SHE 
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short: border five-cleft, linear, spreading. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments five, capillary. Anther cylindrical, tubular. Pistil: 
germ oblong. Style filiform, longer than the corolla. Stigma 
bifid, spreading. Pericarp none. Calyx unchanged, per¬ 
vious. Seed solitary, oblong. Down capillary, pubescent 
at the base. Receptacle naked. —Essential Character. 
Calyx imbricate, with five or six scales, three interior, longer. 
Corolla five-cleft. Seed one, oblong. 
Shawia pamculata.—Native of New Zealand. 
SHAW’S ISLAND, a small island in the North Pacific 
Ocean, at the entrance of Cook’s inlet. Lat. 59. N. long. 
207. 16. E. 
SHAWANESE, Indians inhabiting on the river Au Glaize, 
and west of the Mississippi. Number 1600. 
SHAWANGUNK, a post township of the United States, 
in Ulster county, New York. Population 3062. 
SHAWANGUNK, a mountain of the United States, in 
New York; 25 miles south-west of Kingston. 
SHAWANNEE. See Cumberland. 
SHAWANNETOWN, a village of the United States, in 
the state of the Illinois, on the Ohio, 9 miles below the 
mouth of the Wabash. It contains 30 or 40 log buildings. 
The inhabitants live by the profits of the salt trade. The 
growth of the town has been greatly retarded in consequence 
of the United States having reserved to themselves the pro¬ 
perty of the site of this place, the salt licks, as well as the in¬ 
termediate track between this and Saline river, nine miles 
distant. It is a place of great resort for boats, and in time 
will, no doubt, become a place of consequence, as the lands 
in its vicinity are of a good quality. Here formerly stood 
an Indian village of the Shawanne nation. 
SHAWBURY, a parish of England, in Salop; 7 miles 
north-east of Shrewsbury. Population 1364. 
SHAWBURY, a village of England, in Salop; 3 miles 
from Ellesmere. 
SHAWDON, a hamlet of England, in Northumberland; 
8 miles west of Alnw'ick. 
SHAWELL, a parish of England, in Leicestershire; 3 
miles south of Lutterworth. 
SHAWFORD, a village of England, in Southamptonshire, 
situated on the Itching; 2 miles below Winchester. 
SHA'WFOWL, s. An artificial fowl made by fowlers 
on purpose to shoot at. 
SHAWL, s. A part of modern female dress, brought 
from India into this country; a kind of cloak.—Negro 
nymphs in linsey-wolsey shawls. Boswell. 
SHA'WM, s. [schalmet /, Teut.] A hautboy; a cor¬ 
net: written likewise shalm. —With trumpets also and 
shawns. Comm. Prayer. 
SHAWS, a village of England, in Cumberland. It is 
noted for a medicinal fountain called Holywell, impregnated 
with sulphur, issuing from the foot of a rock, nearNaworth. 
SHAWSHEEN, a river in the United States, in Massachu¬ 
setts, which runs north-east into the Merrimack, in the 
north part of Andover. 
SHE, pronoun. In oblique cases her. [Norman, sche ; 
Sax. pcse, pco. Lye. The ancient Eng. word is scho ; and 
shoo, according to Grose, is continued in some parts of the 
north.]—The female pronoun demonstrative; the woman; 
the woman before mentioned. 
She, of whom the ancients seem’d to prophesy. 
When they call’d virtues by the name of she-, 
She, in whom virtue was so much refin’d, 
That for allay unto so pure a mind 
She took the weaker sex. Donne. 
It is sometimes used for a woman absolutely, with some 
degree of contempt. 
The shes of Italy shall not betray 
Mine interest, and his honour. Shahspeare. 
The female; not the male.—He-lions are hirsute, and 
have great manes, the shes are smooth like cats. Bacon. 
SHEAF, s. sheaves, plural, [jceap. Sax. schoof Dutch; 
from rceojan, to shove or thrust together. Junius.'] —A 
SHE 
bundle of stalks of com bound together, that the ears may 
dry. 
These be the sheaves that honour’s harvest bears, 
The seed thy valiant acts, the world the field. Fairfax. 
Any bundle or collection held together.—In the 
knowledge of bodies, we must glean what we can ; since we 
cannot, lrom a discovery of their real essences, grasp at a 
time whole sheaves; and in bundles comprehend the nature 
of whole species. Locke. 
To SHEAF, v. n. To make sheaves.'—They that reap, 
must shea f and bind. Shahspeare. 
To SHEAL, v. a. To shell. See Shale. —That’s a 
shealed peasecod. Shahspeare. 
SHEALL1NGS, in Rural Economy, the portions of rich 
grass-land in the more hilly and mountainous parts of the 
country, which were fixed upon, and taken possession of, by 
the farming inhabitants at an early period of society, for the 
purpose of retiring to, and grazing their cattle-stock upon, 
at certain seasons of the year. 
To SHEAR, preter. shore, or sheared; part. pass, shorn. 
[pceapan, pcipan, Sax. See To Share. — Potshare was 
anciently potscar. Bay. —This word is more frequently 
written sheer], —To cut between two blades.—The sharp and 
toothed edge of the nether chap strikes into a canal cut 
into the bone of the upper; and the toothed protuberance of 
the upper into a carial in the nether: by which means he 
easily sheers the grass whereon he feeds. Grew. —To cut 
down as by the sickle; to reap. North. — [Shaera, Su. 
Goth.] This is also old in our language. 
She pulleth up some [herbs] by the roote, 
And many with a knife she shereth. Gower. 
To SHEAR, v. n. To make an indirect course. To 
pierce.—As a sheering wind, it killeth all in the bud. Sir 
E. Sandys. 
SHEARD, s. [jceapb, Sax.] A fragment. It is now 
commonly written shard, and applied cheifiy to fragmentsof 
earthen ware.—There shall not be fouud in the bursting of 
it a shcard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water 
withal out of the pit. Isa. 
SHEA'RER, s. One that clips with shears; particularly 
one that fleeces sheep. 
Of other care they little reckoning make, 
Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, 
And shove away the Worthy bidden guest. Milton. 
In the north of England, a reaper. 
SHEA'RMAN, s. He that shears. 
Thy father was a plaisterer, 
And thou thyself a shearman. Shahspeare 
SHEARS, s. pi. The denomination of the age of sheep. 
—When sheep is one shear, they will have two broad teeth 
before; when two shear, four; when three, six; when four, 
eight: and after that, their mouths break. Mortimer. —An 
instalment to cut, consisting of two blades moving on a pin, 
between which the thing cut is intercepted. —Shears are a 
larger, and scissors a smaller instrument of the same kind. 
Pope used shears for scissors. 
Why do you bend such solemn brows on me ? 
Think you I bear the shears of destiny ? 
Have I commandment on the pulse of life ? Shahspeare. 
The fates prepar’d their sharpen’d sheers. Dry den. 
That people live and die, I knew 
An hour ago, as well as you; 
And if fate spins us longer years. 
Or is in haste to take the shears, 
I know, we must both fortunes try, 
And bear our evils, wet or dry. Prior. 
Any thing in the form of the blades of shears. —Wings, 
in Spenser. 
Two sharp-wing’d sheers 
Deck’d with divers plumes, like painted jays, 
Were fix’d at life back to cut his airy ways. Spenser. 
SHEARSBY, 
