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- English Word Shears Definition An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.
- English Word Shears Definition A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.
- English Word Shears Definition A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
- English Word Shears Definition Anything in the form of shears.
- English Word Shears Definition A pair of wings.
- English Word Shears Definition An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle.
- English Word Shears Definition The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe.
- English Word Sheartail Definition The common tern.
- English Word Sheartail Definition Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.
- English Word Shearwater Definition Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.
- English Word Sheatfish Definition A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.
- English Word Sheath Definition A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.
- English Word Sheath Definition Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part.
- English Word Sheath Definition The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.
- English Word Sheath Definition One of the elytra of an insect.
- English Word Sheath-winged Definition Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.
- English Word Sheathbill Definition Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas.
- English Word Sheathe Definition To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.
- English Word Sheathe Definition To fit or furnish, as with a sheath.
- English Word Sheathe Definition To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper.
- English Word Sheathe Definition To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles.
- English Word Sheathed Definition of Sheathe
- English Word Sheathed Definition Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
- English Word Sheathed Definition Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.
- English Word Sheather Definition One who sheathes.
- English Word Sheathfish Definition Same as Sheatfish.
- English Word Sheathing Definition Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
- English Word Sheathing Definition That which sheathes.
- English Word Sheathing Definition The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing.
- English Word Sheathing Definition The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general.