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See sherif. sheriffalty (sher'if-al-ti), n. after the equiv. shrievalty.] [ IMG:content-0857.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0858.png:[blocks in formation] shetet. A Middle English form of shoot , sheet1 . shetert, n. A Middle English form of shooter . sheth (sheth), n. The post or standard of a plow, which is attached at its upper extremity to the plow-beam, and affords below an attach- ment for the mold-board and land-side and in- directly for the plowshare. shethet, n. A Middle English form of sheath . Shetland argus. See Argus . Shet lander (shet'land-er), n. A native or an inhabitant of Shetland, a group of islands lying to the north-northeast of the mainland of Scotland, and forming, with the Orkney Isl- ands, the most northerly county of Scotland. Shetland lace. A needle-made openwork or- namental trimming, like needle-point lace in all respects except that it is made of woolen yarn, and is therefore coarse and large in pat- tern, and capable of being made very warm. Shawls, scarfs, etc., are made of it. Shetland pony. See shelty. Shetland wool. See wool . sheuch, sheugh (shuch or shuch), n. seuch, sewch ; perhaps a form of sew2 .] row; a ditch; a gully. [Scotch.] It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheuch ; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneuch. the river Jordan), shābhal , increase, flow, grow.] A Hebrew word, meaning 'ear of corn' or 'stream,' used by Jephthah, one of the judges of Israel, as a test-word by which to dis- tinguish the fleeing Ephraimites (who could not pronounce the sh in shibboleth ) from his own men, the Gileadites (Judges xii. 4-6); hence, a test-word, or the watchword or pet phrase of a party, sect, or school. Similarly, dur- ing the ma acre of the Sicilian Vespers, the French be- trayed their nationality by inability to pronounce cor- rectly the Italian word ciceri . Without reprieve, adjudged to death, For want of well pronouncing shibboleth . I saw the battle sair and teugh, And reek in' red ran mony a sheugh . sheva (she-vä'), n. [Also shew a , shiva ; shewā ', prob. same as shāv ' , shāw ', evil, emptine , shổ ', crash, be destroyed. In Heb.gram .: (a) An obscure vowel-sound, simi- lar to or identical with that known as the neu- sheriff-tootht (sher'if-töth), n. A tenure by the service of providing entertainment for the sheriff at his county courts: a common tax formerly levied for the sheriff's diet. Wharton. sheriff wick (sher'if-wik), n. [ wick , as in bailiwick , constablewick .] The district un- der a sheriff's jurisdiction. sherkt, v. An obsolete form of shirk . shermant, n. An obsolete form of shearman . shern (shern), n. Same as sharn . sheroot, n. See cheroot. sherris, n. Same as sherry . [Obsolete or ar- chaic.] thus,, under a consonant, and represents the neutral vowel or the absence of a vowel-sound after a consonant. In the latter capacity it is called silent sheva , in the former sheva mobile . Compound sheva consists of the points rep- resenting short a, e, and o respectively, with a simple sheva placed at the right (thus,), and ind i- cates sounds intermediate in nature between these and the neutral vowel. A neutral vowel in the Aryan lan- guages is also sometimes called sheva . I would suggest that the original word was προπαλακίζω = προκαλκίζω (the by lab i at i on for q, and the second a Cla ical Rev., II. 251. a sheva, as in μαλακός). shew (shō). An archaic form of show1 , show3. shewbread, n. See showbread . shewelt, sewelt (shö'-, sū'el), n. [Also sewell ; early mod. E. also shaile , schawle , a scare shiel, n. Same as sheal1 , sheal2 . crow; perhaps from the root of shyl; usually referred to shew , show1.] A scarecrow. Thou [the owl] seist that gromes [men] the ifoth [take], And heie on rodde the anhoth [hang], And the to-twichet and to-schaketh And sum me of the schawles maketh. Owl and Nightingale (Morris's Spec. Early Eng.), 1. 1648. Any thyng that is hung up is called a Sewel . And those are used most commonly to amaze a Deare, and to make him refuse to pa e wher they are hanged up. sherry (sher'i), n.; pl. sherries (-iz). [Early mod. E. sherris , from which, mistaken as a plural, the supposed singular sherry was formed (cf. cher- ry1, peal , similarly formed from * cher is , peasel , etc.); abbr. of Sherris - wine (or Sherris - sack ) (= D. Xeres - wijn = G. Xeres - we in ; F. vin de Xeres = Pg . vinho de Xerez ), Sherris , also written Sher- ries (with sh for Sp. x ), also Xeres , Xerez , Jerez , prop. Jerez de la Fronter a, in southern Spain, near Cadiz, where the wine is still made; L. Cæsaris , gen. of Cæsar , Cæsar, after whom the town was named: see Cæsar . shewink (she-wingk'), n. Same as chewink . Cf. Sp. Sarago a , contr. Cæsarea August a .] 1. Originally, the wine of Xeres; hence, a gen- eral name for the strong white wines of the south of Spain, of all qualities except the low- est. It is a wine that is much manipulated, differences large part of the exported wine being fortified with brandy or alcohol, and otherwise disguised. Compare amontillado . I have A bottle of sherry in my power shall beget New crotchets in your heads. So are these bugbears of opinions brought by great clerks into the world to serve as shewels to keep them from those faults whereto else the vanity of the world and weakne of senses might pull them. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, iii. shewert, n. A Middle English form of shower2 . sheyk, sheykh, n. See sheik . Shiah (shea), n. [Also Sheeah , Sheah ; = Pers. Hind. Ar. shi'a , shi'ah , orig. Ar., lit. 'sect.'] A member of that division of the Mohammedans which maintains that Ali, first cousin of Mo- hammed and husband of his daughter Fatima, was the first legitimate imam or succe or of the Prophet, and rejects the first three califs of the Sunnis (the other great division) as usurp- ers. The Shiahs "are also called the Imamiyahs, be- cause they believe the Muslim religion consists in the true knowledge of the Imam or rightful leaders of the faithful" ( Hughes , Dict. Islam). (See imam and calif .) They claim to be the orthodox Mohammedans, but are treated by the Sunnis as heretics. The Shiahs comprise nearly the whole Persian nation, and are also found in Oudh, a province of British India; but the Mohammedans of the other parts of India are for the most part Sunnis. Also Shiite . We have seen above that the Shi'a were divided into several sects, each holding for one of the direct descen- dants of 'Alí, and paying him the reverence due to a deity. Encyc. Brit ., XVI. 593. shibboleth (shibʻō-leth), n. [= F. schibboleth = G.schiboleth = LL. scibboleth , shibboleth , an ear of corn, a stream (in the case mentioned prob. used in the latter sense, with ref. to IMG:content-0859.png:[graphic][merged small][subsumed][subsumed][merged small] IMG:content-0860.png:[blocks in formation] (d) A fender-plate attached to the share of a corn-plow to prevent clods from rolling on to the young plants. E. H. Knight. (e) In zool.: (1) A protective or defen- sive plate, buckler, or cuira , of some deter- minate size, shape, or position; a scute, scu- tum, or scutellum; a lo- rica; a carapace: as, the shields or bucklers of a ganoid fish; the shields of a turtle, an armadillo, etc. See cuts under car- apace, leaf -roller, scale, armadillo , and coluber . (2) Some part, place, or mark likened to a shield; a thyroid form a- Frontal Shield of (1) European Galli- tion. See cut under lar- nule ( Gallinula chloropus ), (2) Amer- ynx. (f) In dre mak- ican Gallinule ( Gallinula galeata ). ing , a piece or strip of some repellent fabric used to protect a dre from mud, perspiration, etc.: as, a skirt- shield ; an arm- shield . 3. Figuratively, a shelter, protection, or de- fense; a bulwark. Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield , and thy exceeding great reward. Gen. xv. 1. IMG:content-0861.jpg:[blocks in formation] He was bounden in a recony aunce To paye twenty you sand sheeld anon. boar-pig, which is of considerable thickne , affording shield-like protection against the at- tacks of an adversary: apparently used former- ly to furnish a shield for burlesque or mimic contests. N. and Q., 2d ser., X. 478. He looks like a shield of brawn at Shrove tide, out of date. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iv. 4. And cause the souldier turn his blade to knives, To conquer capons, and the stubble goose; No weapons in the age to come be known But shield of bacon and the sword of brawn. Randolph , Jealous Lovers (1646). ( Nares .) 8. A breed of domestic pigeons, of which there are four varieties, black, red, blue, and silver. Cephalic, cephalothoracic, frontal, pygal shield. See the adjectives. - Kite- shield, the tall, long-pointed shield of the early middle ages.-Norman shield, a name given to the kite -shield. -Shield à bouche, a shield having in its right side or upper right-hand corner an opening or indentation for the lance or sword-blade. See bouche , 4. -Shield of pretense. See pretense , and escutcheon of pretense (under es- cutcheon).-Shield of the Pa ion, a pretended escutcheon in which the attributes of the Pa ion are depicted like the bearings of a coat of arms. Standing shield. (a) Same as pavise . (b) More properly, a mantlet or wood- en bulwark for cro bowmen and the like. Tilting-shield, a shield borne by a knight in the just or tilting-lists. shield (sheld), v. [Early mod. E. also sheild ; scildan , scyldan , gescildan = Icel. skjalda , protect, guard, defend, shield; from the noun.] I. trans. 1. To protect, defend, or shelter from danger, calamity, distre , annoy- ance, or the like: as, to shield one from attack; to shield one from the sun; to shield a criminal. IMG:content-0862.png:[blocks in formation] shield-crab (shēld'krab), n. Any crab of the family Dorippidæ . shield-dagger (shēld'dag"ėr), n. An imple- ment of war carried in the left hand, and serv- ing as a buckler and on occasion as an offensive weapon; specifically, a weapon used by certain Indian tribes, in which a pair of horns of some variety of antelope are secured together by cro pieces. It is capable of inflicting form i- dable wounds. shield-drake (shēld'drāk), n. Same as shel- IMG:content-0863.png:[graphic] shield-headed (shēld'heded), a. In zoöl.: ( a ) Stegocephalous, as an amphibian. (b) Pelto- cephalous, as a crustacean. shield-lantern (shēld'lan"tėrn), n. A lantern so arranged and protected as to throw light through an opening in a shield outward, so that the bearer of the shield sees his enemy while unseen himself: a rare device of the later mid- dle ages. shieldle (shēld'les), a. Without shield or protection. Are eunuchs, women, children, shieldle quite Against attack their own timidity tempts? That schene sayde, that god wyl schylde . Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 964. family Diaspinæ . The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppre ed with odds, Are touch'd with a desire to shield and save. Byron, Don Juan, viii. 106. 4. In bot . , any flat, buckler-like body that is fixed by a stalk or pedicel from some part of shield-animalcule (shēld'an-i-mal kūl), n. An the under surface, as the apothecium in certain infusorian of the family Aspidiscidæ . IMG:content-0864.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0865.png:[blocks in formation] shield-beetle (shēld'bē"tl), n. Any coleopter- ous insect of the family Co yphidæ. A. Adams , Man. Nat. Hist. shield-belt (shēld'belt), n. In her ., a guige used as a bearing. This is rare as an independent bearing, but often occurs in connection with a shield, which is hung by it from a bo , or held up by a sup- porter, human or animal. shield-bone (shēld'bon), n. [ bone ; shield + bone1 .] A blade-bone. [Prov. Eng.] Some of his bones in Warwicke yett Within the castle there doe lye: One of his sheeld - bones to this day Hangs in the cit ye of Coventrye. Same as sheldrake . A shielded shield-ship (sheld's hip), n . A ve el of war carrying movable shields to protect the heavy guns except at the moment of firing: super- seded by the turret-ship. E. H. Knight. shield-slater (shēld's later), n. A cursorial isopod of the genus Ca idina . shield tail (sheld'tāl), n. A snake of the fam- ily Uropeltidæ .