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2. To cut by interception.

Thy father was a plaisterer, The sharp and toothed edge of the nether And thou thyself a shearman. Sbakspeare. chap strikes into a canal cut into the bone of the SHEA'R WATER. n. s. (laurus niger.] A upper; and the toothed protuberance of the up

fowl.

Ainswortb. per into a capal in the nether: by which means SHEATH, n. s. (rcæde, Saxon.) The he easily sbeers the grass whereon he feeds.

Grew.

case of any thing ; the scabbard of a TO SHEAR, V. n. [In navigation.] To

weapon. make an indirect course.

The dead knight's sword out of his sbeatb he

drew, SHEAR. *. s. [from the verb. It is With which he cut a lock off all their hair. seldom used in the singular,

Fairy Queen. but is found once in Dryden.]

Doth not each look a fiash of lightning feel, 1. An instrument to cut, consisting of two Which spares the body's sheatb, yet melts the

steel?

Cleavcland. blades moving on a pin, between which the thing cut is intercepted. Shears are

Swords by the lightning's subtile force distillid,

And the cold sbeaib with running metal fillid. a larger, and scissors a smaller, instrument

Addisen. of the same kind. Pope uses shears for

To SHEATH. scissors.

TO SHEATHE.

v. a. (from the noun.] Alas! thought Philoclea to herself, your sbeers

1. To enclose in a sheath or scabbard; to come too late to clip the bird's wings that already is flown away.

Sidney:

enclose in any case. Why do you bend such solemn brows on me?

This, drawn but now against my sovereign's Think' you 1 bear the sbears of destiny?

breast, Have I commandment on the pulse of life?

Before 't is shealb’d, shall give him peace and rest. Sbakspeare.

Walker. The fates prepar'd their sharpen'd sheers.

In his hair one hand he wreaths,
Dryden.

His sword the other in his bosom sbeatbs. Denb.
When the fleece is shorn,

Is this her hate to him, her love to me? Then their defenceless limbs the brambles tear;

"T is in my breast she sheaths her dagger now.

Dryden. Short of their wool, and naked from the sheer.

Dryden.

The left foot naked, when they march to fight, That people live and die, I knew,

But in a bull's raw hide they sheath the right. An hour ago, as well as you;

Dryden. And if fate spins us longer years,

The leopard, and all of this kind as goas, Or is in haste to take the sbears,

keeps the claws of his forefeet turned up from I know, we must both fortunes try,

the ground, and sbeathed in the skin of his tres, And bear our evils, wet or dry.

Prior. whereby he preserves them sharp for rapine, exHow happy should we be if we had the privi- tending them only when he leaps at the prey.

Gretu. lege of employing the sheers, for want of a mint, upon foreign gold, by clipping it into half-crowns! 2. [In philosophy.) To obtund any acrid

Swift. particles. Fate urg'd the sbears, and cut the sylph in Those active parts of a body are of differing twain;

natures when sbeatbed up or wedged in amongst But airy substance soon unites again.

Pope.

others, in the texture of a concrete, and when Beneath the sbears they felt no lasting smart; extricated from these impediments. Bugle. They lost but fleeces, while I lost a heart. Gay. Other substances, opposite to acrimony, are The denomination of the age of sheep. called demulcent or mild, because they blunt or

When sheep is one sbear, they will have two sbeatb those sharp salts; as pease and beans. broad teeth before; when two sbear, four; when

Arbutbrot. three, six ; when four, eight; and, after that, 3. To fit with a sheath. their mouths break.

Mortimer.

There was no link to colour Peter's hat, 3. Any thing in the form of the blades of Walter's dagger was not come froin sbeatbing. sbears.

Sbakspeare, 4. Wings, in Spenser.

4. To defend the main body by an outTwo sharp-wing'd sheers

ward covering Decked with divers plumes, like painted jays, It were to be wished that the whole navy Were fixed at his back to cut his airy ways. throughout were sheathed as some are. Raleigh.

Spenser. SHEATHWI'NGED.adj. [sheath and wing.) SHEARD. v. a. (rceand, Saxon.] A frag- Having hard cases which are folded over ment. It is now commonly written

the wings. sbard, and applied only to fragments of Some insects fly with four wings, as all vaginiearthen ware.

pennous or sheatbringed insects, as beetles and dorrs.

Brown, In the bursting of it, not a sberd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit. SHEA’THY. adj. [from sheath.] Forming

Isaiab.

a sheath. SøEA'RER.n. s. [from shear.] One that

With a needle put aside the short and sbeatby clips with shears ; particularly one that

cases on earwigs backs, and you may draw forth fleeces sheep.

two wings.

Brown. Of other care they little reck’ning make, Than how to scramble at the sbearers feast,

SHE'CKLATON. n. So And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Milt.

He went to fight against the giant in his robe Was he to be led as a lamb to the slaughter,

of shecklaton, which is that kind of gilded leather patient and resigned as a sheep before her sbear- with which they use to embroider the Irish

Rogers.
jackets.

Spenser, SHE A'RMAN. N. so [shear and man.] "He To SHED. v. a. (rcedan, Saxon.] that shears.

1. To effuse ; to pour out; to spill.

a

a

ers?

The painful service, and the drops of blood SHE'DDER. n. s. [from shed.] A spiller; Sbed for my thankless country, are requited

one who sheds. But with that surname of Coriolanus. Sbaksp. A shedder of blood shall surely die. Ezekiel. Cromwell, I did not think to sbed a tear

SHEEN. adj. [This was probably only In all my miseries.

Sbakspeare. For this is my blood which is sbed for many,

SHEE'NY. I the old pronunciation of for the remission of sins.

Mattbew. shine.] Bright; glittering; showy. Not Some think one gen'ral soul fills ev'ry brain,

in use. As the bright sun sbeds light in ev'ry star. Dav. That lewd ribbald with vile lust advanc'd,

Around its entry nodding poppies grow, Laid first his filthy hands on virgin clan, And all cool simples that sweet rest bestow;, To spoil her dainty corse so fair and sbeen. Night from the plants their sleepy virtue drains,

Fairy Queen. And passing sbeds it on the silent plains. Dryd. When he was all dight, he took his way

You seem'd to mourn another lover dead; Into the forest, that he might be seun
Aly sighs you gave him, and my tears you shed. Of the wild beasts, in his new glory sheen.
Dryden,

Hibberd's Tale. Unhappy man! to break the pious laws

Now they never meet in grove or green, Of nature, pleading in his children's cause: By fountain clear, or spangled star-light sbeen. T is love of honour, and his country's good;

Sbakspeare, The consul, not the father, sheds the blood.

Up rose each warrior bold and brave,

Dryden. Glistering in filed steel and armour sheen. Fairf. In these lone walls, their days eternal bound, Out of the hierarchies of angeis sheen, These moss-grown domes with spiry turrets The gentle Gabriel call'd he from the rest. Fairf. crown'd,

By the rushy fringed bank, Where awful arches make a noon-day night, Where grows the willow and the osier dank, And the dim windows sbed a solemn light, My sliding chariot stays, Thy eyes diffusd a reconciling ray,

Which set with agat, or the azure sheen, And gleams of glory brighten'd all the day. Pope.

Of turcois blue, and emerald green. Milton. 2. To scatter; to let fall.

Or did of late earch's sons besiege the wall Trees that bring forth their leaves late, and Sheen. a. s. (from the adjective.) Briglit

Of sheeny heav'n.

Milton. cast them late, are more lasting than those that sprout their leaves early, or shed them betimes. ness; splendour. Not used.

Bacon. Mercy will sit between, So the returning year be blest,

Thron'd in celestial sbeen.

Milton. As his infant months bestow

Far above, in spangled sheen, Springing wreaths for William's brow;

Celestial Cupid, her fam'd son, advanc'd, As his summer's youth shall sbed

Holds his dear Psyche sweet entranc'd. Milton Eternal sweets around Maria's head. Prior. SNEEP. n. s. plural likewise sheep. Irceap, T. SHED. V. n. To let fall its parts.

Saxon, of which the plural was seep; White oats are apt to sbed most as they lie, schaep, Dutch.) and black as they stand.

Mortimer. 1. The animal that bears wool : remark

able for its usefulness and innocence. SHED. x. s. (supposed by Skinner to, be

Fire the brambles, snare the birds, and steep corrupted from shade.]

In wholesome water-falls the fleecy sheep Dryd. 1. A slight temporary covering.

Of substances there are two sorts of ideas; one The first Aletes born in lowly sbed,

of single substances, as they exist separately, as Oi parents base, a rose sprung from a bride.

a man, or sheep.

Lockca Fairfax.

2. [In contempt.) A foolish silly fellow. Though he his house of polish'd marble build,

Ainsworth. With japer floor'd, and carved cedar ceil'd; Yet shall it ruin like the moth's frail cell, 3. [In theology.) The people, considered Or sbets of reeds which summer's heat repel. as under the direction of God, or of

Sandys.

their pastor. In such a season born, when scarce a sbed

We are his people, and the sheep of his pas. Could be obtain'd to shelter him or me

Psalms. From the bleak air.

Milton. To SHEE'PBITE. v. n. (sheep and bite.] So all our minds with his conspire to grace The Gentiles great apostle, and deface

To use petty thefts.

Shew your knave's visage, with a pox to you; Those state-obscuring sbeds, that like a chain Seem'd to confine and fetter him again. Waller.

shew your sbeepbiling face, and be hanged. Those houses then were caves, or homely sbeds

Sbakspeare

. With twining osiers fenc'd, and moss their beds. SHEE'PBITER. n. s. [from sheepbite.) A

Dryden. An hospitable house they found,

His gait like a sheepbiter fleering aside. Tusser. A honely sbed; the roof, not far from ground,

Wouldse thou not be glad to have the niggardly Was thatch'd with reeds and straw together rascally sheepbiter come to some notable shame? bound. Dryden.

Sbakspeare. Then out he steals, and finds where by the head There are political sheepbiters as well as pasTheir horse hung fasten'd underneath a shed. toral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of Betterton. private.

L'Estrange. Har various kinds, by various fortunes led, SHEE'PCOT.n. s. (sheep and cot.] A little Commence acquaintance underneath a shed. enclosure for sheep.

Swift.

Bedlam beggars, with roaring voices, Weak as the Roman chief, who strove to hide From lo v farms, sheepcots, and mills, His father's cot, and once his father's pride, Inforce their charity.

Sbakspeare. By casing a low sbed of rural mould

Up to a hill anon his steps he rear'd, With marble walls, and roof adorn'd with gold. From whose high top to ken the prospect round,

Harte.

If cottage were in view, sheepcot, or herd; 2. In composition, effusion; as, blood-shed. But cottage, herd, or sbeepcot, none he saw. Milt.

ture.

petty thief.

corners.

ar

ture.

master.

SHEE'PFOLD. n. s. (sheep and fold.] The I keep my birth-day; send my Phillis home place where sheep are inclosed.

At sbeering-time.

Dryders. The bear, the lion, terrors of the plain;

TO SHEER of: v. n. To steal away; to slip The sheepfold scatter’d, and the shepherd slain. off clandestinely.

Prior. SHEERS. N. s. (See SHEARS.) SHE E'P HOOK. n. s. [sheep and book.] A SHEET. 1. s. (rceat, Saxon.]

hook fastened to a pole, by which shop- 1. A broad and large piece of linen. herds lay hold on the legs of their sheep. He saw heaven opened, and a vessel descend

The one carried a crosier of balm-wood, the ing unto him, as a great sheet, knit at the four other a pastoral staff of cudar like a sheep-hook.

mois. Bacon. 2. The linen of a bed.

a If you dore think of deserving our charms,

If I die before thee, shroud me A say with your sleipbook, and take to your In one of these same sheets. Shahp?are.

Dryden. You think none but your sbeets are privy to SHEE'PISH. adj. [from sheep.] Bashful;

your wishes.

Sbakspeare. over-modest; timorously and meanly Some unequal bride in nobler sbeets disident.

Receives her jord.

Dryden. Wanting change of company, he will, when 3. [ecoutes, French ; echoten, Dutch.] In a he comes abroad, be a sberpish or conceited crea- ship are ropes bent to the clews of the

Locke. sails, which serve in all the lower sails SHE E'PISHNESS, n. s. [from sheepish ] · to hale or round off the clew of the sail; Bashfulness; mean and timorous difii

but in topsails they draw the sail close dence.

to the yard-arms. Dict.--- Dryden seeins Thy gentry bleats, as if thy native cloth

to understand it othervise. Trsrstus'd a sheepishaeis into thy story. Herbert.

The little word behind the back, and undoing Sheepisbress, and ignorance of the worid, are

whisper, like pulling off a sheet-rope at sea, slacknot consequences of being bred at home. Locke.

ens the sail. Without success, let a man be never so hardy,

Surking.

Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails, he will have some degree of sheepishness. Grew.

And rent the sheeis.

Dryden. SHEL'PMASTER. n. s. [ sheep and master.] 4. As much paper as is made in one body. A fecder if sheep.

As much love in rhime A nobleman was a great grasier and sheep

As could be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper,

Bacon. Writ on both sides the leaf, margin and all. SHEEP'S EYE. n. s. (sheep and eye.] A

Shakspeare, modest diffident look, such as lovers

When I first put pen to paper, I thought all I

should have to say would have been contained in Cast at their mistresses.

one sheet of
paper.

Lorte. Cast a sheep's eye behind you: in before me. I let the refracted light fall perpendicularly

Dryden. upon a sheet of white paper upon the opposite SHEEPS PE A'RING. 1. s. (sheep and spear. ] wall.

Newion, The time of shearing shecp; the feast 5. A single complication or fold of paper made when sheep are shorn.

in a book. Therс happening a solemn festivity, such as

6. Any thing expanded. the sheepskearings used to be, David begs some

Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunsmall repast.

South.
SILEŁ'PWALK. 11. s. [sheep and walk.] I never remember to have heard. Sbakspeare.
Pasture for sheep.

Rowling thunder roars,
He beheld a field,

And sheets of lightning blast the standing field. Part arable and tilth, whereon were sheaves

Dryden. New reap'd; the oiher part sheepwalks and folds.

An azure sbcet rushes broad,

Milton. And from the loud resounding rocks below SHEER. adj. [rcyn, Saxon.] Pure; clear;

Dash'd in a cloud of foam.

Thomson, unmingled.

7. Sherts in the plural is taken for a book. If she say, I am not fourteen pence on the score To this the following sheets are intended for a for sheer als, score me up for the lying'st rogue

full and distinct answer.

Waterland, in Christendoin,

Shakspeare. SHEET-anchor. 1. s. (sheet and anchor.] In Sbeer argument is not the talent of the man;

a ship, is the largest anchor; which, in little wrested sentences are the bladders which bear him up, and he sinks downright when he

stress of weather, is the mariners last once pretends to swim without them. Atterbury. refuge when an extraordinary stiff gaie SHEFR, udv. (from the adjective. Clean;

of wind happens.

Bailey. quick; at once. Not now in use, except TO SIEET. v. a. [from the noun.] in low language.

1. To furnish with sheets. Thrown by angry Jove

2. To enfold in a sheet.

a Sbeer o'er the crystal battlements; from morn

3. To cover as with a sheet. To noon he fell, from ncon to dowy eve,

Like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets, A summer's day; and with the setting sun The barks of trees thou browsed'st. Sbakspeare. Dropp'd from the zenith, like a falling star,

SHE'KEL. n. s. [.5pw] An ancient Jewish On Lemnos.

Milton. The sword of Satan, with steep force to smite

coin equal to four Attick drachms, or Descending, and in hait c: t sheer. Milton. four Roman denarii, in value about Due entrance he disdain'd, and in contempt 25. 6d. sterling,

Dict. At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound The Jews, albeit they detested images, yet Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within

imprinted upon their sbeckle on one side the Lights on his feet.

Milton,

golden pot which had the manna, and on the TO SHEER, v. a. (See SHEAR..]

other Aaron's rod.

Cainder.

der

The huge iron head six hundred shekels weigh’d, Some fruits are contained within a hard sbell, And of whole bodies but one wound it made; being the seeds of the plants. Arbutbnot. Able death's worst command to overdoe,

4. The covering of kernels. Destroying life at once and carcase too. Cowley.

Chang'd loves are but chang'd sorts of meat; This coat of mail weighed tive thousand sbekels

And, when he hath the kernel eat, of brass.

Broome.

Who doth not throw away the shell? Donna, SHE'LDAPLE. x.s. A chaffinch.

5. The covering of an egg. SHE'LDRAKE. n. S. A bird that preys upon

Think hini as a serpent's egg, fishes.

Which hatch'd would, as his kind, grow misSHELF. n. s. (rcylf, Saxon ; scelf, Dutch.]

chievous, 1. A board fixed against a supporter, so

And kill him in the shell.

Shakspeare. that any thing may be placed upon it.

6. The outer part of a house. About his shelves

The marquis of Medina Sidonia made the shell A beggarly account of empty boxes. Sbakspeare.

of a house, that would have been a very noble Bind fast, or from their sbeldes

building, had he brought it to perfection. Aldiso!. Your books will come and right themselves. 7. It is used for a musical instrument in

Swift. poetry, from testudo, Latin; the first 2. A sand bank in the sea; a rock under lyre being said to have been made by shallow water.

straining strings over the shell of a torOur transported souls shall congratulate each toise. other their having now fully escaped the numero Less than a god they thought there could not ous rocks, sbelves, and quicksands. Boyle.

dwell
Near the shelves of Circe's shores they run, Within the hollow of that sbell,
A dang'rous coast.
Dryden. That spoke so sweetly.

Dryden. de callid his money in;

8. The superficial part. But the prevailing love of pelf

So devout are the Romanists about this out. Soon split him on the former shelf;

ward shell of religion, that it an altar be moved, He put it out again.

Dryden. or a stone of it broken, it ought to be recon3. The plurai is analogically shelves; Dry- secrated.

4yliffe. den has shelfs, probably by negligence. TO SHELL. v. a. (from the noun.] To He seiz'd the helm; his fellows cheerd,

take out of the shell; to strip of the 'Turn'd short upon the shelfs, and madly steerid.

shell.

Dryden. SHE'LFY. adj. [from shelf.]

T. SHELL. V. n. 3. Full of hij len rocks or banks; full of

1. To fall off as broken shells.

The ulcers were cured and the scabs sbelled dangerous shallows.

off.

Wiseman. Glides by the syren cliffs, a shelfy coast, Long infamous for ships and sailors lost,

2. To cast the shell. And white with bones.

Dryden. SHE'LLDUCK. 1. s. A kind of wild duck. 2. I know not well the meaning in this

To preserve wild ducks and shellducks, have a

place walicd in with a pond. passage ; perhaps rocky.

Mortimer. The tillable fields are in some places so tough, SHE'LLFISH. n. s. [shell and fisk.) Fish that the plough will scarcely cut them; and in invested with a hard covering ; either some so sbelfy, that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root.

testaceous, as oysters; or crustaceous, Curew.

as lobsters. Shell, n. s. (rcyll, sceall, Sax. schale, The shells, being sound, were so like those schelle, Dutch.)

they saw upon their shores, that they never 1. The hard covering of any thing ; the questioned but that they were the exuviæ of external crust.

shelifish, and once belonged to the sea. Woodw. The sun is as the fire, and the exterior earth SHE'LLY. adj. [from shell.] is as the spull of the eolipile, and the abyss as the water within it; now when the heat of the

1. Abounding with shells.

The ocean rolling, and the shelly shore, sun had pierced through the shell and reached

Beautiful objects, shail delight no more. Prior. the waters, it rarefied them.

Burnet. Whatever we ferch from under ground is only

2. Consisting of shells. what is lod ed in the shell of the earth.

The conceit of Anaximander was, that the Locke.

first men, and all animals, were bred in some 2. The covering of a testaceous or crusta

warm moisture, inclosed in crustaceous skins, as ceous animal.

lobsters; and so continued, till their shelly priHer women wear

sons growing dry, and breaking, made way for The spoils of nations in an ear;

then.

Bentley. Chang'd for the treasure of a shell, And in their loose attires do siveil. Ben Jonson. SIJE’LTER. n. s: [Of this word the ety: Albion

mology is unknown: Skinner deduces it Was to Neptune recommended;

from shell; Davies from scýls, a shield, Peace and plenty spread the sails:

Saxon.] Venus, in her shell'hefore him,

I. A cover from any external injury or From the sands in safety bore him. Dyden. violence.

The shells served as moulds to this sand, which, We hear this fearful tempest sing,
when consolidated, and afterwards freed from its
investicnt sbell, is of the same shape as the ca-

Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm. Sbaksp. vity of the skeil.

They wish the mountains now might be again Woodward,

Thrown on them, as a sbelter from his ire. Milt. He whom ungrateful Athens could expel,

Heroes of old, when wounded, shelter sought; At all times just out when he sign’d the shell.

But he, who meets all dangers with disdain,

Pope. Ev’n in their face his ship to anchor brought, 3. The covering of the seeds of siliquous

And steeple high stood propt upon the main. plants.

Dryden.