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sheenn.1

Brit. /ʃiːn/, U.S. /ʃin/
Forms: 1500s Scottish scheyne, 1500s–1600s sheene, 1600s– sheen.
Etymology: < sheen adj., assumed to be connected with shine v. (The noun is virtually a verbal noun to shine .) Compare sheen v.
1.
a. Shining, brightness. In later use chiefly, gleaming, lustre, radiance as of a body reflecting light; a gleam. rare before the 19th cent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > lustre or shine from reflected light
orientness1519
lustrec1522
gloss1538
brightshine1573
shine1601
sheen1604
polishing1611
polish1629
oriencya1651
glare1658
glossiness1680
nitency1768
varnish1841
burnishing1851
orience1858
shininess1872
patina1931
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 150 And thirtie dozen Moones with borrowed sheene About the world haue times twelue thirties beene. View more context for this quotation
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 240 And modest Cynthias siluer hue Vnto a pallid colour grew... As if the earth had bene betweene To barre her of her brothers sheene.
1637 J. Milton Comus 35 Farre above in spangled sheene Celestiall Cupid her fam'd Son advanc't.
1637 J. Milton Comus 31 The azurne sheene Of turkkis blew.
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xv, in Poems 8 Thron'd in Celestiall sheen.
1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xxiv. 13 The southern sun diffus'd his dazzling shene.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 8 And thro' the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen.
1815 Ld. Byron Destr. Sennacherib i The sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Lintwhite (song) 28 Thy locks are all of sunny sheen.
1879 W. Black Macleod of Dare I. 178 The beautiful blue sheen on its scales.
1881 J. Hatton New Ceylon ii. 51 [A pearl] of a peculiarly brilliant sheen.
1888 A. S. Swan Doris Cheyne ii. 30 Her hair..had a sheen like gold upon it.
1906 Williamson Lady Betty across Water 288 The green of the waving trees seemed to be reflected in their complexions in little sheens and shimmers.
b. transferred and figurative.
ΚΠ
1828 S. T. Coleridge Garden of Boccaccio 47 And last, a matron now, of sober mien Yet radiant still and with no earthly sheen.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. iii. 80/1 Ever in the dullest existence, there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness.
1863 W. Phillips Speeches vi. 114 No sheen of official position would ever lead us.
c. Gorgeous or bright attire.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > other
disguise1340
disguisingc1386
shiftc1570
French cut1606
knaverya1616
small clothes1625
small storesa1643
nugging-dress1699
kilting1721
fancy dress1770
under-habit1772
man-millinery1790
sheen1802
costume1818
ingubu1833
bedizenment1837
tat1839
extravaganza1860
rational dress1873
rubber1876
pearly1890
new look1920
collection1921
Daks1933
smart casual1943
separates1945
trapeze1958
Carnaby Street1965
haute boutique1966
kinderwhore1994
1645 J. Milton Epit. Marchioness of Winchester in Poems 26 With thee there clad in radiant sheen, No Marchioness, but now a Queen.]
1802 A. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville in Posthumous Wks. (1826) II. 348 They saw plainly enough knights, esquires and pages..in all their splendour; and lady-aunts and lady-cousins in the galleries, in all their sheen and joyance.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxiv. 45 In costly sheen and gaudy cloak array'd.
1898 H. Newbolt Island Race 94 Stepped she not with a grace entrancing, Slenderly girt in silken sheen?
2. The pupil of the eye. Scottish (? Obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > pupil
apple of the eyeeOE
pearl1340
blacka1387
pupillaa1400
sightc1400
pupil?a1425
sheenc1500
strale1553
prunall1612
sight-hole1670
shine1713
c1500 W. Kennedy Passion of Christ 581 For as I writtin into Doctouris fand. He wes mair tender [into] his body, Than is þe scheyne into a mannis e.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Sheen of the eye, the pupil of the eye.
3. A very thin film or slick of oil (esp. on water).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [noun] > oiliness > oil > film of on water
sleek1840
slick1849
oil slick1887
oil patch1918
sheen1970
1970 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Apr. 1/1 Investigators reported four light sheens—the term being used instead of [oil] slicks because the material appears to be spread quite lightly on the water—were sighted from aircraft.
1978 Daily Tel. 28 Mar. 1/4 There was ‘an extremely thin sheen of oil six to seven miles off Jersey’ which was of no danger to marine life or holidaymakers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sheenn.2

Brit. /ʃiːn/, U.S. /ʃin/
Etymology: Of obscure origin: compare shan n.2
slang.
Base coin. Also attributive or adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > false coin > [noun]
scruff1559
countera1616
smash1795
shan1815
queer1819
sheen1839
bogus1842
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] > coins and notes > kind of money > counterfeit money
queer1819
boodle1822
shoful1828
sheen1839
slug1887
funny money1901
1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 165/1 Sheen, bad money.
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 91 Sheen, bad money.
1888 Payne Eavesdropper ii. ii. 80 ‘Can you smash a thick un for me?’ inquired one, handing his friend a sovereign. ‘You're sure it ain't sheen?’ returned the other, with a diabolical grin.
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Sheen (Scotch), bad money. Probably alluding to the ‘glitter’, or possibly from German schein, a bank-bill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sheenn.3

Brit. /ʃiːn/, U.S. /ʃin/
Etymology: Probably abbreviation of machine n. 5h.
U.S. slang.
A car; an automobile.
ΚΠ
1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 ii. 41 Sheen, car.
1975 Amer. Speech 1972 47 153 Hey, look down the street pas' that sheen double-parked.
1980 in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams 125 My friends are always talkin' about havin' a nice sheen. That's a nice car or van, something set up real nice on the inside.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sheenadj.

Brit. /ʃiːn/, U.S. /ʃin/
Forms: Old English scíene, scéne, scéone, scíone, scýne, scíne, Middle English seene, Middle English sceone, sschene, Middle English scen, (? schine), Middle English–1500s schene, Middle English–1500s, (1700s–1800s) shene, Middle English schen, ( sene), Middle English schenne, sshene, 1500s shen, Middle English–1600s sheene, Middle English scheene; Middle English scone, ScottishMiddle English–1500s scheyne, Middle English sheyn, 1500s schein(e, schane; 1500s– sheen. comparative Old English scénra, Middle English schenre, schennure, Middle English schenure.
Etymology: Old English scíene = Old Frisian skêne (modern Frisian skjin ), Old Saxon scôni (Middle Low German schône , schôn ; Swedish skön , Danish skjøn , probably < Low German), Middle Dutch schôn(e (modern Dutch schoon ), Old High German scôni , earlier scaoni (Middle High German schœne , schœn , modern German schön ), Gothic skaun-s < Germanic *skauni- , *skaunjo- < root *skau- to behold: see show v.The Gothic ibnaskauns like-formed, guþaskaunei likeness of God, suggest that the word may originally have meant ‘having (a certain) appearance’. For the development of the eulogistic sense, compare sightly , shapely , Latin forma form, beauty, formosus beautiful. In English (and apparently to some extent in Old High German and Old Saxon where it glosses lucidus , splendidus , etc.) the sense was influenced by association with the root of shine v. In early examples it is often difficult to determine whether the sense is merely ‘beautiful’, or whether there is some added notion of ‘shining, bright’. The form scone in Ormin, which implies the pronunciation /ˈskoːnə/, is unexplained. The identically written form in Layamon, however, seems to be merely an instance of the practice, common in 12–13th cent. texts, of writing o for eo.
Now poetic.
1. Beautiful.
a. Of persons (esp. women), their appearance, features, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective] > specifically of persons
faireOE
sheenOE
brightOE
(the) sheenc1275
belc1314
pertc1330
quaintc1330
gaya1350
beau1399
formose14..
clearc1420
beautiful1509
venust1513
venereal1598
rare-beautied?1614
venerial1661
seraphic1765
nymphish1789
hyacinthine1847
bloomful1890
OE Crist III 1386 Ic ðe swa scienne gesceapen hæfde, wynlicvne geworht.
OE Beowulf 3016 Mægð scyne.
OE Genesis 265 Cwæð þæt his lic wære leoht and scene.
c1200 Vices & Virtues 95 Nis ðar non swo god leiȝe se teares: hie makieð scene ansiene.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 292 Absalones schene wlite.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7649 & he haueð to quene mine dohter þa is scone.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 24080 His face þat forwit was sa scene [v.rr. schen, shene].
a1300 Cursor Mundi 28505 Gernand i haf oft ben Desird o þire wymmen scen.
c1300 Sir Orfeo 356 Al þe utmast wal Was clere and schine [v.rr. schone, gan schyne] as cristal.
c1374 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 446 Graunte vs, lady shene Eche of vs, of thy grace a bone.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3296 So schene he was to se in his semli armes.
a1450 Le Morte Arth. 2612 The mayde was full shene to shewe.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3070 Shulders full shaply, shenest of hewe, Full plesaund & playn.
a1550 in R. Dyboski Songs, Carols & Other Misc. Poems (1908) 10 Hayle be thou Mary, maydyn shen.
a1586 A. Montgomerie Bankis Helicon 6 Declair, ȝe bankis of Helicon,..Gif ony of ȝour Muses all, Or nymphes may be peregall Vnto my lady schein?
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. E I saw a little one, A bonny prety one, As bright, buxsome and as sheene As was shee.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. M8v Her dainty corps so faire and sheene.
1747 W. Mason Musæus 11 Belinda far surpast my beauties sheen.
†b. (the) sheen: used after a woman's name.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective] > specifically of persons
faireOE
sheenOE
brightOE
(the) sheenc1275
belc1314
pertc1330
quaintc1330
gaya1350
beau1399
formose14..
clearc1420
beautiful1509
venust1513
venereal1598
rare-beautied?1614
venerial1661
seraphic1765
nymphish1789
hyacinthine1847
bloomful1890
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1547 Þe Duc of Cornwaile scal habbe Gornoille. & þe Scottene king Regau þat scone [c1300 Otho þe scene].
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 756 Slawe was rouland þan And ded blaunche þe schene.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 210 The fresshe Emelye the sheene.
c. Of animals, inanimate objects, places, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective]
smickerc725
faireOE
lieflyOE
sheenOE
wenlichc1000
wlitic1000
lovesomec1175
lustya1240
flourisheda1375
lovelya1400
weenc1400
beauteous1435
beautifulc1443
finec1450
pulchriousa1500
speciousa1513
shanda1525
speciosea1525
pulchrousc1540
bonny1580
beauty1598
lovelike1621
killing1634
florid1642
beautied1830
stunning1849
fairsome1862
pulchritudinous1877
beaut1894
loverly1907
OE Phoenix 591 Him folgiað fuglas scyne, beorhte gebredade, blissum hremige, in þam gladan ham, gæstas gecarene, ece to ealdre.
OE Panther 19 Ðæt is wrætlic deor, wundrum scyne hiwa gehwylces.
12.. Moral Ode 340 (Egerton MS.) in Lamb. Hom. 179 Go we þene narewe wei and þene wei grene þer forð-fareð lutel folc ac it is feir and scene.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9863 Vt heo droȝen sone amppullen scone [c1300 Otho six ampulles]. i-fulled mid attere weten alre bitterest.
c1275 Moral Ode 337 (Jesus Oxf.) in Old Eng. Misc. 70 Go we þene narewe wey þen wey so schene.
13.. Gosp. Nicod. 125 (Cott. Galba MS.) Þaire armes set on schaftes schene [Harl. MS. sene].
a1352 L. Minot Poems (1914) xi. 2 In schawes ful schene.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3411 Many a schene scheld scheuered al to peces.
c1400 Rom. Rose 3713 By hir atyre so bright and shene, Men might perceyve..She was not of religioun.
1423 Kingis Quair xcv His long[e] ȝalow lokkis schene.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 118 Carrikes, Galeis and shippes shene, vij hundred were gadered al in fere.
c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. ccxlii. App. xxx. iv Four and twentie myles to Lamarke so shene.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 370 Thar I was born amang the schawis scheyne.
a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 485 A-bowght a facon schene.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. vii. 63 Rowmyng about the large temple schene.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 330 With shotes of shire wode shene to beholde.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 17 Amang fair forrests and schawis schene.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 104 Down flow'd her robe, a tartan sheen, Till half a leg was scrimply seen.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xi. 374 Narcissus will I twine, and lilies sheen.
†d. absol. quasi-n. A fair one; a beautiful woman. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful woman
clearc1330
comelya1375
wlonk?a1400
brightc1400
gayc1400
sheenc1400
violet1412
berylc1440
blossomc1440
bonnya1529
pertc1540
bonylasse1546
Venus?1572
spark1575
bellibone1579
bonnibel1579
nymph1584
cheruba1616
lily1622
bellea1640
fine1639
toast1700
houri1745
belle dame1768
peri1813
beauty queen1835
stallion1970
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 965 Þat schene sayde, þat god wyl schylde, ‘Þou may not enter with-inne hys tor’.
c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 622 Þay se a schene vndur schild Come prekand fast aure þe filde On a fayre stede.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. v. sig. Riij A kisse, my lyght .i. my hart of golde, or my bryght and sheene, this is sweter then honye.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8144 Than the bysshop to his barne barely onswart, And shend to þat schene all in short wordes.
a1568 Bannatyne MS (Hunterian Club) 627 Beseik that schene with hummill reuerence The to ressaif.
†e. In non-material senses: Beautiful, attractive; noble, illustrious; pure, clean (from sin). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > purity > [adjective]
cleanlyc888
unwemmedc950
clean971
lightOE
whiteOE
unfiledc1200
shire?c1225
sheenc1275
wemlessc1275
undefouled13..
undefoileda1325
purec1330
unbleckedc1380
unfouledc1380
clear1382
impollutec1384
unblemishedc1400
undefiledc1400
unspottedc1400
virginc1400
spotless?a1430
immaculate1441
uncorruptc1450
unpollushed1490
intemeratea1492
incorrupted1529
unmaculate1535
impolluted1548
crystallinec1550
incorrupt1550
uncorrupted1565
undistained1565
unstained1573
entire1587
taintless1590
untainted1590
stainless1599
unsmirched1604
intemerated1608
indepravate1609
chastea1616
uncurseda1628
undishonested1631
untaint1638
Adamical1649
sincere1649
undebaucheda1656
unaccurseda1674
amiantal1674
unsoiled1699
unpolluted1732
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adjective]
mereeOE
athelOE
couthOE
brightOE
namecundc1175
outnumenc1175
noble?c1225
ketec1275
sheenc1275
tirfulc1275
glorious13..
losedc1305
of great renownc1330
glorifieda1340
worthly or worthy in wonea1350
clearc1374
nameda1382
solemna1387
renomeda1393
famous?a1400
renomé?a1400
renowneda1400
notedc1400
of (great, high, etc.) name?c1430
celebrate?1440
namely1440
famosec1449
honourable?c1450
notedc1450
parent?c1450
glorificatec1460
heroical?a1475
insignite?a1475
magnific1490
well-fameda1492
exemie1497
singular1497
preclare1503
magnificential1506
laureate1508
illustre?a1513
illustred1512
magnificent1513
preclared1530
grand1542
celebrated1549
heroicc1550
lustrantc1550
magnifical1557
illustrate1562
expectablec1565
ennobled1571
laurel1579
nominated1581
famosed1582
perspicuous1582
big1587
famed1595
uplifted1596
illustrious1598
celebrousc1600
luculent1600
celebrious1604
fameful1605
famoused1606
renownful1606
bruitful1609
eminent1611
insignious1620
clarousa1636
far-fameda1640
top1647
grandee1648
signalized1652
noscible1653
splendid1660
voiced1661
gloried1671
laurelled1683
distinguished1714
distinct1756
lustrious1769
trumpeted1775
spiry1825
world-famous1832
galactic1902
tycoonish1958
mega1987
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12139 To þan..þer com þe king Angel. king of Scotlonde mid sceone [c1300 Otho kene] his folke.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18535 Þis hight þat was sa scene [Fairf. shene, Gött. schene], Suld tid þam thoru a maiden clene.
c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 18 Þi passioun make us briȝt & schene In wil, in worde, in dede & þouȝt!
1460 in Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1866) 254 Fro seuene synnes þou make me schene.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 600 I will shunt for no shame of my shene fader, Ne no hede to my heale, þat I thee helpe shall.
2.
a. Bright, shining, resplendent.In early use this sense may have been merely contextual, the adjective being applied in the sense ‘beautiful’ to objects (e.g. heavenly bodies, jewels, metals) the beauty of which is dependent on their brightness. In later use, owing to association with shine v., sheen n.1, the sense ‘shining’ is felt as primary.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > bright
shininga900
lighteOE
lightlyOE
sheenOE
torhtOE
shirea1000
steepa1000
shimmeringc1000
brightOE
strongOE
clear1297
fair?a1300
bright-shininga1387
merrya1393
skirea1400
lucident14..
shimc1400
staringc1400
luculentc1420
splendent1474
illuminousc1485
lucentc1500
bloominga1522
sheer1565
prelucent1568
faculent1575
splendant1578
lucid1591
neat1591
shine1596
translucent1596
well-lighted1606
nitid1615
lucible1623
dilucid1653
translucid1657
hard1660
OE Cynewulf Crist II 695 Hwæt sindan þa gimmas swa scyne buton god sylfa?
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3431 He sette a steorrne upp o þe lifft. Full brad & brihht. & shene.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 267 Iþe ariste of domesdei. hwen ure flesch schal blikien schenre þenne þe sunne.
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 1512 He thoughte of thilke water schene To drinke and fresshe him wel withalle.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 409 ‘After sharpe showres’, quod pees ‘moste shene is þe sonne’.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1145 I loked among his meyny schene.
c1402 J. Lydgate Compl. Black Knight 3 In May, whan..Phebus gan to schede his stremes shene Amid the Bole.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 623 Þe schene sonne.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. iv. 40 O thou brycht son, with thy schene bemis glaid.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 105 And cled thame all..In silk and syper, and in siluer schene.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. I.iiiiv Those shene lightes: that wonted for to clere My darked panges of cloudy thoughts.
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1066 That he might be seene Of the wilde beasts in his new glory sheene.
1591 R. Wilmot Tancred & Gismund iii. iii. sig. D3 But why doth he that sprung from Ioues high head? And Phœbus sister shene, despise thy power?
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 29 By fountaine cleare, or spangled starlight sheene . View more context for this quotation
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 147 To see the Sunne and Moone..in their sheene glory.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iii. vi. 30 Like rubies sheen.
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. iii Glittering Streamlets..hurled every-where their Waters sheen.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere v, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 27 The upper air bursts into life, And a hundred fire-flags sheen To and fro they are hurried about.
1808 W. Scott Marmion v. viii. 252 His vest, of changeful sattin sheen.
1817 P. B. Shelley Marianne's Dream 10 The veiny lids, whose fringe is thrown Over thine eyes so dark and sheen.
1839 H. W. Longfellow Prel. in Voices of Night i. 5 Where, the long drooping boughs between Shadows dark and sunlight sheen Alternate come and go.
1840 R. H. Barham Witches' Frolic in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 162 And fairer, I ween, The ivy sheen That thy mouldering turret binds, Than the Alderman's house.
b. Of a day, the sky, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > without cloudiness
sheen?1504
clear1611
?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. hh.iiiv A daye of gladnes bryght and shene.
a1510 G. Douglas King Hart i. 95 Quhilk hes na craft to knaw the wynter weit, Suppois that sommer schane dois thame reskew.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 12/2 in Chron. I Thou that mayest passe alofte in ayrie skyes so sheene.
1599 Warning for Faire Women ii. 341 It is my love. O how the dusky night Is by her coming forth made sheen and bright!
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week i. 3 No chirping lark the welkin sheen invokes.
1838 E. B. Barrett Romaunt of Page in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 683/2 ‘Look up—there is a small bright cloud...’ The page looked up—the cloud was sheen.
1891 F. Thompson Sister-songs (1895) 16 There she sat amid her ladies, Where the shade is Sheen as Enna mead ere Hades' Gloom fell thwart Persephone.
†c. Bright-coloured. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > brightly coloured
brightOE
gay?c1225
paintedc1400
sheenc1400
staringc1400
freshc1405
wanton1583
splendid1634
amelled1651
vivid1686
strong1711
bloom-bright1832
flamboyant1851
technicolored1927
dazzle1931
Technicolora1940
fauve1967
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2314 Þe schene blod ouer his schulderes schot to þe erþe.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxiv. 425 Cæsar..In his Warres..was accustomed to weare a verie rich garment, and of a sheene and garish colour.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 159 If pall and vair no more I wear, Nor thou the crimson sheen.
†d. absol. the sheen n. the bright weapon; also, the bright sun. nonce-uses.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > sun > [noun]
lightOE
sunOE
Phoebusc1275
the sheenc1400
Titana1413
solc1450
wheel1558
day-sun1570
day star1596
king of day1596
flame-god1598
Aten1877
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > axe > [noun]
wi-axc897
hand-axeOE
wifleOE
axec1275
poleaxe1294
Danish axe1297
hache1322
gisarmea1325
pollhache1324
spartha1363
battle-axec1380
the sheenc1400
sparc1440
Welsh glaive1483
twibit1510
twibill1558
tomahawkc1612
two-billc1619
sagaris1623
francisca1683
tom-axe1759
tomahawk1761
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2268 Þat oþer schalk wyth a schunt þe schene wyth-haldeȝ.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 440 For to schylde fro the schene, oþer any schade kest.
e. quasi-adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adverb] > brightly
brighteOE
lightOE
shireOE
fairOE
brightlyOE
sheen?c1225
shirelyc1230
sheenly1340
clearlya1375
shininglyc1384
clearc1385
cleana1400
shrillc1400
enclerea1440
lucidentlyc1508
sheerly1508
splendently1576
shiny1596
nitently1657
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 181 Amuche wint alið wið anlute rein. & þe sunne þer efter schineð þe schenre.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11251 Cloþes of golde þat schon so schene.
1446 J. Lydgate Two Nightingale Poems ii. 194 My Ien blynde, that whylom shoone so sheene.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1649 The windowes..[were] shapyn full shene all of shyre stones.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. xii. 147 The moonlight stole soft and sheen.
1872 J. G. Holland Marble Prophecy 31 They flash and shine among the flowers While dripping sheen in golden showers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sheenv.

Brit. /ʃiːn/, U.S. /ʃin/
Forms: Middle English schen, Middle English–1500s s(c)hene, 1500s scheine, Scottish scheyne, 1500s– sheen.
Etymology: < sheen adj.
1. intransitive.
a. = shine v. literal and figurative. Now only Scottish and dialect (in Sc. the ordinary word.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > shine [verb (intransitive)]
shinec725
brighteOE
blika1000
lightOE
shimmera1100
starec1225
lightena1382
blikena1400
glowa1400
sheenc1420
flourish1587
to stick off1604
lamp1609
skyre1677
gloze1820
moon1885
c1420 Anturs of Arth. (Douce) 329 Þene vnclosed þe cloudes, þe sone con shene.
c1480 (a1400) St. John Evangelist 256 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 116 Far palacis þat sal leste euirmare, schenand with gemmys oure-al-quhare.
c1480 (a1400) St. Julian 54 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 459 Fore he was þane schenand in til halynes.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 119 The sone was rysyne our landis schenand brycht.
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1358 Luna that so bryght doth shene.
c1530 Court of Love 81 No saphir ind, no rube..There lakked than..That may the castell maken for to shene.
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 77 I have well seene the wicked sheene lyke goolde Lustie and greene as lawrell lasting aye.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 69 Abowte Ester was sene..three sonnes shenynge at one tyme in the eyer.
1562 in Sel. Rec. Kirk Sess. etc. Aberd. (1846) 4 That gud lyfe, conversatioun, and maneris may scheyne.
a1565 T. Chaloner tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophie i. iii. 15 in Queen Elizabeth I Englishings (1899) App. 154 All sodeynly the Sonne..sheens the worlde over.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 9 Our lord Iesus thairfor sittis one the rycht hand of the pouer of god,..scheinand brychtlie with maiestie altogither diuin.
a1801 R. Gall Poems & Songs (1819) 126 Thy ee will wake nae mair, That sheened sae fu' o' glee.
b. poetic. To cast a gleam, glisten.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (intransitive)] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker
shimmera1100
blenk1303
leamc1330
blysnec1400
glimmerc1400
glimpsec1400
glintc1440
glim1481
lemyrea1500
glimster1565
glance1568
flicker1608
simper1633
gloat1644
gleen1662
shimper1674
blink1786
skimmer1788
flash1791
sheen1812
glinter1851
flimmer1880
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xvii. 16 This town, That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.
1856 G. Meredith Shaving of Shagpat (1887) 1 The illusion of rivers sheening on the sands to travellers gasping with thirst.
c. Of materials: to have a particular sheen.
ΚΠ
1895 J. E. Davis Elem. Mod. Dressmaking (ed. 2) 62 One piece of the dress may sheen differently from the others.
2. transitive. To cast a sheen upon. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (transitive)] > polish or cause to shine with reflected light
frot?c1225
burnishc1325
polisha1382
varnishc1405
silvera1592
shine1604
frub1611
rutilate1623
silken1757
gloss1762
pearl1843
gloze1880
lap1881
sheen1901
1901 F. H. Trench Deirdre Wed 31 Who is this woman..With sun-red hair, entangled as with flight Sheening the knees up to her bosom drawn?

Derivatives

ˈsheening adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > lustrous or shining with reflected light
browna1000
brightOE
cleara1300
slighta1300
burnedc1384
burnishedc1400
orientc1400
orientalc1450
sheeningc1480
refulgenta1500
silken1513
lustrantc1550
glossy1556
crisp1567
lustring1582
shiny1590
of shine1601
glossful1606
lustry1610
lustrousa1616
nitent1616
illustriousa1626
polished1649
lustrious1651
sheeny1673
shining1674
splendy1683
glazy1724
smolt1837
lustreful1843
lustred1858
sheened1920
c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 293 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 37 At þe ȝat now com þai In, petir and paule, in clathis schenand.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1201 His schenand schoys that burnyst was full beyn.
1503 tr. Kalendayr Shyppars sig. kviiv The eyn qwych ar blak and go wyttys i the myddys of them cleer and shynant.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. x. 207 A great salt sheening sea bending into the land like a bow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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