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  • English Word Sheathless Definition Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
  • English Word Sheathy Definition Forming or resembling a sheath or case.
  • English Word Sheating Definition of Sheathe
  • English Word Sheave Definition A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
  • English Word Sheave Definition To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.
  • English Word Sheaved Definition Made of straw.
  • English Word Sheaves Definition of Sheaf
  • English Word Shebander Definition A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies.
  • English Word Shebang Definition A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop.
  • English Word Shebeen Definition A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.
  • English Word Shechinah Definition See Shekinah.
  • English Word Shecklaton Definition A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton.
  • English Word Shed Definition A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.
  • English Word Shed Definition of Shed
  • English Word Shed Definition To separate; to divide.
  • English Word Shed Definition To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
  • English Word Shed Definition To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.
  • English Word Shed Definition To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
  • English Word Shed Definition To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
  • English Word Shed Definition To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
  • English Word Shed Definition To fall in drops; to pour.
  • English Word Shed Definition To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
  • English Word Shed Definition A parting; a separation; a division.
  • English Word Shed Definition The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
  • English Word Shed Definition That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
  • English Word Shed Definition The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.
  • English Word Shedder Definition One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears.
  • English Word Shedder Definition A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state.
  • English Word Shedding Definition of Shed
  • English Word Shedding Definition The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood.