sheave 
< leaf 1 , etc.] To bring together into 
sheaves; collect into a sheaf or into sheaves. 
sheave 2 (shev), n. [Also shceve, sheaf; a var. 
of shire : see shire.] 1. A slice, as of bread ; a 
cut. [Scotch.] 
She begs one sheave of your white bread, 
But and a cup of your red wine. 
Young Beichan and Susie Pye (Child's Ballads, IV. 8). 
2. A grooved wheel in a block, mast, yard, etc., 
on which a rope works; the wheel of a pulley; 
Block-sheave. 
a. sheave ; #, brass bushing ; c, pin. 
a shiver. See cut under block 1 . 3. A sliding 
scutcheon for covering a keyhole. Dumb 
sheave, an aperture through which a rope reeves with- 
out a revolving sheave. Patent Sheave, a sheave fitted 
with metal rollers to reduce friction, 
sheaved (shevd), a. [< sheaf 1 + -ed 2 .] If. Made 
of straw. 
Her hail 1 , nor loose nor tied in formal plat, 
Proclaim'd in her a careless hand of pride ; 
For some, untuck'd, descended her sheaved hat, 
Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside. 
Shak., Lover's Complaint, 1. 81. 
2. Finished around the top with a flare, like 
that of a sheaf. 
A vreM-sheaved wine glass could be made only in Eng- 
land. . . . Wine glasses with tops as veil-sheaved as the 
best English work. Report* to Society of Arts, II. 134. 
sheave-hole (shev'hol), n. A channel cut in a 
mast, yard, or other timber, in which to fix a 
sheave. 
sheaves, H. Plural of sheafi and of sheave 2 . 
she-balsam (she'bal"sam), n. See balsam-tree. 
shebander (sheb'an-der), . [E. Ind. (!).] A 
Dutch East India commercial officer. 
shebang (she-bang'), . [Supposed to be an 
irreg. var. of 'shebeen.'] A shanty; place; "con- 
cern": as, who lives in this shebang? he threat- 
ened to clean out the whole shebang. [Slang, 
U. S.] 
There'll be a kerridge for you. . . . We've got a shebang 
fixed up for you to stand behind in No. 1's house, and don't 
you be afraid. Mark Twain, Roughing It, xlvii. 
Shebat, n. See Sebat. 
Shebbel (sheb'el), n. A certain fish. See the 
quotation. 
The catching of the shebbel or Barbary salmon, a species 
of shad, is a great industry on all the principal rivers of 
the coast [of Morocco], and vast numbers of the fish, 
which are often from 5 to 15 pounds in weight, are dried 
and salted. Encyc. Brit., XVI. 834. 
shebeck (she'bek), re. Same as xebec. 
shebeen (she-ben'), . [Of Ir. origin.] A shop 
or house where excisable liquors are sold with- 
out the license required by law. [Ireland and 
Scotland.] 
shebeener (she-be'ner), . [< shebeen + -er 1 .] 
One who keeps a shebeen. [Ireland and Scot- 
land.] 
Shebeening (she-be'ning), n. [< shebeen + 
-/Hi/ 1 .] The act or practice of keeping a she- 
been. [Ireland and Scotland.] 
Shechinah, Shekinah (she-M'na), n. [< Chal. 
and late Heb. shekhinah, dwelling, < Heb. sha- 
khaii, dwell (the verb used in Ex. xxiv. 16, Num. 
ix. 17, 22, x. 12).] The Jewish name for the 
symbol of the divine presence, which rested in 
the shape of a cloud or visible light over the 
mercy-seat. 
shecklatont, . Same as ciclaton. 
shed 1 (shed), v. ; pret. and pp. shed, ppr. shed- 
din//. [Early mod. E. also shead, shede ; < ME. 
xhviien, seheden, schoden, shseden (pret. shedde, 
xliadde, schadde, ssedde, shode, pp. shad, i-sched), 
< AS. sceddan, (sceadan), scddan (pret. seed, 
seeod, pp. scedden, scelden), part, separate, dis- 
tinguish, = OS. skethan = OFries. sketha, skeda, 
xeheda D. scheiden = MLG. seheden = OHG. 
sceidan, MHG. G. scheiden, part, separate, dis- 
tinguish, = Goth. skiiidini. separate ; akin to 
AS. scid, E. sliide. AS. seeeth, E. sheath, etc. ; 
Teut. -^ skill, part, separate; cf. Lith. skedzu, 
5559 
skedw, I part, separate, L. scindere (pert', scidi), 
split, Gr. axi(,eiv, split, a^a, a splinter, Skt. 
y chid, split: see scission, schedule, schism, etc. 
Cf. sheath, shide, skid, from the same ult. source. 
The alleged AS. "sceddan, shed (blood), is not 
authenticated, being prob. an error of reading. 
The OFries. schedda, NFries. schoddjen, push, 
shake, G. schutten, shed, spill, cast, etc., go 
rather with T&. shudder.] I. trans. 1. To part; 
separate ; divide : as, to shed the hair. [Now 
only prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
Yif ther be any thing that knytteth and felawshippeth 
hymselfe to thilke mydel poynt it is constreyned into 
symplicite, that is to seyn unto immoeveablete, and it 
ceseth to ben shad and to fletyn dy versly. 
Chaucer, Boethius, iv. prose 6. 
But with no crafte of combis brode, 
They myxte hire hore lokkis schode. 
Gower. (HalliweU.) 
Scriminale, . . . a pin or bodkin that women vse to di- 
uide and shed their haires with when they dresse their 
heads. Florio. 
Then up did start him Childe Vyet, 
Shed by his yellow hair. 
Childe Vyet (Child's Ballads, II. 77). 
2. To throw off. (a) To cast off, as a natural covering : 
as, trees shed their leaves in autumn. 
Trees which come into leaf and shed their leaves late 
last longer than those that are early either in fruit or leaf. 
Bacon, Hist. Life and Death, Nature Durable, 20. 
(&) To molt, cast, or exuviate, as a quadruped its hair, a 
bird its feathers, a crab its shell, a snake its skin, or a deer 
its antlers, (c) To throw or cause to flow off without pene- 
trating, as a roof or covering of oil-cloth, or the like. 
3. To scatter about or abroad; disperse; dif- 
fuse : as, to shed light on a subject. 
"Some shal sowe the sakke," quod Piers, " for shedyng of 
thewhete." Piers Plowman (B), vi. 9. 
Yf there were English shedd amongest them and placed 
over them, they should not be able once to styrre or mur- 
mure but that it shoulde be knowen. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy 
Ghost. Rom. v. 5. 
All heaven, 
And happy constellations, on that hour 
Shed their selectest influence ; the earth 
Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill. 
Milton, P. L., viii. 513. 
That still spirit shed from evening air ! 
Wordsworth, Prelude, ii. 
4. To sprinkle ; intersperse. [Bare.] 
Her hair, 
That flows so liberal and so fair, 
Is shed with gray. 
B. Jonson, Masque of Hymen. 
5. To let or cause to flow out; let fall; pour 
out; spill: used especially in regard to blood 
and tears : as, to shed blood ; to shed tears of joy . 
Thou schalt schede the oile of anoyntyng on his heed. 
WycHf, Ex. xxix. 7. 
And many a wilde hertes blood she shedde. 
Chaucer, Monk's Tale, 1. 267. 
The Copies of those Tears thou there hast shed . . . are 
Already in Heaven's Casket bottled. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, ii. 150. 
But, after looking a while at the long-tailed imp, he 
was so shocked by his horrible ugliness, spiritual as well 
as physical, that he actually began to shed tears. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xi. 
II. intrans. 1. To cast, part with, or let fall 
a covering, vestment, envelop, or seed; molt; 
lose, cast, throw off, or exuviate a covering: 
as, the bird sheds in August; the crab sheds m 
June. 
White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black 
as they stand. Mortimer, Husbandry. 
- The shedding trees began the ground to strow. 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, lit 439. 
2f. To be let fall ; pour or be poured ; be spilled. 
Schyre schedeg the rayn in schowres ful warme, 
Sir Oawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 506. 
Swich a reyn doun fro the welkne shadde 
That slow the fyr, and made him to escape. 
Chaucer, Monk's Tale, 1. 741. 
Faxe fyltered, & felt Dosed hym vrnbe, 
That schod fro his schulderes to his schyre wykes. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1690. 
shed 1 (shed), n. [Early mod. E. also shead, 
shede, also dial, shode; < ME. sheed, schede, 
schead, shode, schode, schood, schad, sheed, sep- 
aration, division, the parting of the hair, the 
temple or top of the head, < AS. scdde, the top of 
the head, a division, separation, t/e-scedd, divi- 
sion, separation, = OS. sceth = OFries. skethe, 
shed, scheid = OHG. sceit, MHG. G. scheit, dis- 
tinction, division, etc. ; cf . D. (haar-)scheel, a 
tress of hair, = MLG. schedel = OHG. sceitila, 
MHG. G. scheitel, the parting of the hair, the top 
of the head, the hair thereon ; from the verb. 
The noun ghed is most familiar in the comp. 
water-shed.] 1. A division or parting: as, the 
shedding 
slii-d of the hair (obsolete or provincial); a 
water-,s7i(>(/. 
In heed he had a sheed biforn. Cursor Mundi, 1. 18837. 
Her wav'ring hair disparpling Hew apart 
In seemly shed. 
T. Hudson, tr. of Du Bartas's Judith, iv. 
2. In icearing, a parting or opening between 
sets of warp-threads in a loom, made by the 
action of the heddles, or by the Jacquard at- 
tachment, for the passage of the shuttle and 
the weft-thread. 
A double shed ... is used when two tiers of shuttles 
are used at one time. A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 112. 
3. The slope of land or of a hill: as, which way 
istheshedt 4f. The parting of the hair; hence, 
the top of the head ; temples. 
Ful streight and even lay his joly shode. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 130. 
Shed 2 (shed), n. [< ME. "shed, "shad, in pi. 
shaddys; perhaps a particular use of ME. "shed, 
writtensserf, a Kentish form of shade: see shade!. 
The particular sense is prob. due to association 
with the diff. word shud, a shed: see shud?.] 
1. A slight or temporary shelter; a penthouse 
or lean-to; hence, an outhouse; a hut or mean 
dwelling: as, a snow-shed; a wood-*Ae<7. 
Houses not inhabited, as shoppis, celars, shaddys, ware- 
houses, stables, wharfes, kranes, tymbre hawes. 
Arnold's Chron. (1502), ed. 1811, p. 72. 
Courtesy, 
Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds 
With smoky rafters than in tap'stry halls 
And courts of princes. Milton, Comus, 1. 323. 
But when I touched her, lo ! she, too, 
Fell into dust and nothing, and the house 
Became no better than a broken shed. 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
2. A large open structure for the temporary 
storage of goods, vehicles, etc. : as, a shed on a 
wharf; a railway-sftetZ; an engine-*Ae<J. 
These [wagons] filled the inn-yards, or were ranged side 
by side under broad-roofed sheds. 
LoweU, Cambridge Thirty Years Ago. 
shed 3 t, n. [Appar. ult. < L. scheda, a sheet of 
paper: see schedule.] A sheet. [Rare.] 
Scheda . . . Angl. A sheet or shed of paper. . . . Sched- 
ula . . . Angl. A little sheet or scrow of paper. 
Calepini Dictionarium Undecim Linyuarum, ed. 1590. 
shed 4 (shed),)!. [Origin obscure.] The smolt, 
or young salmon of the first year. [Local, Eng.] 
shedder (shed'er), . [< shedi + -er 1 .] 1. One 
who sheds, pours out, or spills. 
A son that is a robber, a shedder of blood. 
Ezek. xviii. 10. 
2. In zool., that which sheds, casts, or molts; 
especially, a lobster or crab which is shedding 
its shell, or has just done so and is growing a 
new one. 
I'm going to make a cast, as soon as you drop the anchor 
and give me some of that bait which, by the way, would 
be a great deal more tempting to the trout if it were a 
shedder or " buster" instead of a hard-shell crab. 
St. Nicholas, XVII. 639. 
3. An adult female salmon after spawning. 
shedding 1 (shed'ing), n. [< ME. sheding, shed- 
yng, sheeding; verbal n. of shed 1 , v.~\ 1 . A part- 
ing ; separation ; a branching off, as of two roads 
or a water-shed; hence, the angle or place where 
two roads meet. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
Forr Farisew [Pharisee] bitacneth uss shsdinng inn 
Ennglissh speeche. Orminn, 16863. 
Then we got out to that shedding of the roads which 
marks the Junction of the highways coming down from 
Glasgow and Edinburgh. V. Black, Phaeton, xxix. 
2. A pouring out or spilling ; effusion: as, the 
shedding of blood. 
I thank the, lord, with ruful entent 
Of thi peynus and thi turment, 
With earful hert and dreri mod, 
For scheJynd of thi swet Mod. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 194. 
Almost all things are by the law purged with blood ; 
and without shedding of blood is no remission. Heb. ix. 22. 
3. The act of letting fall, casting off, or part- 
ing with something, as a plant its seed when 
ripe, or a covering husk: as, the shedding of 
wheat. 
Promptly with the coming of the spring, if not even in 
the last week of February, the buffalo begins the shedding 
of his winter coat. 
W. T. Hornaday, Smithsonian Report, 1887, ii. 412. 
4. That which is shed, cast off, or exuviated ; 
a cast or exuvium. 
shedding 2 (shed'ing), w. [< shed' 2 + -ing*.] 
A collection of sheds, or sheds collectively. 
[Colloq.] 
Self-contained Roofs in spans up to 30 ft., of Malleable 
Iron Columns requiring no foundations, are the most eco- 
nomical forms of durable shedding that can be erected. 
The Engineer, LXIX., p. xv. of adv'ts. 
