Emily Dickinson Lexicon

shaven, adj. [OE.]

Scrape; cut away in thin layers.

Shaw, proper n. [OE sceaga, thicket.]

Henry Shaw (about 1832-1887); son of Samuel Austin Shaw and Mary White; day laborer in Amherst who would dig for ED; [fig.] common man.

she ('d, 's), pron. [prob. OE séo; perhaps Heb. for woman, wife.]

1. Used to represent Nature which is personified as a female being.
2. Used to name a female persona that has no antecedent in the text.
3. Refers to the female being mentioned or last mentioned in the text.
4. Used to represent and personify abstractions, such as the soul, conscience, time, fate, and hope.
5. Used to represent and personify natural objects or natural phenomena, such as dawn, morning, rainbow, and moon.
6. Used to represent plant life, such as weed, Rose, Jessamine, Rhodora, Crocus, garden, grass, flower, which is personified as a female human being.
7. Represents a flower that is not named in the text.
8. Refers to a bird: Robin, Linnet, Birdling etc.
9. Refers to a type of bird which is not named in the text.
10. Refers to a cat or leopard.
11. Used to represent neuter things, such as ore, bark, which would normally be referred to with it.
12. Used to represent and personify the seasons of Spring and Summer.
13. With relative adjective phrase.
14. Refers to the speaker of the poem.

sheaf (sheaves), n. [OE 'bundle or wisp of straw, heap of hay or corn'.]

Bundle of grain; bound cereal plants after reaping.

sheen, n. [OE 'shine'.]

1. To shine bright, to be radiant, resplendent.
2. The appearance or features of a person, beautiful.
3. To cause to be bright, cast a shine upon.
4. To be noble, illustrious.

sheet (-s), n. [OE scíete.] (webplay: paper, cloth, napkin, towel, garment).

1. [Fig.] a piece of linen or cloth (something blanketlike) for covering.
2. A constant sweep of some object percieved as hanging, falling or moving in a certain direction.

shelf (shelves), n. [Gr. 'set of shelves, stack, rick of hay'.]

1. [Fig.] In a state or position of inactivity; yet to occur; out of the way; on the other side.
2. [Fig.] The gradine of an altar.
3. [Fig] The charging-bed of a furnace.
4. [Fig.] A shelf with reference to its content or goods.

shell (-s), n. [OE 'peel, rind, egg-shell'.]

1. [Fig.] referring to the avoidance of society.
2. The hard outer covering that encases certain organisms: mollusks, insects, turtles, etc.

shelter, n. [obscure origin, see shield, n.]

A protector, a place of security, shelter.

shepherd (-'s), n. [OE 'sheep + herd'.]

To tend, guard and watch as shephard, one who guides a people as a minister.