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.

One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.

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.

Groats; hulled oats.

Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.

Work composed of shells, or adorned with them.

Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell.

To take shelter.

Destitute of shelter or protection.

Affording shelter.

A Shetland pony.

To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.

The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.

Sloping gradually; shelving.

A descendant of Shem.

Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic.

See Semitism.

To injure, mar, spoil, or harm.

Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful.

Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace.

To shend.

The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave.

To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.

A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass.

A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elaeagnus; also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.

Resembling a shepherd; suiting a shepherd; pastoral.

Pastoral life or occupation.

A little shepherd.

Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

A seamstress.

To subject to the process of vapor galvanizing (which see, below).

A refreshing drink, common in the East, made of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as, orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc.

A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard.

The sacred law of the Turkish empire.

A member of an Arab princely family descended from Mohammed through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima. The Grand Shereef is the governor of Mecca.

The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace.

The office or jurisdiction of sheriff. See Shrievalty.

See Shearn.

Sherry.

A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.

Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback.

To shut.

To shoot.

The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard, or post.

Show.

A scarecrow.

One who shews. See Shower.

p. p. of Shew.

Same as Shiite; when used with a plural verb, the Shiites, collectively.

A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans.

A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii.

An unproductive mine; a duffer.

A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.

See Shy, to throw.

imp. p. p. of Shy.

A sheeling.

To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury.

One who, or that which, carries a shield.

A sheldrake.

Destitute of a shield, or of protection.

Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated.

A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling.

The act of shifting. The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.

Admitting of being shifted.

One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.

The quality or state of being shifty.

Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.

In a shifting manner.

Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management.

Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.

A sportsman; esp., a native hunter.

Straw.

The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.

To put under cover; to sheal.

An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks.

A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency.

Irresolution; hesitation; also, occupation with trifles.

In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner.

A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as /the Messiah,/ or as the city /Shiloh,/ or as /Rest./

See Shyly.

A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.

A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.