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.

A stable; a shippen.

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.

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.

A gleam or glimmering.

A chemise.

To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.

To cover or roof with shindles.

An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.

Shining; sheen.

That which shines. A luminary. A bright piece of money.

See Shyness.

To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

One who shingles.

A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.

The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.

Abounding with shingle, or gravel.

The hobblebush.

Emission or reflection of light.

Brightness.

The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.

One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.

An adherent of Shintoism.

A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game.

A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.

Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.

Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.

A ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard.

A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.

Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.

As much or as many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a ship.

A shipowner.