfare.

Shepherdess

SHEP'HERDESS, noun A woman that tends sheep; hence, a rural lass.

She put herself into the garb of a sheperdess. Sidney.

Shepherdish

SHEP'HERDISH, adjective Resembling a shepherd; suiting a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

Shepherdly

SHEP'HERDLY, adjective Pastoral; rustic.

SHEPHERD'S NEEDLE, noun A plant of the genus Scandix; Venus comb.

SHEPHERD'S POUCH, noun A plant of the genus Thlaspi.

SHEPHERD'S PURSE,

SHEPHERD'S ROD, noun A plant of the genus Dipsacus; teasel.

SHEPHERD'S STAFF, noun A plant of the genus Dipsacus.

Sherbet

SHER'BET, noun [L. sorbeo.] A drink composed of water, lemon juice and sugar, sometimes with perfumed cakes dissolved in it, with an infusion of some drops of rose water. Another kind made with violets, honey, juice of rasins, etc.

Sherd

SHERD, noun A pragment; usually written shard, which see.

Sherif

SHER'IF, noun An officer in each county, to whom is entrusted the execution of the laws. In England, sherifs are appointed by the king. In the United States, sherifs are elected by legislature or by the citizens, or appointed and commissioned by the executive of the state. The office of sherif in England is judicial and ministerial. In the United States it is mostly or wholly ministerial. The sherif by himself or his deputies, executes civil and criminal process throughout the county, has charge of the jail and prisoners, attends courts and keeps the peace.

Sherifalty

SHER'IFALTY, noun The office or jurisdiction of sherif. [I believe none of these are in

Sherifdom

SHER'IFDOM, use. See Shrievalty.

Sherriffe

SHER'RIFFE, noun The title of a descendant of Mohammed by Hassan Ibn Ali.

Sherry

SHER'RY, noun [sometimes written sherris.] A species of wine; so called from Xeres in Spain, where it is made.

Shew, Shewed, Shewn. [See Show, Showed, Shown.]

Shew-Bread

SHEW-BREAD. [See Show-bread.]

Shewer

SHEW'ER, noun One that shows. [See Shower.]

Shewing

SHEWING. [See Showing.]

Shibboleth

SHIB'BOLETH, noun [Heb. an ear of corn, or a stream of water.]

1. A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites not being able to pronounce the letter sh, pronounced the word sibboleth. See Judges 12:6. Hence,

2. The criterion of a party; or that which distinguishes one party from another; and usually some peculiarity in things of little importance.

Shide

SHIDE, noun A piece split off; a cleft; a piece; a billet of wood; a splinter.

[Not used in New England, and local in England.]

Shield

SHIELD, verb transitive

1. To cover, as with a shield; to cover from dasnger; to defend; to protect; to secure form assault or injury.

To see the son the vanquish'd father shield. Dryden.

Hear one that comes to shield his injur'd honor. Smith.

2. To ward off; to defend against; as clothes shield one from the cold.

Shielded

SHIE'LDED, participle passive Covered, as with a shield; defended; protected.

Shielding

SHIEL'DING, participle present tense Covering, as with a shield; defending from attack or injury; protected.

Shift

SHIFT, verb intransitive

1. To move; to change place or position. Vegetables are not able to shift and seek nutriment.

2. To change its direction; to vary; as, the wind shifted from south to west.

3. To change; to give place to other things.

4. To change clothes particularly the under garment or chemise.

5. To resort to expedients for a livelihood, or for accomplishing a purpose; to move from one thing to another, and to seize one expedient when anohter fails.

Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can. L'Estrange.

6. To practice indirect methods.

7. To seek methods of safety.

Nature teaches every creature how to shift for itself in cases of danger.

L'Estrange.

8. To change place; as, cargo shifts from one side to the other.

SHIFT, verb transitive

1. To change; to alter; as, to shift the scenes.

2. To transfer from one place or position to another; as, shift the helm; shift the sails.

3. To put out of the way by some expedient.

I shifted him away.

4. To change, as clothes; as, to shift a coat.

5. To dress in fresh clothes. Let him have time to shift himself.

To shift about, to turn quite round, to a contrary side or opposite point.

To shift off, to delay; to defer; as, to shift off the duteis of religion.

2. To put away; to disengage or disencumber one's self, as of a burden or inconvenience.

SHIFT, noun

1. A change; a turning from one thing to another; hence, an expedient tried in difficulty; one thing tried when another fails.

I'll find a thousand shifts to get away. Shak.

2. In a bad sense, mean refuge; last resource.

For little soul on little shifts rely. Dryden.

3. Fraud; artifice; expedient to effect a bad purpose; or an evasion; a trick to escape detection or evil.

4. A woman's under garment; a chemise.

Shifted

SHIFT'ED, participle passive Changed from one place or position to another.

Shifter

SHIFT'ER, noun

1. One that shifts; the person that plays tricks or practices artifice.

2. In ships, a person employed to assist the ship's cook in washing, steeping and shifting the salt provisions.

Shifting

SHIFT'ING, participle present tense Changing place or position; reporting from one expedient to another.

Shiftingly

SHIFT'INGLY, adverb By shifts and changes; deceitfully.

Shiftless

SHIFT'LESS, adjective Destitute of expedients, or not resorting to successful expedients; wanting means to act or live; as a shiftless fellow.

Shilf

SHILF, noun Straw.

Shill

SHILL, to shell, not in use.

SHILL, verb transitive To put under cover; to sheal. [Not in use or local.]

Shilling

SHIL'LING, noun An English silver coin equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound. The English shilling or shilling sterling, is equivilent to nearly 22 cents, 22 hundredths, money of the United States. Our ancestors introduced the name with the coin into this country, but by depreciation the value of the shilling shrunk in New England and Virginia one fourth, or to a fraction less than 17 cents, in New York to 12 1/2 cents, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland to about 11 cents.

This denomination of money still subsists in the United States, although there is no coin of that value current, except the Spanish coin of 12 1/2/ cents, which is a shilling in the money in the state of New York. Since the adoption of the present coins of the United States, eagles, dollars, cents, etc. the use of the shilling is continued only by habit.

Shilly-Shally

SHILLY-SHALLY, noun Foolish trifling; irresolution. [Vulgar.] [This word has probably been written shill-I shall-I, from an ignorance of its origin.]

Shily

SHI'LY. [See Shyly.]

Shimner

SHIM'NER, verb intransitive To gleam; to glisten. [Not in use.]

Shin

SHIN, noun The fore part of the leg, particularly of the human leg; the fore part of the crural bone, called tibia. This bone being only covered by the skin, may be named for that circumstance; skin-bone; or it may be formed from the root of chine, edge.

Shine

SHINE, verb intransitive [If s is a prefix, this word accords with the root of Latin canus, caneo.

1. To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit lightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night. Shining differs from sparkling, glistening, glittering, as it usually implies a steady radiation or emission of light, whereas the latter words usually imply irregular or interrupted radiation. This distinction is not always not always observed, and we may say, the fixed stars shine, as well as they sparkle. But we never say the sun or the moon sparkles.

2. To be bright; to be lively and animated; to be brilliant.

Let thine eyes shine forth in their full luster. Denham.

3. To be unclouded; as, the moon shines.

4. To be glossy or bright, as silk.

Fish with their fins and shining scales. Milton.

5. To be gay or splendid.

So proud she shined in her princely state. Spenser.

6. To be beautiful.

Once brightest shin'd this child of heat and air. Pope.

7. To be eminent, conspicuous or distinguished; as, to shine in courts.

Few are qualified to shine in company. Swift.

8. To give light, real or figurative.

The light of righteousness hath not shined to us. Wisdom.

9. To manifest glorious excellencies.

10. To be clearly published.

11. To be conspicuously displayed; to be manifest.

Let your light so shine before men- Matthew 5:16.

To cause the face to shine, to be propitious.

SHINE, noun

1. Fair weather.

Be it fair or foul, rain or shine. Dryden.

2. Brightness; splendor; luster; gloss.

The glittering shine of gold. Decay of Piety.

Fair op'ning to some court's propitious shine. [Not elegant.] Pope.

Shiness

SHI'NESS. [See Shyness.]

Shingle

SHIN'GLE, noun [Gr.; Latin scinkula, from scindo.]

1. A thin board sawed or rived for covering buildings. Shingles are of different lengths, with one end much thinner than the other for lapping. They are used for covering roofs and sometimes the body of the builking.

2. Round gravel, or a collection of roundish stones.

The plain of La Crau in France, is composed of shingle. Pinkerton.

3. Shingles, plural [Latin cingulum, ] a kind of tetter or herpes which spreads around the body like a girdle; an eruptive disease.

SHIN'GLE, verb transitive To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.

Shingled

SHIN'GLED, participle passive Covered with shingles.

Shingling

SHIN'GLING, participle present tense Covering with shingles.

Shining

SHI'NING, participle present tense

1. Emitting light; beaming; gleaming.

2. adjective Bright; splendid; radiant.

3. Illustrious; distinguished; conspicuous; as a shining example of charity.

SHI'NING, noun Effusion or clearness of light; brightness.

Shiny

SHI'NY, adjective Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

Like a distant thunder on a shiny day. Dryden.

Ship

SHIP, as a termination, denotes state or office; as in lordship.

SHIP. [See Shape.]

SHIP, noun [Latin scapha; from the root of shape.] In a general sense, a vessel or building of a peculiar structure, adapted to navigation, or floating on water by means of sails. In an appropriate sense, a building of a structure or form fitted for navigation, furnished with a bowsprit and three masts, a main-mast, a fore-mast and a mizen-mast, each of which is composed a lower-mast, a top-mast and top-gallant-mast, and square rigged. Ships are of various sizes and are for various uses; most of them however fall under the denomination of ships of war and merchant's ships.

SHIP, verb transitive

1. To put on board of a ship or vessel of any kind; as, to ship goods at Liverpoll for New York.

2. To transport in a ship; to convey by water.

The sun shall no sooner the mountains touch,

But we will ship him hence. Shak.

3. To receive into a ship or vessel; as, to ship at sea.

To ship the oars, to place them in the rowlocks.

To ship off, to send away by water; as, to ship off convicts.

SHIP'-BUILDER, noun [ship and builder.] A man whose occupation is to construct

SHIP'-BILDER, ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.

Ship-Building

SHIP'-BUILDING, noun [ship and build.] Naval architecture; the art of constructing

SHIP'-BILDING, vessels for navigation, particularly ships and other vessels of a large kind, bearing masts; in distinction from boatbuilding.

Ship-Carpenter

SHIP-C'ARPENTER, noun A shipwright; a carpenter that works at ship-building.

Ship-Chandler

SHIP-CH'ANDLER, noun [ship and chandler.] One who deals in cordage, canvas and other furniture of ships.

SHIP'-HOLDER, noun [ship and hold.] The owner of a ship or of shipping.

Shipboard

SHIP'BOARD, adverb [ship and board.]

1. To go on shipboard or a shipboard is to go aboard; to enter a ship; to embark; literally, to go over the side. It is a peculiar phrase, and not much used. Seamen say, to go aboard or on board.

To be on ship board, to be in a ship; but seamen generally say, to go aboard or on board.

2. noun The pland of a ship. [Not now used.]

SHIP'-BOY, noun A boy that serves on board of a ship.

Shipless

SHIP'LESS, adjective Destitute of ships.

Shipman

SHIP'MAN, noun [ship and man.] A seaman or sailor. Obs.

Shipmaster

SHIP'M'ASTER, noun [ship and master.] The captain, master or commander of a ship.

Shipment

SHIP'MENT, noun

1. The act of putting any thing on board of another ship or vessel; embarkation; as, he engaged in the shipment of coal for London.

2. The goods or things shipped, or put on board of another ship or vessel. We say, the merchants have made large shipments to the United States.

The question is whether the share of M in the shipment is exempted from the condemnation by reason of his nuetral domicil. J. Story.

SHIP'-MONEY, noun [ship and money.] In English history, the imosition formerly charged on the ports, towns, cities, boroughs and counties of England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for the king's service. This imosition being laid by the king's writ under the great seal, without the consent of the parliament, was held to contrary to the laws and statutes of th erealm, and abolished by Stat. 17 Car. 11.

Shipped

SHIP'PED, participle passive Put on board of a ship or vessel; received on board.

Shippen

SHIP'PEN, noun A stable; a cow house. [Not in use.]

Shipping

SHIP'PING, participle present tense

1. Putting on board of a ship or vessel; receiving on board.

2. adjective Relating to ships; as shipping concerns.

SHIP'PING, noun Ships in general; ships or vessels of any kind for navigation. The shipping of the English nation exceeds that of any other. The tunnage of shipping belonging to the United States is second only to that of Great Britain.

To take shipping to embark; to enter on board a ship or vessel for conveyance or passage.

SHIP'-SHAPE, adverb In a seamanlike manner.

Shipwreck

SHIP'WRECK, noun [ship and wreck.]

1. The destruction of a ship or vessel by being cast ashore or broken to pieces by beating against rocks and the like.

2. The parts of a shattered ship.

3. Destruction.

To make a shipwreck concerning faith, is to apostatize from the love, profession and dpractice of divine truth which had been embraced.

SHIP'WRECK, verb transitive

1. To destroy by running ashore or on ricks or sand banks. How many vessels are annually shipwrecked on the Bahama rocks!

2. To suffer the perils of being cast away; to be cast ashore with the loss of the ship. The shipwrecked mariners were saved.

Shipwrecked

SHIP'WRECKED, participle passive Cast ashore; dashed upon the rocks or banks; destroyed.

Shipwright

SHIP'WRIGHT, noun [ship and wright. See Work.] One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.

Shire

SHIRE, noun In England, a division of territory, otherwise called a county. The shire was originally a division of the kingdom under the jurisdiction of an earl or count, whose authority was entrusted to the sherif. [shire-reeve.] On this officer the goverment ultimately devolved. In the United States, the corresponding division of a state is called a county, but we retain shire in the in the compound half-shire; as when the county court is held in two towns in the same county alternately, we call one of the divisions a half-shire.

In some states, shire as the constituent part of the name of a county, as Berkshire, Hampshire, in Massachusetts. These being the names established by law, we cannot say, the county of Berkshire, and we cannot with propriety say, the caounty of Berks, for there is no county in Massa chusetts thus named.

Shire-Mote

SHI'RE-MOTE, noun Anciently in England, the county court; sherif's turn or court.

Shirk

SHIRK, a different spelling of shark, which see.

Shirl

SHIRL, a different spelling of shorl. [See Shorl.]

Shirley

SHIR'LEY, noun A bird, by some called the greater bullfinch; having the upper part of the body a dark brown, and the throat and breast read.

Shirt

SHIRT, noun shurt. [Latin curtus.] A loose garment of linen, cotton or other material, worn by men and boys next the body.

It is folly for a nation to export beef and linen, while a great part of the peaple are obliged to subsist on potatoes, and have no shirts to wear. adjective.M.

SHIRT, verb transitive shurt.

1. To cover or clothe, as with a shirt

2. To change the shirt and put on a clean one.

Shirtless

SHIRTLESS, adjective shurt'less. Wanting a shirt.

Shist

SHIST, noun A species of argillaceous earth or slate; clay or slate.

Shistic

SHIST'IC, adjective Pertaining to shist, or partaking of its properties.

Shistous

SHIST'OUS,

Shistus

SHIST'US,

Shittah

SHIT'TAH, noun In Scripture, a sort of precious wood of which the tables, altars and

Shittam

SHIT'TAM, boards of the tabernacle were made among the Jews. Teh wood is said to be hard, tough and smooth, and very beautiful.

Shittle

SHIT'TLE, adjective [See Shoot.] Wavering; unsettled. [Not used or or local.]

Shittle-Cock

SHITTLE-COCK. [See Shuttle-cock.]

Shittleness

SHIT'TLENESS, noun Unsettledness; inconsistancy. [Not used or local.]

Shive

SHIVE, noun shiv.

1. A slice; a thin cut; as a shive of bread. [Not in use.]

2. A thin flexible piece cut off. [Not in use.]

3. A little piece or fragment; as the shives of flax made by breaking

Shiver

SHIV'ER, noun

1. In mineralogy, a species of blue slate; shist; shale.

2. In seamen's language, a little wheel; a sheeve.

SHIV'ER, verb transitive [supra. Qu. Heb. to break in pieces. Class Br. No.26.] To break into many small pieces or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow.

The ground with shiver'd armor strown. Milton.

SHIV'ER, verb intransitive

1. To fell at once into many small pieces or parts.

The natural world, should gravity once cease, would instantly shiver into of millions of atoms. Woodward.

2. To quake; to tremble; to shudder; to shake, as with cold, ague; fear or horror.

The man that shiver'd on the brink of sin. Dryden.

Prometeus is laid

On icy Caucasus to shiver. Swift.

3. To be affected with a thrilling sensation, like that of chillness.

Any very harsh noise will set the teeth on edge, and make all the body shiver.

Shak.

SHIV'ER, noun

1. A small piece or fragment into which a thing breaks by any sudden violence.

He would pound thee into shivers with his fist, as a sailor breaks his biscuit.

Shak.

2. A slice; a sliver.

Shiver-Spar

SHIV'ER-SP'AR, noun A corbonate of lime, so called for its slaty structure; called also slate-spar.

Shivered

SHIV'ERED, participle passive Broken or dashed into small pieces.

Shivering

SHIV'ERING, participle present tense

1. Breaking or dashing into small pieces.

2. Quaking; trembling; shaking, as with cold or fear.

SHIV'ERING, noun

1. The act of breaking or dashing to pieces; division; severance.

2. A trembling; a shaking with cold or fear.

Shivery

SHIV'ERY, adjective Easily falling inot many pieces; not firmly cohering; incompact; as shivery stone.

Shoad

SHOAD, noun Among miners, a train of metallic stones which serves to direct them in the discovery of mines.

Shoad-Stone

SHOAD-STONE, noun A small ston, smooth, of a dark liver color with a shade of purple. Shoad-stoners are loose masses found at the entrances of mines, sometimes running in a straight line from the surface to a vein of ore. They appear to be broken from the strata or larger massess; they usually contain mundic, or marcastic matter, and a portion of the ore of the mine.

Shoal

SHOAL, noun

1. A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; as shoals of people. Immense shoals of herring appear on the coast in the spring.

The vices of a prince draw shoals of followers. Decay of Piety.

2. A place where the water of a river, lake or sea is shallow or af little depth; a sand bank or bar; a shallow. The entrance of rivers is often rendered difficult or dangerous by shoals.

SHOAL, verb intransitive

1. To crowd; to throng; to assemble in a multitude. The fishes shoaled about the place.

2. To become more shallow. The water shoals as we approach the town.

SHOAL, adjective Shallow; of little depth; as shoal water.

Shoaliness

SHOALINESS, noun [from shoaly.]

1. Shallowness; little depth of water.

2. The state of abounding with shoals.

Shoaly

SHOALY, adjective Full of shoals or shallow places.

The tossing vessel sail'd on shoaly ground. Dryden.

Shock

SHOCK, noun

1. A violent collision of bodies, or the concussion which it occasions; a viosent striking or dashing against.

The strong unshaken mounds resist the shocks

Of tides and seas. Blackmore.

2. Violent onset; conflict of contending armies or foes.

He stood the shock of a whole host of foes. Addison.

3. External violence; as the shocks of fortune.

4. Offense; impression of disgust.

Fewer shocks a staesman gives his friend. Young.

5. In electricity, the effect on the animal system of a discharge of the fluid from a charged body.

6. A pile of sheaves of wheat, rey, etc.

And cause it on shocks to be by and by set. Tusser.

Behind th emaster walks, builds up th eshocks. Thomson.

7. In New England, the number of sixteen sheaves of wheat, rye, etc. [This is the sense in which this word is generally used with us.]

8. A dog with long rough hair or shag. [from shag.]

SHOCK, verb transitive

1. To shake by the sudden collision of a body.

2. To meet with force; to encounter.

3. To strike, as with horror or disgust; to cause to recoil, as from something odious or horrible; to offend extremely; to disgust. I was shocked at the sight of so much misery. A void everything that can shock the feelings of delicacy.

Advise him not to shock a father's will. Dryden.

SHOCK, verb intransitive To collect sheaves into a pile; to pile sheaves.

Shocked

SHOCK'ED, participle passive

1. Struck, as with horror; offended; disgusted.

2. Piled, as in sheaves.

Shocking

SHOCK'ING, participle present tense

1. Shaking with sudden violence.

2. Meeting in onset or violent encounter.

And now with shouts the shocking armies clos'd. Pope.

3. adjective Striking, as with horror; causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.

The French humor- is very shocking to the Italians. Addison.

Shockingly

SHOCK'INGLY, adverb In a manner to strike with horror or disgust.