An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

SHEARN, s.
V. [Sharn].

SHEAVE, s. A slice, S.
V. [Shave].

SHED, s. A portion of land, as distinguished from that which is adjacent, S.

A. S. scead-an, Teut. scheyd-en, separare.

SHED, s. The interstice between the different parts of the warp in a loom, S.
Adam.

SHEDE, s. A slice, S. B.
Sir Gawan.

To Sheed, v. a. To cut into slices, S. B.

SHEEN of the ee, the pupil of the eye, S. B.

SHEEVE, s. A slice.
V. [Shave].

SHEIMACH, s. A kind of bass made of straw or sprot-ropes plaited, on which panniers are hung, Mearns.
Gl. Sibb.