To SHRILL. v. n. [from the adjective.] To pierce the ear with sharp and quick vibrations of sound.

The sun of all the world is dim and dark;

O heavy herse! Break we our pipes that shrill'd as loud as lark, O careful verse! Spenser. Hark how the minstrels 'gin to shrill aloud Their merry musick that resounds from far, The pipe, the tabor, and the trembling crowd, That weil agree withouten breach or jar. Spens. A sbrilling trumpet sounded from on high, And unto battle bade themselves address. Shak. Here no clarion's shrilling note The muse's green retreat can pierce; The grove, from noisy camps remote, Is only vocal with my verse.

Fenton's Ode to Lord Gower.

The females round,

Maids, wives, and matrons, mix a shrilling sound. Pope. SHRI'LLY. adv. [from shrill.] With a shrill noise.

SHRI'LLNESS. n. s. [from shrill.] The quality of being shrill. SHRIMP. n.s. [schrumpe, a wrinkle, German; scrympe, Danish.]

Carew.

1. A small crustaceous vermiculated fish. Of shell-fish there are wrinkles, shrimps, crabs. Hawks and gulls can at a great height see mice on the earth, and shrimps in the waters. Derb. 2. A litle wrinkled man; a dwarf. In contempt.

It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp Should strike such terrour in his enemies. Shak.

He hath found, Within the ground, At last, no shrimp, Whereon to imp His jolly club.

Ben Jonson.

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

They often plac'd

Within his sanctuary itself their shrines, Abominations! and with cursed things His holy rites profan'd.

Falling on his knees before her shrine, He thus implor'd her pow'r.

Milton.

Dryden.

Lovers are in rapture at the name of their fair idol; they lavish out all their incense upon that shrine, and cannot bear the thought of admitting a blemish therein.

Watts.

TO SHRINK. v. n. preterit I shrunk, or shrank; participle shrunken. [rcruncan, Saxon.]

1. To contract itself into less room; to shrivel; to be drawn together by some internal power.

But to be still hot summer's tantlings, and The shrinking slaves of winter. Shakspeare. I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen Upon a parchment, and against this fire Do I sbrink up.

Shakspeare

I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. Bacon. Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk!

When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound:
But now two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough.

Shakspeare.

2. To withdraw as from danger.
The noise increases;
She comes, and feeble nature now I find
Shrinks back in danger, and forsakes my mind.
Dryden.

Nature stands aghast;
And the fair light which gilds this new-made orb,
Shorn of his beams, shrinks in.
Dryden.

Love is a plant of the most tender kind, That shrinks and shakes with ev'ry ruft ing wind. Granville.

All fibres have a contractile power, whereby they shorten; as appears if a fibre be cut transversely, the ends shrink, and make the wound Arbuthnot. gape.

Philosophy, that touch'd the heav'ns before, Sbrinks to her hidden cause, and is no more. Pope. 3. To express fear, horrour, or pain, by shrugging, or contracting the body.

There is no particular object so good, but it may have the shew of some difficulty or unpleasant quality annexed to it, in respect whereof the will may shrink and decline it. Hooker.

The morning cock crew loud, And at the sound it sbrunk in haste away, And vanish'd from our sight. Shakspeare.

I'll embrace him with a soldier's arm, That he shall shrink under my courtesy. Sbaks. When he walks, he moves like an engine, and the ground shrinks before his treading. Shaksp. 4. To fall back as from danger.

Many shrink, which at the first would dare, And be the foremost men to execute. Dariel.

I laugh, when those who at the spear are bold And vent'rous, if that fail them, shrink and fear To endure exile, ignominy, bonds.

If a man accustoms himself to slight those first motions to good, or shrinkings of his conscience

The gold-fraught vessel, which mad tempests beat,

He sees now vainly make to his retreat;
And, when from far the tenth wave does appear,
Shrinks up in silent joy, that he 's not there.
Dryden.
The fires but faintly lick'd their prey,
Then loath'd their impious food, and would have
sbrunk away.
Dryden.
Fall on: behold a noble beast at bay,
And the vile huntsmen shrink.
Dryden.
Inuring children to suffer some pain, without
shrinking, is a way to gain firmness and courage.

Locke.

What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. Pope. To SHRINK. v. a. participle pass. sbrunk, shrank, or shrunken. To make to shrink. Not in use.

O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure? Sbakspeare.

The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon: His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shanks. Shakspeare.

If he lessens the revenue, he will also shrink the necessity.

Taylor.

Keep it from coming too long, lest it should shrink the corn in measure.

Mortimer.

2. Contraction of the body from fear or horrour.

This publick death, receiv'd with such a chear, As not a sigh, a look, a shrink, bewrays The least felt touch of a degenerous fear. Daniel. SHRINKER.n.s. [from shrink.] He who shrinks.

SHRI VALTY. n. s. Corrupted from SHERIFFALTY; which see.

To SHRIVE. v. a. [repipan, Saxon.] To hear at confession. Not in use.

What, talking with a priest, lord chamberlain? Your honour hath no shriving work in hand. Shakspeare.

He shrives this woman, Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech. Shakspeare.

If he had the condition of a saint, and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. Sbakspeare.

Shrive but their title, and their monies poize, A laird and twenty-pence pronoune'd with noise, When constru'd but for a plain yeoman go, And a good sober two-pence, and well so.

Cleaveland.

TO SHRIVEL. v.n. [schrompelen, Dutch.] To contract itself into wrinkles. Leaves, if they shrivel and fold up, give them drink. Evelyn. If she smelled to the freshest nosegay, it would shrivel and wither as it had been blighted. Arbutonot. TO SHRIVEL. v. a. To contract into wrinkles.

He burns the leaves, the scorching blast invades

The tender corn, and shrivels up the blades.

Dryden.

When the fiery suns too fiercely play, And shrivel'd herbs on with'ring stems decay, The wary ploughman, on the mountain's brow, Undams his wat'ry stores. Dryden. SHRIVER. N. s. [from shrive.] A confessor. Not in use.

The ghostly father now hath done his shrift; When he was made a shriver 't was for shift. Shakspeare.

SHROUD. n. s. [repud, Saxon.] 1. A shelter; a cover,

It would warm his spirits, To hear from me you had left Antony, And put yourself under his shroud, the universal landlord. Shakspeare.

By me invested with a veil of clouds, And swaddled, as new-born, in sable shrouds, For these a receptacle I design'd. Sandys. The winds

Blow moist and keen, shattering the graceful locks

Of these fair spreading trees; which bids us seek Some better shroud, some better warmth, to cherish

They drop apace; by nature some decay, And some the blasts of fortune sweep away; Till naked quite of happiness, aloud

We call for death, and shelter in a shroud. Young. 3. The sail-ropes. It seems to be taken sometimes for the sails.

I turned back to the mast of the ship; there I found my sword among some of the shrouds.

Sidney.

The tackle of my heart is crackt and burnt; And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail

Are turned to one little hair. Shakspeare.
A weather-beaten vessel holds
Gladly the port, tho' shrouds and tackle torn.

Milton.

The flaming shrouds so dreadful did appear, All judg'd a wreck could no proportion bear. Dryden.

He summons straight his denizens of air; The lucid squadrons round the sails repair: Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seem'd but zephyrs to the crowd beneath. Pope.

To SHROUD. v. a. [from the noun.]
1. To shelter; to cover from danger as an
agent.

Under your beams I will me safely shroud.
Fairy Queen.

He got himself to Mege, in hope to suroud himself until such time as the rage of the реоKnolles. ple was appeased.

The governors of Corfu caused the suburbs to be plucked down, for fear that the Turks, shrouding themselves in them, should with more ease besiege the town.

Knolles.

Besides the faults men commit with this immediate avowed aspect upon their religion, there are others which slily shroud themselves under the skirt of its mantle. Desay of Piety.

2. To shelter as the thing covering.

One of these trecs, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen. Raleigh. 3. To dress for the grave.

At sbrovetide to shroving. SHRUB.n.s. [repubbe, Saxon.] 1. A bush; a small tree.

Tusser.

Trees generally shoot up in one great stem or body, and then at a good distance from the earth spread into branches; thus gooseberries and currants are shrubs, oaks and cherries are trees.

Locke. He came unto a gloomy glade, Cover'd with boughs and shrubs from heaven's Fairy Queen. light. The humble sbrub and bush with frizzled hair. Milton. All might have as well been brushwood and shrubs. More. Comedy is a representation of common life, in low subjects; and is a kind of juniper, a shrub belonging to the species of cedar. Dryden.

I 've liv'd

Philips.

SHRUFF.n.s. Dross; the refuse of metal tried by the fire.

Dict

To SHRUG. v. n. [scbricken, Dutch, to tremble.] To express horrour or dissatisfaction by motion of the shoulders or whole body.

Like a fearful deer that looks most about when he comes to the best feed, with a shrugging kind of tremor through all her principal parts, she gave these words.

Sidney.

The touch of the cold water made a pretty kind of shrugging come over her body, like the twinkling of the fairest among the fixed stars.

Sidney.

Be quick, thou wert best To answer other business; shrugg'st thou malice? Shakspeare. He grins, smacks, shrugs, and such an itch endures, As 'prentices or school-boys, which do know Of some gay sport abroad, yet dare not go. Donnt. They grin, they shrug, They bow, they snarl, they scratch, they hug.

Swift.

To SHRUG. v. a. To contract or draw up. He shrugs his shoulders when you talk of se

curities.

He shrugg'd his sturdy back, As if he felt his shoulders ake.

Addison.

Hudibras.

SURUG. n. s. [from the verb.] A motion of the shoulders usually expressing dislike or aversion.

And yet they ramble not to learn the mode,
How to be drest, or how to lisp abroad,
Toretura knowing in the Spanish sbrug. Cleavel
As Spaniards talk in dialogues
Of heads and shoulders, nods and sbrugs. Hudib.
Put on the critick's brow, and sit

At Will's, the puny judge of wit.
A nod, a sbrug, a scornful smile,
With caution us'd, may serve a while.
A third, with mystick shrug and winking eye,
Harte.

The wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled. 1 Maccabees. SHRUNKEN. The part. passive of shrink.

She weighing the decaying plight, And shrunken sinews, of her chosen knight, Would not awhile her forward course pursue. Fairy Queen.

If there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy. Bacon.

TO SHU'DDER. v. a. [schuddren, Dutch.]
To quake with fear, or with aversion.
All the other passions fleet to air,
As doubtful thoughts, and rash embrac'd despair,
And shudd ring fear.
Sbakspeare.

The fright was general; but the female band With horror shudd'ring on a heap they run.

Dryden.

I love-alas! I shudder at the name, My blood runs backward, and my fault'ring tongue

Sticks at the sound.

Smith.

Now firm for doctor Caius, hath appointed That he shall likewise shuffle her away. Sbaksp. It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seized.

4. TO SHUFFLE off. To get rid of.

Dryden.

In that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. Sbakspeare.

I can no ether answer make, but thanks; And oft good turns

Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay. Shak. If any thing hits, we take it to ourselves; if it miscarries, we shuffle it off to our neighbours. L'Estrange.

If, when a child is questioned for any thing, he persist to shuffle it off with a falsehood, he must be chastised.

Locke.

5. TO SHUFFLE up. To form tumultuously or fraudulently.

They sent forth their precepts to convent them before a court of commission, and there used to VOL, IV.

Mincing poetry,

'"T is like the fore'd gait of a shuffling nag. Shaks. SHU'FFIE. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. The act of disordering things, or making them take confusedly the place of each other.

Is it not a firmer foundation for contentment, to believe that all things were at first created, and are continually disposed, for the best, than that the whole universe is mere bungling, nothing effected for any purpose, but all ill-favouredly cobbled and jumbled together, by the unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter?

2. A trick; an artifice.

Bentley.

L'Estrange.

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The gifts of nature are beyond all shams and shuffles. SHUFFLECAP.n.s. [shuffle and cap.] play at which money is shaken in a hat. He lost his money at chuck-farthing, shuffletap, and all-fours. SHUFFLER.n.s. [from shuffle.] He who plays tricks or shuffles. SHUFFLINGLY.adv. (from shuffle.] With an irregular gait.

Arbuibnot.

I may go shufflingly, for I was never before walked in trammels; yet I shall drudge and moil at constancy, till I have worn off the hitching in my pace. Dryden.

To SHUN. v. a. [arcunian, Saxon.] To avoid; to decline; to endeavour to escape; to eschew.

Consider death in itself, and nature teacheth Christ to shun it.

Hooker.

The lark still shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest lies silent in the field. Waller.

Birds and beasts can fly their foe:

So chanticleer, who never saw a fox,

Yet shunn'd him as a sailor shuns the rocks. Dry.

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