Shaddock.

A large kind of orange, so called from Captain Shaddock, who first transplanted one in the West Indies. It is a native of China and Japan.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Severus (St.)
Sèvres Ware
Sew the Button on
Sex
Sexagesima Sunday
Sextile
Sexton
Seyd [Seed]
Sforza
Shack
Shaddock
Shades
Shadoff or Shadoof
Shadow
Shadow (To)
Shady
Shafalus
Shafites
Shaft
Shatton (Sir Piercie)
Shah