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to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of. She loved her children best in every wise. Chaucer. Then Sarah denied, . . . for she was afraid. Gen. xviii. 15.

An African sapotaceous tree (Bassia, or Butyrospermum, Parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained; the African butter tree.

e of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.

A sheave. [R.]

Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.

Same as Sheeling. [Scot.]

The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

See under Shear.

The black skimmer. See Skimmer.

See Shard. [Obs.]

One who shears. Like a lamb dumb before his shearer. Acts viii. 32.

The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

A sheep but once sheared.

One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

Dung; excrement. [Obs.] [Written also shern.] Holland.

of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances. Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain. Pope.

The common tern.

nus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.

A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat- fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.