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Definition of Sheens
1. sheen [v] - See also: sheen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheens
Literary usage of Sheens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Garden Flowers: How to Cultivate Them. A Treatise on the Culture of Hardy by Edward Sprague Rand (1866)
"sheens-scabious. [Campanulaceae.] Pretty dwarf herbs, bearing blue flowers
collected in heads. The annuals may be sown in the borders in May, and require no ..."
2. The Life Primer by Charles Richard Tuttle (1906)
"14—There are molecular sheens, or colors, and there are cellular sheens, ...
The molecular sheens are always visible to human sight, when conditions for ..."
3. The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions by Alexander Somerville (1852)
"And they was all to go and break the ' sheens' as the farmers had got to do the
... They ha' got three sheens now in this place, now at this very time; ..."
4. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1827)
"Is it right to acquit men who have cut babies' heads off, because such babies
happen to be described in the indictment as Beadles alias sheens, instead of ..."
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