shawl pattern (shalpat"ern)

A pattern having decided forms and colors, supposed to be like those of an Eastern shawl, applied to a material or a garment usually of plainer design: also used adjectively: as, a shawl - pattern waistcoat. shawl-pin (shal'pin), n. A pin used for fastening a shawl. shawl-strap (shal's trap), п. A pair of leather straps with buckles or automatic catches, fitted to a handle, for carrying shawls, parcels, etc. shawm, shalm (shâm), n. [Early mod. E. also shaume , shaulm , shalme , shaul me ; shalme , shaume, shalmie , shalm ye = D. scalmei = MLG. LG. schalmeide = MHG. schalmie , G. schalmei = Sw. skalmeja = Dan. skalmeie , chalemie , F. dial. chalemie (ML. reflex scalmeia ), a pipe, a later form ( * calami a ) for chalemelle , f., chalemel , chalumeau , m., calamella , f., cal a mell us , m., a pipe, flute, calamus , a pipe, reed: see calamus , and cf. chalumeau and calumet .] A musical instrument of the oboe cla cla , having a double reed inclosed in a globular mouthpiece. It was akin to the mu- sette and the bagpipe, and pa ed over into the bas- soon. The word survives in the chalumeau register of the clarinet. It is inaccurately used in the Prayer-book version of the 98th Psalm for cornet or horn . Compare bombard , 6. Many you sand tymes twelve, That maden londe menstralcyes In cornemuse and shalmyes . Then follow eth she ; and lastly her slaves, if any have been given her. Sandys , Travailes (1652), p. 52. Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. Gen. xviii. 15. She was the grandest of all ve els, Never ship was built in Norway paratively secluded lives for the female that is chief in importance to the speaker, especially a wife; in this case it has a peculiar emphasis, separating the person referred to from all other women: as, "Sit down, she'll be here in a minute." Compare the similar use of he . She was formerly and is still dialectally sometimes used as an indeclinable form. II. n. 1. A female person; a woman: correl- ative to he , a man. [Now only humorous.] Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive. Shak ., T. N., 1. 5. 259. Whoe'er she be, That not impo ible she , That shall command my heart and me. Crashaw, To his Supposed Mistre . I stood and gaz'd at high Mall till I forgot 'twas winter, so many pretty she's marched by me. Steele , Lying Lover, i. 1. 2. A female animal; a beast, bird, or fish of the female sex: correlative to he , a male animal: hence used attributively or as an adjective pre- fix, signifying 'female, with names of animals, Oak returned to the stack -yard.... There were five wheat- ricks in this yard, and three stacks of barley. "Mrs. Tall, I've come for the key of the granary, to get at the rick -cloths." Next came the barley. This it was only po ible to protect by systematic thatching.. She instantly took a sheaf upon her shoulders, clambered up close to his heels, placed it behind the rod, and de- scended for another. T. Hardy , Far from the Madding Crowd, xxxvi., xxxvii. And he would feed them from the shock With flower of finest wheat. When the wild peasant rights himself, the rick Flames, and his anger reddens in the heavens. Tennyson, Prince , iv. sheaf1 (shef), v. [ sheaf1 , n. Cf. sheavel.] I. trans. To collect and bind; make sheaves of. II. in trans. To make sheaves. sheaf2 (shef), n. Same as sheave2 . sheaf-binder (shēf'bin"dér), n. A hand-tool for facilitating the binding of sheaves of grain with twine. One form consists of a large wooden needle with a hook at the point, which serves to tighten the cord round the sheaf and form it into a knot. Another form consists of a wooden block, which is attached to the cord and used to make a slip-knot, the block being left on sheafy (she'fi), a. [ sheaf1 +-y1.] Pertain- IMG:content-0815.png:[blocks in formation] ings: as, a she -bear, a she -cat, a she -devil, etc. See hel , n., 2. You would think a smock were a she -angel, he so chants to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on 't. Shak., W. T., iv. 4. 211. shaya-root (shā'ä-röt), n. [Also ché -root, root; prop. chaya- root (also simply chay ); chaya , a root of Olden land i a umbellata , + E. root.] The root of Olden land i a umbellata , or the plant itself, also called Indian madder. The outer bark of the roots furnishes adre, in India in great repute, the source of the durable red for which the IMG:content-0816.png:[blocks in formation] shea-butter (she'ä-buter), n. butters (under butter1 ), gutta - shea , and karite . sheading (she'ding), n. [ scheding , shæd- sheaf1 (shef), n.; pl. sheaves (shēvz). [ scheef , shef , scheffe , schof , shaf (pl. sheves ), sceaf (pl. sceáfas ), a sheaf, pile of (pl. sneves ), sceaf (pl. sceafas ), a sheaf grain (= D. schoof = MLG. LG. schof = OHG. scoub , scoup, MHG. schoup ( schoub- ), G. dial. schaub = Icel. skauf , a sheaf), sheaf), lit, lit. a a pile pile of grain 'shoved' together, scufan (pret. sceaf ), shove: see shove.] A bundle or collection. I am so haunted at the court, and at my lodging, with your refined choice spirits, that it makes me clean of an- other garb, another sheaf , I know not how! B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 1. Jermyn, looking gravely and steadily at Felix while he was speaking, at the same time drew forth a small sheaf of papers from his side-pocket, and then, as he turned his eyes slowly on Harold, felt in his waistcoat-pocket for his pencil-case. George Eliot, Felix Holt, xvii. Specifically-(a) A quantity of the stalks of wheat, rye, oats, or barley bound together; a bundle of stalks or IMG:content-0817.png:[blocks in formation] To be wi' thee in Hieland shiel Is worth lords at Castlecary. Ballad of Lizie Baillie , ii. (Chambers's Scottish Song, iii. (144). The swallow jink in' round my shiel . The Virgin next, Milde-proudly marching, in her left hand brings A sheaf of Corn, and in her right hand wings. The farmers laughed and nodded, and some bent Their yellow heads together like their sheaves . (b) A bundle of twenty-four arrows, the number furnished to an archer and carried by him at one time. A sheef of pec ok arwes brighte and kene Under his belt he bar ful thriftily. And, at his belt, of arrows keen A furbish'd sheaf bore he. and the like. [Prov. [Prov.' Eng.] shealing2 (she'ling), n. [Also sheeling, sheiling, shieling ; You might ha'e been out at the sheal in , Instead o' sae lang to lye. (c) A bundle of steel containing thirty gads or ingots. As for our steele, it is not so good for edge-tooles as and like tale vsed in both-that is to saie, thirtie gads to the sheffe , and twelue sheffes to the burden. Holinshed, Descrip. of Eng., ii. 11. (d) In geom ., a doubly infinite manifold of curves or sur- faces comprising which fulfil certain general conditions and also pa through certain fixed points; especially, a manifold of points or planes pa ing through one fixed point. - Center of a sheaf. See center1 . =Syn. (a) Sheaf, Shock , Stack , Rick . A sheaf is about an armful of the stalks of any small grain, tied at the middle into a bundle; a shock is a pile of sheaves, generally from ten to twelve, standing Sir Degrevant (Thornton Romances), 1. 801. Eftsoones her shallow ship away did slide, More swift then swallow sheres the liquid sky. God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb. Sterne , Sentimental Journey (Paris). How strong, supple, and living the ship seems upon the billows! With what a dip and rake she shears the flying sea! And sleping in hir barm upon a day, She made to clippe or shere his heer awey. OFries. skere , schere = D. schaar = OHG. skār , skāra , pl. scar i , MHG. schære (prob. pl.), G. scheere, schere = Icel. skæri , shears; cf. Sw. skära , a reaping-hook, Dan. skjær , skjære , plow- share, colter), sceran (pret. scær ), shear: see shear1 . Cf. share2 .] Same as shears . This Sampson never sider drank ne wyn, Ne on his heed cam rasour noon ne shere. shear3t, v. i. An obsolete form of sheer3 . shear bill (sher'bil), n. The sci or bill, cut- water, or black skimmer; the bird Rhynchops nigra : so called from the bill, which resembles a pair of shears. See cut under Rhynchops . sheardt, n. An obsolete spelling of shard1 .. shearer (shēr'er), n. [ scherer = D. scheerder = OHG. scerari , skerāre , MHG. G. scherer , a barber; as shear1 + -er1.] 1. One who shears. (a) One who clips or shears sheep; a sheep-shearer. (b) One who shears cloth; a shearman. How many griefs and sorrows that, like shears, Like fatal shears, are shearing off our lives still! Fletcher (and another ?), Prophete , iii. 3. But she, the wan sweet maiden, shore away Clean from her forehead all that wealth of hair. Of eight score poundes a year for one poore corne Of pepper. Not only thou, but every myghty man, Though he were shorn ful hye upon his pan, Sholde have a wyf. The seventeenth King was Egbert, who after twenty Years Reign forsook the World also, and shore himself a Monk. Baker , Chronicles, p. 6. 5. To cut down or reap with a sickle or knife: as, to shear grain. [Old Eng. and Scotch.] And ye maun shear it wi' your knife, And no lose a stack [stalk] o''t for your life. And sithen my fyngir putte in thare within his hyde, And fele the wound the spere did schere rizt in his syde; Are schalle I trowe no tales be-twene. York Plays , p. 453. 7. To produce a shear in. See shear1 , n., 3. II. in trans. 1. To cut; cut, penetrate, or di- vide something with a sweeping motion. This heard Geraint, and, grasping at his sword,... Made but a single bound, and with a sweep of it to ac , so that after elongation it will be brought to bd , equal to AC. Then, all planes perpendicular to the plane of the diagram and parallel either to A AB or to AD will remain undistorted, being simply rotated into positions parallel to ab or ad . If the body while undergoing strain be so rotated that a and b remain in coincidence with A and B (see fig. 2), the shear will be seen down grain with a sickle; a reaper. [Scotland and Ire- land.] 2. A dyadic determining a simple shear. shear-gra (shēr'grás), n. One of various sedgy or gra y plants with cutting leaves, as the saw-gra , Cladium Mariscus . shearhog (sher'hog), n. A sheep after the first shearing. Also, contracted, sherrug , sharrag . [Prov. Eng.] He thought it a mere frustration of the purposes of language to talk of shearhogs and ewes to men who ha- bitually said sharrags and yowes. George Eliot , Mr. Gilfil's Love Story, i. (Davies.) shear-hooks, n . pl . See sheer - hooks . shear-hulk, n. See sheer- hulk . shearing (sher'ing), n. [Verbal n. of shear1, v.] 1. The act or operation of cutting by means of two edges of hardened steel, or the like, which pa one another closely, as in or- dinary shears and sci ors, and in machines made on the same principle.-2. That which is shorn or clipped off; that which is obtained by shearing: as, the shearings of cloth; the whole shearing of a flock.-3. A shearling.- 4. The act, operation, or time of reaping; har- vest. O will ye fancy me, O, And gae and be the lady o' Drum, And lat your shearing abee, O? Laird of Drum (Child's Ballads, IV. 118). 5. The proce of producing shear-steel by condensing blistered steel and rendering it uniform.-6. In geol ., the compre ion, elon- gation, and deformation of various kinds to which the components of rocks have frequent- ly been subjected in consequence of crust- movements; the dynamic proce es by which shear-structure has been produced.-7. In mining , the making of vertical cuts at the ends of a part of an undercut seam of coal, serv- ing to destroy the continuity of the strata and facilitate the breaking down of the ma .- 8. In dynam., the operation of producing a shearing-hookst (sher'ing-hüks), n . pl. [Also sheering- hooks ; shering - hokes .] A contri- vance for cutting the ropes of a ve el. Com- pare sheer -hooks. In goth the grapenel so ful of crokes, Among the ropes rennyth the shering -hokes. shearing-machine (shēr'ing-ma-shēn"), n . 1. A machine used for cutting plates and bars of iron and other metals. - 2. A machine for shearing cloth, etc. shearing-stre (sher'ing-stres), n . A stre occasioned by or tending to produce a shear. shearing-table (sher'ing-tā bl), n. A portable bench fitted with straps or other conveniences for holding a sheep in position for shearing. IMG:content-0818.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0819.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-0820.png:[blocks in formation] shears-moth (shērz'môth), n. One of certain noctuid moths; a shears or shear tail, as Hadena dentin a : an English collectors' name. Mames- tra glauca is the glaucous shears; Hadena di- dyma is the pale shears. shear-steel (sher'stēl), n. applicability to the manufacture of shears, knives, scythes, etc.] Blister-steel which has been fagoted and drawn out into bars under the rolls or hammer: a repetition of the pro- ce produces what is known as double - shear steel. The density and homogeneousne of the steel are increased by this proce , and it is generally admitted that a better result is attained by hammering than by rolling. See steel . shear-structure (shēr's truktūr), n. In geol ., a structure superinduced in rocks by shearing; a structure varying from lamellar to schistose, somewhat resembling the so-called "fluxion- structure" often seen in volcanic rocks, but solid material, as one of the consequences of the immense strain by which the upheaval or plication of large ma es of rock has been ac- companied. shear tail (shērtāl), n. 1. A humming-bird of the genus Thaumastura , having a very long forficate tail, like a pair of shears, as T. cor a , T. henicura , etc. In the cor a hummer (to which the The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary shear tail genus Thaumastura is now usually restricted, the others formerly referred to it being placed in Doricha ) the structure of the tail is peculiar; for the middle pair of feathers is so short as to be almost hidden by the coverts, while the next pair is suddenly and extremely lengthened, and then the other three pairs rapidly shorten from within outward. In Doricha (D. henicura, etc.) the shape of the tail is simply forficate, as the feathers lengthen from the shortest middle pair to the longest outer pair, like a Shear tail (Thaumastura cor a). tern's. In all these cases the long feathers are very narrow and linear, or of about uniform width to their ends. The peculiar formation is confined to the males. T. cor a has the tail (in the male) about 4 inches long, though the length of the bird is scarcely 6 inches; it is golden-green above and mostly white below, with a metallic crimson gorget reflecting blue in some lights, and the tail black and white. The female is 31 inches long, the tail being 11. It inhabits Peru. Five species of Doricha range from the Bahamas and parts of Mexico into Central America. 2. A sea-swallow or tern: from the long forked tail. See cut under roseate. [Prov. Eng.] 3. A British shears-moth, as Hadena dentin a. shearwater (shēr'water), n. [Formerly also sheer water, she rewater; or graze it with their long blade-like wings (whence the name). Some of them are known as hags or hagdens. Three of the commonest are the greater shearwater, P. major; the Manx shearwater, P. anglorum; and the sooty shearwater, P. fuliginosus, of the North Atlantic. nest in holes by the seaside, and the female lays one white egg. See cut under hagden. 2. Same as cutwater, 3. See Rhynchops. she at1t, n. An obsolete form of sheet1.