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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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SHEELFA; SHILFA n.

The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note. [Prov. Eng.]

in an expessed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed. [Written also sheel, shealing, sheiling, etc.] [Scot.]

Same as Sheelfa.

SHEEN a. 3 definitions

Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny. [R., except in poetry.] This holy maiden, that is so bright and sheen. Chaucer. Up rose each warrier bold and brave, Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen. Fairfax.

Brightly. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Bright; shining; radiant; sheen. "A sheeny summer morn." Tennyson.

SHEEP n. 3 definitions

ig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd. Rocky mountain sheep.(Zoöl.) See Bighorn. -- Maned sheep. (Zoöl.) See Aoudad. -- Sheep bot (Zoöl.), the larva of the sheep botfly. See Estrus. -- Sheep dog (Zoöl.), a shepherd dog, or collie. -- Sheep laurel (Bot.),…

I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley.

SHEEP'S-FOOT n.

A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.

Over-bashful; sheepish.

SHEEP-HEADED a.

Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor (1630)

SHEEP-SHEARER n.

One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.

SHEEP-SHEARING n. 2 definitions

Act of shearing sheep.

A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnée; -- usually in the plural.

The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.

To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts. [Obs.] Shak.

One who practices petty thefts. [Obs.] Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.

SHEEPCOT; SHEEPCOTE n.

A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.

A fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined.

A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. Dryden.