| sheep-pox | A highly contagious disease of sheep, chiefly in parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and southern Europe, caused by the sheep-pox virus, a member of the family Poxviridae. Synonym: ovinia. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| sheep-pox virus | A poxvirus of the genus Capripoxvirus causing sheep-pox. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sheepback | <geology> A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. Produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; usually in the plural. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheepberry | <botany> The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Synonym: nannyberry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheeprack | <zoology> The starling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheepshead | <zoology> A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. The name is also locally, in a loose way, applied to various other fishes, as the butterfish, the fresh water drumfish, the parrot fish, the porgy, and the moonfish. Origin: So called because of the fancied resemblance of its head and front teeth to those of a sheep. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheepskin | 1. The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it. 2. A diploma; so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheer | 1. Bright; clear; pure; unmixed. "Sheer ale." "Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain." (Shak) 2. Very thin or transparent; applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin. 3. Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense. "A sheer impossibility." "It is not a sheer advantage to have several strings to one's bow." (M. Arnold) 4. Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular. "A sheer precipice of a thousand feet." (J. D. Hooker) "It was at least Nine roods of sheer ascent." (Wordsworth) Origin: OE. Shere, skere, pure, bright, Icel. Skrr; akin to skirr, AS. Scir, OS. Skiri, MHG. Schir, G. Schier, Dan. Skr, Sw. Skar, Goth. Skeirs clear, and E. Shine. See Shine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheerwater | <zoology> The shearwater. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheet | 1. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. "The sheeted dead." "When snow the pasture sheets." 2. To expand, as a sheet. "The star shot flew from the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky." (J. R. Drake) To sheet home, to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible. Origin: Sheeted; Sheeting. In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies. Specifically: A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body. "He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners." (Acts x. 10, 11) "If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets." (Shak) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc. A single signature of a book or a pamphlet; in pl, the book itself. "To this the following sheets are intended for a full and distinct answer." (Waterland) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf. A broad expanse of water, or the like. "The two beautiful sheets of water." . A sail. <geology> An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata. 2. [AS. Sceata. See the Etymology above. A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom. Pl. The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets. Sheet is often used adjectively, or in combination, to denote that the substance to the name of which it is prefixed is in the form of sheets, or thin plates or leaves; as, sheet brass, or sheet-brass; sheet glass, or sheet-glass; sheet gold, or sheet-gold; sheet iron, or sheet-iron, etc. A sheet in the wind, half drunk. Both sheets in the wind, very drunk. In sheets, lying flat or expanded; not folded, or folded but not bound; said especially of printed sheets. Sheet bend, a bend or hitch used for temporarily fastening a rope to the bight of another rope or to an eye. Sheet lightning, Sheet piling, etc. See Lightning, Piling, etc. Origin: OE. Shete, schete, AS. Scte, scte, fr. Sceat a projecting corner, a fold in a garment (akin to D. Schoot sheet, bosom, lap, G. Schoss bosom, lap, flap of a coat, Icel. Skaut, Goth. Skauts the hem of a garment); originally, that which shoots out, from the root of AS. Sceotan to shoot. See Shoot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheeting | 1. Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width. 2. <physics> A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment. 3. The act or process of forming into sheets, or flat pieces; also, material made into sheets. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheldaple | <zoology> A chaffinch. Alternative forms: sheldapple, and shellapple. Origin: Perhaps for sheld dapple. Cf. Sheldrake. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheldfowl | <zoology> The common sheldrake. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Sheldon, J | <person> English paediatrician, 1920-1964. See: Freeman-Sheldon syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sheldrake | 1. <zoology> Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. Cornuta, or tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows. It has the head and neck greenish black, the breast, sides, and forward part of the back brown, the shoulders and middle of belly black, the speculum green, and the bill and frontal bright red. Synonym: shelduck, shellduck, sheldfowl, skeelduck, bergander, burrow duck, and links goose. The Australian sheldrake (Tadorna radja) has the head, neck, breast, flanks, and wing coverts white, the upper part of the back and a band on the breast deep chestnut, and the back and tail black. The chestnut sheldrake of Australia (Casarca tadornoides) is varied with black and chestnut, and has a dark green head and neck. The ruddy sheldrake, or Braminy duck (C. Rutila), and the white-winged sheldrake (C. Leucoptera), are related Asiatic species. 2. Any one of the American mergansers. The name is also loosely applied to other ducks, as the canvasback, and the shoveler. Origin: Sheld + drake. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shell shock |
The military term combat stress reaction (CSR) comprises the range of adverse behaviours in reaction to the stress of combat and combat related activities. In the military setting it generally does not include the range of adaptive reactions and behaviours in reaction to such stresses. Combat stress behaviours can also include misconduct stress behaviours which are not dealt with in this article. Some US military publications still refer to battle fatigue as the main focus of management. ...
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| Sheehan's syndrome |
Sheehan syndrome, also known as Simmond's disease, postpartum hypopituitarism or postpartum pituitary necrosis is hypopituitarism (decreased functioning of the pituitary gland), caused by necrosis due to blood loss and hypovolemic shock during and after childbirth. ...
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| shen |
Spirit - residing in the Upper Dan Tian (the third eye).
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| shell |
Any sweep or scull rowing boat.
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| shear strength |
In mass wasting, the resistance to movement or deformation of material. (See page(s) 206)
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| SHE | pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities |
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| SHE | (biology) shed at an early stage of development |
| SHE | lose blood from one's body |
| SHE | make free from confusion or ambiguity |
| SHE | an attacker who sheds or spills blood |
| SHE | loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales |
| SHE | the process whereby something is shed |
| SHE | the visual property of something that shines with reflected light |
| SHE | reflecting light |
| SHE | woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat |
| SHE | a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision |
| SHE | a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon |