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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.]

To record in annals. Sheldon.

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. Sheldon.

To take up; to elevate; to assume. [Obs.] Sheldon.

To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Sheldon.

Having no benefice. "Beneficeless precisians." Sheldon.

A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. He brought his cade lamb with him. Sheldon.

Like a calf; stupid. Sheldon.

To exalt to the office of a cardinal. Sheldon.

A devotee. [Obs.] Sheldon.

One who divides or makes division. [Obs.] Sheldon.

A falsifier of evidence. [Obs.] Sheldon.

One who begets; a generator; an originator. Sheldon.

ser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.

male has a large, inflatible, hoodlike sac upon the head. Called also hoodcap. -- Hooded sheldrake, the hooded merganser. See Merganser. -- Hooded snake. See Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc. -- Hooded warbler, a small American warbler (Sylvania mitrata).