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d; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences. A seared conscience and a remorseless heart. Macaulay.

The state of being seared or callous; insensibility. Bp. Hall.

Assured by or of one's self; self-reliant; complacent.

Centered in itself, or in one's self. There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved. Dryden.

Being of a single color; -- applied to flowers, animals, and textile fabrics.

Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. Gray.

Having shaggy hair. Shak.

Made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.

Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.

A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip. "Shreds of tanned leather." Bacon.

The fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain. [Prov. Eng.]

The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.

Consisting of shreds.

Having no shreds; without a shred. And those which waved are shredless dust ere now. Byron.

Furnished with shutters.

The larval form of any salamander while it still has external gills; especially, one of those which, like the axolotl (Amblystoma Mexicanum), sometimes lay eggs while in this larval state, but which under more favorable conditions lose their gills and become normal salamanders. See also Axolotl.

Wearing slippers. Shak.

Marked with a slur; performed in a smooth, gliding style, like notes marked with a slur.

Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita).

Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men.