Shenshai (shenshi)

A member of one of the two sects into which the Parsees of India are divided. Compare Kadmee. shentt. Preterit and past participle of shend. she-oak (she'ōk), n. [Cf. she - pine.] One of various shrubs and trees of the peculiar, chiefly Australian, genus Casuarina. They are without true leaves, the place of these being supplied by whorls of slender deciduous branchlets. The latter are of an acidu lous taste, and are relished by cattle. The wood is very hard, excellent as fuel, and valuable for fine or coarse woodwork; its appearance gives to some species the name of beefwood. The species specifically called she - oak are C. strict a (C. quad rival vis ), the coast she-oak (sometimes, however, called he - oak ), C. glauca, the desert she-oak, and C. suberosa, the erect she-oak. See Casuarina. Sheol (she'ōl), n. [Heb. she'ól, a hollow place, a cave,