Index of English words, starting with "sh"

(1) - Shears (n.) 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.
(2) - Shears (n.) 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.
(3) - Shears (n.) A pair of wings.
(4) - Shears (n.) Anything in the form of shears.
(5) - Shears (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
(6) - Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.
(7) - Shears (n.) 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.
(8) - Shears (n.) A cutting instrument.

(1) - Shearwater (n.) 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.

(1) - Sheatfish (n.) 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.

(1) - Sheath (n.) One of the elytra of an insect.
(2) - Sheath (n.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.
(3) - Sheath (n.) Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part.
(4) - Sheath (n.) A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.