SHEET-LEAD
SHEET-LEAD, noun Lead in sheets.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SHEETING
SHEE'TING, noun Cloth for sheets.
SHEIK
SHEIK, noun In Egypt, a person who has the care of a mosk; a kind of priest.
SHEILD
SHEILD, noun1. A broad piece of defensive armor; a buckler; used in war for the protection of the body. The shields of the ancients were of different shapes and sizes, triangula...
SHEKEL
SHEK'EL, noun [Heb. to way; Low Latin siclus.] An ancient weight and coin among the Jews and other nations of the same stock. Dr. Arbuthnot makes the weight to have been equal t...
SHELDAFLE
SHELD'AFLE, noun A chaffinch. This word is also written shell-apple.
SHELDRAKE
SHEL'DRAKE, noun An aquatic fowl of the duck kind, the Anas tadorna. It has a greenish black head, and its body is variegated with white.
SHELDUCK
SHEL'DUCK, noun A species of wild duck.
SHELF
SHELF, nounpluralshelves.1. A platform of boards or planks, elevated above the floor, and fixed and set on a frame or contiguous to a wall, for holding vessels, utensils, books ...
SHELFY
SHELF'Y, adjective1. Full if shelves; abounding with with sand bank or rocks lying near the surface of the water and rendering navigation dangerous; as a shelfy coast.2. Hard; f...
SHELL
SHELL, noun1. The hard and stony covering of certain fruits and of certain animals; as the shell of a nut; the shell of an oyster or lobster. the shells of animals are crustaceo...
SHELL-FISH
SHELL'-FISH, noun An aquatic animal whose covering consists of a shell, crustaceous or testaceous; as lobsters, crabs, oysters, clams, etc.
SHELLED
SHELL'ED, participle passive Deprived of the shell; also, separated from the ear; as, shelled corn or maiz.
SHELLING
SHELL'ING, participle present tense1. Taking off the shell; casting the external hard covering; separating from hte husk and falling.2. Separating from the ear, as maiz.SHELL'-M...
SHELLY
SHELL'Y, adjective1. Abounding with shells; as the shelly shore.2. Consisting of shells. Lobsters disengage themselves from their shelly prisons.
SHELTER
SHEL'TER, noun [Latin celo.]1. That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance. A house is a shelter from rain and other inclemencies of the weather; the foliage of a tree...
SHELTERED
SHEL'TERED, participle passive Covered from injury or annoyance; defended; protected.
SHELTERING
SHEL'TERING, participle present tense Covering from injury or annoyance; protecting.
SHELTERLESS
SHEL'TERLESS, adjective Destitute of shelter or protection; without home or refuge.Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
SHELTERY
SHEL'TERY, adjective affording shelter. [Little used.]
SHELTIE
SHEL'TIE, noun A small but strong horse in Scotland; so called from Shetland, where it is produced.
SHELVE
SHELVE, verb transitiveshelv. To place on a shelf or on shelves. [Not in use.]SHELVE, verb intransitive to incline; to be sloping.
SHELVING
SHELV'ING, participle present tense or adjective Inclining; sloping; having declivity.With rocks and shelving arches vaulted round. Addison.
SHELVY
SHELV'Y, adjective Full of rocks or sand banks; shallow; as a shelvy shore. [See Shelfy.]
SHEMITIC
SHEMIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah. The Shemetic languages are Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Samaria, Ethiopic and Old Phoenician.
SHEND
SHEND, verb transitive ptet. and participle passiveshent.1. To injure, mar or spoil. Obs.That much I fear my body willbe shent. Dryden.2. To blame, reproach. revile, degrade, di...
SHENT
SHENT, participle passive Infured. Obsolete unless in poetry.