Definition of Sheening

1. Verb. (present participle of sheen) ¹

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Definition of Sheening

1. sheen [v] - See also: sheen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheening

sheel
sheeled
sheeling
sheels
sheely
sheen
sheene
sheened
sheeney
sheeneys
sheenful
sheenie
sheenier
sheenies
sheeniest
sheening (current term)
sheenly
sheens
sheeny
sheep
sheep's eye
sheep's eyes
sheep's fescue
sheep's sorrel
sheep-dip
sheep-dipped
sheep-dipping
sheep-dips
sheep-faced
sheep-headed

Literary usage of Sheening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Highways and Byways in Hertfordshire by Herbert Winckworth Tompkins (1902)
"He tells me that he has done much " sheening " (ie tending the threshing machine) in his ... Sometimes, when I'm sheening I get three an' a tanner a day, ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1821)
"The radix of sheen has produced no verb from which the participle sheening may be derived ; and what Mr. H. would denote by scarlet wood- ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1821)
"The radix of sheen has produced no verb from which the participle sheening may be derived ; and what Mr. H. would denote by scarlet mead- berries, ..."

4. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"... and my stock sawing my jaws off, and my accoutrements sheening like the seven stars! Yes, neighbors, I was a pretty sight in my soldiering days. ..."

5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"sheening. Thrashing by machinery (Wild Life, ch. vi).—NW Sheep. See Agric. of Wilts, p. 260 ; also quotation below. ' In the article of sheep what strange ..."

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