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Imperial power. [R.] Sheldon.

Immodesty. Sheldon.

Morose. [Obs.] Sheldon.

Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable. [Obs.] "Nefand adominations." Sheldon. "Nefandous high treason." Cotton Mather.

To make firm; to harden in resolution. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Sheldon.

A playfellow. [Obs.] [Also, playfeer, playphere.] Holinsheld.

Excellence; superiority. [Obs.] Sheldon.

A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. Sheldon.

The red-breasted merganser, or sheldrake. [Local, U.S.] -- Water robin (Zoöl.), a redstart (Ruticulla fuliginosa), native of India.

See Sheldafle.

A sheldrake.

The common European sheldrake. [Prov. Eng.]

The common European sheldrake.

olloq.] "Gazed on Hetty's charms by the sly." G. Eliot. -- Sly goose (Zoöl.), the common sheldrake; -- so named from its craftiness.

The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake. [Local, U. S.]

kind of rye that is sown in autumn. -- Winter shad (Zoöl.), the gizzard shad. -- Winter sheldrake (Zoöl.), the goosander. [Local, U.S.] -- Winter sleep (Zoöl.), hibernation. -- Winter snipe (Zoöl.), the dunlin. -- Winter solstice. (Astron.) See Solstice, 2. -- Winter teal (Zoöl.), the green-winged teal. -- Winter…

med with a sharp thread, and usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood. -- Wood sheldrake (Zoöl.), the hooded merganser. -- Wood shock (Zoöl.), the fisher. See Fisher, 2. -- Wood shrike (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Old World singing birds belonging to Grallina, Collyricincla, Prionops, and allied…