Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913, 100,000 entries)Use the search box below if you want to search in Websters only, use the box at the right to search all of Enyclo. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Webster > Letter S > Page 95 of 266. « Previous ¦87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 ¦ Next » Shrill Shrill transitive verb To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound. How poor Andromache shrills her dolors forth.Shak. Shrill-gorged Shrill"-gorged` adjective Having a throat which produces a shrill note. [ R.] Shak.
Shrill-tongued Shrill"-tongued` adjective Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
Shrillness Shrill"ness noun The quality or state of being shrill.
Shrilly Shril"ly adverb In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.
Shrilly Shril"ly adjective Somewhat shrill. [ Poetic] Sir W. Scott. Some kept up a shrilly mellow sound.Keats. Shrimp Shrimp transitive verb [ Confer Anglo-Saxon scrimman to dry up, wither, Middle High German schrimpfen to shrink, German schrumpfen , Danish skrumpe , skrumpes , Da. & Swedish skrumpen shriveled. Confer Scrimp , Shrink , Shrivel .] To contract; to shrink. [ Obsolete]
Shrimp Shrimp noun [ Middle English shrimp ; -- probably so named from its shriveled appearance. See Shrimp , v. ] This weak and writhled shrimp .Shak. Opossum shrimp . (Zoology) Shrimper Shrimp"er noun One who fishes for shrimps.
Shrine Shrine (shrīn) noun [ Middle English schrin , Anglo-Saxon scrīn , from Latin scrinium a case, chest, box.] Too weak the sacred shrine guard.Byron. Shrine Shrine transitive verb To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine. " Shrined in his sanctuary." Milton.
Shrine Shrine noun Short for Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine , a secret order professedly originated by one Kalif Alu, a son-in-law of Mohammed, at Mecca, in the year of the Hegira 25 (about 646 a.d. ) In the modern order, established in the United States in 1872, only Knights Templars or thirty-second degree Masons are eligible for admission, though the order itself is not Masonic.
Shrink Shrink intransitive verb [ imperfect Shrank or Shrunk past participle Shrunk or Shrunken but the latter is now seldom used except as a participial adjective; present participle & verbal noun Shrinking .] [ Middle English shrinken , schrinken , Anglo-Saxon scrincan ; akin to OD. schrincken , and probably to Swedish skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle, to rumple, and English shrimp , noun & v., scrimp . CF. Shrimp .] And on a broken reed he still did staySpenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.Bacon. Against this fire do I shrink up.Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.Dryden. All the boards did shrink .Coleridge. What happier natures shrink at with affright,Pope. They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.Jowett (Thucyd.) Shrink Shrink transitive verb The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn.Milton. To shrink on (Machinery) , Shrink Shrink noun The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal. Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink ,Leigh Hunt. Shrinkage Shrink"age noun Shrinker Shrink"er noun One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
Shrinking Shrink"ing adjective & noun from Shrink . Shrinking head (Founding) , Shrinkingly Shrink"ing·ly adverb In a shrinking manner.
Shrivalty Shriv"al·ty noun Shrievalty. Johnson.
Shrive Shrive transitive verb [ imperfect Shrived or Shrove ; past participle Shriven or Shrived ; present participle & verbal noun Shriving .] [ Middle English shriven , schriven , Anglo-Saxon scrīvan to shrive, to impose penance or punishment; akin to OFries. skrīva to impose punishment; confer Old Saxon bi skrīban to be troubled. Confer Shrift , Shrovetide .] That they should shrive their parishioners.Piers Plowman. Doubtless he shrives this woman, . . .Shak. Till my guilty soul be shriven .Longfellow. Get you to the church and shrive yourself.Beau. & Fl. Shrive Shrive intransitive verb To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution. Spenser.
Shrivel Shriv"el intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Shriveled or Shrivelled ; present participle & verbal noun Shriveling or Shrivelling .] [ Probably akin to shrimp , shrink ; confer dial. Anglo-Saxon screpa to pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp , skryv , transitory, frail, Swedish skröpling feeble, Danish skröbelig , Icelandic skrj...pr brittle, frail.] To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up .
Shrivel Shriv"el transitive verb To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.
Shriven Shriv"en past participle of Shrive .
Shriver Shriv"er noun One who shrives; a confessor.
Shriving Shriv"ing noun Shrift; confession. Spenser.
Shroff Shroff noun [ Arabic sarrāf .] A banker, or changer of money. [ East Indies]
Shroffage Shroff"age noun The examination of coins, and the separation of the good from the debased. [ East Indies]
Shroffage Shroff"age noun A money dealer's commission; also, more commonly, the examination of coins, and the separation of the good from the debased.
Shrood Shrood transitive verb [ Confer Shroud .] [ Written also shroud , and shrowd .] To trim; to lop. [ Prov. Eng.]
Shropshire Shrop"shire noun [ From Shropshire , country of England.] An English breed of black-faced hornless sheep similar to the Southdown, but larger, now extensively raised in many parts of the world.
Shroud Shroud (shroud) noun [ Middle English shroud , shrud , schrud , Anglo-Saxon scrūd a garment, clothing; akin to Icelandic skruð the shrouds of a ship, furniture of a church, a kind of stuff, Swedish skrud dress, attire, and English shred . See Shred , and confer Shrood .] Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds .Sandys. Jura answers through her misty shroud .Byron. The shroud to which he wonChapman. A vault, or shroud , as under a church.Withals. The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroad .Ezek. xxxi. 3. Shroud Shroud transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Shrouded ; present participle & verbal noun Shrouding .] [ Confer Anglo-Saxon scr...dan . See Shroud , noun ] The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.Bacon. One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.Sir W. Raleigh. Some tempest rise,Dryden. Shroud Shroud intransitive verb To take shelter or harbor. [ Obsolete] If your stray attendance be yet lodged,Milton. Shroud Shroud transitive verb To lop. See Shrood . [ Prov. Eng.]
Shroud-laid Shroud"-laid` adjective Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage .
Shrouded Shroud"ed adjective Provided with a shroud or shrouds. Shrouded gear (Machinery) , Shrouding Shroud"ing noun The shrouds. See Shroud , noun , 7.
Shroudless Shroud"less adjective Without a shroud.
Shroudy Shroud"y adjective Affording shelter. [ R.] Milton.
Shrove Shrove imperfect of Shrive . Shrove Sunday , Shrove Shrove intransitive verb To join in the festivities of Shrovetide; hence, to make merry. [ Obsolete] J. Fletcher.
Shrovetide Shrove"tide` noun [ From shrive to take a confession (OE. imperfect shrof , Anglo-Saxon scrāf ) + tide .] The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.
Shroving Shrov"ing noun The festivity of Shrovetide. [ Obsolete]
Shrow Shrow noun A shrew. [ Obsolete] Shak.
Shrowd Shrowd transitive verb See Shrood . [ Prov. Eng.]
Shrub Shrub noun [ Arabic shirb , shurb , a drink, beverage, from shariba to drink. Confer Sirup , Sherbet .] A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
Shrub Shrub noun [ Middle English schrob , Anglo-Saxon scrob , scrobb ; akin to Norw. skrubba the dwarf cornel tree.] (Botany) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
Shrub Shrub transitive verb To lop; to prune. [ Obsolete] Anderson (1573).
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