Webster's Dictionary 1913

4267

Shelve

Shelve (?), v. t. 1. To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.2. To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to p...

4268

Shelve (2)

Shelve, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Shelved (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Shelving.] [Perhapss originally from the same source as shallow, but influenced by shelf a ledge, a platform.] To incline ...

4269

Shelving

Shelv″ing, a. Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore. Shak. “Shelving arches.” Addison.

4270

Shelving (2)

Shelv″ing, n. 1. The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.2. The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a cl...

4271

Shelvy

Shelv″y (?), a. Sloping gradually; shelving.The shore was shelving and shallow. Shak.

4272

Shemite

Shem″ite (?), n. A descendant of Shem.

4273

Shemitic

{ Shem‐it″ic (?), Shem″i‐tish (?), } a. Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic.

4274

Shemitism

Shem″i‐tism (?), n. See Semitism.

4275

Shend

Shend (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Shent (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Shending.] [AS. scendan to disgrace, bring to shame, from sceand, sceond, disgrace, dishonor, shame; akin to G. schande, ...

4276

Shendful

Shend″ful (?), a. Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. — Shend″ful‐ly, adv.Fabyan.

4277

Shendship

Shend″ship, n. Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace. Chaucer.

4278

Shent

Shent (?), obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Shend, for shendeth. Chaucer.

4279

Shent (2)

Shent, v. t. To shend. Chaucer.

4280

Sheol

She″ol (shē″ōl), n. [Heb. shĕōl.] The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave.For thou wilt not leave my soul to sheol. Ps. xvi. 10. (Rev. Ver.)

4281

Shepen

Shep″en (?), n. A stable; a shippen.The shepne brenning with the blacke smoke. Chaucer.

4282

Shepherd

Shep″herd (?), n. [OE. schepherde, schephirde, AS. sceáphyrde; sceáp sheep + hyrde, hirde, heorde, a herd, a guardian. See Sheep, and Herd.] 1. A man employed in tending, feedin...

4283

Shepherd (2)

Shep″herd, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Shepherded; p. pr. & vb. n.Shepherding.] To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.White, fleecy clouds...Shepherded by ...

4284

Shepherdess

Shep″herd‐ess, n. A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass.She put herself into the garb of a shepherdess. Sir P. Sidney.

4285

Shepherdia

Shep‐her″di‐a (?), n.; pl.Shepherdias (#). [NL. So called from John Shepherd, an English botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the s...

4286

Shepherdish

Shep″herd‐ish (?), n. Resembling a shepherd; suiting a shepherd; pastoral. Sir T. Sidney.

4287

Shepherdism

Shep″herd‐ism (?), n. Pastoral life or occupation.

4288

Shepherdling

Shep″herd‐ling (?), n. A little shepherd.

4289

Shepherdly

Shep″herd‐ly (?), a. Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic. Jer. Taylor.

4290

Shepster

Shep″ster (?), n. A seamstress. Caxton.

4291

Sherardize

Sher″ard‐ize (?), v. t. [From Sherard Cowper-Coles, the inventor.] (Metal.) To subject to the process of vapor galvanizing (which see, below).

4292

Sherbet

Sher″bet (?), n. [Ar. sherbet, shorbet, sharbat, properly, one drink or sip, a draught, beverage, from shariba to drink. Cf. Sorbet, Sirup, Shrub a drink.] 1. A refreshing drink...

4293

Sherd

Sherd (?), n. A fragment; — now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard.The thigh... which all in sherds it drove. Chapman.