Curities. If I die before thee, sbroud me On that cloud-piercing hill Philips in a number of folds of linen, besmeared with gums, like serecloth. Bacon. SHRUFF. 11. s. Dross; the refuse of metal Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm tried by the fire. Diet. That subtile wreath of bair about mine arm. TO SHRUG. V. n. (schricken, Dutch, to Donnka tremble.) To express horrour or dissa4. To clothe; to dress. tisfaction by motion of the shoulders or 5. To cover or conccal. whole body. That same evening, when all shrouded were Like a fearfui deer that looks most about when In careless sleep, all, without care or fear, he comes to the best teed, with a shrasing kind They fell upon the flock. Spenser. of tremor through all her principal parts, she Under this thick-grown brake we 'll sbroud gave these words. Sidey. ourselves, The touch of the cold water made a pretty For through this land anon the deer will come; kind of shrugging come over her body, like the And in this covert will we make our stand, twinkling of the fairest among the fixed stars. Culling the principal. Sbakspeare. Sidney. Moon, slip behind some cloud: some tempest Be quick, thou wert best rise, To answer other business; sbrugg'st thou maAnd blow out all the stars that light the skiss, lice? Sbakspeare. To sbroud my shame. Dryden. He grins, smacks, sbrugs, and such an itch enThither the loud tumultuous winds resort, . dures, And on the mountain keep their boist'rous urt, As 'prentices or school-boys, which do know That in thick show'rs her rocky summit shrouds, Of some gay sport abroad, yot dare not go. Donnt. And darkens all the broken view with clouris. They grin, thcy sbrug, Addison. They bow, they snarl, they scratch, they hug. 6. To defend ; to protect. Swift. So Venus from prevailing Greeks did shroud To Surug.V.2. To contract or draw up. The hope of Rome, and sav*d him in a cloud. Waller. Aditison. TO SHROUD. v. n. To harbour ; to take He shrusid his sturdy back, shelter. As if he felt his shoulders ake. Hudiras. If your stray attendants be yet lody'd Or sbroud within these limits, I shall know SURUG. N. s. [froin the verb.] A motion Ere morrow wake. Milton. of the stoulders usually expressing disSuro'VETIDE. like or aversion. ? 11. s. [from shroze, SHROVETU'ESCAY.S And yet they ramble not to learn the mode, the preicrit of How to be drest, or how to lisp abroad, sbrive.] The time of confession ; the Torernknowing in the Spanish svrug. Cleaveh day before Ashwednesday or Lent, on As Spaniards talk in dialogues which anciently they went to confes- Of heads and shouldeis, nods and shrugs. Hudib. sion. Put on the critick's brow, and sit Tusser. At Will's, the puny judge of wit. A nod, a sbrug, a scornful smile, SHRUB. n. s. [roribbe, Saxon.] With caution us'd, may serve a while. Szift. 1. A bush; a small tree. A third, with inysuck shrug and winking eye, Trees generally shoot up in one great stem or Suspects him for a dervise and a spy. Harte. body, and then at a good distance from the earth SHRUNK. The preterit and part. passive spread into branches; thus gooseberries and cur of shrink. rants are sbrubs, oaks and cherries are trees. Locke. Leaving the two friends alone, I shrunk aside He came unto a gloomy glade, to the banqueting-house, where the pictures Cover'd with boughs and shruiis from heaven's Sidney. light. Fairy Queen. The wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the The bumble sbrub and bush with frizzled hair. workers of iniquity were troubled. 1 Maccabets. Milton, SHRU'NKEN. The part. passive of shrink. All might have as well been brushwood and She weighing the decaying plight, sbrubs. lore. And shrinken sinews, of her chosen knight, Comedy is a representation of common lift, in Would not awhile her forward course pursue. low subjects; and is a kind of juniper, a sbrub Fairy Queen. belonging to the species of cedar. Dryden. If there were taken out of men's minds vain I've liy'd opinions, it would leave the minds of a number Amidst these woods, gleaning from thorns and of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy, shrubs Barbn. A wretched sustenance, Addison. 2. {a cant word.] Spirit, acid, and sugar, To Suu’DDER. v. a. [schuddren, Dutch.] mixed. To quake with fear, or with aversion. SHRU'BBY. adj. [from shrub.] All the other passions fleet to air, As doubtful thoughts, and rash embiac'd despair, 1. Resembling a shrub. And sbulering fear. Sbakspeare: Plants appearing weathered, sbrubby, and curl. The fright was general; but the female band ed, are the effects of immoderate wet. Mortimer. With horror shuddring on a heap they run. 2. Full of shrubs ; bushy. Gentle villager, I love--alas! I shudder at the name, What readiest way would bring me to that place? My blood runs backward, and my fault'ring Due west it rises from the sprubby point. Milt. tongue 3. Consisting of shrubs. Sticks at the sound. Spitb. were, Dryden. Cæsar will shrink to hear the words thou uta shuffle up a summary proceeding by examination, ter'st, without trial of jury. Bacon. And shudder in the midst of all his conquests. He sbuffled up a peace with the cedar, in which Mailison, the Bumelians were excluded. Howel, To Shu'ffle, v. a. [ryfeling, Saxon, a To SHU'FFLE. v.n. bustle, a tumult.) 1. To throw the cards into a new order. 1. To throw into disorder ; to agitate A sharper both shuffles and cuts. L'Estrange. tumultuously, so as that one thing takes Cards we play A round or two; when us'd, we throw away, the place of another; to confuse; to Take a fresh pack; nor is it worth our grieving throw together tumultuously. Who cuts or shuffles with our dirty leaving. When the heavens shuffle all in one, Granville. The tourid with the frozen zone, 2. To play mean tricks ; to practise fraud; Then, sybil, thou and I will greet. Cleaveland. From a new shuffling and disposition of the to evade fair questions. component particles of a body, might not nature I myself, leaving the fear of heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, compose a body dissoluble in water? Buyle. In most things good and evil lie shuffled, and am fuin to sbuifle. Sb..kspeare. thrust up together in a confused heap; and it is I have nought to do with that shuffling seci, study which must draw them forth and range that doubt eternally, and question all things. them. Glanville. Souib. When lots are sbiffled together in a lap or The crab advised his companion to give over pitcher, what reason can a man have to presume shiling and doubling, and practise good faith. that he shall draw a white stone' rather than a L'Estrange. black? Tothese arguments, concerning the novelty of Soutb. A glimpse of moonshine sheath'd with red, the earth, there are some sbuffling excuses made. Burnet. A sufled, sullen, and uncertain light, Thai dances thro' the clouds and shuts again. If a steward be suffered to run on without Dryden. bringing him to a reckoning, such a sottish forChildren should not lose the consideration of bearance will teach him to sbuffie, and strongly human nature in the shufflings of outward con tempt him to be a cheat. South. ditions. The inore they have, the better hu Though he durst not directly break his apmoured they should be taught to be. Locke. pointment, he made many a sbufling excuse. Arbuthnot. We shall in vain, shuffling the little money we have from one another's hands, endeavour to 3. To struggle: to shift. prevent our wants; decay of trade will quickly Your life, good master, waste all the remainder. Locke. Nust sifile for itself. Sbatspeart. These vapours soon, miraculous event! 4. To move with an irregular gait. Shuffled by chance, and mixt by accident. Blackm. Mincing poetry, Soufftei and entangled in their race, "T is like the for:d gair of a skifling nag. Shaks. They clasp each other. Blackmore. Sht'EFIE. n. s. [fron the verb.] He has shuffled the two ends of the sentence 1. The act of disordering things, or maktogether, and, by taking out the middle, makes ing them take confusedly the place of it speak just as he would have it. Atterbury. each other. "T is not strange that such a one should be Is it not a firmer foundation for contentment, lieve, that things were blindly shuffled and hurled about in the world; that the elements were at to believe that all things were at first created, constant strife with each other. W codavard, and are continually disposed, for the best, than that the whole universe is mere bungling, no2. To change the position of cards with thing itected for any purpose, but all ill-favourrespect to each other. edly cobbled and jumbled together, by the unThe motions of skisfiing of cards, or casting of guided agitation and rude sébujfies of matter? dice, are very lighr. Bicon. Bentley. We sure in vain the cards condemn, 2. A trick ; an artifice. Ourselves both cut and shijjled! them. Prior. The gifts of nature are beyond all shams and 3. To remove, or introduce, with some shuffles. artificial or fraudulent tumult. SHUFFLECA P. 11. s. [shuffle and cap.] A Her mother, Now firm for doctor Caius, hath appointed play at which money is shaken in a hat. That he shall likewise shuffle her away. Sbaksp, He lost bis money at chuck-farthing, skupca It was contrived by your enemies, and shared tam, and all-fours. Arbutbrot, SHU'FILER. 3. s. into the papers that were seized. Drguen. [from shufle. ] He who 4. TO SHUFFLE of. To get rid of. plays tricks or shuffles. In that sleep of death, s hat dreams may come, Sul (FLINGLY. adv. from shujsh.] With When we have sbajlied of this mortal coil, an irregular gait. Must give us pause. Shakspeare. I may go shufilingly, for I was never before I can no cther answer make, but thanks; walked in trammos; yet I shall drudge and moil And oft good turns at constancy, will I have worn off the hitching in Arc shuffled off with such uncurrent pay. Shak. my, pace. Dryden. If any ching hits, we take it to ourselves; if it To SHUN. v. a: [arcunian, Saxon.] "To miscarries, we shuffle it off to our neighbours. avoid ; to decline; to endeavour to I'Estrange. If, when a child is questioned for any thing, escape; to eschew. Consider death in itself, and nature teacheth he persist to shuffle it off with a falsehood, he Christ to shun it. must be chastiscd. Locke. Hooker. The lark still shuns on lofty boughs to build, 5. To SHU'FFLE 4p. To form tumultu- Her humble best lies silent in the field. Waller. ously or fraudulently. Birds and beasts can fly their foe: They sent for their precepts to convent them So chanticleer, who never saw a fox, before a court of commission, and there used to Yet sbunn'd him as a sailor shuns the rocks. Dry. VOL, IV. L L'Estrange SH Y The king 's a-bed; Shakse. Thou 'lt sbun misfortunes, or thou 'lt learn to Although he was patiently heard as he deli. bear them. Addison. vered his enibassage, yet, in the shutting up of SPC'NLESS. adj. [from shun.] Inevitable ; all, he received no more but an insolent answer. Knolles. unavoidable. Alone he enter'd To leave you blest, I would be more accurse The mortal gate of the city, which he painted Than death can make me; for death ends our With sburless destiny. Sbakspeare. woes, And the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. TO SHUT, v.a. pret. I shut; part. pass, Dryden. shut. (rcittan, Saxon; schutien, Dutch.] When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will 1. To close so as to prohibit ingress or be above his master, if he has acted better. Collier. regress; to make not open. TO SHUT. V. n. To be closed; to close it. Kings shall sbut their mouths at him. Isaiah. self: as, powers open in the day, and shut To a strong tower fled all the men and wo- at night. men, and sbut it to them, and gat them up to the Shur. participial adjective. Rid; clear ; top. Fudges. free. We see more exquisitely with one eye sbut We must not pray in one breath to find a than with both open; for that the spirits visual thief, and in the next to get sbut of him. L'Estr. unite more, and become stronger. Bacon. She open'd, but to sbut SHUT. n. s. (from the verb.] Excell'd her power; the gates wide open stood. 1. Close; act of shutting. Milion. I sought him round his palace, made enquiry 2. To inclose ; to confine. Of all the slaves: but had for answer, Before faith came, we were kept under the law, That since the shut of evening none had seen sbut up unto the faith, which should atterwards him. Dryden, be revealed. Galatians. 2. Small door or cover. The wind-gun is charged by the forcible comand the Lord shut him in. Genesis. pression of air; the imprisoned air serving, by 3. To prohibit ; to bar. the help of little falls or sbuts within, to stop the Shall that be sbut to man, which to the beast vents by which it was admitted. Wilkins, Is open ? Milton. In a very dark chamber, at a round hole, about 4. To exclude. one third part of an inch broad, made in the shut On various seas not only lost, of a window, I placed a glass prism. Newton. But sbut from ev'ry shore, and barr'd from ev'ry There were no shuts or stopples made for the coast. Dryden. animal's ears, that any loud noise might awaken it. s. To contract; not to keep expanded. Rag. Harden not thy heart, nor'sbit thine hard SHU'ITER. n. s. [from shut.] from thy poor brother. Deuteronomy. I. One that shuts. The wealthy, In lofty litters borne, can read and write, Thejuster you drive it to sbut of the rain. Tusser. Or sleep at ease; the shutters make it night. Dry. In such a night SHU'TTLE. n. s. (schietspoele, Dut. skutul, To shut me out! pour on, I will endure. Shuksp. Islandick.] The instrument with which Wisdom at one entrance quite sbut out. Milt, the weaver shoots the cross threads. He, in his walls confin'd, I know life is a siruttle. Shakspeare. Shut out the woes which he too well divin'd. Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide Dryden. My feather'd hours. Sandys. Sometimes the mind fixes itself with so much What curious loom does chance by ev'ning earnestness on the contemplation of some objects, spread! that it sbuts out all other thoughts. Locke. With what fine shuttle weave the virgin's thread, 7. TO SHUT up. To close; to make im- Which like the spider's net hangs o'er the mead! pervious; to make impassable, or im Blackmore. possible to be entered or quitted. Upis SHU’TTLECOCK. n. s. [See SHITTIES sometimes little more than emphatical cock.) A cork stuck with feathers, Woe unto you scribes! for you shut up the and beaten backward and forward. kingdom of heaven against men. Matthar. With dice, with cards, trith billiards far unfit, Dangerous rocks shut up the passage. Raleigh. With shuttlecocks misseeming manly wit. Hibberd's Tale. Shut up a desart shore to drowning men, SHY. adj. [schowe, Dutch ; schifo, Ital.] And drive us to the cruel seas agen. Dryden. 1. Reserved; not familiar; not free of His mother shut up half the rooms in the behaviour. house, in which her husband or son had died. I know you shy to be oblig'd, And stillinore loch to be oblig'd by me. Southern. 8. To Shut up. To confine ; to inclose; What makes you so sby, my good friend! to imprison. There's nobody loves you better than I. Arbuih. Thou hast known my soul in adversities; and 2. Cautious; wary; chary. not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. I am very shy of employing corrosive liquors Psalms. in the preparation of medicines. Boyle, A loss at sea, a fit of sickness, are trifles, when We are not shy of assent to celestial inforinawe consider whole families put to the sword, tions, because they were lid from ages. Glanv. wretches sbut up in dungeons. Addison, We grant, although he had much wit, Lucullus, with a great fleet, shut up Mithri H' was very shy of using it, dates in Pirany. Arbuthnot. As being loth to wear it out, 9. TO SHUT up. To conclude. And therefore bore it not about. Hudibras, 3. Keeping at a distance ; unwilling to Where's the stoick can his wrath appease, approach. To see his country sick of Pym's disease ? Cleavel. A sby fellow was the duke; and, I believe, I Despair know the cause of his withdrawing. Shakspeare. Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch. She is represented in such a shy retiring pos Milton, ture, and covers her bosom with one of her A spark of the man-killing trade fell sick. hands. Addison. Dryden. But when we come to seize th' inviting prey, Visit the sick and the poor, comforting them Like a shy ghost, ir vanishes away. Nelson, Norris, by some seasonable assistance. 4. Suspicious; jealous ; unwilling to suf Nothing makes a more ridiculous figure in a man's lite, thar the disparity we often find in fer near acquaintance. him sick and well. Pope, The bruise imposthumated, and turned to a 2. Disordered in the organs of digestion ; stinking ulcer, which made every body shy to come near her. Arbuthnot. ill in the stomach. The horses of the army, having been daily led 3. Corrupted. before me, were no longer shy, but would come What we oft do best, up to my very feet without starting. Svift. By sieb interpreters, or weak ones, is Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhatsby Nor ours, or not allow'd: what worst, as oft of their successors; and there may be supposed Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up For our best act. in queens regnant a little proportion of tender Shakspears. ness that way more than in kings. Wotton. 4. Disgusted. I do not, as an enemy to peace, Si'BILANT. adj. (sibilans, Lat.] Hissing. Troop in the throngs of military men: It were easy to add a nasal letter to each of the But rather shew a while like fearful war, other pair of lisping and sibilant letters. Holder. To diet rank minds sick of happiness, SIBILATION. n. s. [from sibilo, Lat.] A And purge th' obstructions which begin to stop hissing sound. Our very veins of life. Shakspeare. Metals, quenched in water, give a sibilation or He was not so sick of his master as of his work. hissin; sound. Bacon. L'Estrange. A pipe, a little moistened on the inside, mak- Why will you break the sabbath of my days, eth a more solemn sound than if the pipe were Now sick alike of envy and of praise? Pope. dry; but yet with a sweet degree of sibilation or To SICK. v. n. (from the noun.) To purling. Bacon, sicken; to take a disease. Not in use. SI'CAMORE. 1. so [sicamoļus, Lat.] A A little time before trée. Our great grandsire Edward sick'd and died. Of trees you have the palm, olive, and sica Shakspeare. Peachum. To SI'CKEN. v. a. [from sick.] T. SI'CCATE. v. a. (sicco, Lat.] To 1. To make sick ; to disease. Why should one earth, one clime, one stream, dry. one breath, SICCA’TION. n. s. [from siccate.] The' Raise this to strength, and sicken that to death? act of drying. Prior. Sicer'Fick. adj. [siccus and fio, Latin.] 2. To weaken; to impair. Causing dryness. Kinsmen of nine have Si'ccity. n. s. [siccité, Fr. siccitas, from By this so sicken'd their estates, that never siccus, Lat.] Dryness; aridity; want They shall abound as formerly. Shakspeare. TO SI'CKEN. V. n. of moisture. That which is coagulated by a fiery siccity will 1. To grow sick ; to fall into disease. suffer colliquation from an aqueous humidity, as I know the more one sickens, the worse he is. salt and sugar. B, Shakspeare. The reason some attempt to make out froin The judges that sat upon the jail, and those the siccity and driness of its fiesh. Brosun. that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon. In application of medicaments, consider what Merely to drive away the time, he sicken'd, degree of heat and siccity is proper. Wiseman. Fainted, and died; nor would with ale be quicka en'd. SICE. n. s. (six, Frij The number six at Milton. dice. 2. To be satiated ; to be filled to disgust. My study was to cog the dice, Though the treasure Of nature's germins curnble all together, And dext'rously to throw the lucky sice; Ev’n till destruction sicken, answer me To what I ask yon. Sbakspeare. SICH. ad; Sich. See Such. 3. To be disgusted, or disordered, with I thought the soul would have made me rich; abhorrence. But now I wote it is nothing sich ; The ghosts repine at violated night, For either the shepherds been idle and still, And curse th' invading sun, and sicken at the And led of their sheep what they will. Spenser. sight. Dryden. SICK. adj. [reoc, Sax. sieck, Dutch.) 4. To grow weak; to decay; to lan1. Aflicted with disease : with of before guish. the disease. Ply'd thick and close, as when the fight begun, 'Tis meer we all go forth, Their huge unwieldy navy wastes away: So sicken waining moons too near the sun, And blunt their crescents on the edge of day. Dryden. That irould, had I been well, have made me sick, Abstract what others feel, what others think; Being sick, hath in some measure made me well. All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. SI'CKER. adj. (sicer, Welsh ; seker, Dut.] Cassius, I am sice of many griefs. Sbakspeare. Eure; certain ; firm. Obsolete. Popes every kind. age. Sbaks. But some honest curate, or some vicar, To Si'ckly. v. a. (from the adiective.} Content with little, in condition sichır. To make diseased; to taint with the Hubbord's Tal.. hue of disease. Not in use. Si'cker.adv. Surely ; certainly. Obso The native hue of resolution lete. Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Sbakspeare. S'CKNESS. 1. s. [from sick.] Shatspeare. with which corn is cut; a reaping- 2. Disease ; malady: hook. My people are with sickness much enfeebled, God's harvest is even ready for the sickle, and My numbers lessen'd. Shkspeare. all the fields yellow long ago. Spenser. Himself took our infirmities, and bare oursiike Time should never, A Tattbetu, In life or death, their fortunes sever; When I say every sickness has a tendency to But with his rusty sickle mow death, I mean every individual sickness as well as Both down together at a blow. Hildibras. Watts. When corn has ouce felt the sickle, it has no Trust not too much your now resistless charms; more benefit from the sunshine. South. Those age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope. O'er whom Time gently shakes his wings of 3. Disorder in the organs of digestion. down, Till with his silent sickle they are mown. Dryd. SIDE. n. s. (ride, Sax. siide, Dutch.] SI'CKLEMAN. I n. s. [from sickle.] A 1. The part of animals fortified by the ribs. SI'C.KLER. S reaper. You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, When two boars with rankling malice meet, Come hither from the furrow, and be merry. Their gory sides fresh bleeding tiercely fret. Fiiry Queen. Sbakspeare. Ere the soft fearful people to the flood Sandys. Thomson. $I'CKLINESS. n. s. [from sickly.] Dispo 2. Any part of any body opposed to any sition to sickness: habitual disease. other part. Impute The tables were written on both their sides, His words to wayward sickliness and on the one side and on the other. Exodus. Next compare the sickliness, healthfulness, and The force of these outward streamis might fruitfulness, of the several years. Graunt. well enough serve for the turning of the screw, if it were so that buth its sides would equipon. SICKLY. adv. [from sick..] Not in derate. W ukins health. 3. The right or left. We wear our health but sickly in his life, The lovely Thais by his side Which in his death were perfect. Sbakspeare. Sat, like a blooming eastern bride, Si'cKLY. adj. [from siek.] In How'r of youth, and beauty's pride. Dryden. 1. Not healthy; not sound; not well; 4. Margin; edge; verge. somewhat disordered. Or where Hvdaspes' wealthy side I'm fall’n out with more headier will, Pays tribute to the Persian pride. Roscommon. To take the indispos'd and sickly tic Poor wretch! on stormy seas to lose thy life; For the sound man. Shakspeare. For now the tiowing tide Bring me word, boy, if thy lord looks well; Had brought the body nearer to the side. Dryd. For he went sickly forth. Siakspeure. Tlie temple of Diana chaste, A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, Is this thy vow anto my sickly heart. Shaksp. Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn. Dry. Time seems not vos beneath bis years tu stoop, I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, Nor do his wings with sickiy feathers droop. with garlands upon their heads, lying down by Dryden. dadiseni. Would we know what health and ease are wortlo, let us ask one that is sickly, or in pain, 5. Any kind of local respect. and we have the price. Grecu, They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise. There affectation, with a si:lly mien, Wiltoa. If our substance be indeed divine, And cannot cease to be, we are at worst On this side nothing. Alilion. When on my sickly couch I lay, 6. Party; interest ; faction ; sect. Impatient both of night and day, Their weapons only Then Stella ran to my relief. Swift. Seem'd on our side; but for their spirits and souls, Your bodies are not only poor and perishing, This word rebellion, it had froze them up, like your clothes; but like infected clothes, till As fish are in a pond. you with all diseases and distempers, which op- Favour, custom, and at last number, will be press the soul with sickly appetites, and vain on the side of grace. Spruit. cravings. Law. Men he always took to be 2. Faini ; weak; languid. His friends, and dogs his enemy; The moon grows sickly at the sight of day, Who never so much hurt had done him, And early cocks have summond me away. As his own side did talling on him. Hudibras. Dryden. In the serious part of poetry the advantage is To animate the doubtful fight, wholly on Chaucer's side. Dryder. Namur in vain expects that ray; That person, who fills their chair, has jus:ly Iu vain France hopes the sickin light gained the esteem of all sides by the impartiality Shuuid shine near William's fuller day. Prior. . of his behaviour. dddison. Sbakspeare. |