Sheeting (n.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.
Sheeting (n.) The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets.
Sheik (n.) The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade.
Sheil (n.) Alt. of Sheiling
Sheiling (n.) See Sheeling.
Shekel (n.) An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
Shekel (n.) A jocose term for money.
Shekinah (n.) The visible majesty of the Divine Presence, especially when resting or dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy seat, in the Tabernacle, or in the Temple of Solomon; -- a term used in the Targums and by the later Jews, and adopted by Christians.
Sheld (a.) Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald.
Sheldafle (n.) Alt. of Sheldaple
Sheldaple (n.) A chaffinch.
Sheldfowl (n.) The common sheldrake.
Sheldrake (n.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.
Sheldrake (n.) Any one of the American mergansers.
Shelduck (n.) The sheldrake.
Shelves (pl. ) of Shelf
Shelf (v. i.) A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
Shelf (v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
Shelf (v. i.) A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
Shelf (v. i.) A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
Shelfy (a.) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
Shelfy (a.) Full of strata of rock.
Shell (n.) A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
Shell (n.) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.
Shell (n.) A pod.
Shell (n.) The hard covering of an egg.
Shell (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.
Shell (n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
Shell (n.) A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.
Shell (n.) The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.
Shell (n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.
Shell (n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
Shell (n.) An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
Shell (n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works.
Shell (n.) The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
Shell (n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
Shell (n.) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.
Shelled (imp. & p. p.) of Shell
Shelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shell
Shell (v. t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.
Shell (v. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.
Shell (v. t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.
Shell (v. i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
Shell (v. i.) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
Shell (v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.
Shell-lac (n.) Alt. of Shellac
Shellac (n.) See the Note under 2d Lac.
Shellapple (n.) See Sheldafle.
Shellbark (n.) A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
Shelled (a.) Having a shell.
Sheller (n.) One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
Shellfish (n.) Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
Shelling (n.) Groats; hulled oats.
Shell-less (a.) Having no shell.
Shellproof (a.) Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
Shellwork (n.) Work composed of shells, or adorned with them.
Shelly (a.) Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell.
Shelter (n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
Shelter (n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
Shelter (n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
Sheltered (imp. & p. p.) of Shelter
Sheltering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shelter
Shelter (v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.
Shelter (v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
Shelter (v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.
Shelter (v. i.) To take shelter.
Shelterless (a.) Destitute of shelter or protection.
Sheltery (a.) Affording shelter.
Sheltie (n.) Alt. of Shelty
Shelty (n.) A Shetland pony.
Shelve (v. t.) To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.
Shelve (v. t.) To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim.
Shelved (imp. & p. p.) of Shelve
Shelving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shelve
Shelve (v. i.) To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.
Shelving (a.) Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore.
Shelving (n.) The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.
Shelving (n.) The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.
Shelving (n.) Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.
Shelvy (a.) Sloping gradually; shelving.
Shemite (n.) A descendant of Shem.
Shemitic (a.) Alt. of Shemitish
Shemitish (a.) Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic.
Shemitism (n.) See Semitism.
Shent (imp. & p. p.) of Shend
Shending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shend
Shend (n.) To injure, mar, spoil, or harm.
Shend (n.) To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame.
Shendful (a.) Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful.
Shendship (n.) Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace.
Shent () obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Shend, for shendeth.
Shent (v. t.) To shend.
Sheol (n.) The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave.
Shepen (n.) A stable; a shippen.
Shepherd (n.) A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
Shepherd (n.) The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.
Shepherded (imp. & p. p.) of Shepherd
Shepherding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shepherd
Shepherd (v. t.) To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.
Shepherdess (n.) A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass.