Shave (v. t.) The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave.
Shaveling (n.) A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt.
Shaver (n.) One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.
Shaver (n.) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
Shaver (n.) One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
Shaver (n.) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.
Shaver (n.) A tool or machine for shaving.
Shaving (n.) The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.
Shaving (n.) That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument.
Shaw (n.) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
Shaw (n.) The leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc.
Shawfowl (n.) The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at.
Shawl (n.) A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders.
Shawl (v. t.) To wrap in a shawl.
Shawm (n.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
Shawnees (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.
Shay (n.) A chaise.
She (obj.) This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.
She (obj.) A woman; a female; -- used substantively.
Sheading (v. t.) A tithing, or division, in the Isle of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.
Sheaf (n.) A sheave.
Sheaves (pl. ) of Sheaf
Sheaf (n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
Sheaf (n.) Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.
Sheaf (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
Sheaf (v. i.) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
Sheafy (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.
Sheal (n.) Same as Sheeling.
Sheal (v. t.) To put under a sheal or shelter.
Sheal (v. t.) To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod.
Sheal (n.) A shell or pod.
Shealing (n.) The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell.
Shealing (n.) Same as Sheeling.
Sheared (imp.) of Shear
Shore () of Shear
Sheared (p. p.) of Shear
Shorn () of Shear
Shearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shear
Shear (v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Shear (v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
Shear (v. t.) To reap, as grain.
Shear (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
Shear (v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
Shear (v. t.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
Shear (v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
Shear (v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
Shear (v. t.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
Shear (v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.
Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
Shearbill (n.) The black skimmer. See Skimmer.
Sheard (n.) See Shard.
Shearer (n.) One who shears.
Shearer (n.) A reaper.
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
Shearing (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth.
Shearing (n.) Same as Shearling.
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping.
Shearing (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
Shearing (n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
Shearing (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
Shearling (n.) A sheep but once sheared.
Shearmen (pl. ) of Shearman
Shearman (n.) One whose occupation is to shear cloth.
Shearn (n.) Dung; excrement.
Shears (n.) A cutting instrument.
Shears (n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.
Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.
Shears (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
Shears (n.) Anything in the form of shears.
Shears (n.) A pair of wings.
Shears (n.) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle.
Shears (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe.
Sheartail (n.) The common tern.
Sheartail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.
Shearwater (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.
Sheatfish (n.) A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.
Sheath (n.) A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.
Sheath (n.) Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part.
Sheath (n.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.
Sheath (n.) One of the elytra of an insect.
Sheathbill (n.) Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas.
Sheathed (imp. & p. p.) of Sheathe
Sheating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheathe
Sheathe (v. t.) To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.
Sheathe (v. t.) To fit or furnish, as with a sheath.
Sheathe (v. t.) To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper.
Sheathe (v. t.) To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles.
Sheathed (a.) Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
Sheathed (a.) Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.
Sheather (n.) One who sheathes.
Sheathfish (n.) Same as Sheatfish.
Sheathing (p. pr. & a.) Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
Sheathing (n.) That which sheathes.
Sheathing (n.) The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing.
Sheathing (n.) The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general.
Sheathless (a.) Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
Sheath-winged (a.) Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.
Sheathy (a.) Forming or resembling a sheath or case.
Shea tree () An African sapotaceous tree (Bassia, / Butyrospermum, Parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained; the African butter tree.
Sheave (v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.