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' SHEARSBY, or Sheresby, a hamlet of England, in 
Leicestershire; 7 miles north-east of Lutterworth. 
SHEARWATER, s. A fowl. See Procellaria, 
SHEAT, or Sheet, a name by which some call a young 
hog. 
SHEAT, or Sheats, in a Ship. See Sheet. 
SHE ATS, in a Ship, also, are those planks under water 
which come along her run, and are closed into the sternpost: 
so also that part within board, in the run of the ship, is 
called the stern-sheets. 
SHEAT of a Plough, in Agriculture, that part of the 
plough which passes through the beam, and is fastened to 
the share. It is sometimes called sheath. 
SHEATH, s. [j-caeSe, Sax., schede, Teut, scheyd, Germ, 
from scheiden, to separate; pceaban, Sax. the same. 
Wachter, and Mr. H. Tooke.] The case of any thing; 
the scabbard of a weapon. 
The dead knight’s sword out of his sheath he drew, 
With which he cut a lock off all their hair. Spenser. 
Doth not each look a flash of light’ning feel. 
Which spares the body’s sheath, yet melts the steel ? 
Cleveland . 
SHEATH, in Botany, is synonymous with spatha, peri- 
chaetium and vagina. In the first instance it belongs to the 
single-leaved covering, bursting longitudinally, which Lin¬ 
naeus reckons a kind of calyx, differing from a perianthium 
in being more or less remote from the flower. Such occurs 
in galanthus, narcissus, allium, and others of the hexandrous 
class | as also in arum; and more especially in the natural 
order of palm®. The Perich^etium, see that article, is the 
scaly sheath, or calyx of Mosses. Vagina, which will be 
further explained in its place, is the sheathing part of a leaf. 
To SHEATH, or To Sheathe, v. a. To inclose in a 
sheath or scabbard; to inclose in any case. 
Is this her hate to him, his love to me! 
’Tis in my breast she sheaths her dagger now. Dry den. 
The left foot naked, when they march to fight, 
But in a bull’s raw hide they sheath the right. Dry den. 
The leopard, and all of this kind as goes, keeps the claws 
of his forefeet turned up from the ground and sheathed 
in the skin of his toes, whereby he preserves them sharp 
for rapine, extending them only when he leaps at the prey. 
Grew .—To obtund any acrid particles.—Those active parts 
of a body are of differing natures when sheath'd up, or 
wedged in amongst others in the texture of a concrete; and 
when extricated from these impediments. Boyle .—To fit 
with a sheath. 
There was no link to colour Peter’s hat, 
Walter’s dagger was not come from sheathing. Shakspeare. 
To defend the main .body by an outward covering.—It 
were to be wished that the whole navy throughout were 
sheathed as some are. Ralegh. 
SHEATHING of a .Ship, is the casing that part of her 
hull which is to be under water with something to keep the 
worms from eating into her planks. 
It is usually done by laying tar and hair, mixed toge¬ 
ther, all over the old plank, and then nailing on thin new 
boards. The sheathing with copper is a still later invention, 
and answers better than any other. 
SHEA'THLESS, adj. Without a sheath. 
The fatal cause was now at last explor’d. 
Her veil she knew, and saw his sheathless sword. Eusden. 
SHEATHWI'NGED, adj. Having hard cases which are 
folded over the wings.-—Some insects fly with four wings, as 
all vaginipennous, or sheathwinged insects, as beetles and 
dorrs. Brown. 
SHEA'THY, adj. Forming a sheath.-—With a needle 
put aside the short and sheathy cases on earwig’s backs, and 
you may draw forth two wings. Brown. 
SHEAVE, a cylindrical wheel, made of hard wood or 
metal, moveable round a pin as its axis in a mortise, as being 
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used to raise or increase the mechanical powers as a pulley, 
applied to remove or lift weighty bodies; 
SHEA'VED, adj. Made of straw. 
Her hair, nor loose nor ty’d in formal plait. 
Proclaim’d in her a careless hand of pride; 
For some, untuck’d, descended her sheav'd hat, 
Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside. Shakspeare. 
SHEB, a watering place in the extensive desert of Nubia, 
to the west of the Nile, through which the caravans pass on 
the route from Cairo to Darfur. The water is indifferent, 
but is found at the depth of a few feet. A large quantity of 
native alum is here produced; 175 miles north of Charje. 
SHEBBEAR, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 
miles west-north-west of Hatherleigh. Population 738. 
SHEBSHIR, a village of Egypt; 9 miles south of Amrus. 
SHECATIC A, a bay of very irregular shape and breadth, 
on the coast of Labrador, in North America, having an is¬ 
land of its name at its mouth. It is situated between Lat. 
51. 14. and 51. 28. N. and between long. 58. 16. and 58. 
22. W. 
SHECHALLION, a mountain of Scotland, in Perthshire 
which rises in a conical form from a broad and circular 
base, to the height of 3564 feet. 
SHECHARY, a lake of New North Wales, formed like a 
bow. It receives Churchill river from the south-west, and 
at its north-east end has communication with Berbazon lake, 
which lies due north and south. At the south end of the 
latter, the waters of both lakes ran east, under the name of 
Seal river, which empties into Hudson’s bay at Churchill fort, 
between Button’s bay on the North, and Cape Churchill on 
the south-east. Both lakes are long and narrow. 
SHE'CKLATON, s. A corruption of the Fr. ciclaton, 
which originally signified a circular robe of state, from the 
low Lat. cyclas ; and afterwards the cloth of gold, of which 
such robes were generally made. Spenser was therefore per¬ 
haps mistaken in his notion that the quilted Irish jacket had 
any resemblance to this robe in which Chaucer had dressed 
Sir Thopas.—He went to fight against the giant in his robe 
of shccklaton , which is that kind of gilded leather with 
which they use to embroider the Irish jackets. Spenser. 
To SHED, v. a. [pceban, Sax.] To effuse; to pour 
out; to spill. 
The painful service, and the drops of blood 
Shed for my thankless country, are requited 
But with that surname of Coriolanus. Shakspeare. 
Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear 
In all my miseries. Shakspeare. 
Some think one general soul fills ev’ry brain, 
As the bright sun sheds light in ev’ry star. Davies. 
To scatter; to let fall.—Trees that bring forth their 
leaves late, and cast them late, are more lasting than 
those that sprout their leaves early, or shed them betimes. 
Bacon. 
To SHED, v. n. To let fall its parts.— White oafs 
are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand. 
Mortimer. 
SHED, s. [jceb, Sax. a shade.] A slight temporary 
covering. 
Though he his house of polish’d marble build, 
With jasper floor’d, and carved cedar ceil’d; 
Yet shall it ruin like the moth’s frail cell, 
Or sheds of reeds, with summer's heat repel. Sandys. 
In composition; effusion; as b\ooA-shed. 
SHE'DDER, s. A spiller, one who sheds.-—A shedder 
of blood shall surely die. Eze/c. 
SHEDIAC, a harbour on the eastern coast of New Bruns¬ 
wick, and on the west side of the gulf of St. Lawrence; 53 
miles south-east of Miramichi bay. 
SHEDVAN. See Scheduan. 
SHEE, or Blackwater, a river of Scotland, in Perth¬ 
shire, which rises from the union of three small streams at 
Spittal of Glenshee, the Lochty, Tatnich, and Beg, from 
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