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term used in the Targums and by the later Jews, and adopted by Christians. [Written also Shechinah.] Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.)

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.]

dge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships. On the tawny sands and shelves. Milton. On the secret shelves with fury cast. Dryden.

Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." Dryden.

The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.

, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.

See the Note under 2d Lac.

See Sheldafle.

A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.

Having a shell.

One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.

Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.

Groats; hulled oats. Simmonds.

Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.

Work composed of shells, or adorned with them. Cotgrave.

Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.