Sheave (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.
Sheaved (a.) Made of straw.
Shebander (n.) A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies.
Shebang (n.) A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop.
Shebeen (n.) A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.
Shechinah (n.) See Shekinah.
Shecklaton (n.) A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton.
Shed (n.) A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.
Shed (imp. & p. p.) of Shed
Shedding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shed
Shed (v. t.) To separate; to divide.
Shed (v. t.) To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
Shed (v. t.) To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.
Shed (v. t.) To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
Shed (v. t.) To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
Shed (v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
Shed (v. i.) To fall in drops; to pour.
Shed (v. i.) To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
Shed (n.) A parting; a separation; a division.
Shed (n.) The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
Shed (n.) That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
Shed (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.
Shedder (n.) One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears.
Shedder (n.) A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state.
Shedding (n.) The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood.
Shedding (n.) That which is shed, or cast off.
Shelfa (n.) Alt. of Shilfa
Shilfa (n.) The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.
Sheeling (n.) A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed.
Sheely (n.) Same as Sheelfa.
Sheen (v. t.) Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny.
Sheen (v. i.) To shine; to glisten.
Sheen (n.) Brightness; splendor; glitter.
Sheenly (adv.) Brightly.
Sheeny (a.) Bright; shining; radiant; sheen.
Sheep (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
Sheep (n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow.
Sheep (n. sing. & pl.) Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
Sheepback (n.) A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; -- usually in the plural.
Sheepberry (n.) The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.
Sheepbite (v. i.) To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts.
Sheepbiter (n.) One who practices petty thefts.
Sheepcot (n.) Alt. of Sheepcote
Sheepcote (n.) A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.
Sheep-faced (a.) Over-bashful; sheepish.
Sheepfold (n.) A fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined.
Sheep-headed (a.) Silly; simple-minded; stupid.
Sheephook (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook.
Sheepish (a.) Of or pertaining to sheep.
Sheepish (a.) Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.
Sheepmaster (n.) A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep.
Sheeprack (n.) The starling.
Sheep's-eye (n.) A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural.
Sheep's-foot (n.) A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
Sheepshank (n.) A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.
Sheepshead (n.) A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, / Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.
Sheep-shearer (n.) One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
Sheep-shearing (n.) Act of shearing sheep.
Sheep-shearing (n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing.
Sheepskin (n.) The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
Sheepskin (n.) A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
Sheepsplit (n.) A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
Sheepy (a.) Resembling sheep; sheepish.
Sheer (v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
Sheer (v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
Sheer (v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
Sheer (v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
Sheer (adv.) Clean; quite; at once.
Sheer (v. t.) To shear.
Sheered (imp. & p. p.) of Sheer
Sheering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheer
Sheer (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.
Sheer (n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
Sheer (n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
Sheer (n.) A turn or change in a course.
Sheer (n.) Shears See Shear.
Sheerly (adv.) At once; absolutely.
Sheerwater (n.) The shearwater.
Sheet (v. t.) In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
Sheet (v. t.) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
Sheet (v. t.) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
Sheet (v. t.) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
Sheet (v. t.) the book itself.
Sheet (v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
Sheet (v. t.) A broad expanse of water, or the like.
Sheet (v. t.) A sail.
Sheet (v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
Sheet (v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.
Sheet (v. t.) The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
Sheeted (imp. & p. p.) of Sheet
Sheeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheet
Sheet (v. t.) To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
Sheet (v. t.) To expand, as a sheet.
Sheet anchor (v. t.) A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.
Sheet anchor (v. t.) Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge.
Sheet cable () The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.
Sheet chain () A chain sheet cable.
Sheetfuls (pl. ) of Sheetful
Sheetful (n.) Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold.
Sheeting (n.) Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.