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Seldom. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rarely; not often; not frequently. Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. Hooker.

Rareness. Hooker.

Seldom seen. [Obs.] Drayton.

Rarely shown or exhibited. [Obs.] Shak.

Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald. [Prov. Eng.]

A chaffinch. [Written also sheldapple, and shellapple.]

The common sheldrake. [Prov. Eng.]

Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, or tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.

The sheldrake. [Written also shellduck.]

merly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler. Now put your shields before your hearts and fight, With hearts more proof than shields. Shak.

One who, or that which, carries a shield.

A sheldrake.

Destitute of a shield, or of protection. -- Shield"less*ly, adv. -- Shield"less*ness, n.

Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidæ, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated.

The common European sheldrake. [Prov. Eng.]

To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The common European sheldrake.

A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron. [Scot.]

A person so far out of the protection of the law, that if he were murdered, no geld, or fine, should be paid, or composition made by him that killed him. Cowell. Burrill.