shedding (2)

[Eng. shed (2), s.; -ing.] A collection of sheds; a shed. "Comfortably housed under canvas shedding."- Field, Sept. 4, 1886. sheēl, v. t. [SHEAL, v.] sheel, s. [SHEAL (2), s.] sheel-fą, s. [From its note.] Ornith.: The chaffinch. sheel-Ing, 8. [SHEALING.] sheel-ing, pr. par. or a. [SHEEL, v.] sheeling-hill, subst . Rising ground near a mill, where the shelled oats are winnowed. ( Scotch .) "Whatever dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the sheeling-hill."-Scott: Old Mortality , ch. vii. sheen, *shene, *sheene, a . & s. [A. S. scéne, sceóne, scióne, scyne =fair; cogn. with O. S. scont ; Dut. schoon; Ger. schon; Goth. shauns. Allied to show , not to shine .] A. As adj .: Bright, glittering, shiny, showy. "And now they never meet in grove, or green, By fountain clear, or spangled star-light sheen." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream , ii. 1. B. As subst.: Brightne , splendor, glitter. "The sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." Byron: Destruction of Senna cher if. brilliantly. ( Browning .) *sheen-ly, adv . [Eng. sheen; -ly.] Brightly, sheen-ỹ (1), a. [Eng. sheen; -y.] Bright, glitter- ing, shiny, showy. "[We] skim the sheeny wave." Blackie: Highlands and Islands , p. 74. shee-nỹ (2), s. [Prob.corrupt. of Ger. schinder = an exacter.] 1. A sharper; a usurer. 2. An opprobrious name applied to the Jews. sheep, *scheep, *schep, *schepe, s. [A. S. sceáp, "For he, to-day, that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother."- Shakesp .: Henry V. , iv. 3. 3. To throw off; to cause to flow off without penetrating; as, A roof sheds rain-water. 4. To cast off; to throw off, as a covering. "Trees that bring forth their leaves late, and cast them late, are more lasting than those that sprout their leaves early, or shed them betimes."-Bacon: Nat . Hist. *5. To emit; to give or pour out; to diffuse. "Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day." Goldsmith: Deserted Village . a simpleton; Ger. schaf : O. H. Ger. scaf . Origin generally referred to Pol. skop ; Bohem. skopec =a wether, a castrated sheep (whence Pol. skopowinia mutton), from skopiti to castrate; cf. Ital. cas trato mutton.] 1. Lit .: In the same sense as II. 2. Figuratively : (1) Used in contempt for a silly, bashful fellow. (2) ( Pl . ): God's people, as being under the gov- ernment and care of Christ, the Good Shepherd. ( John x. 11.) IMG:content-1327.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A division, a parting; as, the shed of the hair. 2. The act of shedding, pouring out, or causing to flow; only in composition, as bloodshed. *3. The slope of a hill. [WATERSHED.] shed-line, subst . The summit line of elevated ground; the line of the watershed. shěd (2), s. [Another form of shade (q. v.).] 1. A lean-to frame building of one story; a slight or temporary building; a penthouse or covering of boards, ., for shelter; a hovel, a hut. "The people living on the ridges of the hills in a kind of shed very slightly built."-Cook: First Voyage , bk. ii. ch. ii. II. Zool .: The genus Ovis (q. v.), or any individual of that genus, particularly Ovis aries , the Common Sheep, or any of its numerous breeds. Sheep form a small group of Cavicorn Ruminants, characterized by their thick, heavy, transversely ridged horns, curved spirally outward, and by their peculiar physiognomy, quite distinct from that of their nearest allies. They have been known and domesticated from remote antiquity, and it is now almost impo ible to ascertain the ancestral stock from which they are descended; probably they have a mixed origin from several wild species, and were introduced into Britain in prehistoric times. Wild sheep are e entially mountainous; they have their head-quarters in Asia, with species in Africa and North America. They are gregarious, and this character is retained in the domesticated state. The male of the sheep is called a ram, and the female a ewe; the former often exhibits great pugnacity, rushing straight at a foe, and butting with its strongly-armed forehead. The sheep is one of the most profitable domestic animals, nearly every part serving some useful purpose; the fleece yields wool, the flesh is used for food, the skin is made into leather for bookbinding and gloves, or into parchment, and Leicesters, are in high repute for weight of carca and fattening qualities. The Lincoln, the Cotswold. the Tees water, and Romney Marsh are heavy breeds, exceeding the Leicester in quantity of wool and hardine of constitution; the Short-wooled South downs have a close-set fleece of fine wool, and their mutton is of superior quality. They were first bred on the chalky downs in the south of England. and have since spread all over the world. The Black-faced, the Cheviot, and the Welsh sheep are mountain breeds; the Cheviot are the least hardy of the three, but they all yield excellent mutton. The Iceland sheep have three, four, and sometimes five horns; the Broad-tailed sheep of Asia have the tail so loaded with fat on each side as to weigh seventy or eighty pounds. As the tail is considered a great delicacy, the shepherd sometimes protects it from being injured by dragging on the ground by attaching to it a small board on rough wheels. The Fat-rumped sheep of Southern Tartary has a similar development of fat on the rump. The Wall a chi an sheep is noted for the size of its horns; and the A str a can and Circa ian sheep yield the fur known as A str a can (q. v.). Among the wool-producing breeds one of the most important is the Merino (q. v.). "With domesticated sheep the presence or absence of horns is not a firmly-fixed character: for a certain proportion of the Merino ewes bear small horns, and some of the rams are hornle ; and in most breeds hornle ewes are occasionally produced."- Darwin : Descent of Man (ed. 1885), p. 235. IMG:content-1328.png:[blocks in formation] "Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly rascally sheep - biter come to some notable shame?" - Shakesp .: Twelfth Night , ii. 5.