| shaver | 1. One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave. 2. One who is close in bargains; a sharper. 3. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. "By these shavers the Turks were stripped." (Knolles) 4. A boy; a lad; a little fellow. "These unlucky little shavers." "As I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver, I am on a chase in the name of the king." (Dickens) 5. <mechanics> A tool or machine for shaving. A note shaver, a person who buys notes at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Shaver's disease | A condition due to the occupational inhalation of bauxite fumes emitted during the manufacture of alumina abrasives; characterised by cough, shortness of breath, a combined obstructive and restrictive breathing pattern, and impairment of diffusing capacity. Synonym: Shaver's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaving cramp | An occupational dystonia affecting the hands and fingers of barbers. Synonym: keirospasm, xyrospasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaw | 1. A thicket; a small wood or grove. "Gaillard he was as goldfinch in the shaw." (Chaucer) "The green shaws, the merry green woods." (Howitt) 2. The leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc. Origin: OE. Schawe, schae, thicket, grove, AS. Scaga; akin to Dan. Skov, Sw. Skog, Icel. Skgr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shawl | A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders. India shawl, a kind of rich shawl made in India from the wool of the Cashmere goat. It is woven in pieces, which are sewed together. <zoology> Shawl goat, the Cashmere goat. Origin: Per. & Hind. Shal: cf. F. Chale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shawl muscle | <anatomy> An obsolete term for trapezius muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shawnees | <ethnology> A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western new York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| SHBG | <abbreviation> Sex hormone-binding globulin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| she | 1. This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of. "She loved her children best in every wise." (Chaucer) "Then Sarah denied, . . . For she was afraid." (Gen. Xviii. 15) 2. A woman; a female; used substantively. "Lady, you are the cruelest she alive." (Shak) She is used in composition with nouns of common gender, for female, to denote an animal of the female sex; as, a she-bear; a she-cat. Origin: She; Her. Or Hers; Her; They; Their or Theirs; Them] [OE. She, sche, scheo, scho, AS. Seo, fem. Of the definite article, originally a demonstrative pronoun; cf. OS. Siu, D. Zij, G. Sie, OHG. Siu, si, si, Icel. Su, sja, Goth. Si she, so, fem. Article, Russ. Siia, fem, this, Gr, fem. Article, Skr. Sa, sya. The possessive her or hers, and the objective her, are from a different root. See Her. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shea tree | <botany> An African sapotaceous tree (Bassia, or Butyrospermum, Parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained; the African butter tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheading | A tithing, or division, in the Isle of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings. Origin: From AS. Scadan, sceadan, to separate, divide. See Shed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheaf | <mechanics> A sheave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shear | 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth. 2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. "Before the golden tresses . . . Were shorn away." (Shak) 3. To reap, as grain. 4. To deprive of property; to fleece. 5. <mechanics> To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear. Origin: Sheared or Shore; Sheared or Shorn; Shearing] [OE. Sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. Sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. Scheren, Icel. Skera, Dan. Skire, Gr. Cf. Jeer, Score, Shard, Share, Sheer to turn aside. 1. A pair of shears; now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears. "On his head came razor none, nor shear." (Chaucer) "Short of the wool, and naked from the shear." (Dryden) 2. A shearing; used in designating the age of sheep. "After the second shearing, he is a two-sher ram; . . . at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing." (Youatt) 3. <engineering> An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; also called shearing stress, and tangential stress. 4. <mechanics> A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction. Shear blade, one of the blades of shears or a shearing machine. Shear hulk. See Hulk. Shear steel, a steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture. Origin: AS. Sceara. See Shear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shear fields | <radiobiology> As used in plasma physics, this refers to magnetic fields having a rotational transform (or, alternatively, safety factor) that changes with radius (for example, in the stellarator concept, magnetic fields that increase in pitch with distance from the magnetic axis.) (09 Oct 1997) |
| shear flow | A flow of a material in which parallel planes in the material are displaced in a direction parallel to each other. (05 Mar 2000) |