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SHEARLING, another term commonly applied to a 

 fheep that has been once (horn by ftieep-mallers. 



SHEARPOUR, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in Bengal, on the Burhampooter ; 82 miles W.N.W. of 

 Dacca. N. lat. 24^53'. E. long. 89° 55;'. 



SHEAT, or Sheet, a name by which fome call a young 

 hog. 



Sheat, or Sheats, in a Ship. See Sheet. 



If the main-fail (heats are haled aft, it is in order to make a 

 (hip keep by a wind, but when the fore-(heets are haled 

 aft, it is that the (hip may fall off from the wind ; and if 

 (he will not do it readily, they then hale the fore-fail, by 

 the (heat, flat in, as near the (hip's fides as they can ; and 

 this they call flatting in the fore-fail. When they fay, eafe 

 thefheat, they mean veer it, or let it go out gently; but 

 when the word if, let fly thefloeat, they mean let it go all 

 at once, and run out as faft as it can ; and then the fail will 

 hang loofe, and hold no wind. The feamen fay, when they 

 would have the (heats of the main or fore-fail haled aft, 

 ially ihejheats. In a very great gale, or gull of wind, there 

 is another rope bent to the clues of the main-fail and fore- 

 fail, above the (heat-block, to fuccour and cafe the (heat, 

 and this they call a falfefheat. 



Sheats, in a Ship, alfo, are thofe planks under water 

 which come along her run, and arc clofed into the ftern- 

 poft : fo alfo that part within board, in the run of the (hip, 

 IS called the flernfl^eats. 



Sheat, Falfe. See Sheat. 



Sheat, Overhak the, in Sea Language, a word of com- 

 mand to hale upon the ftanding part of the (heat. 



SaEAT-jInehor, in a Ship. See Anchor. 



Sheat of a Plough, in Agriculture, that part of the 

 plough which paffes through the beam, and is faiteued to 

 the (hare. It is fometimes cMedflieath. 



And the (heat, or as it is fometimes called, the fore-fheat, 

 there being another piece of timber behind it, which is 

 called the hinder-(heat, (hould be feven inches wide, and 

 fattened to the beam by a retch (a piece of iron with 

 two legs), and by a wedge driven by it into the hole of the 

 beam. But in the modern conftruftion of this tool, the 

 (heat is faftened without having recourfe to thefe means. 

 The angle contained between the (heat and the beam of the 

 plough (hould be about forty-two degrees. 



SHEATH, in Botany, is fynonimous vixxh fpatha, peri- 

 chditium, and vagina. In the firll inftance it belongs to the 

 Cngle-leaved covering, burfting longitudinally, which Lin- 

 mus reckons a kind of calyx, differing from a perian- 

 thium in being more or lefs remote from the flower. Such 

 occurs in Galanthus, Narciffiis, Allium, and others of the 

 Hexandrous clafs ; as alfo in Arum ; and more efpecially 

 in the natural order of Palmje. The PERicH.i;TiUM, fee 

 that article, is the fcaly (heath, or calyx, of Moffes. Va- 

 gina, which will be further explained in its place, is the 

 (heathing part of a leaf. 



SHEATHING of a Ship, is the cafing that part of 

 her hull which is to be under water with fomething to keep 

 the worms from eating into her planks. 



It is ufually done by laying tar and hair, mixed toge- 

 ther, all over the old plank, and then nailing on thin new 

 boards. But this hinders a (hip's failing ; and therefore, 

 of late, fome have been fheathed with milled lead, which 

 is much fmoother, and confequcntly better for faihng ; 

 and alfo more cheap and durable than the other way. 

 It was firtt invented by fir Philip Howard, and major 

 Watfon. 



The (heathing with copper is a (till later invention, and 

 anfwers belter than any other. 



It is very well worth the trying what the new (lone pitch 

 will do in this cafe ; if it will defend from the worm, as 

 perhaps it may, a (hip might be paid with it cheaper thau 

 with the crown pitch ; and it will not crack nor Icale oft, 

 as that will do, but keeps always foft and fmooth. It bag 

 been found to contiHue on thirteen months, and to remaia 

 very black and foft all the time. 



SHEAVE, a cylindrical wheel, made of hard wood or 

 metal, moveable round a' pin as its axis in a mortife, as 

 being ufed to raife or increafe the mechanical powers, as a 

 pulley, applied to remove or lift weighty bodies. Sheaves 

 are either fixed in blocks, to form tackles, or let through 

 the (hip's fides, for aflifting to lead the tacks and (heets on 

 board, or in mortifes cut through the mails, yards, caps, 

 &c. to facihtate the working of the rigging, and outer ends 

 of the cat-heads, to form the cat-tackle to raife the anchor 

 to the bow. 



SHEAVES, in Rural Economy, provincially the broken 

 parts of the ftcms of flax which come away in drefiing. 

 Alfo the fmall bundles of grain in the draw. 



SHEB, in Geography, a town of Nubia, on the borders 

 of Egypt, on the route from Charje to Cobbe ; 175 miles 

 N. of Charje. This place is occafionally infelled by a tribe 

 of the wandering Arabs, called Ababde, who come from 

 the neighbourhood of the Nile. Sheb is marked by the 

 produftion of a great quantity of native alum, as the name 

 imports. The furface, from which the alum is found, 

 abounds with a reddifh ftone ; and in many places is feen 

 argillaceous earth. 



SHEBAT, in Chronology, the eleveiitli month of the 

 Jewifli ecclefiartical year, anfwering to part of our January 

 and February. 



SHEBBY, or Shelbv, as Morfe has it, in Geography, 

 a county of Kentucky, in the United States, containing 

 14,453 inhabitants, of whom 2996 are flaves. 



SHEBBYVILLE, a town of the forementioned county, 

 containing 424 inhabitants, of whom 1 18 are (laves ; fo that 

 the total in the county and town includes 14,877 inha- 

 bitants. 



SHEBSHIR, a town of Egypt ; 9 miles S. of Amnis. 



SHEBUSTER, a town of Perfia, in the moll pic- 

 turefque, and, at the fame time, the moll flourilhing divi- 

 fion of Azerbijan, which lies along the N. and W. borders 

 of the lake of Urumea, from Tabreez to the confines of 

 Armenia. Shebufter is a large and flourilhing town. 



SHECATICA Bay, a bay on the S. coail of Labra- 

 dor. N. lat. 51^^ 20'. W. long. 58° 20'. 



SHECHALLION, or Shichallin, a lofty mountain 

 in the parilh of Fortingall, diftrici of Rannoch, and county 

 of Perth, Scotland, is fituated in the immediate vicinity of 

 Loch Rannoch. It rifes in a conical form, and hence de- 

 rives its name, which fignifies the maiden's breail. Accord- 

 ing to menfuration, its height is 3564 feet above the level 

 of its bafe, which nearly coincides with that of the ocean. 

 This mountain is rocky and barren ; but is particularly re- 

 markable from the circumllance of its having been chofen 

 by Dr. Mafkelyne, late allronomer royal, for afcertain- 

 ing the power of mountains in attrafting the pendulum. 

 Sinclair's Statillical Account of Scotland, vol. ii. 1792. 

 See Attraction of Mountains, and Mountains. 



SHECHINAH, in the Jeiuifh Hiflory, the name of 

 that miraculous light, or vifible glory, which was a fymbol 

 of the fpecial prefence of the Deity. This (hechinah, after 

 it had conduttcd the Ifraelites through the wildernefs, had 

 its mere dated refidence in the tabernacle and the temple. 

 See Ark of the Covenant. 



For a farther account of this miraculous pheaomenoa, 



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