as maso</i>.

Hammer-head S.--
<i>Zygaena malleus</i> (Maori name, <i>Mangopare</i>).

Port-eagle S.--
<i>Lamna cornutica</i>

Spinous S.--
<i>Echinorhinus spinosus</i>.

Tiger S.--
<i>Scymnus sp</i>. (Maori name, <i>Mako</i>).

See also <i>Blue-Pointer</i>, <i>Whaler</i>,
and <i>Wobbegong</i>.

<hw>Shearer's Joy</hw>, <i>n</i>. a name given to colonial
beer.

1892. Gilbert Parker, `Round the Compass in Australia,' p. 22:

"It was the habit afterwards among the seven to say that the
officers of the <i>Eliza Jane</i> had been indulging in
shearer's joy."

<hw>She-Beech</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Beech</i>.

<hw>Shed</hw>, <i>n</i>. The word generally signifies the
<i>Woolshed</i> (q.v.). A large, substantial, and often
expensive building.

1896. H. Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p. 143:

"There's 20 hungry beggars wild for any job this year,
An' 50 might be at the shed while I am lyin' here."

1896. `Melbourne Argus,' April 30, p. 2, col. 5:

"There is a substantial and comfortable homestead, and ample
shed accommodation."

<hw>Sheep-pest</hw>, <i>n</i>. a common Australian weed,
<i>Acama ovina</i>, Cunn., <i>N.O. Rosaceae</i>, found in all
the colonies; so called because its fruit adheres by hooked
spines to the wool of sheep.

<hw>Sheep-run</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Run</i>.

<hw>Sheep-sick</hw>, <i>n</i>. Used of pastures exhausted for
carrying sheep. Compare English screw-sick, paint-sick,
nail-sick, wheat-sick, etc.

1895. `Leader,' August 3, p. 6, col. 1:

"It is the opinion of many practical men that certain country
to which severe losses have occurred in recent years has been
too long carrying sheep, and that the land has become what is
termed `sheep sick,' and from this point of view it certainly
appears that a course of better management is most desirable."

<hw>Sheep-wash</hw> (used as verb), to wash sheep. The word is
also used as a noun, in its ordinary English senses of (1) a
lotion for washing sheep; (2) the washing of sheep preparatory
to shearing: (3) the place where the sheep are washed, also
called the `sheep-dip.'

1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 184:

"He can't dig or sheep-wash or plough <i>there</i>."

<hw>Sheldrake</hw>, or <hw>Shieldrake</hw>, <i>n</i>. the
common English name of ducks of the genera <i>Tadorna</i>
and <i>Casarca</i>. The Australian species are--<i>Casarca
tadornoides</i> Jard., commonly called the <i>Mountain<