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A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky débris. [Prov. Eng.] Southey.

ill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek. "The screech owl, screeching loud." Shak.

The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds.

Like a screech; shrill and harsh.

A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.

r danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen. Your leavy screens throw down. Shak. Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy. Bacon.

The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.

The green color of sea water.

The sea-sand reed. See under Reed.

Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.

The houseleek.

To chagrin. [Obs.]

Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.

An African sapotaceous tree (Bassia, or Butyrospermum, Parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained; the African butter tree.

mily descended from Mohammed through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima. The Grand Shereef is the governor of Mecca.

A sportsman; esp., a native hunter. [India]

A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.

Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free. [Obs.] Shak.

The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.

See Screen. [Obs.]