Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well-defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.

Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set.

Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively.

Having an acute or nicely discerning mind.

To grow or become sharp.

A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.

A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.

A stickleback.

In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely.

The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.

The great titmouse; -- so called from its harsh call notes.

One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.

A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.

The pintail duck. The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken.

The scarf of a turban.

A mountain peak, etc., in California.

A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas.

A shaftment.

A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.

Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild; similar to scatter-brained.

Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.

A thin slice; a shaving.

A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt.

One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.

The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.

A thicket; a small wood or grove.

The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at.

To wrap in a shawl.

A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.

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.

A chaise.

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.

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.

To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.

A shell or pod.

Same as Sheeling.

To deviate. See Sheer.

The black skimmer. See Skimmer.

See Shard.

One who shears.

The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

A sheep but once sheared.

One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

Dung; excrement.

A cutting instrument. 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.

The common tern. Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.

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 (Puffinus Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (Puffinus obscurus), and the greater shearwater (Puffinus major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.

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.

A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.

Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.

Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas.

To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.

Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.

One who sheathes.

Same as Sheatfish.

That which sheathes. The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing. 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.

Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.

Forming or resembling a sheath or case.

To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.

A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies.

A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop; a primitive dwelling; a shanty.

A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.

See Shekinah.

A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton.

A parting; a separation; a division.

One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears.

The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood.

A hut or small cottage in an exposed 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.

Same as Sheelfa.

Brightness; splendor; glitter.

Brightly.

Bright; shining; radiant; sheen.

Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.

Over-bashful; sheepish.

Silly; simple-minded; stupid.

One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.

Act of shearing sheep.

A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural.

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.

A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonn/e; -- usually in the plural.

The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (Viburnum Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.

To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts.

One who practices petty thefts.

A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.

A fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined.

A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook.

Of or pertaining to sheep.

A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep.

The starling.

A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.

A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus probatocephalus syn. Diplodus probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.

The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.

A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.

Resembling sheep; sheepish.

The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side. The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.

At once; absolutely.

The shearwater.

To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.

A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.

Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold.

Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.

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.

See Sheeling.

An evil spirit; the evil one; the devil. One of bad disposition; a fiend.

An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.

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.

Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald.

A chaffinch.

The common sheldrake.

Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (Tadorna cornuta syn. Tadorna tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.

The sheldrake.

A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.

Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.

To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.

Lac which has been reduced to a thin crust. See the Note under 2d Lac.

Having no shell.

See Sheldafle.

A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.

Having a shell.