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Vinony

sheen

noun

  1. type of paint
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ʃiːn/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-. Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show.

  1. Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.

    “Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.”

    “The doleful Dumps I sing, and tearful Woes, Of Marian teeming with unlawful Throes: The sheenest Lass in Berkshire was she known, Of all that Butter fell to Reading Town: […]”

  2. Clear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste.

    “[…] And all her crystal springs, whence clear and sheen Her brooks receive the wat'ry element, […]”

    “'Twas not when early flowers were springing, When skies were sheen, And wheat was green, […]”

name

Etymology: From Old English Sceon (“shelter, shed”), from Proto-Germanic *skūrō.

  1. An area of Greater London, officially East Sheen.
  2. A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England, on the border with Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1161).
  3. A surname.

noun

  1. The letter ش in the Arabic script.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-. Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show.

  1. To shine; to glisten.

    “This town, / That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.”