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Of or pertaining to sheep. [Obs.]

A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep. 2 Kings iii. 4.

The starling.

A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.

A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.

The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.

A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.

Resembling sheep; sheepish. Testament of Love.

Bright; clear; pure; unmixed. "Sheer ale." Shak. Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain. Shak.

At once; absolutely. [Obs.]

The shearwater.

, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts x. 10, 11. If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets. Shak.

A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.

The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.

A chain sheet cable.

Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold.

Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.

is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. [Written also scheik, shaik, sheikh.]

See Sheeling.

An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.