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of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.

ething) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. Shak.

; a horse sheers at a bicycle. To sheer off, to turn or move aside to a distance; to move away. -- To sheer up, to approach obliquely.

To put off or out of the way by some expedient. "I shifted him away." Shak. To shift off, to delay; to defer; to put off; to lay aside. -- To shift the scene, to change the locality or the surroundings, as in a play or a story. Shift the scene for half an hour; Time and place are in thy power. Swift.…

Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [Colloq.]

ion; ruin; irretrievable loss. Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck. 1 Tim. 1. 19. It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck. J. Morley.

To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. One of the cities shirked from the league. Byron.

Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle. And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Milton. He used to shove and elbow his fellow servants. Arbuthnot.

viii. 20. If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away. 1 Sam. xx. 13.

passing through the air copiously and rapidly. With showers of stones he drives them far away. Pope.

To assign or convey formally; -- used with away.

A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.

To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away. [Slang, U. S.]

acceptor. [Eng.] -- Skeleton key, a key with nearly the whole substance of the web filed away, to adapt it to avoid the wards of a lock; a master key; -- used for opening locks to which it has not been especially fitted. -- Skeleton leaf, a leaf from which the pulpy part has been removed by chemical means, the fibrou…

To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off. [Colloq.] A. R. Wallace.

s to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play Pope. So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. Hawthorne.

. Bryant. Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away. Dryden.

To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away. [R.] Chesterfield.

leep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. [R.] Blackw. Mag. To sleep away, to spend in sleep; as, to sleep away precious time. -- To sleep off, to become free from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue.