1 Taught from above his magazines to frame; Better from me thou sever not. Milton. 'That famine was prevented ere it came. Dryden. 2. To suffer disjunction. 2. Containing one part in seven. Fortune, divorce SE'VENTHLY. adv. [from seventh.] In Pomp from the bearer, 't is a suff'rance panging the seventh place : an ordinal adverb. As soul and body's sev'ring. Shakspeare. Seventhly, living bodies have sense, which SE'VERAL. Odj. [from sever.] plants have not. Bacon. I. Different; distinct from one another. SE'VENTIETH. adj. [from seventy.] The Divers sorts of beasts come from several parts, tenth, seven times repeated; the ordinal to drink; and so being refreshed, fall to couple, of seventy. and many times with several kinds. Bacon. The conquest of Ireland was made piece and SE'VENTY. adj. [handreofontiz, Sax.] piece, by several attempts, in several ages. Seven times ten. Davies. Worthy Marcius, Four several armies to the field are led, Had we no quarrel else to Rome, but that Which high in equal hopes four princes head. Thou art thence banish'd, we would muster all, Dryden. From cwelve to seventy. Sbakspeare. 2. Divers ; many. It is used in any numWe call not that death immature, it a man Lives till seventy. Taylor. ber not large, and more than two. This country is large, having in it many peoThe weight of seventy winters prest him ple, and several kingdoms. Abbot. down, He bent beneath the burthen of a crown. Dryd. This else to several spheres thou must ascribe. Milion, In the Hebrew, there is a particie consisting but of one single letter, of which there are reck We might have repaired the losses of one oned up seventy several significations. Locke. campaign by the advantages of another, and, after several victories gained over us, might have TO SE'VER. v. a. (sevrer, French ; separo, still kept the enemy from our gates. Addison. Latin.] 3. Particular ; single. I. To part by violence from the rest. Each several ship a victory did gain, Forgetful queen, who sever'd that bright head, As Rupert or as Albemarle were there. Dryd. Which charm’d two mighty inonarchs to her 4. Distinct ; appropriate. bed. Granville. 'The passages of state are so many, 2. To divide ; to part ; to force asunder. as, to express them fully, would require a several They are not so far disjoined and severed, but treatise. Davies. that they come at length to meet. Hooker. Like things to like, the rest to several place Our force by land Disparted. Milion. Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy too Each might his sev'ral province well command, Have knit again, and float. Shakspeare. Would all but stoop to what they understand. What thou art is mine: Pope. Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, SE'VER AL. n. s. [from the adjective.] One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. Milt. 1. A state of separation, or partition. This 3. To separate ; to segregate ; to put in substantive has a plural. different orders or places. More profit is quieter found The angels shall sever the wicked from among Where pastures in several be, the just. Matthew. Of one silly aker of ground He, with his guide, the farther fields attain'd; Than champion maketh of three. Tusser. Where sever'd from the rest the warrior souls remain'd. Dryden. 2. Each particular singly taken. This by some severals 4. To separate by chymical operation. Of headpiece extraordinary, lower messes 5. To divide by distinctions. Perchance are to this business purblind. Sbaks. This axiom is of large extent, and would be There was not time enough to hear severed and refined by trial. Bacon. The severals. Sbakspeare. 6. To disjoin; to disunite. That will appear to be a methodical successive Look, love, what envious streaks observation of these severals, as degrees and steps Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Shak. preparative the one to the other. Hammorda How stitt is my vile sense, Several of them neither rose from any conThat I stand up and have ingenious feeling spicuous family, nor left any behind them. Addis. Of my huge sorrows! better I were distract, 3. Any enclosed or separate place. So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs; They had their several for heathen nations, And woes, by wrong imaginations, lose their several for the people of their own nation, The knowledge of themselves, Shakspeare. their several for men, their several for women, The medical virtues lodge in some one or other their several for their priests, and for the high of its principles, and may therefore usefully be priest alone their several. Hooker. sought for in that principle severed from the 4. Enclosed ground. others. Beyle. There was a nobleman that was lean of visage, 7. To keep distinct ; to keep apart. but immediately after his marriage he grew Ihree glorious suns, each one a perfect sun; pretty plump and fat. One said to him, Your Not separated with the racking clouds, fordship doth contrary to other married men ; But sever'd in a pale clear shining sky. Shaksp. for they at first wax lean, and you wax fat. Sir I will sever Goshen, that no swarms of fiies Walter Raleigh stood by and said, There is no shall be there. Exodus. beast, that if you take him from the common, TO SE'V ER. v. n. and put him into the several, but will wax fat. 1. To make a separation; to make a par- SE'VERALLY. adv. [from several.] Dis. Bacon. titirn. The Lord shall sever between the cattle of tinctly ; particularly; separately; apart Israel and of Ezypt. Exodus. from others. There remains so much religion, as to know Consider angels each of them severally in how co sever between the use and abuse of things. himself, and their law is, All ye his angels praise King Cbarles, Hooket. a Nature and scripture, both jointly and not 8. Close; concise ; not luxuriant. severally, either of them, be so complete, that The Latin, a most severe and compendious unto everlasting felicity we need not the know- language, often expresses that in one word, which ledge of any thing more than these two may modern congues cannot in more. Dryden. easily furnish our minds with. Hooker. SEVERELY. adv. (from severe. re.] Th' apostles could not be confin'd To these or those, but severally design'd 1. Painfully ; affictively. Their large commission round the world to We have wasted our strength to attain ends blow. Dryden. different from those for which we undertook the We ought not so much to love likeness as war; and often to effect others, which after a beauty, and to chuse from the fairest bodies peace we may severely repent. Swift. severally the fairest parts. Dryden. 2. Feroci usly ; horridly. Others were so very small and close together, More formidable Hydra stards within ; that I could not keep my eye steady on them Whose jaws with iron teeth severely grin. Dryd. severally, so as to number them. Nervton. 3. Strictly ; rigorously. SE'VERALTY. n. s. [from several.] State To be or fondly or severely kind. Savags. of separation from the rest. SEVE'RITY. N. s. [severitas, Latin.] The jointure or advancement of the lady was 1. Cruel treatment; sharpness of punish ment. the third part of the principality of Wales, the dukedom of Cornwal, and earldom of Chester, I laugh to see your ladyship so fond, to be set forth in severalty. Bacon. To think that you have aught but Talbot's Having considered the apertions in severalty, shadow according to their particular requisites, I am Whereon to practise your severity. Sbakspeare. now come to the casting and contexture of the He shall be thrown down the larpeian rock whole work. Wotton. With rigorous hands; he hath resisted law, St'VERANCE. n. s. [from sever.] Separa And therefore law shall scorn him further trial Than the severity of publick power, tion ; partition. Which he so sets at nought, Sbakspeare. Those rivers enclose a neck of land, in regard Never were so great rebellions expiated with of his fruitfulness not unworthy of a severance. so little blood; as for the severity used upon Carew. those taken in Kent, it was but upon a scum of SEVE'RE. adj. [severe, Fr. severus, Lat.) people. Bacon. 1. Sharp; api to punish ; censorious; apt There is a difference between an ecclesiastical to blame; hard; rigorous. censure and severity: for under a censure we Let your zeal, if it must be expressed in an only include excommunication, suspension, and ger, be always more severe against thyself than an interdict; but under an ecclesiastical severity ag?inst others. Taylor. every other punishment of the church is intendSoon mov'd with touch blame, thus Eve: ed: but, according to some, a censure and a see What words have pass'd thy lips, Adam severe? verity is the sanie. Aylift Milton, 2. Ilardness; power of distressing. What made the church of Alexandria be so Though nature hath given insects sagacity to ultere with Origen for, but holding the incense avoid the winter cold, yet its severity finds them in his hands, which those about him cast from Hal. thence upon the altar? yet for this he was cast 3. Strictness ; rigid accuracy: out of the church. Stilling feet. Contining myself to the severity of truth, be2. Rigid ; austere ; morose; harsh ; not coming, I must pass over many instances of your indulgent. military skill. Dryden. Am I upbraided ? not enough severe, 4. Rigour; austerity; harshness; want of It seems, in thy restraint. Milton. mildness; want of indulgence. In his looks serene, SEVOCATION. n. s. (sevoco, Lat.] The When angry most he seem'd, and most severe, act of calling aside. What else but favour shone? Milton. TO SEW, for sue. To follow. Spenser Nor blame severe his choice, Warbling the Grecian woes. TO SE W. v. n. (suo, Lat.] To alter any Pope. 3. Cruel; inexorable. thing by the use of the needle. A time to rent and a time to sew. Eccles. His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword. Wision. To Sew. v. a. To join by threads drawn with a needle. 4. Regulated by rigid rules; strict. Truth, wisdom, sanctitude, severe and pure, ko man seteth a piece of new cloth on an Severe, but in true filial freedom plac'd. Milion. old garment. Mark. 5. Exempt from all levity of appearance ; TO SEW up. To enclose in any thing sewed. Fever I said loose-bodied gowni, sew me up grave; sober; sedate. in the skirts of it. Sbakspeare. His grave rebuke, My transgression is scaled up in a bag, and Sesere in youthful beauty, added grace. Milton. thou servest ip mine inquity. Job. Your looks must aiter, as your subject does, TO SEW, v.a. To drain a pond for the From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. Waller. Ainsworth. Taught by thy practice steadily to steer SE'WER. n. s. (escurer trenchant, French 1; From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope. or asseour, old french, from asseoir, to 6. Not lax ; not airy ; close; strictly me- set down; for these officers set the dishes thodical; rigidly exact. on the table. Neruton's Milton.] Their beauty I leave it rather to the delicate 1. An officer who serves up a feast. wit of poets, than venture upon so nice a subject Narshall'd feast, with my severer style. More. Serv'd up in hau with servers and seneschals: 7. Paintui; afflictive. The skill of artifice or othce mean. Milton. These piercing fires are soft, as now severe. The cook and sewer each his talent tries, Milton, In various figures scenes of dishes sise. Drydan. out. a It is great, 2. [from issue, issuer.] A passage for wa. SE'XTONSHIP. n. s. [from sexton.] The ter to run through, now corrupted to office of a sexton. shore. Cowell, They may get a dispensation to hold the clerk. The fenmen hold that the sewers must be ship and sextonship of their own parish in comkept so, as the water may not stay too long in mendam. Swifto the spring, till the weeds and seage be grown SEXTU'PLE. adj. (sextuplus, Lat.) Sixup: Bacon. fold; six times told. Men suffer their private judgment to be drawn Man's length, being a perpendicular from the into the common sewer or stream of the present vertex unto the sole of the foot, is sextuple unto vogue. King Charles. his breadth, or a right line drawn from the ribs As one who long in populous city pent, of one side to another. Brown, Where houses thick, and sewers annoy the air, TO SHAB.v. n. To play mean tricks. A Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe low barbarous cant word. Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin’d, from each thing met conceives delight. SHA'BBILY. adv. [from shabby.] Meanly; Aliiton. reproachfully ; despicably ; paltrily. A 3. He that uses a needle. cant word. SEX, n. s. [sexe, French; sexus, Latin.] SHA'BBINESS. n. s. [from shabby.] Mean1. The property by which any animal is ness; paltriness. male or female. He exchanged his gay sbabbiness of clothes, fit These two great sexes animate the world. for a much younger man, to warm ones, that Milton. would be decent for a much older one. Spectator. Under his forming hand a creature grew, SHA'BB Y. adj. [a word that has crept inManlike, but different sex. Milton. to conversation and low writing, but 2. Womankind, by way of emphasis. ought not to be admitted into the lan Unhappy sex! whose beauty is your snare; guage.] Mean; paltry. ninny, once get the better of it, it gives them after- That the captain suppos'd he was curate to wards no more trouble. Gartb. Swift. SE'XAGENAR Y. adj. (sexagenaire, French; TO SHA'CELE. v. a.[from the noun, shack. sexagenarius, Lat.) Aged sixty years. les; schaeckelen, Dutch.] To chain ; to SEXAGE'SIMA.N. s. [Latin.] The second fetter; to bind. Sunday before Lent. Which sbackles accidents, and bolts up change. SEXA'NGLED. | adj. [from sex and an Sbakspeare. You must not shackle and tie him up with SEXA'NGULAR.) gulus, Lat.] Having rule about indiferent matters. Locke. six corners or angles ; hexagonal. No trivial price The grubs from their sexangular abode Should set him free, or small should be my praise Crawl out unfinish'd like the maggot's brood. To lead him shackleda Philips Dryden. So the stretch'd cord the sbackled dancer tries, SexA'NGULARLY. adv. [from sexangu- As prone to fall as impotent to rise. Smitb. lar.] With six angles ; hexagonally. SHA'CKLES. n. s. wanting the singular. SEXE'NNIAL. adj. 1 sex and annus, Lat.] [reacul, Sax. schaeckels, Dutch.] FetLasting six years ; happening once in ters; gyves; chains for prisoners. Himself he frees by secret means unseen, SE'XTAIN.n. s. [from sextans, sex, Lat.] His shackles empty loft, himself escaped clean. A stanza of six lines. Fairy Queen A servant commonly is less free in mind tha: SE'XTANT. n. s. (sextant, French.] The in condition; his very will seems to be in bond sixth part of a circle. and sbackles, and desire itself under durance an SE'XTARY. n. s. (sextarius, Lat.] A pint captivity. Seut and a half. The forge in fetters only is employ'd ; Our iron mines exhausted and destroy'd Dryd SE'XTRY. S Dict. SHAD. n. s. [clupea.] A kind of fish. SE'XTILE. adj. (sextilis, Lat.] Is such a SHADE. n. s. [scadu, Saxon; schade, Du position or aspect of two planets, when 1. The cloud or opacity made by int at 60 degrees distant, or at the distance ception of the light. of two signs from one another, and is Spring no obstacle found here nor sbade, marked thus *. Harris. But all sunshine. Mi. Planetary motions and aspects, 2. Darkness ; obscurity; In sextile, square, and trine. Milton. The weaker light unwillingly declin'd, The moon receives the dusky light we discern And to prevailing sbades the murmuring w in its sextile aspect from the earth's benignity. resign'd. Roscom Glanville. SE'XTON. n. s.[corrupted from sacristan. 3. Coolness made by interception of sun. An under officer of the church, whose Antigonus, when told that the enemy hads business is to dig graves. vollies of arrows that hid the sun, said, That A stool and cushion for the sexton. Sbaksp. out well; for this is hot weather, and so wes When any dies, then by tolling a bell, or be- fight in the shade. speaking a grave of the sexion, the same is known That high mount of God, whence light to the searchers corresponding with the said sex six years. shade Graunt. Shine both, ton. 4. An obscure place, properly in a grove SHA'DINESS. n. s. [from shady.) The state or close wood, by which the light is of being shady ; umbrageousness. excluded. SHA'vOW. s.n. (rcadu, Saxon; schaduwe, Let us seek out some desolate sbade, and there Dutch.) Weep our sad bosons empty. Sbakspeare. 1. The representation of a body by which Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. Milton. Then to the desart takes his fliglit; the light is intercepted. Where still from sbade to sbade the Son of God, Poor Tom! proud of heart, to ride over four. After forty days fasting, had remain'd. Milion. inch'd bridges, to course his own shadow for a traitor. Sbakspeare. The pious prince then seeks the shade Which hides from signt his venerable maid. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, Dryden. . And then is heard no more. Sbakspeare. 3. Screen causing an exclusion of light or Such a nature, beat; umbrage. Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Let the arched knife, Which he treads on at noon. Sbakspeare Well sharpen’d, now assail the spreading shades The body, though it moves, yet not changing Of vegetables, and their thirsty kimbs dissever. perceivable distance with some other bodies, the Pbilips. thing seems to stand still, as in the hands of In Brazil are trees which kill those whoʻsic clocks, and shadows of sun-dials. Locke. under their sbade in a few hours. Arbuthnot. 2. Opacity; darkness; shade. 6. Protection ; shelter. By the revolution of the skies 7. The parts of a picture not brightly Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise. coloured. Denban. Tis every painter's art to hide from sight, His countrymen probably lived within the And cast in shades, what seen would not delight. shake of the earthquake and shadow of the Dryden. eclipse. Addison, 8. A colour; gradation of light, 3. Shelter made by any thing that interWhite, red, yellow, blue, with their several cepts the light, heat, or influence of the degrees, or sbades and mixtures, as green, come air. in only by the eyes. Locke. In secret shadow from the sunny ray, 9. The figure formed upon any surface On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid. Fairy Queen. correspondi ng to the body by which the Here, father, take the sbadow of this tree light is intercepted; the shadow. For your good host. Sbakspear.. Eavy will merit, as its sbade, pursue. Pope. 4. Obscure place. 10. The soul separated from the body; so To the secret shadows I retire, To pay my penance till my years expire. Dryd. called, as supposed by the ancients to be 5. Dark part of a picture. perceptible to the sight, not tothe touch. A shadow is a diminution of the first and A spirit ; a ghost ; manes. second light. The tirst light is that which proTo Trachin, swift as thought, the fitting sbade cecds immediately from a lightened body, as the Thro' air his momentary journey made. Dryd. beams of the sun. The second is an accidental Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty light, spreading itself into the air, or medium, Tesi, Since their foundation, came a nobler guest; proceeding from the other. Sbadows are three ild: the first is a single sbadow, and the least Nor e'er was to the bow'rs of bliss convey'd of all; and is proper to the plain surface where A fairer spirit or more welcome sbade. Tickel. To SHADE. V. a. (from the noun.] it is not wholly possessed of the light. The se cond is the double sbadow, and it is used when 1. To overspread with opacity. the surface begins once to forsake your eye, as Thou sbad'st ip columns. The third shadow is made by crossThe full blaze of thy beams, and through a cloud ing over your double shadow again, which darkThy skirts appear. Milton. eneth by a third part. It is used for the inmost 2. To cover from the light or heat ; to shadozu, and farthest from the light, as in gulfs, overspread. wells, and caves. Peacham. Aseraph six wings wore, to sbade After great lights there must be great shee His lineaments divine. Milton. Dryder. And after these came, arm'd with spear and 6. Any thing perceptible only to the sight; shield, a ghost ; a spirit, or shade. An host so great, as cover'd all the field; Hence, horrible sbadow ! And all their foreheads, like the knights before, Unreal mock'ry, hence! Sbakspeare. With laurels ever green were sbaded o'er. Dryd. 7. An imperfect and faint representation : I went to crop the sylvan scenes, opposed to substance. If substance might be call'd that sbadow seem'd. Dryden. Milion. Sing, while beside the sbaded tomb I mourn, In the glorious lights of heaven we perceive a And with fresh bays her rural shrine adorn. Pope. sbadow of his divine countenance. Raleigó. 3. To shelter; to hide. Without the least impulse or shadow of fate. Ere in our own house I do sbade my head, Milton. The good patricians must be visited. Sbaksp. Amongst the creatures are particular excel4. To protect; to cover ; to screen. lencies scattered, which are soine sbadows of the Leave not the faithful side divine perfections. Tillotson. That gave thee being, still sbades thee and pro- 8. Inseparable companion. tects. Milton. Sin, and her sbadow, death, Milton. s. To mark with different gradations of Thou my sbadow colours. Inseparable must with me along. Milton, The portal shone, inimitable on earth 9. Type ; mystical representation. By model, or by sbading pencil drawn. Milton. Types and shadows of that destin'd seed. Milt. 6. To paint in obscure colours. 10. Protection ; shelter; favour. a Keep me under the shadow of thy wings. This shadowy desart, unfrequented woods, Psalırs. I better brook than Rourishing peopled towns. To Sua'dow. v. a. [from the noun.] Sbakspeare. 1. To cover with opacity. With shadowy verdure flourish'd high, A sudden youth the groves enjoy. Ferton. So fair and great, that shadow'd all the ground. 2. Not brightly luminous. Spenser. More pleasant light The Assyrian was a cedar with fair branches, Shadowy sets off the face of things. Milton, and with a sbadowing shroud. Ezekiel. 3. Faintly representative ; typical. 2. To cloud ; to darken. When they see Law can discover sin, but not remove Save by those sbadou y expiations weak, To whom I am a neighbour. Skakspeare. The blood of bulls and goats; they may conclude 3. To make cool, or gently gloomy, by Some blood more precious must be paid for man. Miltor. interception of the light or heat. A gentle south-west wind comes creeping 4. Unsubstantial; unreal. over flowery fields and shadowed waters in the Milton has brought into his poems two actors extreme heat of summer. Sidney. of a sbadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death; by which he hath interwoven 4. To conceal under cover; to hide ; to in his fable a very beautiful allegory: Addison. screen. s. Dark; opake. Let every soldier hew hin, down a bough, By command, ere yet dim night And bear 't before him; thereby shall we sbe- Her shadowy cloud withdraws, I am to haste duwu Homeward. Miltok. The number of our host, and make discov'ry SHA'DY. adj. [from shade.] Err in report of us. Sbakspeare. 1. Full of shade ; mildly gloomy. 5. To protect; to screen from danger; The wakeful bird to shroud. Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid God shall forgive you Caur de Lion's death, Tunes her nocturnal note. Milton, The rather, that you give his offspring life, Stretch'd at ease you sing your happy loves, Shadowing their right under your wings of war. And Amaryllis tills the shady groves. Dryden. Shakspeare. 2. Secure from the glare of light, or sultri6. To mark with various gradations of ness of heat. colour, or light. Cast it also that you may have rooms sbady Turnsoil is made of old linen rags dried, and for summer, and warm for winter. Bacon. laid in a saucer of vinegar, and set over a chafing-dish of coals till it boil; then wring it into a SHAFT. n. s. (rceart, Sax.] shell, and put it into a little gum arabick: it is 1. An arrow; a missive weapon. good to shadow carnations, and all yellows. To pierce pursuing shield, Pancham. By parents train'd, the Tartars wild are taught, From a round globe of any uniform colour, the With sbafts shot out from their back-turned bow. idea imprinted on our minds is of a flat circle, Sidney. variously shadowed with different degrees of Who, in the spring, from the new sun light coming to our eyes. Locke. Already has a fever got, More broken scene, made up of an intinite Too late begins those sbafts to shun variety of inequalities and shadowings, that na Which Phæbus thro' his veins has shot. Waller, turally arise from an agrceable mixture of hills, They are both the archer and shaft taking aim groves, and vallies. Addison. afar off, and then shooting themselves directly 7. To paint in obscure colours. upon the desired mark. More. If the parts be too much distant, so that there So lofty was the pile, a Parthian bow be void spaces which are deeply sbadowed, then With vigour drawn must send the shaft below. place in those voids some fold, to make a joining Dryden. Dryden. 2. [shaft, Dutch.] A narrow, deep, per8. To represent imperfectly. pendicular pit. Whereat I wak’d, and found They sink a shaft or pit of six foot in length. Before mine eyes all real, as the drcam Carew, Had lively shadow'at. Milton. The fulminating damp, upon its accension, Augustus is shadowed in the person of Æneas. gives a crack like the report of a gun, and makes Dryden. an explosion so forcible as to kill the miners, and I have shadowed some part of your virtues force bodies of great weight from the bottom of under another name. Dryden. the pit up through the shaft. Woodward. 3. To represent typically: Suppose a tube, or, as the miners call it, Many times there are three things said to shaft, were sunk from the surface of the earth make up the substance of a sacrament; namely, to the center. Arbuthnot. the grace which is thereby offered, the element 3. Any thing straight; the spire of which shadowetb or signifieth grace, and the church. word which expresseth what is done by the ele- Practise to draw small and easy things, as a Hooker, cherry with the leaf, the shaft of a steeple. The shield being to defend the body from wea Peacbaa. pons, aptly sbadows out to us the continence of SHAG. n. s. [rceacza, Sax.] the emperor, which made him proof to all the 1. Rough woolly hair. attacks of pleasure. Addison, Full often, like a sbag-hair'd crafty kern, Sha'DOWGRASS. n. s. [from shadow and Hath he conversed with the enemy; grass; gramen sylvaticum, Lat.) A kind And given me notice of their villanies. Sbalsp. Where is your husband ? He's a traitor. SHA'DOWY. adj. [from shadow.] -Thou lyest, thou shag-ear'd villain! Sbakst. 1. Full of shade; gloomy. From the sbag of his body, the shape of ling a of the parts. a ment. of grass. |