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nce; a protection; a screen. The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. Pope.

Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.

Affording shelter. [R.]

A Shetland pony.

To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.

Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore. Shak. "Shelving arches." Addison.

Sloping gradually; shelving. The shore was shelving and shallow. Shak.

A descendant of Shem.

Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic.

See Semitism.

To injure, mar, spoil, or harm. [Obs.] "Loss of time shendeth us." Chaucer. I fear my body will be shent. Dryden.

Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. [Obs.] -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] Fabyan.

Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace. [Obs.] Chaucer.

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Shend, for shendeth. Chaucer.

The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave. For thou wilt not leave my soul to sheel. Ps. xvi. 10. (Rev. Ver.)

A stable; a shippen. [Obs.] The shepne brenning with the blacke smoke. Chaucer.

A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.

A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass. She put herself into the garb of a shepherdess. Sir P. Sidney.

A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elæagnus; also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.

Resembling a shepherd; suiting a shepherd; pastoral. Sir T. Sidney.