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ompressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.

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

The hard wing case of a beetle. They are his shards, and he their beetle. Shak.

Borne on shards or scaly wing cases. "The shard-borne beetle." Shak.

shark. See Hammerhead. -- Port Jackson shark. See Cestraciont. -- Shark barrow, the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse. -- Shark ray. Same as Angel fish (a), under Angel. -- Thrasher shark, or Thresher shark, a large, voracious shark. See Thrasher. -- Whale shark, a huge harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) of the Indi…

ance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. Dryden.

A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard. The dead knight's sword out of his sheath he drew. Spenser.

Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.

To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case. The leopard . . . keeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes. Grew. 'T is in my breast she sheathes her dagger now. Dryden.

Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.

Forming or resembling a sheath or case. Sir T. Browne.

The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.

A document used in shipping goods by sea. In the case of free goods the shipping notes are the receiving note, addressed by the shipper to the chief officer of the vessel, requesting him to receive on board specified goods, and a receipt for the mate to sign, on receiving whose signature it is called the mate's receipt…

owels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§22, 30.…

how. -- Show card, an advertising placard; also, a card for displaying samples. -- Show case, a gla -- Show glass, a glass which displays objects; a mirror. -- Show of hands, a raising of hands to indicate judgment; as, the vote was taken by a show of hands. -- Show stone, a piece of glass or crystal supposed to ha…

ll bursting charge to scatter them at any given point while in flight. See the Note under Case shot.

A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.

A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal. [R.] Shuttle box (Weaving), a case at the end of a shuttle race, to receive the shuttle after it has passed the thread of the warp; also, one of a set of compartments containing shuttles with different colored threads, which are passed back and forth in a certain order, acc…

who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother. I am the sister of one Claudio. Shak.

Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest ease and tranquillity. Rogers.