ance. or i!l. I through the ample air, in triumph high, sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found Shall lead hell captive, maugre hell, and show in the same, Daniel Lt oim be called. Daniel. The pow'rs of darkness bound. Milton. 13. To discover : tu point out. 2. To afford to the eye or notice, as a thing Why stand we longer shivering under fears, containing or exhibiting. Thai show no end but death? Miliona Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise To Show. v. n. Magnificence; and what can heav'n sbew more? 1. To appear; to look; to be in appear Milton. A mirrour in one hand collective shews, She shows a body rather than a life, Varied and multiplied, the groupe of woes. A statue than a brother. Sbikspeare. Savage. Just such she sbows before a rising storm. iinga 3. To make to see. Still on we press; and here renew the carna, Not higher that hill, nor wider, looking round, So great; that in the stream the moon shared Whereon for different cause the tempter set purple. Poi Our second Adam in the wilderness, 2. To have appearance; to become si To sbow him all earth's kingdoms and their glory. Milton. Yet him, God the most high vouchsafes My lord of York, it better shew'd with ? " To call by vision froin his father's house, When that your flock, assembled by the besar Encircled you, to hear with rev'rence Milton. Your exposition on the holy text, Than now to see you here, an iron man, 4. To make to perceive. Chcering a rout of rebels with your drun. St. Th'inclement seasons,rain, ice, hail, and snow, Which now the sky with various face begins Show.24.s. (from the verb.] To sbow us in this mountain, while the winds 1. A spectacle ; something publickly 'exBlow moist and keen. Milion, posed to view for in ney. s. To make to know. I do not know what she may produce me; Him the Most High, but, provided it be a shout', shall be very wed Rapt in a balmy cloud with winged steeds satisfied. Addison Did, as thou saw'st, receive, to walk with God The dwarf kept the gates of the sboru room. High in salvation and the climes of bliss, . Arbuthnot. Exempt from death; to show thee what reward 2. Superficial appearance; not reality, Awaits the good. Milton. Mild heav'n Disapproves that care, though wise in show, 3. Ostentativus display. From what point of his compass to beware Nor doth his grandeur, and majestick show Impetuous winds. Milton. Of luxury, though call's magnificence, Allure inine eve. Miitor. To sbow thee what shall come in future days Stand before her in a golden dream; To thee and to thy offspring; good with bad Set all the pleasures of the world to show, Expect to hear. Milton, And in vain joys let her loose spiriis flow. Dryda 6. To give proof of; to prove. The radiant sun Sends from above tou tiruusand Wessi: gs down, Invalid that which thee to doubt it mov'd. Milt. Nor is he set so high for show alone. Granville. I'll co the citadel repair, Never was a charge maintained in such a And sboru my duty by my timely care. Drydex. show of gravity, which had a slighter foundation.' Achates' diligence his duty shows. Dryden. ritterburga 7. To publish; make publick; to proclaim. I envy none their pageantry and show, Ye are a chosen generation, that ye should I envy none the gilding of their woe. sbew forth the praises of him who hath called 4. Object attracung notice. you out of darkness. 1 Peter. The city itself makes the neblost shnov of any 8. To inform ; to teach : with of: in the world: the houses are most of thom paintI shall no more speak in proverbs, but shew ed on the outside, so that they look extremely you plainly of the Father. Jobr. gay and lively. Addison. 9. To make known. 5. Publick appearance : contrary to conI raised thee up to show in thee my power. cealment. Exodus. Jesus, rising from his grave, Nothing wants, but that thy shape, Spoil'd principalities and pow'rs, triumphd Like his, and color serpentine, may sbow In open sbow, and with ascension bright Thy inward fraud, to warn all creatures from Captivity led captive. Millor, thee. Milton:. 6. Semblance; likeness. 10. To conduct. To show, in this sense, When devils will their blackest sins put on, is to show the quay. They do suggest at tirst with heav'nly shows. She taking him for some cautious city patient, Sbakspeare. that came for privacy, sierus him into the din- He through pass'd the midst unmark'd, ing room. Swift. In show plebeian angel militant. Milton. 11. To offer; to afford. 7. Speciousness; plausibility. To him that is afflicted, pity should be sbewed The places of Ezechiel have some show in from his friend. Job. them; for there the Lord commandeth the LeFelix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left vites, which had committed idolatry, to be put Paul bound. Acts. from their dignity, and serve in inferior miniThou shalt utterly destroy them; make no stries. W bit ift. covenant with them, nor sbew mercy unto The kindred of the slain forgive the deed; them. Deuteronomy. But a short exile must for sbow precede. Dryd. 12. To explain; to expound. 8. External appearance. Forasmuch as knowledge and sbewing of hard Shall I say O Zalmane? Alas, your words be Young. S. against it. Shall I say prince Pyrocles? Wretch 3. To distribute or scatter with great lia that I am, your show is manifest against it. berality. Siuney. Fierce was the fight on the proud Belgians side, After this fair discharge, all civil honours have For honor r, u hich they seldom sought before; ing showered on him before, there now fell out occasion to action. Wetton. But now they by their own vain boasts were Cæsar's favour, tied, And forc'd, a: least in sbow, to prize it more. That sboru’rs down greatness on his friends, will rais: nie Addison. 9. Extil ition to vielv. in 10'WER. V. 1. To be rainy, I have a letter from her; The mirch whereof 's so l rded with my matter, SHO'} RP.Od. If om shower.] Rainy. That neither singly can be manitust. d, A hilly field, where the stubble is standing, Without the sberu of both. Sockspecre. sct on fire in the showery season, will put forth mu cirooms, Влсоn. 10. Pompi magnificent spectacle. As for triumphs, masks. firsts, and such shanus, Munanus care from Anxur's show'ry height, With ragged rocks and stony quarries white, menneurot be put in mind or them. Bacun. Seated untils. Addison, II. Phantom; not edity. The combat thickens, like the storm that flies What you saw was all a fairy skore; From westuurd, when the show'ry winds arise. And all those airy shapes you now behold Addison, Were human bodies once Dryalen. SHO'WISH. adj. [from slow.] 12. K prentative c'ien. Florio was so overwhelmed with happiness, 1. Splendid ; grudy that he could not make a reply; but expressed The escutcheons of the company are showis), and will look magnificent. in dumb bote thon sentiments of gratitlide that Swift. were too big for utterance. Addison 2. Ostentatious. SHOwn. (prti. and part. pass. of To show.] SHO'WER EAD or SAE'U BREAD. Exhibited. [show and briad ] Among the Jews, Mercy shown on man by him seduc'd. Milt. they lius called loaves of brcad that the SHo'w.adi. [from show.] Ostentatious. priesi of the week put every Sabbatlı- Men of warm imaginations neglect solid and dy upon the golden table, which was substannal happiness for what sbowy and sue in the sanctum before the Lord. They perficial. Addison. were covered with leaves of gold, and SHRANK. The preterit of shrink. The children of Israel ear not of the sinew vere twelve in number, representing the which sbrand on the hollow of the thigh. tweive tribes of Israel. They served Genesis. them up hot, and at the same time took To SIRED. v. a. pret, shred. [rcheadan, away the stale ones, which could not Saxon.] To cut into small pieces. Combe eiten but by the priest alone. This inonly used of cloth or herbs. oficring was accompanied with frankin- It hath a number of short cuts or sbredilings, cense and salt. Calmet. which inay be better called wishes than prayers. Set upon the table showbread before me. Hooker, Exodus. One gathered wild gourds, and sbred them. SHO'WER. n. s. [scheure, Dutch.] 2 Kings. Where did whet you your I. Rain either moderate or violent. knife to-night, he cries, If the boy have not a woman's gift, And sbred the leeks that in your stomach rise? Torwn a sborrer of cominondod tvars, Drydea. An onion will do well for such a shift. Shiks. The ancient cinnamon was, v izle it grew, the SHRED. 1. s, (from the verb.) driest; and in slowers it prospered worst. Bacon. 1. A small piece cut off. 2. S'erm of pl y tuing things thick. Gold, prown somewhat churlish by recovering, I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail is made more pliant by throwing in sbre.'s of Bacon, Rich jearis upon thee. tanned leather. Slusprore. Give me a storm; if it be love, The mighty Tyrian queen, that gain'd With subide sb eds a tract of land, Like Danae in the golden siemer, Caren. Did leave it with a castle fair Hudibras. With sheau'r's of stories he drives them far away; A beggar might patch up a garment with such The scatt'ring dogs around at distance bay. Pope. sbreits as the world throws away. s. Any very liberal listibition. A fragment. They said they were an hungry; sigh'd forth Have travell’d in the great shower of your gifts, proverbs, Sbakspeare. And steet! felt it. That hunger broke stone walls; that dogs must TO SIME". v. 4. [from the noun.] And with these shreds they vented their com1. Tovet or drown with rain. plainings. Shakspeare. Serve they as a fou'ry verge, to bind Sbrots of wit and senseless i himos The tid Icirte of that same rat'ry cloud, Blunder'd out a thousand times. Swift. Lestila in dissolve, and store's the earth? Milt, His panes) rick is made up of half a dozen The sin more glad impressid is beans, sbrets, like a schoolboy's thenie, beaten general Thun's fair evening chord, o humid bow, topicks. Sija. Wica God hath sborurid the carth. Millon, SIIREW. n. s. [schreyen, German, to cla. 2. To pour doun. Tiese, lullid by visiting is.enlracine slept; mour.] A peevish, malignant, clamour. Aiden vir naked limb the fio: 'ry roul ous, spiteful, vexatious, tubulent, vo. Sivua or'd roses, which ihe niuin repair'd. lit. man. It appears in Robiri of Gloucesters 21 2. eat : the sore; mo, Be merry, Sbakspeare. that this word signified anciently any This last allusion rubb'd upon one perverse or obstinate of cither sex. Yet seem'd she not to winch, tho' shrewdly There dede of hem vor hunger a thousand and pain'd. Dryden. 3. With good gress. And yac nolde the scretven to none pres go. Four per cent. increases not the number of Robert of Gloucester. lenders; as any man at first hearing will soreria be merry, my wife has all; by suspect it. Locke. For women are strews both short and rall. SHRE'W DNESS. n. s. [from sha wd.] Sbakspeare. 1. Sly cunning; archaess. By this reckoning lic is more shrenu than she. Her garboiles, which not wanted shrewdness A man had got a shreru to his wife, and there of policy too, did you too much disquiet. Shaks. The neighbours round adinire his shrewdness, ould be no more in tic house for her. L'Estr. For songs of loyalty and lewdness. Smuigh, Her sabe checks hier envious mind did shew, 2. Mischievousness; petulance. Anderry feature spoke aloud the sbr.w. Dro;d. Every one of then, is no is a streze in domes- SHRE'w151. adi. [from shrequ.] Having tikite, is now become a scold in politicks, the qualities of a shiew ; froward; pc Audison. tulantly clamorous. SHREWD, adi. [contracted from shreqved.] Angelo, you must excuse us; J. Having the qualities of a shrew; mali- My wife is shrowish when I keep not hours. cious ; troublesome; mischievous. Shatspeare Her eldest sister is so curst and shrind, SHRE'WISHLY, adv. [from shrewish.] That till the father rids his hands of her, Petulantly ; peevishly; clamorously; Your love naust live a maid. Sharspeare. frowardly. 2. Maliciously sly ; cunring; more artiul He speaks very shrewisbly; one would think than good his inother's milk were scarce out of him. It was a shrewd saying of the old monk, that Sbakspeare, two kind of prisons would serve for all offenders, SHRE'WISHNESS. 1. s. [from shrewisb.] an inquisition and a bedlam: if any man should The qualities of a shrew; frowardness; deny the being of a God, and the iminortality of the soul, such a one should be pue into the first, petulance; clamorousness. as being a desperate heretick; but it any man I have no gift in shrewishness, should profess to believe these things, and yet I am a right maid for my cowardice; Let her not strike me. allow himself in any known wickedness, such a Sbakspeare one should be put into budlan. Till130n. SHRE'W MOUSE. n. s. [repeapa, Sason.] A spiteful saymg gracities so many little pose A mouse of which the bite is generally sons, that it meets with a good recepcion; and the man who uiters it is locked upon as a shrewd supposed venomous, and to which vui. satirist. Addison. gar tradition assigns such malignity, that Corruption proceeds from employing those she is said to lame the foot over which who have the character of shrewd worldly men, she runs. I am informed that all these instead of such as have had a liberal education, reports are calumnious, and that her and trained up in virtue. Addison feet and teeth are equally harmless with 3. Bad; ill-betokening. those of any other little mouse. Our Scarce any man passes to a liking of sin in others, but by first practising it himself; and ancestors however looked on her with consequently we inay take it for a sbrowd indi- such terrour, that they are supposed to cation and sign, whereby to judge of those who have given her name to a scolding wohave sinned with too much caution to suffer man, whom for her venom they call a the world to charge sins directly upon their cune shrew. versation. South. 4. Paintul; pinching; dangerous; mis. TO SHRIEK. v.n. (skrieger, Danish ; seric ciolare, Italian.) To cry out inarticuchievous. Every of this number, lately with anguish or horrour; to That have endur'dobrewd nights and days with scream. On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly owl, us, Shall share the good of our returned fortune. Slrieking his baleful note. Fairy Qlicento It was the owl that sbrick'd, the fatal bekaan When a man thinks he has a servant, he finds Which gives the sternest good-night. Sbaksp à traitor that eats his bread, and is readier to do Were I the ghost that walk'd, him a a mischiet, and a sárewe turn, than an open I'd sbrick, that eveib your ears should rift to adversary. wonth. Sbakspeares No enemy is so despicable but he may do a in a dreadful dream body a shrenud turn. L'Estrange. I saw my lord so near destruction, SHREWDLY. adv. [from shreridos Then shriek'd myself awake. Denbam. Hark! peace! 1. Mischievously; destructively. At this she sbrick'd aloud; the mournful train This practice hath most sbrowly past upon Echo'd her grief. Dryder. thee. Stakspears. At Oxford, his youth, and want of experience Why did you shriek out? Drydenlo in mariting service, tau some vhat been shrewdo- SHRT: K. n. so [skrieg, Dutch ; scriccio, ly touched, even before the sluices of popular li- Italian) An inarticulate cry of anguish berty were set open. TV otton. 1. Vexa vilisty. It is used coi my if Una hearing evermore slighi mi hit, or in ironical . xpr ti. His rueful sbricks and groanings, ofren tore, die -b sinate and schis atical are like to Her guiltless garments, and her golden hair, think themelves sörenediy uri, iursovun, by be- Furnity of his pain. Fziry Qleen ing cui vifiom mat budy Wuch wicy choose not Tinie has been my senses would have cool'd, to bs, cf. To near a night shriek, and my fell of hair Siak, peare: or torronr. Jouo. Shak pearl. Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir Sbakspeare. Dryden. SPRIFT. n. s. [rcrifz, Saxon.] Contession made to a priest. Out of use. Off with My lord shall never rest; Shakspeare. Rowe. SHRIGHT, for shrieked. Spenser. made per onomatopeiam, in imitation of them, Sbakspeare. The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and sbrill sounding throat Awake the god of day. Sbakspeare. Shaispeare. Tbomson. To pierce the ear with sharp and quick O heavy herse! O careful verse! Spenser. The pipe, the tabor, and the trembling crowd, That weil agree withouten breach or jar. Spens. A sbrillig trumpet sounúd from on high, And unto battle bade themselves address. Shak. Here no clarion's sbrilling 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, Pope. shrill noise. SIRI'LLNESS. n. s. [from shrill.] The quality of being shrill. SHRIMP. n. s. [schrumpe, a wrinkle, Ger man; scrympe, Danish.] I. A sinall ciustareous vermiculated fish. Of shell-fish there are wrinkles, shrimps, crabs. Caria. Hawks and gulls can at a great height see mice on the carth, and serimps in the waters. Derb. 2. A liitle wrinkled man; a dwarf. In contempt. It cannot be this weak and wrichled shrimp He hath found, Ben Jonsona SHRINE, 4. s. (rchin, Saxon; scrinium, Lat.] A case in which something sacred is reposited. You living pow'rs, inclos'd in stately shrine Of growing trees; you rural gods, that wield Your scepters here, it to your ears divine Sidney. Sbakspeare. They often plac'd 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 admirting a blemish therein. Waits. TO SHRINK. V. n. preterit I shrunk, or sbrank; participle shrunken. (rchincan, Sirxon. ] 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 I am a sebbied form, drawn with a pen Sbakspeare I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will sbrink or draw into less room. Baron. 11-Heav'd ambition, how much art thou sbrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound: But now t'vo paces of the vilest earth · Is room enough. Sbakspeare. 2. To withdraw as from danger. The noise increases; Dryden. Love is a plant of the most tender kind, Granville. All fibres have a contractile power, wherohy they shorten; as appears if a fibre be cut transversely, the ends sbrink, and make the wound gape. Arhuibnot. 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 ir. Hooker. The morning cock crew loud, I'll embrace him with a soldier's arm, When he walks, he moves bike an engine, and the ground shrinks before his treading. Sbeksp. 4. To fall back as from dan er. Many shrink, which at the first would dare, And be the foremost men to execute. Duriel. I laugh, when those who at the spear are bold And vent'rous, if that fail then, shrine ani fear Toendure exile, ignoniny, bords. Milton, If a man accustoms himself to slight these first motions to good, or sbrindings of his conscience From evil, conscience will by degrees grow dull and unconcerned. South. The sky shrunk upuard with unusual dread, And trembling Tyber div'd beneath his bed. Dryden. The gold-fraught vessel, which mad tempests beat, He sees nos vainly make to his retrcat; And, « hen from far the tenth ware does appear, Sbrinks 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 sbrand 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, sprank, or shrunken. To make to shrink. Not in use. O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Sárunk to this little measure? Sbukspears. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon: His youthful hose, well sat'd, a world too wide For his sbrunk shanks. Sbakspeare. If he lessens the revenue, he will also sbrink the necessity. Taylor. Keep it from coming too long, lest it should sbrink the corn in measure. Mortimer, SHRINK. n. si [from the verb. ] 1. Corrugation; contraction into less compass. There is in this a crack, which seems a sbrink, or contraction in the body since it was first formed. Woodward. 2. Contraction of the body from fear or horrour. This publick death, receivid with such a chear, As not a sigh, a look, a skrink, bewrays The least felt touch of a degenerous fear. Daniel. SHRI'NKER. n. s. [from shrink.] He who shrinks. Shri'valty.n. s. Corrupted from She RIFFALTY; which see. TO SHRIVE. v. a. [reniran, Saxon.) To hear at confession. Not in use. What, talking with a priest, lord chamberlain? Your honour hath no shriving work in hand. Siakspeare. He shrives this woman, Else ne'er could he so long frotract his speech. Sbokspeare. If he had the condition of a saint, and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. Shrive but their title, and their monies poize, A laird and twentyopence pronounc'd with noise, When constru'd but for a plain yloman go, And a good sober two-pence, and well so. Cleaveland. TO SHRI'VEL. V.n. [schrompeler, Dutch.] To contract itself into wrinkles. Leaves, if they brivel and fold up, give them drink. Euclyn. If she smelled to the freshest nosegay, it would skrivel and wither as it had been blighted. A, butungt. TO SHRI'VEL. v. a. To contract into He burns the leaves, the scorching blaet invades The tender corn, and sbrivels up the blades. Drydora When the fiery suns too fiercely play, And sbrivel'd herbs on with'ring stems decay, The wary ploughman, on the mountain's brow, Undamps his wai'ry stores. Dryden. SHRI'VER. . s. [from shrive.] A con fessor. Not in use. The ghostly father now hath done his shrift; When he was made a sbriver 't was for shift. Shakspeare. It would warm his spirits, Sbakspeare. The winds locks cherish Milton. 2. The dress of the dead; a windingshect. Now the wasted brands do glow; Puts the wretch that lies in woe They drop apace; by nature some decay, We call for death, and shelter in a shroud. Teung. 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. Sidneyo The tackle of my heart is crackt and burnt; And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail Are turned to one little hair. Sbakspeare. A weather-beaten vessel holds Miltonia The fiaming 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 swroud himself until such time as the rage of the people was appeased. Knolles. The governors of Corfu caused the suburbs to be plucked down, for fear that the Tarks, shruuding 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 virich shly shroud themselves under the skirt of its mantie. Decay of Piety. 2. To shiter as the thing covering: One of these trecs, with all his young ones, may shroud four burired horsemen. Raleigh. 3. To diess for the grave. a Sbakspeare. wrinkles. |