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the mountains on the borders of Aberdeenshire, and after a 
southerly course of several miles, unites with the Ardle at 
Rochalzie, in forming the Ericht. 
SHEEN, or Shee'ny, adj. [Fr. ; the Sax. j-cen, pcene, 
bright, clear, shining ; and anciently written shenel] 
Bright; glittering ; shewy; fair. A word used only in 
poetry. 
When he was all dight, he took his way 
Into the forest, that he might be seen 
Of the wild beasts, in his new glory sheen. Spenser. 
Now they never meet in grove or green, 
By fountain clear or spangled star-light sheen. Shalcspearc. 
Up rose each warrior bold and brave, 
Glistering in filed steel and armour sheen. Fairfax. 
Or did of late earth’s sons besiege the wall 
Of sheeny heaven ? Milton. 
SHEEN, s. Brightness; splendour. A poetical word. 
Mercy will sit between, 
Throned in celestial sheen. Milton. 
Far above, in spangled sheen. 
Celestial Cupid, her fam’d son advanc’d, 
Holds his dear Psyche sweet entranc’d. Milton. 
SHEEN, a parish of England, in Staffordshire; 8 miles 
east-north-east of Leeke. Population 4] 4. 
SHEEN, East, a hamlet of England, in Surrey, seated 
on an eminence near the Thames, between Richmond and 
Roehampton. 
SHEEP, s. plural likewise sheep, [peap, Saxon; of 
which the plural was peep.] The animal that bears 
wool. 
Fire the brambles, snare the birds, and steep 
In wholesome water-falls the fleecy sheep. Dryden. 
Of substances there are two sorts of ideas; one of 
single substances, as they exist separately, as a man or 
sheep. Locke .—[In contempt.] A foolish silly fellow. 
Ainsworth .—For a full description of Sheep, see Ovis; 
their diseases, ibid. p. 100 to 103; their varieties, breeding 
and general management, see Husbandry, pp. 497 to 
502, and 522 to 525. 
SHEEP ISLAND, an island near the north coast of Ire- 
and; 6 miles west-north-west of Fairhead. Lat. 55. 15. 
N. long. 6. 11. W. 
To SHEE'PBITE, v. n. To use petty thefts.—Shew 
your knave’s visage, with a pox to you ; shew your sheep- 
biting face, and be hanged. Shakspeare. 
SHEE'PBITER, s. A petty thief.—His gate like a 
shcepbiter fleering aside. Tusser .—There are political 
shcepbiters, as well as pastoral: betrayers of publick trusts, 
as well as of private. L' Estrange. 
SHEEPCADE, s. A name provincially applied to the 
large sheep-louse. 
SHEE'COT, s. A little inclosure for sheep. 
Up to a hill anon his steps he rear’d, 
From whose high top to ken the prospect round, 
If cottage were in view, slieepcot or herd ; 
But cottage, herd, or slieepcot none he saw. Milton. 
SIIEEP-FESCUE Grass, in Agriculture. See Festuca 
Ovina. 
SHEE'PFOLD, s. The place were sheep are enclosed. 
The bear, the lion, terrors of the plain, 
The sheepfold scatter’d and the shepherd slain. Prior. 
SIIEEPHALL, a parish of England, in Hertfordshire; 
2 miles south-east of Stevenage. 
SHEEPHAVEN, a bay on tfie north coast of Ireland, to 
the east of Hornhead. Lat. 55. 12. N. long. 7. 45. W. 
SHEE'PHOOK, s. A hook fastened to a pole by which 
shepherds lay hold of their sheep.—The one carried a crosier 
of balm-wood, the other a pastoral staff of cedar like a slieep- 
hoolc. Bacon. 
SIIEE'PISH, adj. Relating to sheep. Not in use .— 
How to chuse the best tar; to bring in the idle stragglers; 
how to excell in sheepish surgery ; how to please Pan, and 
enchant the rural gods with your melodie. Stafford's 
Niobe. —Bashful; over-modest; timorously and meanly 
diffident.—Wanting change of company, he will, when he 
comes abroad, be a sheepish or conceited creature. Locke. 
SHEE'PISHLY, ado. Timorously; with mean diffidence. 
—It is the part of a good-natured man, neither so rigidly to 
insist upon the punctilios of his liberty and property, as to 
refuse a glass recommended to him by civility; nor yet on 
the other side sheepishly submit himself to be taxed in his 
drink. Goodman. 
SHEEPISHNESS, s. Bashfullness; mean and timorous 
diffidence.— Sheepishness and ignoiance of the world, are 
not consequences of being bred at home. Locke. —Without 
success, let a man be never so hardy, he will have some 
degree of sheepishness. Grew. 
SHEEPMASTER, s. A feeder of sheep.—A nobleman 
was a great grazier, and sheepmaster. Bacon. 
SHEEP-NOSE-WORMS, a species of fiy-w’orm, found 
in the noses of sheep, goats and stags, and' produced there 
from the egg of a large two-winged fly. 
SHEEP-SCABIOUS, in Botany. See Jasione. 
SHEEPSCOT, a river of the United States, in Lincoln 
county, Maine, which runs into the Atlantic, on the east 
side of Wiscasset, forming a bay at its mouth. 
SHEEPSCOT, a post village of the United States, in 
Lincoln county, Maine. 
SHEET’S EYE, s. A kind of leer, a wishfull glance.— 
Cast a sheep's eye behind you: in, before me. Dryden. 
Hard is our lot, who, seldom doom’d to eat, 
Cast a sheep's eye on this forbidden meat. Warton. 
SHEEP-SHANK, in Sea Language, is a sort of knot, 
or hitch, cast on a rope, to shorten it as occasion requires; 
particularly to increase the sweep or length of a tackle, by. 
contracting its runner. By this contrivance the body, to 
which the tackle is applied, may be hoisted much higher, or 
removed much farther, in a shorter time. Falconer. 
SHEEPSHEAD, a parish of England, in Leicestershire; 
3 miles from Loughborough. Population 3026. 
SHEEPSHEAD, a cape on the south coast of Ireland, 
between Bantry bay and Dunmannus bay. Lat. 51. 29. N. 
long. 9. 45. W. 
SIIEEPSHEARER, s. One who shears sheep.—Judah 
went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnah. Gen. 
SIIEEPSHEA'RING, s. The time of shearing sheep; 
also a feast made when sheep are shorn.—There happening 
a great and solemn festivity, such as the sheepshearings used 
to be. South. 
SHEEPSTEALER, s. A thief who takes away sheep.— 
A sheepstealer is hanged for stealing. Burton. 
SHEEP’S TOR, a hamlet of England, in Devonshire; 
7 miles south-east of Tavistock. 
SIIEEP’S-TROTTERS, a refuse material procured from 
fell-mongers, which is made use of in some places as a ma¬ 
nure to be turned into the land. 
SHEEP WALK, -s. Pasture for sheep. 
He beheld a field. 
Part arable and tilth; whereon were sheaves 
New reap’d ; the other part sheepwalks and folds. Alii ton. 
SHEEPWASH, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 
4 miles west-north-west Hatherleigh. Population 378. 
SHEEPWASH, a hamlet of England, in Northumber¬ 
land; 4h miles east of Morpeth. 
SHEEPY, Great and Little, two small villages of 
England, in Leicestershire ; 5f miles west-by-south of 
Market Bosworth. Population 455. 
SHEER, adj. [jcipe, peep, Sax. schier, Germ.] Pure; 
clear; unmingled. 
Having viewed in a fountain sliere 
His face. Spenser 
Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain. Shak¬ 
speare. — Sheer argument is not the talent of the man ; little 
wrested 
