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Sheene vs Sheete - What's the difference?

sheene | sheete |

As an adjective sheene

is shiny.

As a noun sheete is

obsolete spelling of lang=en.

sheene

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (obsolete) shiny
  • * {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then when he was all dight he tooke his way Into the forest, that he might be seene / Of the wilde beasts in his new glory sheene . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1887, author=Various, title=Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=If Saphyres, loe! her eies be Saphyres plaine; If Rubies, loe! hir lips be Rubies sound; If Pearles, hir teeth be pearles, both pure and round; If Yvorie, her forehead yvory weene; If Gold, her locks are finest gold on ground; If Silver, her faire hands are silver sheene : But that which fairest is but few behold, Her mind, adornd with vertues manifold." }} ----

    sheete

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Lavater reporteth a historie of a parish priest in Germanie, that disguised himselfe with a white sheete about him, and at midnight came into the chamber of a rich woman that was in bed, and fashioning himself like a spirit, hee thought to put her in such feare, that shee would procure a conjuror or exorcist to talke with him, or else speake to him herselfe. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1592, author=Philippe de Mornay, title=A Discourse of Life and Death, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=No, no, most happie in this happles case, To die with thee, and dieng thee embrace: My bodie ioynde with thine, my mouth with thine, My mouth, whose moisture burning sighes haue dried: To be in one selfe tombe, and one selfe chest, And wrapt with thee in one selfe sheete to rest. }}