(3) v. To glitter. Suss.
SHIM-SHAM, 8. Nonsense.
SHIN, (1) v. To trump. North.
(2) Shall. West.

SHINBAUD, 8. Armour for the shins.
SHINDER, v. To shiver in pieces.
SHINDLE, 8. The cleft stone out of
which slates are cut.
SHINDY, 8. An uproar.
SHINE, (1) 8. Light; lustre.

(2) adv. Entirely; utterly. Somers. SHINER, 8. A guinea. (Cant.) SHIN-FEAST, 8. A good fire. North. SHINGLE, v. To hammer iron. West. SHINGLES, 8. (1) Planks; thin pieces of oak wood used as tiles for roofs, steeples, &c.

(2) The loose pebbles on the seashore.

(3) A kind of eruption of the skin.

SHINK, 8. A skimming-dish. Derb. SHINLOCK, 8. The plant rocket. SHINNER, S. A nether stocking. Nomencl., 1585.

SHINNEY, 8. Another name for the game of bandy. SHIP, S. (1) A censer. (2) Sheep. West.

(3) An ornamental piece of plate formerly placed on the tables of the rich, so named from its form. (4) An old local name in the salt works for the vessel into which the brine was conveyed by troughs from the brine-pit. SHIPE, 8. A shovel for cutting turf. SHIPLET, 8. A small ship. SHIPMAN, 8. (4.-S.) A mariner. SHIPMAN'S-CARD, 8. The chart by which aship's course was directed. SHIPPEN, S. (A.-S.) A stable, or stall; a cow-house.

SAIR, S. The cherry-tree. North. SHIRE, (1) adj. (A.-S.) shining.

(2) adj. Thin.

Clear;

(3) adj. Clear, applied to an egg

that has not a tread in it. Linc. (4) adv. Immediately. North.

(5) v. To pour off a liquor so as to leave the sediment. Northumb. SHIRE-GEAR, S. A commodity

brought from any of the neighbouring counties is called shiregear, in Norfolk and Suffolk. SHIRE-MAN, s. A man not born in

Norfolk, Suffolk, or Essex. East. SHIRE-WAY, 8. A bridle-way South. SHIRK, (1) v. To slink from anything.

(2) s. A cheat. See Shark. SHIRKY, adj. Deceitful. South. SHIRL, (1) adj. Shrill.

(2) v. To cut with shears. Yorksh. (3) v. To romp rudely. Devon. (4) v. To slide. Northumb. SHIRL-COCK, 8. The missel-thrush. Derby.

SHIRPE, v. To utter a sort of contemptuous hiss.

SHIRREVE, 8. (A.-S.) A sheriff.
SHIRT, v. To cover.

SHIRT-BAND, s. The wristband of a shirt.

SHIVE, S. (1) A slice of bread, or any other eatable. (2) A small wedge. East. SHIVER, 8. (1) A small slice. (2) A splinter. Linc.

(3) The wheel of a pulley. SHIVES, 8. The refuse of flax. SHOAD, 8. Loose stones of tin mixed with the earth, indicating a mine. Cornw. SHOAD-STONE, s. A stone made smooth by the action of water. SHOAF, 8. A sheaf of corn. Norf. SHOARD. To take a shoard, to drink too much. Exmoor. SHOAT, 8. A young pig. Var. d. SHOCK, (1) s. A head of rough hair. (2) 8. A rough-haired dog, properly spelt shough.

Dear, delicate madam, I am your little paraquit, your sparrow, your shock, your pugg, your squirrel.

N. Tate, Cuckolds Haven, 1685. Come, come, man, you must e'en fall to visiting our wives, eating at our tables, drinking tea with our virtuous relations after dinner, dealing cards to 'em, reading plays and gazets to 'em, picking fleas out of their shocks for 'em, collecting receipts, new songs, women, pages, and footmen for 'em.

Wycherley, Country Wife 1 (3) s. Twelve sheaves of corn. North. "A shocke of wheate, meta tritici." Withals' Dictionarie, 1608.

(4) 8. The number of six dozen of certain articles. Pill-boxes are sold by the shock.

(5) v. To butt, like a ram. (6) v. To sponge. Norf. SHOCKER, 8. A person of bad character. Craven.

SHOCKLE, V. To shake out of place. Leic.

SHOD, part. p. (1) (A.-S.) Covered; overwhelmed.

(2) Shed. Devon. SHODDY, 8. A manufactured article, made from woollen rags. Norf. SHODE, (1) v. To divide the hair. (2) part. p. Shod.

SHOES-AND-STOCKINGS, 8. (1) The variety of polyanthus which has one flower sheathed in another. Norf.

(2) A wild flower of the genus cypripedium, called, in E. Sussex, pattens-and-clogs. South. SHOE-THE-MARE, s. The name of a Christmas game. SHOFE, pret. t. (1) Pushed. (2) Shaved.

SHOG, v. (1) To jog; to shake.
(2) To steal sway.
SHOGGLE, v. To jog.
SHOKE, pret. t. Shook.
SHOKKE, v. To rush.
SHOLD, adj. Shallow. Pr. P.
SHOLE, adj. Shallow.
SHOLGER, 8. A soldier. South.
SHOLT, s. A shaggy dog; a cur.
SHOME, 8. (4.-S.) Confusion.
SHOMMAKY, adj. Slovenly.
SHOMMOCKS, s. Shoes. Warw.
SHONDE, (1) 8. (4.-S.) Dishonour;
harm.

(2) v. (A.-S.) To shun.
SHONE, (1) v. To shun.
(2) 8. pl. Shoes.

SHONK, adj. Hearty; healthy. West. SHONTO, 8. A donkey. Wight. SHOO, 8. A shovel. Lanc. SHOODS, 8. Oat-chaff. North. SHOOF-FORK, 8. A fork for pitching sheaves of corn into the waggon or into the stack. Suff.

SHOOK, (1) v. To shrug. Yorksh.
(2) part. p. Split.
SHOOL, (1) 8. A shovel. North.

(2) v. To saunter about. East.
(3) v. To beg. Var. d. Shooling,
going about begging liquor.
Craven.

SHOOLER, 8. A lazy fellow. Suss.
SHOON, 8. The old plural of shoe.
See Shone.

SHOORE, v. To shift for a living. Exmoor.

SHOOT, (1) v. To suffer from diarrhoea.

(2) s. A spout for rain-water.
South.

(3) s. A young pig. South.
(4) s. The game of shovel-board.
(5) 8. A narrow steep lane. Wight.
(6) s. A woof. Devon.

(7) v. To take the worst cattle
from the drove, to prevent them
from injuring the rest.
(8) s. The crick in the neck.
(9) v. To contribute. Odd-fel-
lows shoot sixpence or more each
to help a brother-member who
has suffered loss from fire or
some such cause.

(10) To shoot the pit, to cheat a landlord by leaving house or lodging without paying rent. To shoot compass, to shoot wide of the mark. Shoot the gulf, a boy's game. To shoot the cat, to vomit. SHOOTHRED, 8. A shoemaker's thread. Hollyband, 1593. SHOOTY, adj. Coming up regularly

in the rows. Shropsh. SHOOVEN, adj. A term applied to a

colt or calf when parting with its early teeth, and to trees putting forth their leaves. SHOPE, pret. t. Made; created. SHORE, (1) 8. A score.

(2) pret. t. Cut; sheared.
(3) s. A sewer.

(4) v. To threaten. North.
(5) s. A post used with hurdles
in foling sheep. Dorset.

SHORE-POST, s. A buttress. SHORER, 8. The pubes of a man. See Share.

SHORE-UP, v. To prop up.
SHORING, adv. Aslant. East.
SHORLING, 8. (1) A shaveling; a
priest.

(2) A shearling, or sheep of the
first year's shearing. South.
(3) A sheep-skin, when the fleece
is off.

SHORRY, 8. A short pole on which hedgers carry faggots. Northamp. SHORT, (1) adj. Peevish.

(2) adj. Light and crisp. (3) adj. Small; portable. Somers. (4) adv. Wide of the mark, a phrase in archery. SHORTENING, s. Anything put into flour to make cakes short. SHORT-HEELED, adj. Unchaste. SHORTS, S. Coarse flour; refuse of

corn.

SHORT-START, 8. A species of apple. Cotgrave.

SHORT-WAISTED, adj. Angry; crosstempered.

SHOSHINGS, adv. Aslant. East. SHOT, (1) 8. (A.-S.) A reckoning at an inn.

(2) adj. Firm; secure.

(3) s. A handful of hemp. Kent.
(4) 8. A young pig.

(5) 8. A kind of trout. West.
(6) 8. An angle of land.
(7) 8. A stitch in the side.
(8) 8. (A.-S.) An arrow; any
missile hurled with a projective
power.

SHOT-ANCHOR, 8. What the sailors now call sheet-anchor.

For a fistela or a canker,
Thys oyntment is even shot-anker.
Four Ps, O. Pl., i, 78.

SHOT-CLOG, 8. One who was tole-
rated because he paid the shot,
or reckoning, for the rest.
Well, if you be out, keep your distance,
and be not made a shot-clog any more.
B. Jon., Every Man out of H., v, 9.

SHOTER, 8. (1) (A.-S.) The yew

tree.

(2) A small pinnace. SHOT-FLAGON, s. The host's pot, given when the guests have drunk above a shilling's worth of ale. Derb.

SHOT-ICE, 8. A sheet of ice. Craven. SHOT-NET, 8. A mackerel net. Kent.

SHOT-POT, 8.

One who spends so much in the ale-house as to entitle him to the shot-flagon. Glouc.

SHOTS, 8. The refuse of cattle

taken out of a drove. Craven. SHOTSELE, s. Evening. A term SHUTSELE, used by gunners on the Ouze (Norf.) for the time when wild-fowl and crepuscular birds shoot, scud, or fly. SHOTSHIPE, 8. (4.-S.) A club of which each member pays a subscription; a guild. SHOTTEN, adj. Sour; curdled. SHOTTEN-HERRING, 8. (1) A gutted herring, dried for keeping. (2) A lean person. SHOTTLES, 8. Bars passing through mortised holes in posts. Linc. SHOTTS, 8. A species of small trout. Cornw.

SHOT-WINDOW, s. A projecting

window.

SHOUGH, 8. A shock-dog. SHOULDER-CLAPPER, 8. A bailiff.

A gallant (as we tearme them) who (as we afterwards understood) had narrowlie escaped the hands of a shoulder-clapper.

Kowley's Search for Money, 1609.

SHOULDER-SPIKE, 8. An iron spike for supporting shelves against a wall. West.

SHOULERE, 8. The bird shoveller.
SHOUPE, part. p. Shaped.
SHOUPS, S. The hips. North.
SHOURE, (1) 8. A conflict; combat.
(2) v. To ride quick; to scour.
SHOUT, 8. (1) A hill. Yorksh.

(2) A small flat-bottomed boat. Linc.

SHOUTHER, S. The shoulder. SHOVE, v. (1) To germinate; to shoot; to cast the first teeth. East.

(2) To put the loose corn into heaps for the convenience of being taken up. Suss. SHOVELARD, 8. (1) A kind of duck, the anas clypeata. "Herenshoes, shovelardes, and bytternes." Proclamation, 1569. •Pellecanus. Pale, truble, poche, à cochlearis specie. A shovelard: a schofler." Nomencl., 1585.

(2) A shovel. SHOVEL-BOARD,

SHOVE-BOARD,

s. An old game.

SHOVELL, 8. The bird shoveller.
Hollyband, 1593.

SHOW, v. To shove. East.
SHOWEL, S. A blind for a cow's eye,
made of wood. South.
SHOWER, adj. Sure.

SHOW-HACKLE, v. To be willing to fight. Wight.

SHOWL, (1) 8. A shovel.

(2) adj. Short; depressed. SHOW-OFF, v. To begin.

SHOWS, 8. Prints; pictures. Devon.
SHRADDE, 8. A coppice.
SHRAF-TIDE, s. Shrovetide.
SHRAG, v. To geld.

SHRAGERS, 8. Coarse metal pots
in which wares are baked. Staff.
SHRAGS, (1) s. Rags; patches.
(2) s. The ends of twigs or of
furze; clippings of live fences.
SHRAIL, S. A light rail, or fence.
East.
SHRAMMED, part. p. Benumbed
with cold. West.

SHRAP, 8. (1) A thicket. Devon. (2) A trap for birds. SHRAPE, v. (1) (A.-S.) To scrape. (2) To scold. Sussex. SHRAVEL, 8. Dry faggot. Suff. SHRAVEY, 8. A loose subsoil, be

tween clay and sand. Sussex.

No matter for plomb-porridge, or shridpies,

Or a whole oxe offered in sacrifice
To Comus, not to Christ, &c.

Sheppard's Epigrams, 1651.

SHREEP, adj. Thin. Norf. SHREFE, 8. A sheriff. SHREG, v. To lop trees. Somerset. SHRENKE, v. To pierce through. SHREW, (1) v. (A.-S.) To curse. (2) s. A wicked person. (3) s. A scold.

(4) s. A screw. Somerset.

(5) 8. The field mouse. North. SHREWD, adj. Malicious; cursed. SHRICHE, v. (4.-S.) To shriek.

SHRICK,

SHRIDE, v. To lop wood. See Shred.
SHRID-PIE. See Shred-pie.
SHRIEVY, adj. Having threads
withdrawn. Sussex.
SHRIFT, 8. (A.-S.) Confession.
Shrift-fader, a confessor.

gif the person have a prest
That is of clene lyf,
And a gode skryft-fader
To maydyn and to wyf.

Poem on Times of Ed. II.

SHRIGHT, (1) pret. t. (A.-S.) Shrieked.

(2) s. A shriek. Spenser. SHRIKE, (1) v. To shriek.

(2) 8. The lesser butcher-bird. SHRILL, v. To utter shrill sounds. SHRIMP, 8. Anything very small. Shrimpshin, a very little bit. Norf. SHRIMMED part.p. Chilled. Cornw.

SHROF, pret. t. Shrived.

SHROG, 8. A person of low stature. Norf.

SHROGS, 8. Shrubs; briars.

SHROMP, 8. Á black worm found in horse-dung. Var. d. SHROOD, v. To lop trees. Glouc. SHROOK, pret. t. Shrieked. SHROUDE, v. (1) To hide; to conceal; to cover or shade over. (2) To huddle together. Palsgr. SHROUDES, 8. (A.-S.) Clothes. SHROUGH, S. Fragments of sticks, cinders, &c.; refuse; sweepings. Norf. See Shruff.

SHROVE, v. To be merry. SHROVE-PRENTICES, S. Ruffianly fellows, who at Shrovetide invaded houses of ill-fame.

More cruell then shrove-prentices, when they,

Drunk in a brothell house, are bid to
Davenant's Madagascar,

SHROVERS, 8. Children who go from house to house at Shrovetide singing for cakes, which are called shrove-cakes.

SHROVY, adj. Shabby. Var. d.
SHROW, 8. A shrew.

A quiet man (to wrath and anger slow)
Match'd with a queane (a most she-devill
shrow)
That kept him in obedience with her fist.
Rowlands, Knaves of Sp. & D., n. d.

SHROWARDLY, adv. Cursedly.