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Same as Sheeling. [Scot.]

A sheep but once sheared.

rds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed. [Written also sheel, shealing, sheiling, etc.] [Scot.]

See Sheeling.

Groats; hulled oats. Simmonds.

A little shepherd.

A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling. [Scot.]

The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12 York shilling. Same as Shilling, 3.

The process of expelling scoriæ and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. Shingling hammer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron. -- Shingling mill, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled.

Becoming shallow gradually. "A shoaling estuary." Lyell.

See Shorling.

The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing. [Prov. Eng.]

Moving with a dragging, scraping step. "A shuffling nag." Shak.

g; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew. A fellow nailed up maps . . . some sideling, and others upside down. Swift.

from Sile to strain. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.] Siling dish, a colander. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A small silver coin. [Obs.] A thousand vines at a thousand silverings. Isa. vii. 23.

Sipping often. [Obs.] "Taken after a sippling sort." Holland.

from Sizzle.

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.

A bay of a barn; also, a slight addition to a cottage. [Prov. Eng.]