Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 67
Shepherdias (n. pl. ) of Shepherdia.
Shepherdia (n.) (Bot.) A genus of
shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elaeagnus;
also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under
Shepherdish (n.) Resembling a shepherd; suiting a shepherd; pastoral. -- Sir T. Sidney.
Shepherdism (n.) Pastoral life or occupation.
Shepherdling (n.) A little shepherd.
Shepherdly (a.) Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic. [R.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Shepster (n.) A seamstress. [Obs.] -- Caxton.
Sherbet (n.) A refreshing drink, common in the East, made of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as, orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc.
Sherbet (n.) A flavored water ice.
Sherbet (n.) A preparation of bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, sugar, etc., variously flavored, for making an effervescing drink; -- called also sherbet powder.
Sherbet (n.) A frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin [syn: sherbert, sherbet].
Sherd (n.) A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard.
The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove. -- Chapman. Shereef
Shard (n.) A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail. -- Shak.
The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board. -- E. Arnold.
Shard (n.) (Zool.) The hard wing case of a beetle.
They are his shards, and he their beetle. -- Shak.
Shard (n.) A gap in a fence. [Obs.] -- Stanyhurst.
Shard (n.) A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] -- Spenser.
Sherd (n.) A broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: shard, sherd, fragment].
Shereef (n.) Alt. of Sherif.
Sherif (n.) A member of an Arab princely family descended from Mohammed through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima. The Grand Shereef is the governor of Mecca.
Sheriat (n.) The sacred law of the Turkish empire.
Sheriff (n.) 郡治安官，州長 The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace.
Note: In England, sheriffs are appointed by the king. In the United States, sheriffs are elected by the legislature or by the citizens, or appointed and commissioned by the executive of the State. The office of sheriff in England is judicial and ministerial. In the United States, it is mainly ministerial. The sheriff, by himself or his deputies, executes civil and criminal process throughout the county, has charge of the jail and prisoners, attends courts, and keeps the peace. His judicial authority is generally confined to ascertaining damages on writs of inquiry and the like. Sheriff, in Scotland, called sheriff depute, is properly a judge, having also certain ministerial powers. Sheriff clerk is the clerk of the Sheriff's Court in Scotland. Sheriff's Court in London is a tribunal having cognizance of certain personal actions in that city. --Wharton, Tomlins. Erskine. Sheriffship, Sheriffry, Sheriffdom, Sheriffalty.
Sheriff (n.) The principal law-enforcement officer in a county.
Sheriff, () The name of the chief officer of the county. In Latin he is called vice comes, because in England he represented the comes or earl. His name is said to be derived from the Saxon seyre, shire or county, and reve, keeper, bailiff, or guardian.
Sheriff. () The general duties of the sheriff are, 1st. To keep the peace within the county; he may apprehend, and commit to prison all persons who break the peace or attempt to break it, and bind any one in a recognizance to keep the peace. He is required ex officio, to pursue and take all traitors, murderers, felons and rioters. He has the keeping of the county gaol and he is bound to defend it against all attacks. He may command the posse comitatus. (q.v.)
Sheriff, () In his ministerial capacity, the sheriff is bound to execute within his county or bailiwick, all process issuing from the courts of the commonwealth.
Sheriff, () The sheriff also possesses a judicial capacity, but this is very much circumscribed to what it was at common law in England. It is now generally confined to ascertain damages on writs of inquiry and the like.
Sheriff, () Generally speaking the sheriff has no authority out of his county. 2 Rolle's Rep. 163; Plowd, 37 a. He may, however, do mere ministerial acts out of his county, as making a return. Dalt. Sh. 22. Vide, generally, the various Digests and Abridgments, h.t.; Dalt. Sher.; Wats. Off. and Duty of Sheriff; Wood's Inst. 75; 18 Eng. Com. Law Rep. 177; 2 Phil. Ev. 213; Chit. Pr. Index, h.t.; Chit. Pr. Law, Index, h.t.
Sheriff, (n.) In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most characteristic duties, in some of the Western and Southern States, are the catching and hanging of rogues.
John Elmer Pettibone Cajee (I write of him with little glee) Was just as bad as he could be.
'Twas frequently remarked: "I swon! The sun has never looked upon So bad a man as Neighbor John."
A sinner through and through, he had This added fault: it made him mad To know another man was bad.
In such a case he thought it right To rise at any hour of night And quench that wicked person's light.
Despite the town's entreaties, he Would hale him to the nearest tree And leave him swinging wide and free.
Or sometimes, if the humor came, A luckless wight's reluctant frame Was given to the cheerful flame.
While it was turning nice and brown, All unconcerned John met the frown Of that austere and righteous town.
"How sad," his neighbors said, "that he So scornful of the law should be -- An anar c, h, i, s, t."
(That is the way that they preferred To utter the abhorrent word, So strong the aversion that it stirred.)
"Resolved," they said, continuing, "That Badman John must cease this thing Of having his unlawful fling.
"Now, by these sacred relics" -- here Each man had out a souvenir Got at a lynching yesteryear --
"By these we swear he shall forsake His ways, nor cause our hearts to ache By sins of rope and torch and stake.
"We'll tie his red right hand until He'll have small freedom to fulfil The mandates of his lawless will."
So, in convention then and there, They named him Sheriff. The affair Was opened, it is said, with prayer. J. Milton Sloluck
Sheriffalty (n.) 郡長職位；郡長管轄權；郡長任期 Alt. of Sheriffwick.
Sheriffdom (n.) （為郡司法長官，郡治安官，警察局長之）轄區，職務等 Alt. of Sheriffwick
Sheriffry (n.) Alt. of Sheriffwick.
Sheriffship (n.) Alt. of Sheriffwick.
Sheriffwick (n.) 郡長的職務（或職權、任期）；縣行政司法官的職務（或職權、任期）The office or jurisdiction of sheriff. See Shrievalty.
Sheriffalty, () The office of sheriff, the time during which a sheriff is to remain in office.
Compare: Shearn
Shearn (n.) Dung; excrement. [Obs.] [Written also shern.] -- Holland.
Shern (n.) See Shearn. [Obs.]
Sherris (n.) Sherry. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Sherry (n.) [U] [C] 雪利酒（西班牙產的一種烈性白葡萄酒）；類似雪利酒的酒 A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.
Sherry cobbler, A beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar, ice, etc., and usually imbided through a straw or a glass tube.
Compare: Cobbler
Cobbler (n.) 補鞋匠；製鞋匠 [C]；【古】笨拙的工匠 [C]；【美】脆皮面水果派 [C]；（用酒、果汁、糖等製的）酒味冷飲 A mender of shoes. -- Addison.
Cobbler (n.) A clumsy workman. -- Shak.
Cobbler (n.) A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry.
Compare: Beverage
Beverage (n.) 飲料 [C]
Cobbler fish (n.) (Zool.), 鯰魚 A marine fish ({Blepharis crinitus"> Cobbler fish (Zool.), a marine fish ({Blepharis crinitus) of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.
Cobbler (n.) A person who makes or repairs shoes [syn: cobbler, shoemaker].
Cobbler (n.) Tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit.
Cobbler (n.) A pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit [syn: deep-dish pie, cobbler].
Sherry (n.) Dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif.
Compare: Aperitif
Aperitif (n.) 【法】開胃酒（為增加食慾在餐前所飲的白葡萄酒等） Alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer.
Sherryvallies (n. pl.) Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback. [Local, U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Shet (imp.) of Shet.
Shette () of Shet.
Shet (p. pr.) of Shet.
Shetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shet.
Shet (v. t. & i.) To shut.
Shete (v. t. & i.) To shoot. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Chaucer.
Sheth (n.) The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard, or post.
Sheth, () Tumult. (1.) "The children of Sheth" (Num. 24:17); R.V., "the sons of tumult," which is probably the correct rendering, as there is no evidence that this is a proper name here.
Sheth, () The antediluvian patriarch (1 Chr. 1:1).
Shetland pony () One of a small, hardy breed of horses, with long mane and tail, which originated in the Shetland Islands; a sheltie.
Shew (v. t. & i.) See Show.
Shew (n.) Show.
Shewbread () See Showbread.
Shewel (n.) A scarecrow.
Shewer (n.) One who shews. See Shower.
Shewn () p. p. of Shew.
Shiah (n.) Same as Shiite.
Shibboleth (n.) A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii.
Shibboleth (n.) Also in an extended sense.
Shibboleth (n.) Hence, the criterion, test, or watchword of a party; a party cry or pet phrase.
Shide (n.) A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter.
Shie (v. t.) See Shy, to throw.
Shied () imp. & p. p. of Shy.
Shiel (n.) A sheeling.
Shield (n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.
Shield (n.) Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
Shield (n.) Figuratively, one who protects or defends.
Shield (n.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
Shield (n.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.
Shield (n.) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
Shield (n.) A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield.
Shield (n.) A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
Shielded (imp. & p. p.) of Shield.
Shielding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shield.
Shield (n.) To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury.
Shield (n.) To ward off; to keep off or out.
Shield (n.) To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!
Shield-bearer (n.) One who, or that which, carries a shield.
Shield-bearer (n.) Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves.
Shielddrake (n.) A sheldrake.
Shieldless (a.) Destitute of a shield, or of protection.
Shieldtail (n.) Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated.
Shield volcanoes (n.) 盾狀火山（英語：shield volcano）是一類火山，具有寬廣緩和的斜坡，底部較大，整體看來就像是一個盾牌。Where a volcano produces low viscosity, runny lava, it spreads far from the source and forms a volcano with gentle slopes: a shield volcano. Most shield volcanoes are formed from fluid, basaltic lava flows. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa are shield volcanoes. They are the world’s largest active volcanoes, rising over 9 km above the sea floor around the island of Hawai’i..
Shieling (n.) A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling.
Shifted (imp. & p. p.) of Shift.
Shifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shift.
Shift (v. t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion. [Obs.]
To which God of his bounty would shift Crowns two of flowers well smelling. -- Chaucer.
Shift (v. t.) 轉移；移動，搬移；替換，更換；變動，改變；推卸，轉嫁 [（+on to/ on）]； 變（速），換（檔）；【文】使音變；擺脫，消除 To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
Hastily he schifte him[self]. -- Piers Plowman.
Pare saffron between the two St. Mary's days, Or set or go shift it that knowest the ways. -- Tusser.
Shift (v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
Carrying the oar loose, [they] shift it hither and thither at pleasure. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Shift (v. t.) To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
I would advise you to shift a shirt. -- Shak.
Shift (v. t.) To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively. [Obs.]
As it were to ride day and night; and . . . not to have patience to shift me. -- Shak.
Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient. "I shifted him away." -- Shak.
To shift off, To delay; to defer; to put off; to lay aside.
To shift the scene, To change the locality or the surroundings, as in a play or a story.
Shift the scene for half an hour; Time and place are in thy power. -- Swift.
Shiff (v. i.) 轉移；移動；變換，改變；設法應付；自己謀生；變速，換檔；推託；欺騙 To divide; to distribute. [Obs.]
Some this, some that, as that him liketh shift. -- Chaucer.
Shiff (v. i.) To make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb.
The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. -- Shak.
Here the Baillie shifted and fidgeted about in his seat. -- Sir W. Scott.
Shiff (v. i.) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can. -- L'Estrange.
Shiff (v. i.) To practice indirect or evasive methods.
All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift, than to resolve by their distinctions. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Shiff (v. i.) (Naut.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.
Shift (n.) [C] 轉換；轉移；轉變 [（+in）]；手段，辦法；權宜之計 [P]；輪班；輪班工作時間；輪班職工[G]；推託；哄騙；（汽車的）變速裝置；寬鬆直筒連衣裙 The act of shifting. Specifically:
Shift (n.) The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Shift (n.) A turning from one thing to another; hence, an expedient tried in difficulty; often, an evasion; a trick; a fraud. "Reduced to pitiable shifts." -- Macaulay.
I 'll find a thousand shifts to get away. -- Shak.
Little souls on little shifts rely. -- Dryden.
Shift (n.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
Shift (n.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
Shift (n.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
Shift (n.) (Mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
Shift (n.) (Mus.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
To make shift, to contrive or manage in an exigency. "I shall make shift to go without him." -- Shak.
[They] made a shift to keep their own in Ireland. -- Milton.
Shift (n.) An event in which something is displaced without rotation [syn: shift, displacement].
Shift (n.) A qualitative change [syn: transformation, transmutation, shift].
Shift (n.) The time period during which you are at work [syn: shift, work shift, duty period].
Shift (n.) The act of changing one thing or position for another; "his switch on abortion cost him the election" [syn: switch, switching, shift].
Shift (n.) The act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class" [syn: shift, shifting].
Shift (n.) (Geology) A crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust" [syn: fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break].
Shift (n.) A crew of workers who work for a specific period of time.
Shift (n.) The key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters [syn: shift key, shift].
Shift (n.) A woman's sleeveless undergarment [syn: chemise, shimmy, shift, slip, teddy].
Shift (n.) A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist [syn: chemise, sack, shift].
Shift (v.) Make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched" [syn: switch, change over, shift].
Shift (v.) Change place or direction; "Shift one's position" [syn: shift, dislodge, reposition].
Shift (v.) Move around; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket" [syn: transfer, shift].
Shift (v.) Move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: stir, shift, budge, agitate].
Shift (v.) Move from one setting or context to another; "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention."
Shift (v.) Change in quality; "His tone shifted."
Shift (v.) Move and exchange for another; "shift the date for our class Reunion."
Shift (v.) Move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift, tilt].
Shift (v.) Move abruptly; "The ship suddenly lurched to the left" [syn: lurch, pitch, shift].
Shift (v.) Use a shift key on a keyboard; "She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case."
Shift (v.) Change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change; "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted."
Shift (v.) Change gears; "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill."
Shift (v.) Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes" [syn: switch, shift, change].
SHIFT, () Scalable Heterogeneous Integrated Facility Testbed. A parallel processing project at CERN.
Shiftable (a.) Admitting of being shifted.
Shifter (n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. -- Milton.
Shifter (n.) (Naut.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
Shifter (n.) (Mach.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
Shifter (n.) (Mach.) (Knitting Mach.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
Shifter (n.) (construction, tunneling) A foreman responsible for the work on one shift in one area, as in one heading[4]. [RDH]
Shifter (n.) A stagehand responsible for moving scenery [syn: sceneshifter, shifter].
Shifter (n.) A mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; "in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever" [syn: gearshift, gearstick, shifter, gear lever].
Shiftiness (n.) The quality or state of being shifty.
Diplomatic shiftiness and political versatility. -- J. A. Syminds.
Shiftiness (n.) The quality of being a slippery rascal [syn: rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness, trickiness].
Shiftiness (n.) The quality of being changeable in direction; "the shiftiness of the wind caused the boat to veer unpredictably."
Shifting (a.) Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
Shifting (a.) Adapted or used for shifting anything.
Shifting backstays (Naut.), Temporary stays that have to be let go whenever the vessel tacks or jibes.
Shifting ballast, Ballast which may be moved from one side of a vessel to another as safety requires.
Shifting center. See Metacenter.
Shifting locomotive. See Switching engine, under Switch.
Shifting (a.) Continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors."
Shifting (a.) Changing position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"; "shifty winds" [syn: shifting, shifty].
Shifting (a.) (Of soil) Unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth" [syn: shifting, unfirm].
Shifting (n.) The act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class" [syn: shift, shifting].
Shiftingly (adv.) In a shifting manner.
Shiftless (a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management. -- Shift"less*ly, adv. -- Shift"less*ness, n.
Shiftless (a.) Lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; "a shiftless student"; "studied in a shiftless way."
Shifty (a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance. -- Wright.
Shifty and thrifty as old Greek
or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing
he could not endure. -- C. Kingsley. Shiite
Shifty (a.) Characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive;
"a devious character"; "shifty eyes" [syn: devious,
shifty].
Shifty (a.) Changing position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"; "shifty winds" [syn: shifting, shifty].
Shiite (n.) Alt. of Shiah.
Shiah (n.) A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans. Shikaree
Shiite (n.) A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs [syn: Shiite, Shi'ite, Shiite Muslim, Shi'ite Muslim, Shia Muslim].
Shikaree (n.) Alt. of Shikari.
Shikari (n.) [Hind.] A sportsman; esp., a native hunter. [India]
Shikoku (n.) An island in SW
Japan, S of Honshu: the smallest of the main islands of