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Sheikdom
- noun - the domain ruled by a sheik
Sheikhas
- noun - the wife of a sheik
Shekinah
- - The visible majesty of the Divine Presence, especially when resting or dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy seat, in the Tabernacle, or in the Temple of Solomon; -- a term used in the Targums and by the later Jews, and adopted by Christians.
Shelfful
- noun - the amount that a shelf will hold; "he bought a shelfful of books"
Shellack
- verb - cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"
Shellacs
- noun - Slang
a. To strike repeatedly and severely; batter.
b. To defeat decisively.
c. an utter defeat.
d. a sound thrashing.
- a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
- cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"
- lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
Shellers
- noun - a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters)
Shelling
- verb - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
- create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain"
- fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled"
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"
- remove the husks from; "husk corn"
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing"
- use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"