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Shell-Lac
- - Lac which has been reduced to a thin crust. See the Note under 2d Lac.
Shelleyan
- unknown - in the style of Percy Bysshe
Shigellas
- noun - rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon
Shillalah
- noun - a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn)
Shillelah
- - An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks.
Shoo Away
- verb - drive away by crying `shoo!'
- drive away by crying `shoo!''
Shopwoman
- - A woman employed in a shop.
Shorthead
- - A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
Showbread
- - Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.