1 sceard
n. A shard, sherd, pot-sherd, tile :--Scearda testarum, Germ. 398, 257. [Gower uses sherd for the scale of a dragon, ' a dragon whose scherdes schinen as the sonne,' iii. 68, 5: and in Shakspere shard; denotes a beetle's hard wing-case, M. H. Ger. scharte a sherd : Ger. scharte.]