A broad piece of cloth used as part of bed-furniture.

A broad piece of paper as it comes from the manufacturer. Sheets of paper are of different sizes, as royal, demi, foolscap, pot and post-paper.

A piece of paper printed, folede and bound, or formed in to a book in blank, and making four, eight, sixteen or twenty-four pages.

Any thing expanded; as a sheet of water or of fire; a sheet of copper, lead or iron.

Sheetsa book or pamphlet. The following sheets contains a full answer to my opponent.

A sail.

In nautical language, a rope fastened to one or both the lower corners of a sail to extend and retain it in a particular situation. When a ship sails with a side-wind, the lower corners of the main and fore-sails are fastened with a tackand a sheet.

To furnish with sheets.

To fold in a sheet.

To cover as with a sheet; to cover with something broad and thin. When snow the pasture sheets. To sheet home, is to haul home a sheet, or extend the sail till the clew is close to the sheet-block.