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he end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value. [Written also chequin, and zequin.]

e crevasses of a glacier; also, one of the blocks into which a glacier breaks on a steep grade.

ry; to set up a school. (d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a son in trade. (e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark. (f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice. I'll set up such a note as she shall hear. Dryden.

The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod.

To take off the shell or coat of; to shell. Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or was shaling off its husk. I. Taylor.

The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace. O Cshame is this! Shak. Guides who are the shame of religion. Shak.

A sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps.

Its leaves have a pleasant acid taste like sorrel. -- Sheep's-wool (Zoöl.), the highest grade of Florida commercial sponges (Spongia equina, variety gossypina). -- Sheep tick (Zoöl.), a wingless parasitic insect (Melophagus ovinus) belonging to the Diptera. It fixes its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks th…

trate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. [Written also scheik, shaik, sheikh.]

To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame. [Archaic] R. Browning. The famous name of knighthood foully shend. Spenser. She passed the rest as Cynthia doth shend The lesser stars. Spenser.

f the rolling and pitching of a vessel. -- Ship railway. (a) An inclined railway with a cradelike car, by means of which a ship may be drawn out of water, as for repairs. (b) A railway arranged for the transportation of vessels overland between two water courses or harbors. -- Ship's company, the crew of a ship or ot…

An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs.

A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. Locke.

A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.

Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp. I envy none their pageantry and show. Young.

In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.

The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.

A line of goods sold in addition to one's principal articles of trade; a course of business pursued aside from one's regular occupation.

Rank; grade; station; estimation. [Obs.] I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege. Shak.

Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation. I raise of sink, imprison or set free. Prior. If I have a conscience, let it sink me. Shak. Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power Has sunk thy father more than all his years…