They may learn experience, and avoid a cave Such a dream I had of dire portent, as the worst shelter from rain, when they have a That much I fear my body will be sbent; lover in company. Dryden. It bodes I shall have wars. Dryden. The healing plant shall aid; 2. To disgrace ; to degrade ; to blame; From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. to reproach. Pope. Debateful strife, and cruel enmity, 2. A protector; a defender ; one that gives The famous name of knighthood foully sbend. security Fairy Queens Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong Sore bruised with the fall, he slow uprose, tower from the enemy. Psalms. And all enraged, thus him loudly shent: 3. The state of being covered ; protection; Disleal knight! whose coward courage chose To wreak itself on beast. security: Fairy Queer. Low at his foot a spacious plain is plac'd, My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites; Between the mountain and the stream embrac'd; Now in my words soever she be shent, Which shade and shelter from the hill derives, To give them seals never my soul consent. Shaks. While the kind river wealth and beauty gives. 3. To overpower; to crush; to surpass. Denbam. She pass'd the rest as Cynthia doth skend Who into sbelter takes their tender bloom, The lesser stars. Spenser. And forms their minds to fly from ills to come ? 4. It is, though used by Dryden, wholly Young obsolete. To SHE'LTER. v. a. (from the noun.] SHE'PHERD. n. s: [rceap, sheep, and 1. To cover from external violence. hynd, a keeper, Saxon, rcsapahynd.] We besought the deep to shelter us. Milton. 1. One who tends sheep in the pasture. Those ruins sbelter'd once his sacred head, I am sbepherd to another man, When he from Worc'ster's fatal battle fled, And do not sheer the fleeces that I graze. Shaks. Watch'd by the genius of this royal place. Dryd. A shepherd next, 2. To defend; to protect; to succour More meek, came with the firstlings of his flock. with refuge; to harbour. Milton And truth in ev'ry shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move Comfort thyself with such thoughts, chiefly To live with thee and be thy love. Raleigh. when all earthly comforts fail thee: then do 3. One who tends the congregation; a thou particularly retreat to those considerations, and sbelter thyself under them. Atterbury. pastor. Lead up all those who heard thee, and believ'd; 4. To cover from notice. This seems less 'Midst thy own flock,great shepherd, be receiv'd, proper. And glad all heav'n with millions thou hast sav'd. In vain I strove to check my growing flame, Prior. Or sbelter passion under friendship's name; SHE'PHERDESS. n. s. [from shepherd.] A You saw my heart. Prior. woman that tends sheep ; a rural lass. TO SHE'LTER. v. n. She put herself into the garb of a shepherdesso 1. To take shelter. and in that disguise lived many years; but discoThere the Indian berdsman, shunning heat, vering herself a little before her death, did proSbelters in cool. Milton. fess herself the happiest person alive, not for her 2. To give shelter. condition, but in enjoying him she first loved ; Then seeks the farthest ooze, the shelt'ring and that she would rather, ten thousand times, weed, live a shepherdess in contentment and satisface tion. The cavern'd bank, his old secure abode. Thoms. Sidneg. These your unusual weeds to each part of you SHELTERLESS. adj. [from shelter. ] Har- Do give a life: no sbepberdess, but Flora bourless; without home or refuge. Peering in April's front. Sbakspeart. Now sad and sbelterless, perhaps, she lies, She like some shepberdess did shew, Where piercing winds blow sharp. Rowe. Who sat to bathe her by a river's side. Drydes. SHE'LVING. adj. [from shelf:] Sloping ; His dorick dialect has incomparable sweetness in its clownishness, like a fair sbepberdess in inclining ; having declivity. Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground; country russet. Dryden, SHEPHERDS Needle. n. s. (scandix, Lat.) And built so shelving, that one cannot climb it Without apparent hazard of his life. Sbaksp. Venus' comb. An herb. Amidst the brake a hollow den was found, SHEPHERDS Purse, or Pouch. n. s. (bursa And rocks and shelving arches vaulted round. pastoris, Latin.) A common weed. Addison. SHEPHERDS Rod. n. s. Teasel, of which SHE’lvy. adj. [from shelf.] Shallow; plant it is a species. rocky; full of banks. I had been drowned, but that the shore was SHE'PHERDISH. adj. [from shepherd.] sbelvy and shallow, Sbakspeare, Resembling a shepherd ; suiting a shepTo SHEND. v. a. pret. and part. pass. herd ; pastoral ; rustick. Not in use. sbent. (rcendan, Sax. schenden, Dutch.] He would have drawn her eldest sister, esteem ed her match for beauty, in her sbepberdisb at1. To ruin; to spoil; to mischief. tire. Provide for thy wife, or else look to be spent, Sidney. Good milchcow for winter, another for Lent. She saw walking from her ward a man in shepo Tusser. berdish apparel. Sidney. Shepherds, should it not yshent SHE'R BET. n. s. (sharbat, Arabick.] The Your roundels fresh, to hear a doleful verse juice of lemons or oranges mixed with Of Rosalind, that Colin made? Spenser, water and sugar. Dice. can, They prefer our beer above all other drinks; Hear one that comes to shield his injur'd hoand considering that water is with the rarest, nour, especially in this clime, the dearest of sberbets, And guard his life with hazard of her own. and plenty of barley, it would prove infinitely Smith. profitable to such as should bring in the use 3. To keep off; to defend against. thereof. Sandys. Out of their cold caves and frozen habitations, SHERD. n. s. [sceand, Sax.] A fragment into the sweet soil of Europe, they brought with of broken earthen ware. See SHARD. them their usual weeds, fit to shield the cold to The trivet-table of a foot was lame; which they had been inured. Spenser. She thrusts beneath the limping leg a sberd. Dryd. My lord, I must entreat the time alone. SHE’RIFF.n..s. (scyregepera, Sax. from [ -God sbield I should disturb devotion. Sbakso. scyre, a shire, and reve, a steward. It TO SHIFT. v. n. [Of this word the origiis sometimes pronounced shrieve, which nal is obscure ; skipta, Runick, is to some poets have injudiciously adopted.] change.] An officer to whom is entrusted, in each 1. To change place. Vegetables being fixed to the same place, and county, the execution of the laws. so not able to shift and seek out after proper A great pow'r of English and of Scots matter for their increment, it was necessary that Are by the sberiff of Yorkshire overthrown. it should be brought to them. W codward. Sbakspeare. Concerning ministers of justice, the high 2. To change ; to give place to other sberiffs of the counties have been very ancient things. in this kingdom. Bacon. If the ideas of our minds constantly change Now may’rs and sbrieves all hush'd and satiate and shift, in a continual succession, it would be lay. Pope. impossible for a man to think long of any one SHE'RIFFALTY. thing. Locke. SHE'RIFFDOM. n. s. [from sheriff:] 3. To change clothes, particularly the SHE'RIFFSHIP. The office or juris linen. SHE'RIYFWICK. diction of a sheriff. She begs you just would turn you while sbifts. Young There was a resumption of patents of gaols, and reannexing of them to the sherifricks; pri 4. To find some expedient; to act or live vileged officers being no less an interruption of though with difficulty. justice than privileged places. We cannot shift: being in, we must go on. Bacon. Daniel. SHE'RRIS. n. s.[from Xeres, a town Men in distress will look to themselves, and SHERRIS Sack. of Andalusia in Spain.] leave their companions to shift as well as they SHE'RRY. A kind of Spanish L'Estrange. wine. Since we desire no recompence nor thanks, we Your sberris warms the blood, which before, ought to be dismissed, and have leave to shift for cold and settled, left the liver white, which is ourselves. Swift. the badge of pusillanimity; but the sherris makes 5. To practise indirect methods. it course from the inwards to the parts extreme. All those schoolmen, though they were ex Shakspeare. ceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers Good sherris sack ascends me into the brain, to shift than to resolve by their distinctions. dries me there all the foolish dull vapours, and Raleigb. makes it apprehensive. Sbakspeare. 6. To take some method for safety. Shew. See Show, Nature instructs every creature how to shif SHIDE. n. s. [from sceadan, to divide, for itself in cases of danger. L'Estrange. Saxon.) A board; a cutting. Skinner. To SHIFT. v. a. SHIELD. n. s. [rcyib, Saxon.] 1. To change ; to alter. 1. A buckler; a broad piece of defensive It was not levity, but absolute necessity, that made the fish shift their condition. L'Estrange. armour held on the left arm to ward off Come, assist me, muse obedient; blows. Let us try some new expedient; Now put your sbields before your hearts, and Shift the scene for half an hour, fight Time and place are in thy pow'r. Swifta With hearts more proof than shields. Shaksp. 2. To transfer from place to place. His pond'rous shield, Pare saffron between the two St. Mary's days, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Or set or go shift it that knowest the ways. Behind him cast; the broad circumference Tusser. Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton. 3. To put by some expedient out of the 2. Defence; protection. 3. One that gives protection or security. way: I shifted him away, And laid good 'scuses on your ecstacy, Sbaksp. The Grecian honour, ornament, and shield, The wisdom of all these latter times, in princes High on a pile th' unconquer'd chief is plac'd. Dryden. affairs, is rather fine deliveries, and shiftings of dangers and mischiefs, when they are near, than T. SHIELD. v. a. (from the noun.] solid and grounded courses to keep them aloof. 1. To cover with a shield. Bacon. 2. To defend ; to protect ; to secure. 4. To change in position. Were 't my fitness Neither use they sails, nor place their oars in To let these hands obey my boiling blood, onder hither and thither at pleasure . Releigh. the sides; but carrying the oar loose, They're apt enough to dislocate and tear Thy flesh and bones : howe'er a woman's shape Where the wind Doth sbield thee. Sbakspeare. Veers oft, as oft she steers and shifts her sail. Shouts of applause ran ringing through the Milton, field, We strive in vain against the seas and wind; To see the son the vanquish'd father sbield. Dryd. Now shift your sails, Drydent sbift it I. 5. To change, as clothes. seek for shifts and evasions from worldly afflicI would advise you to shift a shirt: the vio- tions: this is your reward, if you perform it; lence of action hath made you reek as a sacri- this is your doom, if you decline it. South. fice. Shakspeare. 5. A woman's under linen. 6. To dress in fresh clothes. Shirter. n. s. [from shift.] One who As it were to ride day and night, and not to plays tricks; a man of artifice. have patience to shift me. Sbakspeare. 'T was such a shifter, that, if truth were 7. To SHIFT off. To defer; to put away known, by some expedient. Death was half glad when he had got him down. "The most beautiful parts must be the most Malton finished, the colours and words most chosen : SHI'FTLESS. adj. [from shift.] Wanting many things in both, which are not deserving of expedients; wanting means to act to this care, must be shifted of, content with vulgar live. expressions. Dryden. For the poor shiftless irrationals, it is a proStruggle and contrive as you will, and lay digious act of the great Creator's indulgence, that your taxes as you please, the traders will sbift it they are all ready furnished with such clothing. of from their own gain. Locke. Derbam. By various illusions of the devil they are pre- SHI'LLING. Na s. [scylling, Şax. and Erse; vailed on to shift of the duties, and neglect the conditions, on which salvation is promised. schelling, Dutch.] A coin of various Rogers. value in different times. It is now twelve Shift. n. s. [from the verb.] pence. Expedient found or used with difficulty; Five of these pence made their shilling, which difficult means. they called scilling, probably from scilingus, which the Romans used for the fourth part of She, redoubling her blows, drave the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back ; at an ounce; and forty-eight of these scillings made that time seeming the image of innocency their pound, and four hundred of these pounds were a legacy for a king's daughter, as appeareth against violence. Sidney If I get down, and do not break my limbs, by the last will of king Alfred. Camden. I'll find a thousand shifts to get away. Shaksp. The very same shilling may at one time pay This perfect artifice and accuracy might have twenty men in twenty days, and at another rese in the same hands one hundred days. Locke. been omitted, and yet they have made shift to Who, with much pains exerting all his sense, move up and down in the water. More. Can range aright his shillings, pounds, and pence. Not any boast of skill, but extreme shift How to regain my sever'd company, Young. Compellid me to awake the courteous echo, SEILL-I-SHALL-J. A corrupt reduplicaTo give me answer from her mossy couch. Milt. tion of shall I? The question of a man A fashionable hypocrisy shall be called good hesitating. To stand shill-I-sball-I, is manners, so we make a shift somewhat to legi- to continue hesitating and procrastitimate the abuse. L'Estrange nating. Those little animals provide themselves with I am somewhat dainty in making a resolution, wheat; but they can make sbift without it. because when I make it, I keep it; I don't stand Addison. Our herbals are sufficiently stored with shill-l-sball-1 then: if I say 't, I'll do't. Congreve. plants, and we have made a tolerable shift to Shi'l y. adv. [from shg.] Not familiarly; reduce them to classes. Baker, 2. Indirect expedient ; mean refuge ; last not frankly. SHIN. n. s. (rcina, Sax. schien, German.] resource. The very custom of seeking so particular aid The forepart of the leg. and relief at the hands of God, doth, by a secret I bruised my shin the other day with playing contradiction, withdraw them from endeavour at sword and dagger. Sbakspeare. ing to help themselves, even by those wicked The shin bone, from the knee to the instep, shifts, which they know can never have his al is made by shadowing one half of the leg with a lowance whose assistance their prayers seek. single shadow. Peacban. Hooker. His leg, then broke, To say, where the notions cannot fitly be re Had got a deputy of oak; conciled, that there wanteth a term, is but a For when a shin in fight is cropt, shift of ignorance. Bacon. The knee with one of timber's propt. Hudibras. Slow to resolve, but in performance quick; As when to an house we come, So true, that he was aukward at a trick; To know if any one 's at home, For little souls on little shifts rely. Dryden. We knock; so one must kick your shin, 3. Fraud ; artifice ; stratagem. Ere he can find your soul's within. Anonymous. Know ye not Ulysses' shifts ? To SHINE. V. n. preterit I shone, I have Their swords less danger carry than their gifts. shone; sometimes I shined, I have shined. Donbam. [scinan, Sax, schijnen, Dutch.] 4. Evasion ; elusory practice. 1. To have bright resplendence ; to glit. As long as wit, by, whetting itself, is able to find out any shift, be it never so slight, whereby ter; to glisten ; to gleam. to escape out of the hands of present contradic To-day the French, tion, they are never at a stand. Honker. All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, Of themselves, for the most part, they are so Shane doin the English; and to-morrow cautious and wily-headed, especially being men Made Britain India : ev'ry man that stood of so small experience and practice in law mat Shev;'d like a mine.. Sbakspeare ters, that you would wonder whence they bor- True paradise inclos’d with sbining rock. row such subtilities and sly shifts. Spenser. Milton. Here you see your commission; this is your We can dismiss thee ere the morning sbirc. duty, these are your discouragements i never Milten. مد و در متن دار A Pope. Fair daughter, blow away these mists and gold, and considers it as a vein of the same earth clouds, he treads on. Decay of Pictvo And let thy eyes sbine forth in their full lustre. Say, in what mortal soil thou deignist to grow? D:nbn. Fair op'ning to some court's propitious shine, The sun sbires when he sees it. Locke Or deep with diamonds in the blaming mine? 2. To be without clouds. Рефе. SH'NESS. n. s. [from shy:] Unwillingness The moon sbires bright: in such a night as to be tractable or familiar. this, An incurable shiness is the vice of Irish horses, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise. Slakspeare. and is hardly ever seen in Flanders, because the winter forces the breeders there to house and How bright and goodly shines the moon ! handle their coits. The moon! the sun : it is not noonlight now, Temple, They were famous for their justice in cuina Sladspears. merce, but extremne shiness to serangers : they Clear pools greatly comfort the eyes when the sun is overcast, or when the incon jbineti. exposed their goods with the price narked upon them, and then retired. Bacon. SHI'NGLE. 1. s. [schindel, Germ.] A thin 3. To be glossy. They are waken fat, they shine. Fermiab. board to cover houses. Fish with their fins and shining scales. A lilion. The best to cleave, is the most useful for pales, The colour and sbining of bodies is nothing laths, sbinyles, and wainscot. Moriuner, bu: the dutierent arrangement and refraction of SHI'NGLES, n. s. Wants the singular. their minute parts. Locke. [cingulum, Lat. zona morbus, Plinio.] 4. To b gay ; to be splendid. A kind of tetter or herpes that spreads So proud she sbined in her princely state, itself round the loins. Looking to heaven; for earth she did disdain, Such are used successfully in erysipelas and And sitting high. Fairy Queen. shirgles, by a slender diet of decoctions of faris. To be beautiful. naceous vegetables, and copious drinking of coolOf all th' erzamell’d race, whose silv'ry wing ing liquors. Arbuthnot. Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring, SHI'Ny. adj. [from shine. ] Bright; splenOr swinis along the fluid atmosphere, did ; luminous. Once brightest skin'd this child of heat and air. When Aldeboran was mounted high, Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair, 6. To be eminent or conspicuous. One knocked at the door, and in would fare. If there come truth from them, Fairy Queens As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine, The night Shakspeare. Dryden. Sbines out in every thing she acts or speaks ; SHIP. [scip, scyp, Saxon; scirap, While winning mildness and attractive smiles Dutch.) A terinination noting quality Dwell in her looks, and with becoming grace or adjunct, as lordship; or office, as Soften the rigour of her father's virtues. Addison. The reformation, in its first establishment, stewardship. produced its proper fruits, and distinguished the SHIP. n. s. (rcip, Şax. schippen, Dutch.} whole are with shining instances of virtue and A ship may be defined a large hollow moraliiy. Addison. building made to pass over the sea with The courtier smooth, who forty years had sails. Watts. sbin'd All my followers to the eager foe An humble servant to all human kind. Pop?. Turn back, and fly like ships before the wind. Few are qualified to sbine in company; but it Shakspeare. is in most men's power to be agreeable. Stvift. There made forth to us a small boat, with 7. To be propitious. about eight persons in it, whereof one of them The Lord make his face sbine upon thee, and had in his hand a tipstaff, who made aboard our be gracious. Numbers. Bar0%. 8. To give light real or figurative. Two other ships loaded with victuals were The light of righteousness hath not shined burnt, and some of the men saved by their ship buats. unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not Kneiles upon us. Wisduin. Jor is indeed that man less mad than these, Celestial light Who freighits a ship to venture on the seas, Shine inward, and the mind thro’all her powers With one trail interposing plank to save Irradiate. Miiton. From certain death, rollid on by ev'ry wave. SUINE. n. s. [from the verb.] Dryden. Instead of a ship, he should levy upon his 1. Fair weather. Be it fair or foul, or rain or shine. Dryden. country such a sum of money, and return the same to the treasurer of the navy; hence that He will accustom himselfto heat and cold, and tax had the denomination of ship-money, by, shine and rain; all which if a man's body will not which accrued the yearly sum of two hundred endure, it will serve hiin to very little purpose. Clarendon. A ship-carpenter of old Romne could not have 2. Brightness; splendour ; lustre. It is a talked more judicionsly. Addison. word, though not unanalogical, yet un- TO SHIP. v. a. (from the noun.] graceful, and little used. 1. To put into a ship. He that baz inured his eyes to that divine My father at the road splendour, which results from the beauty of nolia Expects my coming, there to see me shiki'd. Dess, is noi dazzled with the glittering skine of Suksese. a worst. a lows. The emperor, shipping his great ordnance, de- Bold were the men, which on the ocean first parted down the river. Knolles. Spread their new sails, when shipwreck was the All the timber was cut down in the moun Waller. tains of Cilicia, and shipped in the bay of Attalia, We are not to quarrel with the water for from whence it was by sea transported to Pelu- inundations and shipwrecks. L'Estrange. sium. Knolles. This sea war cost the Carthaginians five hundA breeze from shore began to blow, red quinquiremes, and the Romans seven hundThe sailors ship their oars, and cease to row; red, including their shipwrecks. Arbutbnot. Then hoist their yards a-trip, and all their sails 2. The parts of a shattered ship. Let fall. Dryden. They might have it in their own country, and 2. To transport in a ship. that by gathering up the shipwrecks of the AtheAndronicus, would thou wert shipt to hell, nian and Roman theatres. Dryden. Rather than rob me of the people's hearts. 3. Destruction ; miscarriage. Sbakspeare. Holding faith and a good conscience, which The sun no sooner shall the mountains couch, some having put away, concerning faith, have But we will ship him hence. Sbakspeare. made sbipwreck. 1 Timotby. In Portugal, men spent with age, so as they TO SHIPWRECK. v. a. (from the noun.] cannot hope for above a year, sbip themselves away in a Brazil fleet. Temple. 1. To destroy by dashing on rocks or shal. 3. It is sometimes enforced by off. A single leaf can waft an army o'er, Whence the sun 'gins his reflection, Or ship of senates to some distant shore. Pope. Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break. The canal that runs from the sea into the Sbakspeare. Arno gives a convenient carriage to all goods 2. To make to suffer the dangers of a that are to be shipped off. Addison. wreck. SHI'PBOARD. n. s. (ship and board.] See Thou that canst still the raging of the seas, BOARD. Chain up the winds, and bid the tempests cease, Redeem my shipwreck'd soul from raging gusts 3. This word is seldom used but in adver Of cruel passion and deceitful lusts. Prior, bial phrases ; a shipboard, on shipboard, A square piece of marble shews itself to have in a ship. been a little pagan monument of two persons Let him go on shipboard, and the mariners will who were shipwrecked. Addison. not leave their starboard and larboard. Bramball. 3. To throw by loss of the vessel. Friend, Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom, where no pity, What dost thou make a shipboard? To what No friends, no hope! no kindred weep for me. end? Dryden. Shakspeare. excused the faults of his poetry by his misfor Dryden. builder of ships. 7. The plank of a ship. Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week. and brought cedars from Lebanon to make Exekiel. Sbakspeare. A miserable shame it were for our sbisSHI'PBOY. n. s. [ship and boy. ] Boy that wrights, if they did not exceed all others in the serves in a ship. setting up of our royal ships. Raleigh. Few or none know me: if they did, Vast numbers of ships in our harbours, and This shipboy's semblance hath disguis'd me quite. sbipwrights in our sea-port towns. Swift. Sbakspeare. The Roman fleet, although built by shipSHI'PMAN. n. so [ship and man.] Sailor; wrights, and conducted by pilots, both without seaman. experience, defeated that of the Carthaginians. I myself have the very points they blow, Arbuibnot. All the quarters that they know As when a shipwright stands his workmen I'th' shipman's card. Shakspeare: o'er, Hiram sent in the navy shipmen that had Who ply the wimble some huge beam to bore, knowledge of the sea. i Kings. Urg'd on all hands it nimbly spins about, SHI'PMASTER. 1. s. Master of the ship. The grain deep piercing, till it sccopsit out. Pope. The shipmaster came to him, and said unto SAIRE. n. s. (rcin, from sciran, to divide, him, What meanest thou, O sleeper! arise, call Sax.] A division of the kingdom; a Jonab. county ; so much of the kingdom as is SHI'PPING. n. s. [from ship.] under one sheriff. 1. Vessels of navigation ; fleet. His blazing eyes, like two bright shining Before Cæsar's invasion of this land, the Bri shields, tons had not any shipping at all, other than their Did burn with wrath, and sparkled living fire ; boats of twigs covered with hides. Raleigh. As two broad beacons, set in open fields, The numbers and courage of our men, with Send forth their flames far off to every sbire. the strength of our shipping, have, for many ages Fairy Queen, past, made us a match for the greatest of our The noble youths from distant sbires resort. neighbours at land, and an overmatch for the Prior. strongest at sea. Temple. SHIRT. n. so [shiert, Danish ; rcync, Fishes first to shipping did impart; Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow, scyrıc, Sax.] The under linen garment Dryden. of a man. Shift a shirt; the violence of action hath made 3. Passage in a ship. They took shipping and came to Capernaum, you reek as a sacrifice. Sbakspeare, seeking for Jesus. John. I take but two shirts out with me, and I mean not to sweat extraordinarily. SHI'PWRECK. n. s. [ship and wreck.] Sbakspeare. When we lay next us what we hold most dear, 1. The destruction of ships by rocks or Like Hercules, envenom'd shirts we wear, shelves. And cleaving mischiefs. Dryden. tunes. masts. upon thy God. |