shedding-motion 
shedding-motion (slu'd / ing-m6"shgn), -n. In 
weaving, the mechanism for separating the 
warp-threads in a loom, to form an opening 
between them for the passage of the shuttle: 
a dobby : more particularly used with reference 
to the Jacquard loom. See loon/ 1 . 
shed-line (shed'Hn), . The summit line of 
elevated ground; the line of a water-shed. 
shed-roof (shed'rOf), n. Same as pent-roof . 
shedulet, An obsolete form of schedule. 
Sheeah, . Same as Shinli. 
sheeft, n. An obsolete form of sheaf*. 
sheel. See sheal*, sheal' 2 . 
sheeling (she'ling), . Same as sheaP. 
sheen 1 (shen), . [Early mod. E. also xhiuc 
(simulating shine*, .); < ME. sheene, shene, 
schene, scheene, scene, sceone, scone, < AS. scene, 
scyne, scedne, scidne =OS. skoni, sconi = OFries. 
skene, schen, schon = D. schoon = MLG. sclione, 
LG. schone, schon = OHG. sconi, MHG. scheene, 
G. schon, fair, beautiful, = Sw. skon = Dan. 
skjon, beautiful (cf . Icel. skjoni, a piebald horse), 
= Goth, skauns, well-formed, beautiful (cf . ibna- 
skauns, of like appearance, * skauns, n., appear- 
ance, form, in comp. qutha-skaunei, the form of 
God) ; prob., with orig. pp. formative -n, from 
the root of AS. scedwian, etc., look at, show: 
sees/ioic 1 .] Fair; bright; shining; glittering; 
beautiful. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
"After sharpest shoures," quath Pees, "mostA<!n is the 
sonne." Piers Plowman (C), xxi. 456. 
Youre blisful suster, Lucina the sheene, 
That of the see is chief goddesse and queene. 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 317. 
So faire and sheene 
As on the earth, great mother of us all, 
With living eye more fayre was never seene. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. i. 10. 
By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen. 
Shak., M. N. D., ii. 1. 29. 
sheen 1 (shen), r. i. [< sheen*, a.; in part a va- 
riant of shine*,'] To shine ; glisten. [Obsolete 
OP archaic.] 
But be lay still, and sleeped sound, 
Albeit the sun began to sheen. 
Clerk Saunders (Child's Ballads, II. 48). 
Ye'll put on the robes o' red, 
To .-./.,.;, thro' Edinbruch town. 
Mary Hamilton (Child's Ballads, III. 326). 
This town, 
That, sheening far, celestial seems to be. 
Byron, Chllde Harold, i. 17. 
sheen 1 (shen), . [<.sheen.*-,v. or.] Brightness; 
luster; splendor. [Chiefly poetical.] 
And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 167. 
The sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea. 
Byron, Destruction of Sennacherib. 
sheen' 2 t (shen), n. An obsolete (Scotch) plural 
of shoe. 
She lean'd her low down to her toe, 
To loose her true love's sheen. 
Willie and Lady Maisry (Child's Ballads, II. 58). 
Four-and twenty fair ladies 
Put on that lady's sheen. 
Young Hastings the Groom (Child's Ballads, I. 189). 
sheenlyt (shen'li), adv. [< ME. scheenely; < 
sheen* + -ly' 2 .~] Brightly. 
Seuin sterres that stounde stontlich imaked, 
Hee showes forthe scheenely shynand bright. 
Aliiaunder of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 631. 
Sheeny 1 (she'ni),fl. [< sheen* + -y*.] Bright; 
glittering; shining; beautiful. [Poetical.] 
Did of late Earth's sons besiege the wall 
Of sheeny Heaven, and thou, some goddess fled, 
Amongst us here below to hide thy nectar'd head? 
Milton, Death of Fair Infant, 1. 48. 
Many a sheeny summer-morn 
Adown the Tigris I was borne. 
Tennyson, Arabian Nights. 
sheeny 2 (she'ni),n.; pi. sheenies (-niz). [Origin 
obscure.] A sharp fellow; hence, a Jew: a 
term of opprobrium, also used attributively. 
[Slang.] 
sheep 1 (shep), n. ; pi. sheep. [< ME. sheep, shep, 
scheep, schepe, sceap, ssep, sep (pi. sheep, scheep), 
< AS. scedp, seep (pi. scedp, see})) = OS. scdp = 
OFries. skip, schep = D. schaap = MLG. schap 
LG. schaap = OHG. scdf, MHG. G. schaf, sheep ; 
root unknown. Not found in Goth., where lamb 
(=E. taw6)isused,nor in Scand., where Icel. feer 
= Sw. f&r = Dan./aar, sheep, appears (see Par- 
oese).~\ 1. A ruminant mammal of the family 
Bovidse, subfamily Orinte, and genus Ovis; spe- 
cifically, Ocisaries, domesticated in many varie- 
ties, and one of the animals most useful to man. 
The male is a ram, the female a ewe, and the young a lamb ; 
the flesh of the adult is mutton ; of the young, lamb ; the 
coat or fleece is wool, a principal material of warm cloth- 
ing ; the prepared hide is sheepskin, used for many pur- 
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poses; the entrails furnish sausage-cases, and are also 
dried and twisted into strings for musical instruments 
("catgut"); the prepared fat makes tallow or suet; and 
the twisted horns of the ram are used in the manufac- 
ture of various utensils. The milk of the ewe is thicker 
than that of the cow, yielding a relatively greater quan- 
tity of butter and cheese. The sheep is one of the most 
harmless and timid of animals. The artificial breeds of 
0. aries are numerous ; it is not known from what wild 
stock or stocks they are descended. The mouflon is a 
probable ancestor of some at least of the domestic va- 
rieties, especially those with short tail and crescentic 
horns. The principal English varieties of the sheep 
are the large Leicester, the Cotswold, the Southdown, 
the Cheviot, and the black-faced breeds. The Leicester 
comes early to maturity, attains a large size, has a fine 
full form, and carries more mutton, though not of 
thirst quality, in the same apparent dimensions than any 
other ; the wool is not so long as In some other breeds, 
but is considerably finer. The Cotswolds have been im- 
proved by crossing with Leicesters; their wool is fine, 
and their mutton fine-grained and full-sized. Southdowna 
have short, close, and curled wool, and their mutton is 
highly valued for its flavor ; they attain a large size. All 
these require a good climate and rich pasture. The 
Cheviot is much hardier, and is well adapted for the 
green, grassy hills of Highland districts ; the wool is short, 
thick, and fine. TheCheviot possesses good fattening qual- 
ities, and yields excellent mutton. The black-faced is 
hardiest of all, and adapted for wild heathery hills and 
moors ; its wool is long and coarse, but its mutton Is the 
very finest. The Welsh resembles the black-faced, but is 
less hardy ; its mutton is delicious, but its fleece weighs 
only about 2 pounds. The foreign breeds of sheep are 
numerous, some of the more remarkable being (a) the 
broad-tailed sheep, common In Asia and Egypt, and re- 
markable for its large heavy tail ; (b) the Iceland sheep, 
having three, four, or five horns ; (c) the fat-rumped 
sheep of Tatary, with an accumulation of fat on the 
rump, which, falling down in two great masses behind, 
often entirely conceals the tail; (2) the Astrakhan or 
Bucharian sheep, with the wool twisted in spiral curls, 
and of very fine quality ; () the Wallachian or Cretan 
sheep, with very large, long, and spiral horns, those of 
the male being upright, and those of the female at right 
angles with the head. All the wild species of (Ms have 
the book-name sheep, and also particular designations. 
(See argali, bighorn, mouflon, jnusimon.) The only indi- 
genous form in the New World is the Rocky Mountain 
sheep, or bighorn, 0. montana. Certain Omnac of modern 
genera detached from Ovis are called sheep with a quali- 
fying term, as the aoudad, or Barbary sheep. See cuts un- 
der aoudad, bighorn, merino, Ovis, quadricom, and Rvmi- 
nantia. 
In that Lond ben Trees that beren Wolle, as thoghe it 
were of Scheep. Mandeville, Travels, p. 268. 
2. Leather made from sheepskin, especially 
split leather used in bookbinding. 3. In con- 
tempt, a silly fellow. Barbary sheep, the bearded 
argafi, or aoudad. Black sheep, one who In character or 
conduct does little credit to the nock, family, or commu- 
nity to which he belongs ; the reprobate or disreputable 
member: as, the black sheep of the family. 
Jekyl ... is not such a black sheep neither but what 
there are some white hairs about him. 
.Scott, St Ronan's Well, xxxvi. 
Indian sheep*, the llama.- Marco Polo's sheep, Ovis 
poli, one of the finest species of the genus. Merino 
sheep. See merino. Peruvian slieept, the llama. 
Rocky Mountain sheep, the bighorn. Sheep's eye 
or eyes, a bashful, diffident look; a wishful glance; a 
leer ; an amorous look. 
Go to, Nell ; no more sheep's eyes; ye may be caught, I 
tell ye ; these be liquorish lads. 
Heytcood, 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, 1. 51). 
Well, but for all that, I can tell who is a great admirer 
of miss ; pray, miss, how do yon like Mr. Spruce? I swear 
I have often seen him cast a sheep's eye out of a calf's head 
at you ; deny it if you can. Sv^ft, Polite Conversation, i. 
Those [eyes] of an amorous, roguish look derive their 
title even from the sheep ; and we say such a one has a 
sheep's eye, not so much to denote the innocence as the 
simple slyness of the cast. Spectator. 
A ng for their nonsense and chatter ! suffice it, her 
Charms will excuse one for casting sheep's eyes at her. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 334. 
Sheep's-foot trimmer, a shears or cutting-pincers for 
removing superfluous growth from a sheep's foot. 
Sheep's-head porgy. See porgy. Vegetable sheep. 
Same as sheep-plant. See Raoulia. 
sheep 2 t, n. [ME., also scheep, schepe, < AS. 
*scepe, one who takes charge of sheep, < scedp, 
sheep: see sheep 1 . Cf. herd?, < herd 1 .] A 
shepherd. 
In a somer seson, whan soft was the sonne, 
I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe [var. scheep (A), shep- 
herde (C)] were. Piers Plowman (B), Prol. ,1.2. 
sheep-backs (shep'baks), n.pl. Same as roches 
moutonnees. 
The rounded knolls of rock along the track of a glacier 
have been called sheep-backs (roches moutonnees), in allu- 
sion to their forms. 
J. D. Dana, Man. of Geol. (rev. ed.), p. 699. 
sheepberry (shep'ber"i), n . ; pi. sheepberries (-iz) . 
1. A small tree, Viburnum Lentago, of eastern 
North America. It bears small white flowers 
in cymes, and black edible drupes. 2. The 
fruit of the above tree, so called from its 
fancied resemblance to sheep-droppings. Also 
iiiiiniy-lierry. 
sheep-bitert (shep'bi'ter), . A mongrel or ill- 
trained shepherd-dog which snaps at or worries 
sheepish 
sheep; hence, one who cheats or robs the simple 
or those he should guard ; a petty thief, or per- 
haps a faultfinding, backbiting, or censorious 
person. Compare bite-sheep. 
Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly rascally 
sheep-biter come by some notable shame? 
Shale., T. N., ii. 5. 8. 
I wish all such old sheep-biters might dip their fingers in 
such sauce to their mutton. Chapman, May-Day, iii. 1. 
There are political sheep-biters as well as pastoral ; be- 
trayers of public trust as well as of private. 
Sir K. L' Estrange. 
sheep-biting (shep'bi"ting), n. Given to biting, 
snapping at, or worrying sheep or simple or de- 
fenseless persons; hence, given to robbing or 
backbiting those under one's care. 
Why, you bald-pated, lying rascal, jiflu must be hooded, 
must you ? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you ! 
Show your sheep biting face, and be hanged an hour ! 
Shale., M. for M., v. 1. 359. 
Sheep-biting mongrels, hand-basket freebooters ! 
Middleton, Chaste Maid, il. 2. 
sheep-bot (shep'bot), n. A bot-fly, (Kutnix HI-IK, 
or its larva. It is a large yellowish-gray fly, which de- 
posits its young larvse in the nasal orifices of sheep. The 
larvte crawl back into the passages of the nostrils or throat, 
and usually into the frontal sinuses, where they remain 
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Sheep-bot (Otstriii ot/ij). 
i, adult fly, with wings closed ; a, same, with wings expanded ; 3, 
empty puparium ; 4, full-grown larva, dorsal view : a, mouth-hooks ; 
5, nil [-grown larva, ventral view: *, anal appendages; 6, young larva : 
t , anal stigmata. 
feeding upon the mucous membrane for nine months, 
when they crawl out, drop to the ground, and transform 
to pupee, issuing as flies in six weeks or more. They are 
a source of great damage to sheep, and are frequently the 
indirect or even direct cause of death. The sheep-bot is 
common to Europe and America, and has been carried in 
exported sheep to many other parts of the world, 
sheep-cote (shep'kot), n. [< ME. schep-cote; < 
sheep* + cote*.'] A small inclosure for sheep 
with a shepherd's house in it; a pen. 
Pray you, if you know, 
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands 
A sheep-cote fenced about with olive trees? 
Shak., As you Like it, iv. 3. 78. 
sheep-dip (shep'dip), M. Same as slteep-wasli. 
Sheep-dog (shep'dog), . 1. A dog trained to 
watch and tend sheep; especially, a collie. 
2. A chaperon. [Slang.] 
" Some men are coming who will only bore you. I would 
not ask them, but you know it 's for your good, and now I 
have a sheep-dog, I need not be afraid to be alone." "A 
sheep-dog a companion \ Becky Sharp with a companion \ 
Isn't it good fun? thought Mrs. Crawley to herself. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxxvii. 
Sheep-faced (shep'fast), a. Sheepish ; bashful. 
sheep-farmer (shep'far'mer), n. A farmer 
whose occupation is the raising of sheep. 
Sheepfold (shep'fold), . [Early mod. E. sheepe- 
fould; < ME. schepfalde; < sheep* + fold*, .] 
A fold or pen for sheep. 
sheephead (shep'hed), n. Same as sheepshead, 
a fish. 
In fishes which live near the bottom and among the 
rocks, such as the sea-bass, red snapper, shcephead, and 
perch, the scales are usually thick. Science, XV. 211. 
sheep-headed (shep'hed'ed), a. Dull; simple- 
minded; silly; stupid. 
And though it be a divell, yet is it most idolatrously 
adored, honoured, and worshipped by those simple sheepe- 
headed fooles whom it hath undone and heggered. 
John Taylor, Works (1630). (Nares.) 
sheepherdet, . A Middle English form of 
shepherd. 
sheep-holder (shep'hol'der), M. A cradle or 
table for holding a sheep during the process of 
shearing; a sheep-table. E. IT. Knight. 
sheep-hook (shep'huk), n. [< sheep^ + hook."] 
A shepherds' crook. 
Thou a sceptre's heir, 
That thus aff ect'st a sheep-hook .' 
Shak., W. T., iv. 4. 431. 
sheepish (she'pish), a. [< ME. shepisshe ; < 
sheep* + -ifth*,"\ If. Of or pertaining to sheep. 
