SCHIEDAM, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It stands on the river Schie, near to its junction with the Maas; is well built, and contains five churches, a good exchange and town-house, and 1520 dwellings, with (in 1832) 11,588 inhabitants. The chief trade is distillation. It has 200 distilleries employed in making gin, in which are consumed annually 300,000 quarters of corn. A great number of pigs are fattened, and their flesh converted into bacon. Long. 4. 18. E. Lat. 51. 55. N.