Vocabulary : Shawnees to Shear

Shawnees : 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.
Shay : A chaise.
She : 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. ;; A woman; a female; -- used substantively.
Shea tree : An African sapotaceous tree (Bassia, / Butyrospermum, Parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained; the African butter tree.
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.

Sheaf : A sheave. ;; A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. ;; Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. ;; To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat. ;; To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
Sheafy : Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.
Sheal : Same as Sheeling. ;; To put under a sheal or shelter. ;; To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod. ;; A shell or pod.
Shealing : The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell. ;; Same as Sheeling.
Shear : To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. ;; To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. ;; To reap, as grain. ;; Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece. ;; To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. ;; A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears. ;; A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; To deviate. See Sheer. ;; To become more or less comple

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