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

A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold. [Ireland]

Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny. [R., except in poetry.] This holy maiden, that is so bright and sheen. Chaucer. Up rose each warrier bold and brave, Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen. Fairfax.

Brightly. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Bright; shining; radiant; sheen. "A sheeny summer morn." Tennyson.

Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.

See Sextodecimo.

Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.

See Screen. [Obs.]

Fragments; atoms; smithers. [Colloq.] W. Black.

A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule. [Colloq.]

Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen. In noble minds some dregs remain, Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain. Pope.

Deprived of the spleen.

Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy. Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny. Shak. Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine. Tennyson.

Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful. -- Spleen"ish*ly, adv. -- Spleen"ish*ness, n.

Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild. [Obs.] Chapman.

Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen.

Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak.

One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously. [Eng.] C. Kingsley.

A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.