2. A woman; a female; -- used substantively. [R.]

Lady, you are the cruelest she alive.

Shak.

She is used in composition with nouns of common gender, for female, to

denote an animal of the female sex; as, a she-bear; a she-cat.

Shead"ing (?), n. [From AS. scdan, sceádan, to separate, divide. See

Shed, v. t.] A tithing, or division, in the Isle of Man, in which there

is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six

sheadings.

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