SHEEN, shèèn. 246.

SHE ENY, shèèn'è. 182.

ing showy.

559.-Fate, får, fåll, fåt ;-mẻ, mêt;-plne, plu, -
SHELVY, shel'vè
banks.

} a. Bright, glitter

SHEEN, sheen. s. Brightness, splendour.
SHEEP, sheep. 8. 246

The animal that bears wool; a foolish silly fellow.

To SHEEPBITE, sheep bite. v. n. To use petty
thefts, to injure slyly
SHEEPBITER, sheep'bite-dr. s. A petty thief,
a sly injurer.

SHEEPCOT, sheep'kôt. s. A little enclosure for
sheep.

A hook fastened
lay hold on the

SHEEPFOLD, sheep'fold. s. The place where
sheep are enclosed."
SHEEPHOOK, sheep'hôỏk. s.
to a pole by which shepherds
legs of their sleep.
SHEEPISH, sheepish. a.

Bashful, overmodest, timorously and ineanly diffident. SHEEPISHNESS, sheep'ish-nês. s. Bashfulness, mean and timorous diffidence. SHEEPMASTER, sheep'más-tår. s. An owner of sheep.

SHEEPSHEARING, sheep sheer-ing. s. The time of shearing sheep, the feast made when sheep are shorn.

SHEEP'S-EYE, shèèp's-1'. s. A modest diffident
look, such as lovers cast at their mistresses.
SHEEPWALK, sheep'wawk. S. Pasture for
sheep.

SHEER, shere. a. 246. Pure, clear, unmingled.
SHEER, shère ad. 246. Ciean, quick, at once.
SHEERS, shèèrz. 8.-See SHEARS
SHEET, sheet. 8. 240. A broad and large piece of
linen; the linen of a bed in a ship, ropes bent
to the clews of the sails; as much paper as is
made in one body, a single complication or
fold of paper in a book; any thing expanded.
SHEET-ANCHOR, sheet-angk'kår. s. In a ship,
is the largest anchor.

To SHEET, shèèt. v. a. To furnish with sheets;
to enfold in a sheet; to cover as with a sheet.
SHEKEL, shek'k'l s. 102. An ancient Jewish
coin, in value about two shillings and six pence
sterling.

a.

Shallow, rocky, full of

To SHEND, shend. v. a. Pret. and Part. pass
Shent. To ruin; to disgrace; to surpass. 05
solete.
SHEPHERD, ship'pård. s. 98, 515. One who
tends sheep in the pasture, a swain, a rural
lover; one who tends the congregation, a pas
A woman

tor.

Resembling

SHEPHERDESS, shêp'pår-dês. s.
that tends she, a rural lass.
SHEPHERDISH, shep pûrd-Ish. a.
a shepherd, suiting a shepherd, pastoral, rus
tick.
SHERBET, sher-bet. s. The juice of lemons
or oranges mixed with water and sugar.
SHERD, sherd. s. The fragment of broken

SHEW, shỏ.-See SHOW.
SHEWBREAD.-See SHOWBREAD.
SHIELD, sheeld, s. 275. A buckler, a broad
piece of defensive armour held on the left arm
to ward off blows; defence, protection, one
that gives protection or security.

To SHIELD, shééld v. a. To cover with a
shield; to defend. to protect, to secure; to
keep off, to defend against.

To SHIFT, shift. v. n. To change place; to change, to give place to other things; to change clothes, particularly the lineu; to find some expedient to act or live, though with difficulty; to practise indirect methods; to take some method for safety.

To SHIFT, shift. v. a. To change, to alter to transfer from place to place; to change in position; to change, as clothes; to dress in fresh clothes. To shift off; to defer, to pat away by some expedient.

SHELF, shelf. s. A board fixed against a supporter, so that any thing may be placed upon it; a sand bank in the sea, a rock under shal-SHIFT, shift. s. Expedient found or used with low water.

difficulty, difficult ineans; mean refuge, last resource; fraud, artifice; evasion, elusory practice; a woman's linen.

SHIFTER, shift år. s. 93. One who plays tricks a man of artifice.

SHELFY, shëlf'è. a. Full of hidden rocks or banks, full of dangerous shallows. SHELL, shel. s. The hard covering of any thing, the external crust, the covering of af testaceous or crustaceous animal, the cove.ing||SHIFTLESS, shift'lės. a. Wanting expedients of the seeds of siliquous plants; the covering of kernels; the covering of an egg the outer part of a house: it is used for a musical instrument in Poetry, the superficial part

To SHELL, saël. v. a. To take out of the shell;
to strip off the shell.
To SHELL, shel. v. n.

wanting means to act or live.

SHILLING, shiring s. 410. A coin of various
value in different times: it is now twelve pence
SHILL-I-SHALL-I, shil'le-shål-lè. A corrupt re-
duplication of Shall I? To stand Shill-I-shall-I
is to continue hesitating.

To fall off as broken SHILY, shile. ad Not familiarly, not frankly
SHIN, shin. s. The forepart of the leg.
To SHINE, shine. v. n. Pret. I Shone, I have
Shone; sometimes I Shined, I have Shined.
To glitter, to glisten; to be splendid; to be
eminent or conspicuous; to be propitious; to
e..lighten.

shells; to cast the shell. SHELLDUCK, shel'dak. S. A kind of wild duck. SHELLFISH, shelfish. s. Fish invested with a hard covering, either testaceous, as oysters, or crustaceous, as lobsters.

SHELLY, shel ́lè. a. Abounding with shells; consisting of shells.

SHELTER, shel tär. s. 98. A cover from any external injury or violence; a protector, defender, one that gives security; the state of being covered, protection, security

To SHELTER, shêl'tår. v. a. To cover from ex-
ternal violence; to defend, to protect, to suc-|
cour with refuge, to harbour; to betake to co-
ver; to cover from notice.

To SHELTER, shël'tår. v. n. To take shelter;
to give shelter.
SEELTERLESS, sheltải ở

without home or refuge. SHELVING, shelving a. 410. clining, having declivity

Harbourless,

Sloping, in

SHINE, shine. s. Fair weather; brightness splendour, lustre. Little used,

SHINESS, shinês. s. Unwillingness to be trac table or familiar.

SHINGLE, shing'gl. s. 405. A thin board to
cover houses.

SHINGLES, shing'glz. s. 405. A kind of tetter
or herpes that spreaus itself round the loins.
SHINY, shine. a. Bright, luminous.
SHIP, ship. 8. A ship may be defined a large
hollow building, made to pass over the sea with
sails.

To SHIP, ship. v. a. To put into a ship; to
transport in a ship.
SHIPBOARD, ship'bord, s. This word is sel.

—nỏ, môve, nor, nôt ;—tube, tải, bảll ; -öl ;pound ;—thiu, THIS.

dom used but in adverbial phrases, a-shipboard, on-shipboard, in a ship; the plank of a ship. SHIPBOY, ship boe. s. Boy that serves in a ship. SHIPMAN, ship'mån. s. 88. Sailor, scaman. SHIPMASTER, ship'mås-tår. s. Master of a ship.

SHIPPING, ship'ping s. 410. Vessels of unvi-
gation; passage in a ship.

SHIPWRECK, ship rek. s. The destruction of
ships by rocks or shelves; the parts of a
tered ship; destruction, miscarriage.

fence, impression of disgust; & pile of sheaves

of corn; a rough dog To SHOCK, shok. v. a.

to offend, to disgust. To SHOCK, shok. v. n. To SHOCK, shok. V. sheaves.

n.

To shake by violence

To be offensive.

To build up piles of

SHOD, shod. for Shoed. The Pret. and Part pass. of To shoe. shat-SHOE, shỏỏ. s. 296. The cover of the foot. To SHOE, shỏỏ. v. a Pret. I Shod, Part. pass Shod. To fit the foot with a shoe; to cover at the bottom.

SHOEBOY, sho'bỏè. s. A boy that cleans shoes SHOEING-HORN, shỏỏing-hörn. s. A horn used to facilitate the admission of the foot into a narrow shoe.

The pror.unciation of the latter part of this word, as if written rack, is now become vulgar. To SHIPWRECK, ship'rêk. v. a. To destroy by dashing on rocks or shallows; to make to suffer the dangers of a wreck. SHIPWRIGHT, ship'rite. s. A builder of ships. SHIRE, shère. s. 8, 106. A division of the king-SHOEMAKER, shỏỏ'må-kår s. One whose trade dom, a county.

is to make shoes.

sudden interrupted impulses. SHONE, shôn. The pret of Shine.

7 The pronunciation of this word is very ir-||SHOETYE, shoo'tl. s. The riband with which regular, as it is the only pure English word in women tye shoes the language where the finale does not produce SHOG, shog. s. Violent concussion. the long diphthongal sound of i when the ac-To SHOG, shog. v. a. To shake, to agitate by cent is on it but this irregularity is so fixed as to give the regular sound a pedantick stiffness. Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Scott and Buchanan, however, have adopted this sound, in which they have been followed by Mr. Smith; but Mr. Elphinstone, Dr. Lowth, Dr. Kenrick, Mr. Perry,| and Barclay, are for the irregular sound; W Johnston gives both, but places the irregular first and the Grammar called Bickerstaff's, recommended by Steele, adonts the sound, and gives this rule :

To sound like double (e) (i) does incline; "As in Machine and Shire, and Magazine: "Like (a) in Sirrah; but writ (oi) in Join."

It may likewise be observed, that this word, when unaccented at the end of words, as Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire, &c. is always pronounced with the i like ee.

SHIRT, shårt. s. 108. The under linen garment of a man.

To SHIRT, shårt. v a. To cover, to clothe as
in a shirt.

SHIRTLESS, shårt'lês. a. Wanting a shirt.
SHITTAH, shit'tâ.
SHITTIM, shit tim... Hebrew. A sort of pre-
cious wood growing in Arabia.

SHITTLECOCK, shit'tl-kok. s. A cork stuck
with feathers, and driven by players from one
to another with battle-doors.

This word is frequently pronounced so as to rhyme with tone; but the short sound of o is by far the most usual among those who may be styled polite speakers.

This sound is adopted by Mr. Elphinstone, Mr
Sheridan, Dr. Kenrick, Mr Perry, and Mr.
Smith, nor do I find the other sound in any of
our Dictionaries that have the word.
|SHOOK, shook 306. The Pret. and in Poetry,
Part. pass. of Shake.

To SHOOT, shoôt. v. a. Pret. I shot; Part. Shot
or Shotter To discharge any thing so as to
make it fly with speed or violence; to discharge
from a bow or gun; to let off; to emit new
parts, as a vegetable; to emit, to dart or thrust
forth; to fit to each other by planing, a work-
man's term, to pass through with swiftness.
To SHOOT, shoot. v. n. To perform the act of
shooting to germinate, to increase in vegeta-
ble growth, to form itself into any shape; to
be emitted; to protuberate, to jut out; to pass
as an arrow; to become any thing suddenly:
to move swiftly along; to feel a quick pain.
SHOOT, shoôt. s. The act of striking or en-
deavouring to strike with a missile weapon dis
charged by any instrument, obsolete; branch
issuing from the main stock.

archer, a gunner

The most natural derivation of this word|SHOOTER, shôôt år. s. 98. One that shoots, an seems to arise from the motion of a shuttle, and therefore it ought to be written and pronounced shuttlecock.

SHOP, shop. s. A place where any thing is sold; a room in which manufactures are car ried on.

SHIVE, shive. s. A slice of bread; a thick splinter or lamina cut off from the main sub-SHOPBOARD, shop'bord. s. Bench on which

stance.

To SHIVER, shiv'dr. v. n. 98. To quake, to||
tremble, to shudder as with cold or fear.
To SHIVER, shỉv'år. v. n. To fall at once into
many parts or shives.

To SHIVER, shiv år. v. a. To break by one act
into many parts, to shatter.

SHIVER, shiv'år. s. 515. One fragment of many
into which any thing is broken.
SHIVERY, shív'àr-è. a.

Loose of coherence,
easily falling into many fragments.
SHOAL, shole. s. 295. A crowd, a multitude, a
throng; a shallow, a sand-bank.

To SHOAL, shòle. v. n. To crowd, to throng;|
to be shallow, to grow shallow.
SHOAL, shole. a. Shallow, obstructed or en-
cumbered with banks.
SHOALINESS, sho'lè-nês. 8
quency of shallow places.
SHOALY, aho ́lè. a. Full of shoals, full of shal-
low places.

Shallowness, fre

SHOCK, shok. s. Conflict, mutual impression of violence, violent concourse; concussion, external violence; the conflict of enemies of

any work is done.

SHOPBOOK, shop'bỏỏk. s. Book in which a
tradesman keeps his accounts.
SHOPKEEPER, shôp’kèèp-år. s A trader who
sells in a shop, not a merchant who only deals
by wholesale.

SHOPMAN, shop'mân. s. 88. A petty trader.
one who serves in a shop.
SHORE, shore. The pret. of Shear.
SHORE, shore. s. The coast of the sea; the
bank of a river; a drain, properly Sewer, the
support of a building, a buttress.

To SHORE, shore. v. a. To prop, to support
To set on shore, nut in use.
SHORELESS, shore'lès. a. Having no coast
SHORN, shorne. The part. pass. of Shear.

This word was inadvertently marked with the third sound of a in the first edition of this Dictionary; but from considering its analogy with swear, wear, and tear, I do not hesitate to alter it to the first sound of that vowel; Mr Sheridan, Mr. Smith, and W Johnston, are for the first pronunciation; but Mr. Perry, Mr Nares, and Mr. Elphinstone, are for the last

559.-Fåte, får, fan, fåt ;—mè, mẻt ;—plne, pin ;—

and these authorities, with analogy on their || SHOULDERSLIP, shòl'dår-slip. s. Dislocation side, are decisive.

SHORY, sho'rè. a. Lying near the coast.
SHOT, shot. The pret. and part. pass. of Shoot.
SHOT, shot. s. The act of shooting; the flight
of a shot; the charge of a gun; bullets or small
pelle's for the charge of a gun; any thing dis-SHRANK, shrank. The Pret. of Shrink.
charged from a gun, or other instrument; a
sum charged, a reckoning.
SHOTFREE, shot frèè. a.
ing.
SHÖTTEN, shôt ́t'n. a. 103.

SHOWN, shone. Pret. and Part. pass of To show
Exhibited.

—nỏ, môve, nỗr, nốt ;–tube, tỏi, bull ;−3 ,pond ;—thin, THIS. wants the true stamp of polite usage to make it || To SHUDDER, shud dår. v. a. 38. To quake current; it is now grown old and vulgar and with fear, or with aversion. Pope's use of this word,

"Now Mayors and Shrieves all hush'd and sa"tiate lay

To SHRINK, shrink. v. a. Part. pass. Shrunk,
Shrank, or Shrunken. To make to shrink.
SHRINK, shrink. s. Contraction into less com-SIBILANT, sib'è-lânt. a. Hissing.
pass; contraction of the body from fear or SIBILATION, sib-è-la'shun. s. A hissing sound.
SICAMORE, sik'â-more. s. A tree.

SICKLE, sik'kl. s. 405. The hook with which corn is cut, a reaping hook. SICKLEMAN, sík kl-mån. SICKLER, sik'kl-ür. 98. s. A reaper. SICKLINESS, sik'iè-nes. s. Disposition to sick ness, habitual disease. Ash-SICKLY, sik'le. a. Not healthy, somewhat disordered; faint, weak, languid. To SICKLY, sik'le. v. a. To make diseased, to taint with the hue of disease. Not in use. SICKNESS, şik ́nė«. s. State of being diseased disease, malady, disorder in the organs of di gestion.

559-Fate, får, fåll, fåt ;—mè, mết ;—pine, pin ;-
s. The side-table, on
placed for those that

Seat for the ladies on

insect.
To go with the body

SIDEBOARD, side bord.
which conveniences are
cat at the other table.
SIDEBOX, side boks. s.
the side of the theatre.
SIDEFLY, side'fli 8. An
To SIDLE, sidl. v. n 405.
the narrowest way
SIDELONG, side long a.
in front, not direct.
SIDELONG, side'lông. ad. Laterally, obliquely,
not in pursuit, not in opposition; on the side.
SIDER, si'dår, s. 98.-See CIDER.
SIDERAL, sid'd2r-âl. a. Starry, astral
SIDERATION, sid-dar-à'shân. s.

Lateral, oblique, not

A sudden mortification, a blast, or a sudden deprivation of sense.

SIDESADDLE, side'såd-dl. s A woman's seat on horseback.

SIDESMAN, sidz'mân. s. 88. An assistant to the church-wardens.

ad.

Laterally, on

SIDEWISE, side'wize.
one side.
SIEGE, sédje. s. The act of besetting a fortified
place, a leaguer; any continued endeavour to
gain possession; place, class, rank-obsolete.
SIEVE, siv. s. 277. Hair or lawu strained upon
a hoop, by which flour is separated from bran,
a bolter, a searce.

To SIFT, sift. v. a. To separate by a sieve; to
separate, to part; to examiue, to try.
SIFTER, sift'år. s. 98. He who sifts.
To SIGH. sl. v. n. To emit the breath audibly,
as in grief.
SIGH, sl. s. A violent and audible emission of
breath which has been long retained.

pression may be very proper in oratory. when accompanied by passion, it would be as affect. ed to give it this aspiration in ordinary speech as to pronounce the word fearful with a tremour of the voice, and a faltering of the tongue, or to utter the word laugh with a convulsive motion of the breast and lungs. To these reasons may be added the laws of rhyme; which ne. cessarily exclude this affected pronunciation, and oblige us to give the word its true analogical sound:

Love is a smoke, rais'd with the fume of signs, Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes. ' Shakspeare. SIGHT, site. s. 393. Perception by the eye, the sense of seeing; open view, a situation in which nothing obstructs the eye; act of seeing or beholding; notice, knowledge; eye, instrument of seeing; aperture pervious to the eye. or other points fixed to guide the eye, as, the Sights of a quadrant; spectacle, show, thing wonderful to be seen

SIGHTLESS, site'lès. a. Wanting sight; blind;
not sightly.
SIGHTLY, site'ie. a.
ing to the view.
SIGIL, sid jil. s. 544. A seal
SIGN, sine. s. 385. A token of any thing, that
by which any thing is shown, a wonder, a m
racle; a picture hung at a door, to give notice
what is sold within; a constellation in the Zə
diack; typical representation, symbol; a sub-
scription of one's name, as, a Sign-manual
To SIGN, sine. v. a. To mark; to ratify by
hand or seal, to betoken, to signify, to repre-
sent typically.

Pleasing to the eve, strik

SIGNAL, sig nål. 8. 88. Notice given by a
signal, a sign that gives notice."
SIGNAL, sig'nál. a. Eminent, memorable, re-

markable.

A very extraordinary pronunciation of this word prevails in London, and what is more extraordinary, on the Stage, so different from every other word of the same form as to make it a perfect oddity in the language. This pronunciation approaches to the word scythe; and the only difference is, that sruthe has the flat aspiration as in this; and sigh the sharp one,SIGNALLY, sig'nâl-è. ad. Eminentl‹, remarkaas in thin. It is not easy to conjecture what bly, memorably. could be the reason of this departure from ana-SIGNATION, sig-nà'shan. s. Sign given, act of logy, unless it were to give the word a sound which seems an echo to the sense; and if this intention had gone no farther than the length- | ening or shortening of a vowel, it might have been admitted, as in fearful, cheerful, pierce,| fierce, great, leisure, and some others, but pronouncing gh like th in this word is too palpable a contempt of orthography to pass current without the stamp of the best, the most universal and permanent usage on its side. The Sax-SIGNIFICANCE, sig-nif fè-kânse. oing the

SIGNALITY, sig-nål'è-tè. s. Quality of something remarkable or memorable.

To SIGNALIZE, sig'nål-ize. v. a. To make eminent, to make remarkable.

betokening

SIGNATURE, sig nå-tåre. s. 463. A sign or mark impressed upon any thing, a stamp ; & mark upon any matter, particularly upon plants, by which their nature or medicinal use is pointed out; proof, evidence: among Printers, some letter or figure to distinguish different sheets. SIGNET, signet. s. 99. A seal commonly used for the seal-manual of a king.

s. Pow

er of signifying, meaning; energy, power of impressing the mind; importance, moment.

rule, both in the middle and at the end of a word, is silent. It had anciently a guttural pronunciation, which is still retained in great part|SIGNIFICANT, sig-nif'fè-kânt. a. Expressive

of Scotland, and in some of the northern parts of England but every guttura, sound has been long since banished from the language; no. however, without some efforts to continue, by changing these letters, sometimes into the reJated guttural consonant k, as in lough, hough, &c. and sometimes into a consonant entirely unrelated to them, as in laugh, cough, &c. These are the only transmutations of these letters. and these established irregularities are quite suficient without admitting such as are only candidates for confusion. If it be pleaded that she better expresses the emission of breath in the act of sighing, it may be answered, that nothing can be more erroneous, as the touge and teeth have nothing to do in this action. Mr. Sheridan has, indeed, to assist this expression, spelled the word sih, as an aspiration aust necessarily accompany the act of sighing; but, (to take no notice that, in this case, the hought be before the i.) 397, though such ex-/

of something beyond the external mark; betokening, standing as a sign of something; expressive, or representative in an eminent degree; important, momentous. SIGNIFICANTLY, sig-nif fè-kant-lè. ad. With

force of expression. ||SIGNIFICATION, sig-nif-fè-ká'shân. s. The act of making known by signs; meaning expressed by a sign or word. SIGNIFICATIVE, sig-nif'fè-kå-tiv. a. Betokening by any external sign; forcible, strongly ex pressive. SIGNIFICATORY, sig-nif'fè-kâ-tôr-è. a. 512 That which signes or betokens. To SIGNIFY, sig'nè-fl. v. a. To declare by some token or sign; to mean, to express; to import, to weigh; to make known. To SIGNIFY, sig'nè-fi. v. n. 385. To express meaning with force.

[SIGNIORY, sene'yo-rẻ. s. 113 Lordship, de

minion.