Vocabulary : Shears to Sheathfish

Shears : A cutting instrument. ;; 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. ;; A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins. ;; A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge. ;; Anything in the form of shears. ;; A pair of wings. ;; 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. ;; 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.
Sheartail : The common tern. ;; Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.
Shearwater : 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.
Sheatfish : 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.
Sheath : A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard. ;; Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part. ;; The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses. ;; One of the elytra of an insect.

Sheathbill : Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas.
Sheathe : To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case. ;; To fit or furnish, as with a sheath. ;; To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper. ;; To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles.
Sheathed : of Sheathe ;; Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath. ;; Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.
Sheather : One who sheathes.
Sheathfish : Same as Sheatfish.