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Shod

SHOD, for shoed, preterit tense and participle passive of shoe.

Shoe

SHOE, noun plural shoes.

1. A covering for the foot, usually of lether, composed of a thick species for the sole, and a thinner kind for the vamp and quarthers. Shoes for ladies often have some kind of cloth for the vamp and quarters.

2. A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of a horse to defend it from injury; also, a plate of iron for for an ox's hoof, one for each division of the hoof. Oxen are shod in New England, sometimes to defend the hoof from injury in stony places, more generally to enable them to wald on ice, in which case the shoes are armed with sharp points. This is called calking.

3. The plate of iron which is nailed to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle that slides on snow in the winter.

4. A piece of timber fastened with pins to the bottom of the runners of a sled, to prevent them from wearing.

5. Something in form of a shoe

6. A cover for defense.

Shoe of an anchor, a small block of wood, convex on the back, with a hole to receive the point of the anchor fluke; used to prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of a ship's bow, when raised or lowered.

SHOE, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive shod.

1. To furnish with shoes; ot put shoes on; as, to shoe a horse or an ox; to shoe a sled or sleigh.

2. To cover at the bottom.

To shoe an anchor, to cover the flukes with a broad triangular piece of plank whose area is larger than that of the fluke. This is intended to give the anchor a stronger hold in soft grounds.

Shoe-Leather

SHOE-LEATHER, noun [shoe and lether.] Lether for shoes.

Shoe-Lether

SHOE-LETHER,

Shoeblack

SHOEBLACK, noun [shoe and black.] A person that cleans shoes.

Shoeboy

SHOEBOY, noun [shoe and boy.] A boy that cleans shoes.

Shoebuckle

SHOEBUCKLE, noun [shoe and buckle.] A buckle for fastening the shoe to the foot.

Shoeing

SHOEING, participle present tense Putting on shoes.

Shoeinghorn

SHOEING'HORN, noun [shoe and horn.]

1. A horn used to facilitate the entrance of the foot onto a narrow shoe.

2. Any thing by which transaction is facilitated; any thing used as a medium; in contempt. [I have never heard this word in America.]

Shoeless

SHOELESS, adjective Destitute of shoes.

Caltrops very much incommoded the shoeless Moors. Dr. Addison.

Shoemaker

SHOEMAKER, noun [shoe and maker.] One whose occupation or trade is to make shoes and boots.

Shoer

SHOER, noun One that fits shoes to the feet; one that furnishes or futs on shoes; as a farrier.

Shoestring

SHOESTRING, noun [shoe and string.] A string used to fasten a shoe to the foot.

Shoetye

SHOETYE, noun [shoe and tye.] A ribin used to fasten a shoe to the foot.

Shog

SHOG, for shock, a violent concussion. [Not in use.]

SHOG, verb transitive To shake; to agitate. [Not in use.]

SHOG, verb intransitive To move off; to be gone; to jog. [Not in use. See Jog.]

Shogging

SHOG'GING, noun Concussion. [Not in use.]

Shoggle

SHOG'GLE, verb transitive To shake; to joggle. [Not in use. See Joggle.]

Shole

SHOLE, noun A throng; a crowd; a great multitude assembled. [This is the better orthography. See Shoal.]

Shone

SHONE, participle passive of shine.

Shook

SHOOK, participle passive of shake.

Shoot

SHOOT, verb transitive prte. and participle passive shot. The old participle shotten, is obsolete. [Latin scateo, to shoot out water.]

1. To let fly and drive with force; as, to shoot an arrow.

2. To discharge and cause to be driven with violence; as, to shoot a ball.

And from about her shot darts of desire. Milton.

4. To let off; used of the instrument.

The two ends of a bow shot off, fly from one another. Boyle.

5. To strike with any thing shot; as, to shoot with an arrow or a bullet.

6. To send out; to push forth; as, a plant shoots a branch.

7. To push out; to emit; to dart; to thrust forth.

Beware of the secret snake that shoots a sting. Dryden.

8. To push forward; to drive; to propel; as, to shoot a bolt.

9. To push out; to thrust forward.

They shoot out the lip. Psalms 22:7.

The phrase, to shoot out the lip, signifies to treat with derision or contempt.

10. To pass through with swiftness; as, to shoot the Stygian flood.

11. To fit to each other by planing; a workman's term.

Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or pared with a chisel.

Moxon.

12. To kill by a ball, arrow or other thing shot; as, to shoot a duck.

SHOOT, verb intransitive

1. To perform the act of discharging, sending with force, or driving any thing by means of an engine or instrument; as, ot shoot at a target or mark.

When you shoot, and shut one eye. Prior.

The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him. Genesis 49:1.

2. To germinate; to bud; to sprout; to send forth branches.

But the wild olive shoots and shades the ungrateful plane. Dryden.

Delightjul task,

To teach the young idea how to shoot. Thomson.

3. To form by shooting, or by an arrangement of particles into spiculae. Metals shoot into crystals. Every salt shoots into crystals of a determinate form.

4. To be emitted, sent forth or driven along.

There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. Dryden.

5. To protuberate; to be pushed out; to jut; to project. The land shoots into a promontory.

6. To pass, as an arrow or pointed instrument; to penetrate.

The words shoot through my heart. Addison.

7. To grow rapidly; to become by rapid growth. The boy soon shoots up to a man.

He'll soon shoot up a hero. Dryden.

8. To move with velocity; as a shooting star.

9. To feel a quick darting pain. My templesshoot

To shoot ahead, to outstrip in running, flying or sailing.

SHOOT, noun

1. The act of propelling or driving any thing with violence; the discharge of a fire-arm or bow; as a good shot.

The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. Bacon.

2. The act of striking or endeavoring to strike with a massive weapon.

3. A young branch.

Prune off superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. Evelyn.

4. A young swine. [In New England pronounced shote.]

Shooter

SHOOT'ER, noun One that shoots; an archer; a gunner.

Shooting

SHOOT'ING, participle present tense Discharging, as fire-arms; driving or sending with violence; pushing out; protuberating; germinating; branching; glancing, as in pain.

Shop

SHOP, noun

1. A builking in which goods, wares, drugs, etc. are sold by retail.

2. a building in which mechanics work, and where they keep their manufactures for sale.

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you. Franklin.

SHOP, verb intransitive To visit shops for purchasing goods; used chiefly in the participle; as, the laky is shopping.

Shopboard

SHOP'BOARD, noun [shop and board.] A bench on which work is performed; as a doctor or divine taken from the shopboard.

Shopbook

SHOP'BOOK, noun [shop and book.] A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts.

Shopkeeper

SHOP'KEEPER, noun [shopand keep.] A trader who sells in a shop or by retail; in distinction from a merchant, or one who sells by wholesale.

Shoplifter

SHOP'LIFTER, noun [shop and lift. See Lift.] One who steals any thing from a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion the steal.

Shoplifting

SHOP'LIFTING, noun Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of any thing from a shop.

Shoplike

SHOP'LIKE, adjective Low; vulgar.

Shopman

SHOP'MAN, noun [shop and man.]

1. A petty trader.

2. One who serves in a shop.

Shopping

SHOP'PING, participle present tense Visiting shops for the purchase of goods.

Shore

SHORE, the old. pret. of shear. Obs.

SHORE, noun The coast or land adjacent to the sea, or to a large lake or river. This word is applied primarily to land contiguous to water; but it extends to the ground near the border of the sea or of a lake, which is covered with water. We also use the word to express the land near the border of the sea or of a great lake, to an indefinite extent; as when we say, a town stands on the shore. We do not apply the word to land contiguous to a small stream. This we call a bank.

SHORE, noun [The popular but corrupt pronunciation of sewer; a pronunciation that should be carefully avoided.]

SHORE, noun A prop; a butress; something that supports a building or other thing.

SHORE, verb transitive

1. To prop; to support by a post or butress; usually withsup; as, to shore up a building.

2. To set on shore [Not in use.]

Shored

SHO'RED, participle passive Propped; supported by a prop.

Shoreless

SHO'RELESS, adjective Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as a shoreless ocean.

Shoreling

SHO'RELING, n.

Shorl

SHORL, noun A mineral, usually of a black color, found in masses of an intermediate form, or crystallized in three or nine sided prisms, which when entire are terminated by three sided summits. The surface of the crystals is longitudinally streaked. the amorphous sort presents thin straight distinct columnur concretions, sometimes parallel, sometimes diverging or stelliform. This is called also tourmalin.

The shorl of the mineralogists of the last century comprehended a variety of substances which later observations have separated into several species. The green shorl is the epidote, or the vesuvian, or the acinolite. The violet shorl an the lenticular shorl ar ethe axinite. The black volcanic shorl is si the augite. The white Vesuvian shorl is the sommite. The white grenatiform is the leucite. The white prismatic is the pycnite, a species of the topaz, and another is a variety of feldspar. Of the blue shorl one variety is the oxyd of titanium, another the sappare, and another the phosphate of irin. The shorl cruciform is the granitite. The octahedral shorl is the octahedrite or anatase. The red shorl of Hungary and the purple of Madagascar, are varieties of the oxyd of titanium. The spathic shorl is th espodummene. the black shorl and th eelectric shorl only remain, and to this species the name tourmalin was given by that celebrated mineralogist, the Abbe Hauy.

Blue shorl is a variety of Hauyne. Red and titanic shorl is rutile.

Shorlaceous

SHORLA'CEOUS, adjective Like shorl; partaking of the nature and characters of shorl.

Shorling

SHOR'LING, In England, the skin of a living sheep shorn, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from a dead sheep. Hence in some parts of England, a shorling is a sheep shorn, and a morling is one that dies.

Shorlite

SHORL'ITE, noun A mineral of a greenish white color, sometimes yellowish; mostly found in irregular oblong masses or columns, inserted in a mixture of quartz and mica or granite.

Shorlite of shorlous topaz, the pycnite of Werner, is of a straw yellow color.

Short

SHORT, adjective [Latin curtus.]

1. Not long; not having great length or extension; as a short distance; a short ferry; a short flight; a short piece of timber.

The bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself on it. Isaiah 28:20.

2. Not extended in time; not of long duration.

The triumphing of the wicked is short. Job 20:5.

3. Not of usual or suffifient length, reach or extent.

Weak though I am of limb, and short of sight. Pope.

4. Not of long duration; repeated at small intervals of time; as short breath.

5. Not of adequate extent or quantity; not reaching the point demanded, desired or expected; as a quantity short of our expectations.

Not therefore am I short

Of knowing what I ought. Milton.

6. Deficient; defective; imperfect. This account is short of the truth.

7. Not adequate; insufficient; scanty; as, provisions are short; a short allowance of water for the voyage.

8. Not sufficiently supplied; scantily furnished.

the English were inferior in number, and grew short in their provisions.

Hayward.

9. Not far distant in time; future.

He commanded those who were appointed to attend him, to be ready by a short day. Clarendon.

10. Not fetching a compass; as in the phrase, to turn short.

11. Not going to the point intended; as, to stop short.

12. Defective in quantity; as sheep short of their wool.

13. Narrow; limited; not extended; not large or comprehensive.

Their own short understandings reach

No farther than the present. Rowe.

14. Brittle; friable; breaking all at once without splinters or shatters; as marl so short that it cannot be wrought into a ball.

15. Not bending.

The lance broke short. Dryden.

16. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; severe. I asked him a question, to which he gave a short answer.

To be short, to be scantily supplied; as, to be short of bread or water.

To come short, to fail; not to do what is demanded or expected, or what is necessary for the purpose; applied to persons. We all come short of perfect obedience to God's will.

2. Not to reach or obtain.

3. To fail; to be insufficient. Provisions come short.

To cut short, to abridge; to contract; to make to small or defective; also, ot destroy or consume.

To fall short, to fail; to be inadequate or scanty; as, provisions fall short; money falls short.

2. To fail; not to do or accomplish; as, to fall short on duty.

3. To be less. The measure falls short of the estimate.

To stop short, to stop at once; also, to stop without reaching the point intended.

To turn short, to turn on the spot occupied; to turn without making a compass.

For turning short he struck with all his might. Dryden.

To be taken short, to be seized with urgent necessity.

In short, a few words; briefly; to sum up or close in a few words.

SHORT, noun A summary account; as the short of the matter.

The short and long in our play is preferred. Shak.

SHORT, adverb Not long; as short-enduring joy; a short-breathed man.

In connection with verbs, short is a modifying word, or used adverbially; as, to come short, etc.

SHORT, verb transitive

1. To shorten.

2. verb intransitive To fail; to decrease. [Not in use.]

Short-Breathed

SHORT'-BREATHED, adjective Having short breath or quick respiration.

SHORT'-DATED, adjective [short and date.] Having little time to run.

Short-Jointed

SHORT'-JOINTED, adjective [short and joint.] A horse is said to be short-jointed when the pastern is to short.

Short-Lived

SHORT'-LIVED, adjective [short and live.] Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.

Short-Sight

SHORT-SIGHT, noun Short-sightedness; myopy; vision accurate only when the object is near.

Short-Sightedness

SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS, noun

1. A defect in vision, consisting in the inability to see things at a distance, or at the distance to which ssight normally extends. Short-sightedness is owing to the too great convexity of the crystaline humor of the eye, by which the rays of light are brought to a focus too soon, that is, before they reach the retina.

2. Defected or limited intellectual sight; inabilaty to see far into futurity or into things deep or abstruse.

Short-Waisted

SHORT-WAISTED, adjective [short and waist.] Having a short waist or body.

Short-Winded

SHORT-WIND'ED, adjective [short and wind.] Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick respiration; as asthmatic persons.

Short-Winged

SHORT'-WINGED, adjective [short and wing.] Having short wings; as a short-winged hawk.

Short-Witted

SHORT-WIT'TED, adjective Having little wit; not wise; of scanty intellect or judgement.

Shorten

SHORTEN, verb transitive short'n.

1. To make short in measure, extent or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

2. To abridge; to lessen; as, to shorten labor or work.

3. To curtail; as, to shorten the hair by clipping.

4. To cintract; to lessen; to diminish in extent or amount; as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance of provisions.

5. To confine; to restrain.

Here where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain. Dryden.

6. To lop; to deprive.

The youth-shortened of his ears. Dryden.

SHORTEN, verb intransitive short'n.

1. To become short or shorter. The day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December.

2. To contract; as, a cord shortens by being wet; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

Shortened

SHORT'ENED, participle passive Made shorter; abridged; contracted.

Shortening

SHORT'ENING, participle present tense Making shorter; contracting.

SHORT'ENING, noun Something used in cookery to make paste short or friable, as butter or lard.

SHORT'-HAND, noun [short amd hand.] Short writing; a compendious method of writing by substituting characters, abbreviations or symbols for words; otherwise called stenography.

Shortly

SHORT'LY, adverb

1. Quickly; soon; in a little time.

The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon.

2. In a few words; briefly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.

Shortner

SHORT'NER, noun He or that which shortens.

Shortness

SHORT'NESS, noun

1. The quality of being short in space or time; little length or little duration; as the shortness of a journey or of distance; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of life.

2. Fewness of words; brevity; conciseness; as th eshortness of an essay. The prayers of the church, by reason of their shortness, are easy for the memory.

3. Want of reach or the power of retention; as the shortness of the memory.

4. Deficiency; imperfection; limited extent; as the shortness of our reason.

SHORT'-RIB, noun [short and rib.] One of the lower ribs; a rib shorter than the others, below the sternum; a false rib.

Shorts

SHORTS, noun plural The bran and coarse part of a meal. [Local.]

Shortsighted

SHORT'SIGHTED, adjective [short and sight.]

1. Not able to see far; having limited vision; in a literal sense.

2. Not able to look far into futurity; not able to understand things deep or remite; of limited intellect.

Shory

SHO'RY, adjective [from shore.] Lying near th eshore or coast. [Little used.]

Shot

SHOT, preterit tense and participle passive of shoot.

SHOT, noun

1. The act of shooting; discharge of a missile weapon.

He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the king's army.

Clarendon.

[Note. The plural shots, may be used, but shot is generally used in both numbers.]

2. A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet. Shot is properly what is discharged from fire-arms or cannons by the force of gunpowder. shot used in war is of various kinds; as, roundshot or balls; those for cannon make of iron, those for muskets and pistols, of lead. Secondly, double headed shot or bar shot, consisting of a bar with a round head at each end. Thirdly, chain-shot, consisting of to balls chained together. Fourthly, grape-shot, consisting of a number of balls bound together with a cord in canvas on an iron bottom. Fifthly, case shot or canister shot, consisting of a great number of small bullets in a cylindrical tin box. Sixthly, langrel or langrage, which consists of pieces of iron of any kind or shape. Small shot, denotes musket balls.

3. Small globular masses of lead, used for killing fowls and other small animals. These are not called balls or bullets.

4. The flight of a missile weapon, or the distance which it passes from the engine; as a cannon shot; a musket shot; a pistol shot; a bow shot.

5. A reckoning; charge or proportional share of expense. [See Scot.]

Shot of a cable, in seaman's language, the splicing of two cables together; or the whole length of two cables thus united. A ship will ride easier with one shot of cable thus lengthened, than with three short cables.

Shote

SHOTE, noun

1. A fish resembling the trout.

2. A young hog. [See Shoot.]

SHOT'-FREE, adjective [shot and free.]

1. Free from charge; exempted from any share of expense; scot-free.

2. Not to be injured by shot. [Not used.]

3. Unpunished. [Not used.]

Shotten

SHOTTEN, adjective shot'n. [from shoot.]

1. Having ejected the spawn; as a shotten herring.

2. Shooting into angles.

3. Shot out of its socket; dislocated; as a bone.

Shotting

SHOTT'ING, noun

1. The act of discharging fire-arms, or of sending an arrow with force; a firing.

2. Sensation of a wuick glancing pain.

3. In sportsmanship, the act or practice of killing game with guns or fire-arms.

Shough

SHOUGH, noun shok. A kind of shaggy dog. [Not in use. See Shock.]

Should

SHOULD. shood. The preterit of shall, but now used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past time or conditional present. 'He should have paid the debt at the time the note became due.' Should here denotes past time. 'I should ride to town this day if the weather would permit.' Here should expresses present or future time conditionally. In the second and third persons, it denotes obligation or duty, as in the first example above.

1. I should go. When should in this person is uttered without emphasis, it declares simply that an event would take place, on some condition or under circumstances.

But when expressed with emphasis, should in this person denotes obligation, duty or determination.

2. Thou shouldst go.

You should Without emphasis, should, in the second person, is nearly equivalent to ought; you ought to go, it is your duty, you are bound to go. [See Shall.]

With emphasis, should expresses determination in th espeaker conditionally to compel the person to act. 'If I had the care of you, you should go, whether willing or not.'

3. He should go. should, in the third person, has the same force as in the second.

4. If I should, if you should, if he should, etc. denote a figure contingent event.

5. After should, the principal verb is sometimes omitted, without obscuring the sense.

So subjects love just kings, or so they should. Ktyden.

That is, so they should love them.

6. should be, ought to be; a proverbial phrase, conveying some censure, contempt or irony. Things are not as they should be.

The biys think their mother no better than they should be. Addison.

7. ' We think it strange that stones should fall from the aerial regions.' In this use, should implies that stones do fall. In all similar phrases, should implies the actual existence of the fact, without a condition of supposition.

Shoulder

SHOULDER, noun

1. The joint by which the arm of a human being or the fore leg of a quadruped is connected with the body; or in man, the projection formed by the bones called scapula or shoulder blades, which extend from the basis of the neck in a horizontal direction.

2. The upper joint of the fore leg of an animal cut for th emarket; as a shoulder of mutton.

3. Shoulders, in the plural, the upper part of the back.

Adown her shoulders fell her length of hair. Dryden.

4. Figuratively, support; sustaining power; or that which elevates and sustains.

For on thy shoulders do I build my seat. Shak.

5. Among artificers, something like the human shoulder; a horizontal or rectangular projection from the body of a thing.

SHOULDER, verb transitive

1. To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence.

Around her numberless the rabble flow'd,

Should'ring each other, crowding for a view. Rowe.

As they the earth would shoulder from her seat. Spenser.

2. To take upon the shoulder; as, to shoulder a basket.

Shoulder-Belt

SHOULDER-BELT, noun [shoulder and belt.] A belt that passes across the shoulder.

Shoulder-Blade

SHOULDER-BLADE, noun [shoulder and blade.] The bone of the shoulder, or blade bone, broad and triangular, covering the hind part of the ribs; called by anatomists scapula and omoplata.

Shoulder-Clapper

SHOULDER-CLAPPER, noun [shoulder and clap.] One that claps another on the shoulder, or that uses great familiarity. [Not in use.]

Shoulder-Knot

SHOULDER-KNOT, noun [shoulder and knot.] An ornamental knot of ribin or lace worn on the shoulder; an epaulet.

Shoulder-Shotten

SHOULDER-SHOTTEN, adjective [shoulder and shot.] Strained in the shoulder, as a horse.

Shoulder-Slip

SHOULDER-SLIP, noun [shoulder and slip.] Dislocation of the shoulder or of the humerus.

Shout

SHOUT, verb intransitive To utter a sudden and loud outcry, usually in joy, triumph or exultation, or to animate soldiers in an onset.

It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery. Exodus 32:18.

When ye hear th esound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout Joshua 6:5.

SHOUT, noun A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, particularly of a multitude of men, expressing joy, triumph, exultation or animated courage. It is sometimes intended in derision.

The Rhodians seeing an enemy turn their backs, gave a great shout in derision. Knolles.

SHOUT, verb transitive To treat with shouts or clamor.

Shouter

SHOUT'ER, noun One that shouts.

Shouting

SHOUT'ING, participle present tense Uttering a sudden and loud outcry in joy or exultation.

SHOUT'ING, noun The act of shouting; a loud outcry expressive of joy or animation.

Shove

SHOVE, verb transitive

1. To push; to propel; to drive along by the direct application of strength without impulse; particularly, to push a body by sliding or causing it to move along the surface of another body, either by the hand or by an instrument; as, the shove a bottle along a table; to shove a table along the floor; to shove a boat along the water.

And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Milton.

Shoving back this earth on which I sit. Dryden.

2. To push; to press against.

He used to shove an elbow his fellow servants to get near his mistress

Arbuthnot.

To shove away, to push to a distance; to thrust off.

To shove by, to push away; to delay, or to reject; as, to shove by the hearing of a cause; or to shove by justice. [Not elegant.]

To shove off, to thrust or push away.

To shove down, to overthrow by pushing.

SHOVE, verb intransitive

1. To push or drive forward; to urge a course.

2. To push off; to move in a boat or with a pole; as, he shoved from shore.

To shove off, to move from shore by pushing with poles or oars.

SHOVE, noun The act of pushing or pressing against by strength, without a sudden impulse.

Shoved

SHOVED, participle passive Pushed; propelled.

Shovel

SHOVEL, noun shov'l. An instrument consisting of a broad scoop or hollow blade with a handle; used por throwing earth or other loole substances.

SHOVEL, verb transitive

1. To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap or into a cart, or out of a pit.

2. To gather in great quantities.

Shovel-Board

SHOVEL-BOARD, noun A board on which they play by sliding metal pieces at a mark.

Shoveled

SHOVELED, participle passive Thrown with a shovel.

Shoveler

SHOVELER, noun [from shovel.] A fowl of the genus Anas or duck kind.

Shoveling

SHOVELING, participle present tense Throwing with a shovel.

Show

SHOW, verb transitive preterit tense showed; participle passive shown or showed. It is sometimes written shew, shewed, shewn. [If the radical letter lost was a labial, show coincides with the Gr.]

1. To exhibit or present to the view of others.

Go thy way, show thyself to the priest. Matthew 8:1.

2. To afford to the eye or to notice; to contain in a visible form.

Nor want we skill o rart, from whence to raise

Magnificence; and what can heaven show more? Milton.

3. To make or enable to see.

4. To make or enable to perceive.

5. To make to know; to cause to understand; to make known; to teach or inform.

Know, I am sent

To show thee what shall come in future days. Milton.

6. To prove; to manifest.

I'll show my duty by my timely care. Dryden.

7. T oinform; to teach; with of.

The time cometh when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father. John 16:1.

8. To point out, as a guide.

Thou shalt show them th eway in which they must walk. Exodus 18:1.

9. To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor or mercy on any person.

10. To prove by evidence, testimony or authentic registers or documents.

They could not show their father's house. Ezra 2:1.

11. To disclose; to make known.

I durst not show mine opinion. Job 32:1.

12. To discover; to explain; as, to show a dream or interpretation.

To show forth, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim.

SHOW, verb intransitive

1. To appear; to look; to be in appearance.

Just such she shows before a rising storm. Dryden.

2. To have appearance; to become or suit well or ill.

My lord of York, it better show'd with you. Obs. Shak.

SHOW, noun

1. Superficial appearance; not reality.

Mild heav'n

Disapproves that care, though wise in show. Milton.

2. A spectacle; something offered to view for money.

3. Ostentatious display or parade.

I envy none their pageantry and show. Young.

4. Appearance as an object of notice.

The city itself makes the noblest showof any in the world. Addison.

5. Public appearance, in distinction of concealment; as an open show.

6. Semblance; likeness.

In show plebeian angel militant. Milton.

7. Seciousness; plausibility.

But a short exile must for show precede. Dryden.

8. External appearance.

And forc'd, at least in show, to prize it more. Dryden.

9. Exhibition in view; as a show o fcattle, or cattle-show.

10. Pomp; magnificent spectacle.

As for triumphs, masks, feasts, and such shows- Bacon.

11. A phantom; as a fairy show.

12. Representative action; as a dumb show.

13. External appearance; hypocritical pretense.

Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers. Luke 20:1.

Show-Bread

SHOW-BREAD, noun [show and bread.] Among the Jews, bread of exhibition; the

SHEW-BREAD, loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord, on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were shaped like a brick, were ten palms long and five wide, weighing about eight pounds each. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and changed every sabbath. The loaves were twelve in number, and represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priest only.

Shower

SHOWER, noun One who shows or exhibits.

SHOW'ER, noun [Qu. Heb. Ch. Ar. to be rough, to shudder.]

1. A fall of rain or hail, a sort of duration. It may be applied to like a fall of snow, but this seldon occurs. It is applied to a fall of rain or hail of short continuance, or of more or less violence, but never to a storm of long continuance.

2. A fall of thing from the air in thick succession; as a shower of darts or arrows; a shower of stones.

3. A copious supply bestowed; liberal distribution; as a great shower of gifts.

SHOW'ER, verb transitive

1. To water with a shower; to wet copiously with rain; as, to shower the earth.

2. To bestow liberally; to distribute or scatter in abundance.

Cesar's favor,

That show'rs down greatness on his friends. Addison.

3. To be wet with falling water, as in the shower-bath.

SHOW'ER, verb intransitive To rain with showers.

Showered

SHOW'ERED, participle passive Wet with a shower; watered abundantly; bestowed or distributed liberally.

Showerless

SHOW'ERLESS, adjective Without showers.

Showery

SHOW'ERY, adjective Raining in showers; abounding with frequent falls of rain.

Showily

SHOWILY, adverb In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.

Showiness

SHOWINESS, noun State of being showy; pompousness; great parade.

Showish

SHOWISH, adjective

1. Splendid; gaudy. [Little used.]

2. Ostentatious.

Shown

SHOWN, participle passive of show. Exhibited; manifested; proved.

Showy

SHOWY, adjective

1. Splendid; gay; gaudy; making a great show; fine.

2. Ostentatious.

Shrag

SHRAG, verb transitive To lop. [Not in use.]

SHRAG, noun A twig of a tree cut off. [Not in use.]

Shragger

SHRAG'GER, noun One that lops; one that trims trees. [Not in use.]

Shrank

SHRANK, preterit tense or shrink, nearly obsolete.

Shrap

SHRAP, noun A place baited with chaff to invite birds. [Not in use.]

Shrape

SHRAPE,

Shred

SHRED, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive shred. To cut into small pieces, particularly marrow and long pieces, as of cloth or lether. It differs from mince, which signifies to chop into pieces fine and short.

SHRED, noun

1. A long narrow piece cut off; as shreds of cloth.

2. A fragment; a piece; as shreds of wit.

Shredding

SHRED'DING, participle present tense Cutting into shreds.

SHRED'DING, That which is cut off; a piece.

Shrew

SHREW, noun

1. A peevish, brawling, turbulent, vexatious woman. It appears to have originally been applied to males as well as females; but is now restricted to the latter.

The man had got a shrew for his wife, and there could be no quiet in the house with her. L'Estrange.

2. A shrew-mouse.

SHREW, verb transitive To beshrew; to curse. Obs.

Shrew-Mouse

SHREW'-MOUSE, noun A small animal resembling a mouse, but belong to the genus Sorex; an animal that burrowl i the ground, feeding on corn, insects, etc. It is a harmless animal.

Shrewd

SHREWD, adjective

1. Having the qualities of a shrew; vexatious; troublesome; mischievous. Obs.

2. Sly; cunning; arch; subtil; artful; astute; as a shrewd man.

3. Sagacious; of nice discernment; as a shrewd observer of men.

4. Proceeding from cunning or sagacity, or containing it; as a shrewd saying; a shrewd conjecture.

5. Painful; vexatious; troublesome.

Every of this number

That have endured shrewd nights and days with us. Obs. Shak.

No enemy is so despicable but he may do one a shrewd turn. Obs.

L'Estrange.

Shrewdly

SHREWD'LY, adverb Mischievously; destructively.

This practice hath most shrewdly passed upon thee. Obs. Shak.

2. Vexatiously; used of slight mischief.

The obstinate and schismatical are like to think themselves shrewdly hurt by being cut from that body they chos not to be of. Obs. South.

Yet seem'd she not to winch, though shrewdly pained. Obs. Dryden.

3. Archly; sagaciously; with good guess; as, I shrewdly suspect; he shrewdly observed.

Shrewdness

SHREWD'NESS, noun

1. Sly cunning; archness.

The neighbors round admire his shrewdness. Swift.

2. Sagaciousness; sagacity; the quality of nice discernment.

3. Mischievousness; vexatiouness. [Not in use.]

Shrewish

SHREW'ISH, adjective Having the qualities of a shrew; forward; peevish; petulantly clamorous.

My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours. Shak.

Shrewishly

SHREW'ISHLY, adverb Peevishly; clamorously; turbulently.

He speaks very shrewishly. Shak.

Shrewishness

SHREW'ISHNESS, noun The qualities of a shrew; forwardness; petulance; turbulent clamorousness.

I have no gift in shrewishness. Shak.

Shriek

SHRIEK, verb intransitive [Latin ruga, wrinkled, rugo, to bray.] To utter a sharp shrill cry; to scream; as in sudden fright, in horror or anguish.

At this she shriek'd aloud. Dryden.

It was the owl that shriek'd. Shak.

SHRIEK, noun A sharp shrill outcry or scream, such as is produced by sudden anger or extreme anguish.

Shrieks, clamors, murmurs fill the frighted town. Dryden.

Shrieking

SHRIE'KING, participle present tense Crying out with a shrill voice.

Shrieval

SHRIE'VAL, adjective Pertaining to a sherif. [Not in use.]

Shrievalty

SHRIE'VALTY, noun [from sherif.] Sherifalty; the office of a sherif.

It was ordained by 28 Ed. 1. that the people shall have election of sherif in every shire, where the shrievalty is not of inheritance. Blackstone.

Shrieve

SHRIEVE, noun Sherif. [Not in use.]

Shrift

SHRIFT, noun Confession made to a priest. Obs.

Shright

SHRIGHT, for shrieked.

SHRIGHT, noun A shriek. [Not in use.]

Shrike

SHRIKE, noun [See Shriek.] The butcher-bird; a genus of birds called Lanius, of several species.

Shrill

SHRILL, adjective [Latin grillus.]

1. Sharp; acute; piercing; as sound; as a shrill voice; shrill echoes.

2. Uttering an acute sound; as the cock's shrill sounding throat; a shrill trumpet.

[NOTE. A shrill may be tremulous of trilling; but this circumstance is not essential it, although it seems to be of the root of trill.]

SHRILL, verb intransitive To utter an acute piercing sound.

Break we out pipes that shrill'd as loud as lark. Spenser.

SHRILL, verb transitive To cause to make a shrill sound.

Shrillness

SHRILL'NESS, noun Acuteness of sound; sharpness or fineness of voice.

Shrilly

SHRIL'LY, adverb Acutely, as sound; with a sharp sound or voice.

Shrimp

SHRIMP, verb transitive To contract. [Not in use.]

SHRIMP, noun [supra.]

1. A crustaceous animal of the genus Cancer. It has long slender feelers, claws with a single, hooked fang, and three pair of legs. It is esteemed delicious food.

2. A little wrinkled man; a dwarf; in contempt.

Shrine

SHRINE, noun [Latin scrinium.] A case or box; particularly applied to a case in which sacred things are deposited. Hence we hear much of shrines for relics.

Come, offer at my shrine, and I will help thee. Shak.

Shrink

SHRINK, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive shrunk. the old preterit tense shrank and participle passive shrunken are nearly obsolete.

To contract spontaneously; to draw or be drawn into less length, breadth or compass by an inherent power; as, woolen cloth shrinks in hot water; a flaxen of hempen line shrinks in a humid atmosphere. Many substances shrink by drying.

2. To shrivel; to become wrinkled by contraction; as th eskin.

3. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear. A brave man never shrinks from danger; a good man does not shrink from duty.

4. To recoil, as in fear, horror or distress. My mind shrinks from the recital of our woes.

What happier natures shrink at with affright,

The hard inhabitant contends is right. Pope.

5. To express fear, horror or pain by shrugging or contracting the body.

SHRINK, verb transitive to cause to contract; as, to shrink by immersing it in boiling water.

O mighty Cesar, dost thou lie so low!

Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,

Shrunk to this little measure! Shak.

SHRINK, noun

1. Contraction; a spontaneous drawing into less compass; corrugation.

2. Contraction; a withdrawing from fear or horror.

Shrinkage

SHRINK'AGE, noun A shrinking or contraction into a less compass. Make an allowance for the shrinkage of grain in drying.

Shrinker

SHRINK'ER, noun One that shrinks; one that withdraws from danger.

Shrinking

SHRINK'ING, participle present tense Contracting; drawing together; withdrawing from danger; declining to act from fear; causing to contract.

Shrivalty

SHRIV'ALTY. [See Shrievalty.]

Shrive

SHRIVE, verb transitive To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession; as a priest.

He shrives this woman. Obs. Shak.

Shrivel

SHRIVEL, verb intransitive shriv'l. [from the root of rivel.] To comtract; to draw or be drawn into wrinkles; to shrink and form corrugations; as, a leaf shrivels in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age.

SHRIV'EL, verb transitive To contract into wrinkles; to cause to shrink into corrugations. A scorching sun shrivels the blades of corn.

Snd shrivel'd herbs on withering stems decay. Dryden.

Shriveled

SHRIV'ELED, participle passive Contracted into wrinkles.

Shriveling

SHRIV'ELING, participle present tense Contracting into wrinkles.

Shriver

SHRI'VER, noun [from shrive.] A confessor. Obs.

Shriving

SHRI'VING, noun Shrift; confession taken. Obs.

Shroud

SHROUD, noun

1. A shelter; a cover; that which covers, conceals or protects.

Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. Sandys.

2. The dress of the dead; a winding sheet.

3. Shroud or shrouds of a ship, a range of large ropes extending from the head of a mast to the right and left sides of the ship, to support the mast; as the main shrouds; fore shrouds; mizen shrouds. There are also futtock shrouds, bowsprit shrouds, etc.

4. A branch of a tree. [Not proper.]

SHROUD, verb transitive

1. To cover; to shelter from danger or annoyance.

Under your beams I will me safely shroud. Spenser.

One of these trees with all its young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen. Raleigh.

2. To dress for the grave; to cover; as a dead body.

The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in several folds of linen besmeared with gums. Bacon.

3. To cover; to conceal to hide; as, to be shrouded in darkness.

-Some tempest rise,

And blow out all the stars that light the skies,

To shroud my name. Dryden.

4. To defend; to protect by hiding.

So Venus from prevailing Greeks did shroud

The hope of Rome, and saved him in a cloud. Waller.

5. To overwhelm; as, to be shrouded in despair.

6. To lop the branches of a tree. [Unusual or improper.]

SHROUD, verb intransitive To take shelter or harbor.

If your stray attendants be yet lodg'd

Or shroud within these limits- Milton.

Shrouded

SHROUD'ED, participle passive Dressed; covered; concealed; sheltered; overwhelmed.

Shrouding

SHROUD'ING, participle present tense Dressing; covering; cocealing; sheltering; overwhelming.

Shroudy

SHROUD'Y, adjective Affording shelter.

Shrove

SHROVE, verb intransitive To join in the festivities of Shrove-tide. [Obs.]

Shrove-Tide

SHRO'VE-TIDE, noun [from shrove, preterit tense of shrive, to take a confession. See Tide and

Shrove-Tuesday

SHROVE-TUESDAY, Tuesday.] Confession-time; confession-Teusday; the Tuesday after Quinquagesima Sunday; or the day immediately preceding the first of Lent, or Ash Wednesday; on which day, all the people of England when of the Catholic religion, were obliged to confess their sins one by one to their parish priests; after which they dined on pancakes or fritters. The latter ppractice still continues. The bell rung on this day is called pancake-bell.

Shroving

SHRO'VING, noun The festivity of Shrove-tide.