noun. A rope or chain attached to one or both of the lower corners of a sail, serving to move or extend it.

noun. The spaces at either end of an open boat in front of and behind the seats.

intransitive verb. To extend in a certain direction. Used of the sheets of a sail.

idiom. (to/in) Intoxicated; drunk.

noun. A broad rectangular piece of fabric serving as a basic article of bedding.

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noun. A broad, thin, usually rectangular mass or piece of material, such as paper, metal, glass, or plywood.

noun. A flat or very shallow, usually rectangular pan used for baking.

noun. A broad, flat, continuous surface or expanse.

noun. A moving expanse.

noun. A newspaper, especially a tabloid.

noun. A broad, relatively thin deposit or layer of igneous or sedimentary rock.

noun. A large block of stamps printed by a single impression of a plate before the individual stamps have been separated.

noun. A surface of revolution generated by revolving a hyperbola about one of its two symmetric axes.

intransitive verb. To cover with, wrap in, or provide with a sheet.

intransitive verb. To make into sheets.

intransitive verb. To flow or fall in a sheet.

adjective. Being in the form of a sheet.

noun. A large square or rectangular piece of linen or cotton spread over a bed, under the covers, next to the sleeper: as, to sleep between sheets.

noun. In general, a broad, usually flat, and relatively thin piece of anything, either very flexible, as linen, paper, etc., or less flexible, or rigid, as lead, tin, iron, glass, etc. (a plate).

noun. One of the separate pieces, of definite size, in which paper is made; the twenty-fourth part of a quire. In the printing-trade the sheet is more clearly defined by naming its size: as, a sheet of cap or a sheet of royal (see sizes of paper, under paper); in bookbinding the sheet is further defined by specifying its fold: as, a sheet of quarto or a sheet of duodecimo.

noun. A newspaper: so called as being usually printed on a large piece of paper and folded.

noun. plural Leaves and pages, as of a book or a pamphlet.

noun. In mathematics, a separate portion of a surface, analogous to the branch of a curve; especially, one of the planes of a Riemann's surface.

noun. [Sheet is often used in composition to denote that the substance to the name of which it is prefixed is in the form of sheets or thin plates: as, sheet-iron, sheet-glass, sheet-tin.]

noun. A broad expanse or surface: as, a sheet of water, of ice, or of flame.

noun. A sail.

noun. Nautical, a rope or chain fastened to one or both of the lower corners of a sail to extend it and hold it extended, or to change its direction.

noun. In anatomy and zoology, a layer; a lamina or lamella, as of any membranous tissue.

noun. In mining, galena in thin and continuous masses. The ore itself is frequently called sheet-mineral.

To furnish with sheets: as, a sheeted c ouch.

To fold in a sheet; shroud; cover with or as with a sheet.

To form into sheets; arrange in or as in sheets.

An old variant of shoot, used in sheet-anchor, and common in dialectal speech.

noun. plural A commercial name for crude rubber in thin pieces formed by coagulating the latex on a large leaf. See rubber, 3.

noun. In geology: A mass of eruptive rock of great length and breadth as compared with its thickness. Two principal varieties are recognized: surface flows, which are poured out on the surface of the earth, and intruded or intrusive sheets, which are forced between relatively horizontal strata

noun. A deposit of any material, sedimentary or other, which has great areal extent and small thickness.

transitive verb. To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.

transitive verb. To expand, as a sheet.

transitive verb. to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.

noun. A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.

noun. A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.

noun. A single signature of a book or a pamphlet

noun. A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance.

noun. A broad expanse of water, or the like.

noun. A sail.

noun. An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.

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noun. A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.

noun. The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers

"a difficulty in procuring a pailful for wetting the sheet -- give your patient a _dripping sheet_ instead, which, in most cases, will do as well; or, should there be a want of a wash-tub to give it in, a _rubbing sheet_ may supply the bath."

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