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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
SHEER, a.
1. Pure; clear; separate from anything foreign; unmingled; as sheer ale. But this application is unusual. We saysheer argument, sheer wit, sheer falsehook, &c.
2. Clear; thin; as sheer muslin.
SHEER, adv. Clean; quite; at once. Obs.
SHEER, v.t. To sheer. [Not in use.]
SHEER, v.i. [See Shear, the sense of which is to separate.]
1. In seamen's language, to decline or deviate from the line of the proper course, as a ship when not steered with steadiness.
2. To slip or move aside.
1913 Definition
Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
"Sheer ale." Shak.
Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain. Shak. Very thin or transparent; -- applied to
fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
Being only what it seems to be; obvious;
simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer
nonsense.
"A sheer impossibility." De
Quincey.
It is not a sheer advantage to have several strings to one's bow. M. Arnold. Stright up and down; vertical;
prpendicular.
A sheer precipice of a thousand feet. J. D. Hooker. It was at least Clean; quite; at
once.
[Obs.] Milton. To
shear.
[Obs.] Dryden. To decline or deviate from the line of the proper
course] to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her
course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.
To sheer off, to turn or move aside to a distance; to move away. -- To sheer up, to approach obliquely. The longitudinal upward
curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed
from the side.
A turn or change in a course.
Give the canoe a sheer and get nearer to the shore. Cooper. Shears See
Shear.
Sheer batten (Shipbuilding), a long strip of wood to guide the carpenters in following the sheer plan. -- Sheer boom, a boom slanting across a stream to direct floating logs to one side. -- Sheer hulk. See Shear hulk, under Hulk. -- Sheer plan, or Sheer draught (Shipbuilding), a projection of the lines of a vessel on a vertical longitudinal plane passing through the middle line of the vessel. -- Sheer pole (Naut.), an iron rod lashed to the shrouds just above the dead-eyes and parallel to the ratlines. -- Sheer strake (Shipbuilding), the strake under the gunwale on the top side. Totten. -- To break sheer (Naut.), to deviate from sheer, and risk fouling the anchor. | ||||||||
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