Eugenio set out from the same university, and about the same time, with Corusodes. Swift. 19. To set to. To apply himself to. I may appeal to some, who have made this their business, whether it go not against the hair with them to set to any thing else. Gov. of the Tongue. 2. They refer to those criticks who are partial to] 'Tis rais'd by sets or berries, like white thorn, 20. To set up. To begin a trade openly. 3. The apparent fall of the sun, or other We have stock enough to set up with, capable of infinite advancement, and yet no less capable of total decay. Decay of Piety. A man of a clear reputation, though his bark be split, yet he saves his cargo; has something left towards setting up again, and so is in capacity of receiving benefit not only from his own industry, but the friendship of others. Gov. of the Tongue. bodies of heaven, below the horizon. Shakesp. Richard III. When the battle 's lost and won. A wager at dice. 4. This habit of writing and discoursing was acquired during my apprenticeship in London, and a long residence there after I had set up for myself. Swift. 21. To set up. To begin a scheme of life. Eumenes, one of Alexander's captains, setting up for himself after the death of his master, per-5. suaded his principal officers to lend him great sums; after which they were forced to follow him for their own security. Arbuthnot. A severe treatment might tempt them to set up for a republick. Additon on Italy. 22. To set up. To profess publickly. Scow'ring the watch grows out-of-fashion wit; Now we set up for tilting in the pit. Dryden. Can Polyphemus, or Antiphates, Who gorge themselves with man, Set up to teach humanity, and give, By their example, rules for us to live? Dryd. Juv. Those who have once made their court to those mistresses without portions, the Muses, are never like to set up for fortunes. Pope. It is found by experience, that those men, who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part. Swift. SET. part. adj. [from the verb.] Regular; not lax; made in consequence of some formal rule. peace. Rude am I in my speech, time. Set speeches, and a formal tale, With none but statesmen and grave fools prevail. Dryden. In ten set battles have we driv'u back These heathen Saxons, and regain'd our earth. Dryden. What we hear in conversation has this general advantage over set discourses, that in the latter we are apt to attend more to the beauty and elegance of the composure than to the matter delivered. Rogers. SET. n. s. [from the verb.] Sensations and passions seem to depend upon a particular set of motions. Collier. All corpuscles of the same set or kind agree in every thing Woodward. "Tis not a set of features or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire. Addison. I shall here lay together a new set of remarks, and observe the artifices of our enemies to raise such prejudices. Addison. Homer introduced that monstrous character, to show the marvellous, and paint it in a new set of colours. Broome. He must change his comrades; In half the time he talks them round, There must another set be found. Swift. A game. Have I not here the best cards for the game, Shakesp. The parent insect, with its stiff setaceous tail, From the bottom to the lower settle shall be two cubits. Ezek. xliii. 14. The man, their hearty welcome first express'd, A common settle drew for either guest, Inviting each his weary limbs to rest. Dryden. To SETTLE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To place in any certain state after a time of fluctuation or disturbance. I will settle you after your old estates, and will In hope to find 2. To fix in any way of life. The father thought the time drew on A seton is made when the skin is taken up with a needle, and the wound kept open by a twist of silk or hair, that humours may vent themselves. Farriers call this operation in cattle rowelling. If you will not take some care to settle our lanQuincy. I made a seton to give a vent to the humour. guage, and put it into a state of continuance, your Wiseman. memory shall not be preserved above an hundred SETTE'E. n. s. years, further than by imperfect tradition. Swift. A large long seat with a 7. To fix; not to suffer to continue doubtback to it. SETTER. n. s. [from set.] ful in opinion, or desultory and waver1. One who sets. ing in conduct. 2. 8. When he was gone I cast this book away: 1 3. A man who performs the office of a Another set of men are the devil's setters, who Will obliges young heirs with a setting dog he [retol. Sax.] A seat; A pamphlet that talks of slavery, France, and the Pretender; they desire no more: it will settle To make close or compact. the wavering, and confirm the doubtful. Swift. Cover ant-hills up, that the rain may settle the turf before the spring. Mortimer's Husbandry. To fix unalienably by legal sanctions. I have given him the parsonage of the parish, and, because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. Addison's Spectator. 10. To fix inseparably. Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object, the due contemplation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty. Boyle. 11. To affect, so as that the dregs or impurities sink to the bottom. So do the winds and thunders cleanse the air; So working seas settle and purge the wine. Davies. 12. To compose; to put into a state of calmness. When thou art settling thyself to thy devotions, imagine thou hearest thy Saviour calling to thee, as he did to Martha, Why art thou so careful? Duppa. To SE'Ttle. v. n. 1. To subside; to sink quite to the bottom and repose there. That country became a gained ground by the mud brought down by the Nilus, which settled by degrees into a firm land. Brown's Vulg. Errours. 2. To lose motion or fermentation; to deposit fæces at the bottom. Your fury then boil'd upward to a foam; But, since this message came, you sink and settle, As if cold water had been pour'd upon you. Dryd. A government, upon such occasions, is always thick before it settles. Addison's Freeholder. 3. To fix one's self; to establish a residence. The Spinetæ, descended from the Pelesgi, settled at the mouth of the river Po. Arbuthnot. 4. To choose a method of life; to establish a domestick state. As people marry now, and settle, Prior. 5. To become fixed so as not to change. The wind came about and settled in the west, so as we could make no way. Bacon. 6 To quit an irregular and desultory for a methodical life. 7. To take any lasting state. According to laws established by the divine wisdom, it was wrought by degrees from one form into another, till it settled at length into an habitable earth. Burnet Chyle, before it circulates with the blood, is whitish by the force of the circulation it runs through all the intermediate colours, till it settles in an intense red. Arbuthnot. 8. To rest; to repose. When time hath worn out their natural vanity, and taught them discretion, their fondness settles on its proper object. Spectator. Warm'd in the brain the brazen weapon lies, And shades eternal settle o'er his eyes. Pope. 9. To grow calm. Till the fury of his highness settle,, Come not before him. Shakesp. Winter's Tule. 10. To make a jointure for a wife. He sighs with most success that settles well. Garth. 11. To contract. One part being moist, and the other dry, occasions its settling more in one place than another, which causes cracks and settlings in the wall. Mortimer's Husbandry. SETTLEDNESS. n. s. [from settle.] The state of being settled; confirmed state. What one party thought to rivet to a settledness by the strength and influence of the Scots, that the other rejects and contemns. King Charles. SETTLEMENT. n. s. [from settle.] 1. The act of settling; the state of being settled. 2. The act of giving possession by legal sanction. My flocks,my fields,my woods, my pastures take, With settlement as good as law can make. Dryden 3. A jointure granted to a wife. Strephon sigh'd so loud and strong, And bravely drove his rivals down With coach and six, and house in town. Swift. 4. Subsidence; dregs. Fullers earth left a thick settlement. Mortimer's Husbandry. 5. Act of quitting a roving for a domestick and methodical life. Every man living has a design in his head upon wealth, power, or settlement in the world. L'Estr. 6. A colony; a place where a colony is established. SETWAL. n. s. [valeriana, Lat] An herb. SEVEN. adj. [reopon, Sax.] Dict. 1. Four and three; one more than six. It is commonly used in poetry as one syllable. Let ev'ry man be master of his time 'Till seven at night. sevens. children. Shakesp. Macbeth. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by Genesis Pharmis, king of the Medes, it is said, he overthrew and cruelly murdered, with his seven Raleigh Sev'n bullocks, yet unyok'd, for Pha bus chuse And for Diana sev'n unspotted ewes. Dryd. En SEVENFOLD. adj. [seven and fold.] Repeated seven times; having seven doubles; increased seven times. Upon this dreadful beast with sevenfold head That, as these links were knit, our loves should be, Who sway'st the sceptre of the Pharian isle, seven to one. Genesis, iv. 15. What will the line stretch out to th'crack of doen' Shar Another yet? A seventh! I'll see no more. So Pharaoh, or some greater king than he, Provided for the seventh necessity: Taught from above his magazines to frame; That famine was prevented ere it came. Dryden. 2. Containing one part in seven. SEVENTHLY. adv. [from seventh.] In the seventh place: an ordinal adverb. Seventhly, living bodies have sense, which plan have not. BREA SEVENTIETH. adj. [from seventy.] The tenth, seven times repeated; the ordinal of seventy. SEVENTY. adj. [handreofontig, Sax.) Seven times ten. Worthy Marcius, Locke Had we no quarrel else to Rome, but that Thou art thence banish'd, we would muster ali, From twelve to seventy. Shakesp. Coriolanu. We call not that death immature, if a man lives till seventy. Tume The weight of seventy winters prest him down, He bent beneath the burthen of a crown. Druten. In the Hebrew, there is a particle consisting but of one single letter, of which there are reckon ed up seventy several significations. To SEVER. v. a. [sover, Fr. separo, Lat.] 1. To part by violence from the rest. Forgetful queen, who sever'd that bright head, Which charmi'd two mighty monarchs to her bei. Grastu To divide; to part; to force asunder. They are not so far disjoined and severed, b that they come at length to meet. Hecker Our force by land Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy too Have knit again, and float. Shak. Ant. and Cleop What thou art is mine: Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. Wrath meet thy flight sevenfold. Milton. SEVENNIGHT. n. s. [seven and night.] 1. A week; the time from one day of the week to the next day of the same deno- 2. mination preceding or following; a week numbered according to the practice of the old northern nations, as in fortnight. 2. Rome was either more grateful to the beholders, or more noble in itself, than justs with the sword and lance, maintained for a sevennight| together. Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. Mik. Sidney. 3. To separate; to segregate; to put in different orders or places. lago's footing here anticipates our thoughts A se'nnight's speed. Shakesp. Othello. Shining woods, laid in a dry room, within a seBacon's Nat. Hist. vennight lost their shining. We use still the word sevennight or se'nnight in computing time: as, it hap 5. The angels shall sever the wicked from among Matthew the just. He, with his guide, the farther fields attain'd; Where sever'd from the rest the warrior suls remain'd. Dryden To divide by distinctions. pened on Monday was sevennight, that 4. To separate by chemical operation. is, on the Monday before last Monday; it will be done on Monday sevennight, that is, on the Monday after next Monday. This comes from one of those untuckered ladies, whom you were so sharp upon on Monday was Addison. se'nnight. SEVENSCORE. adj. [seven and score.] Seven times twenty; an hundred and forty. The old countess of Desmond, who lived till she was sevenscore years old, did dentize twice or thrice; casting her old teeth, and others coming Bacon. in their place. This axiom is of large extent, and would be severed and refined by trial. 6. To disjoin; to disunite. SEVENTEEN. adj. [reofonrýne, Sax.] 7. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, the second month, the seventeenth day, were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. Gen. vii. 11. The conquest of Ireland was perfected by the king in the seventeenth year of his reign.Judge Hale. SEVENTH. adj. [reopoda, Sax.] 1. The ordinal of seven; the first after the Look, love, what envious streaks That I stand up and have ingenious feeling Shakom The medical virtues lodge in some one or other of its principles, and may therefore usefully be sought for in that principle severed from the others. Bask To keep distinct; to keep apart. Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun ; Not separated with the racking clouds, But sever'd in a pale clear shining sky. Shaker 1 will sever Goshen, that no swarms of flies shad be there. Exod, viii. 2 SEVERAL. adj. [from sever] 1. Different; distinct from one another. Divers sorts of beasts come from several parts to drink; and so being refreshed, fall to couple, and many times with several kinds. Bacon's Nat. Hist. The conquest of Ireland was made piece and piece, by several attempts, in several ages. Davies's History of Ireland. Four several armies to the field are led, Which high inequal hopes four princes head. Dry. 2. Divers; many. It is used in any number not large, and more than two. This country is large, having in it many people, and several kingdoms. Abbot's Descrip. of the World. This else to several spheres thou must ascribe. Milton. We might have repaired the losses of one campaign by the advantages of another, and, after several victories gained over us, might have still kept the enemy from our gates. 3. Particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain, Addison. As Rupert or as Albemarle were there. Dryden. 4. Distinct; appropriate. The parts and passages of state are so many, as, to express them fully, would require a several Davies's Ireland. treatise. Like things to like, the rest to several place Disparted. Milton. Each might his sev'ral province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. SEVERAL. n. s. [from the adj.] 1. A state of separation, or partition. This substantive has a plural. More profit is quieter found Of one silly aker of ground Than champion maketh of three. Tusser's Husb. 2. Each particular singly taken. This by some severals Of headpiece extraordinary, lower messes that I could not keep my eye steady on them severally, so as to number thein. Newton's Opticks. SEVERALTY. n. s. [from several.] State of separation from the rest. The jointure or advancement of the lady was the third part of the principality of Wales, the dukedom of Cornwal, and earldom of Chester, to be set forth in severalty. Bacon. Having considered the apertious in severalty, according to their particular requisites, I am now come to the casting and contexture of the whole work. Wotton. SEVERANCE. n. s. [from sever.] Separation; partition. Those rivers inclose a neck of land, in regard of his fruitfulness not unworthy of a severance. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. SEVERE. adj. [severe, Fr. severus, Lat.] He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock With rigorous hands; he hath resisted law, And therefore law shall scorn him further trial Than the severity of publick power Which he so sets at nought Shakesp. Coriolanus Never were so great rehellions expiated with so little blood; as for the severity used upon those taken in Kent, it was but upon a scum of people. Bacon. There is a difference between an ecclesiastical censure and severity: for under a censure we only include excommunication, suspension, and an interdict; but under an ecclesiastical severity every other punishment of the church is intended; but, according to some, a censure and a severity is the Ayliffe. same. 2. Hardness ; power of distressing. Though nature hath given insects sagacity to avoid the winter cold, yet its severity finds them Hale's Origin of Mankind. out. 1. Sharp; apt to punish; censorious; apt 3. Strictness; rigid accuracy. to blame; hard; rigorous. Let your zeal, if it must be expressed in anger, be always more severe against thyself than against others. Taylor. Soor, mov'd with touch of blame, thus Eve: What words have pass'd thy lips, Adam severe? Milton. What made the church of Alexandria be so severe with Origen for, but holding the incense in his hands, which those about him cast from thence upon the altar? yet for this he was cast out of the Stilling fleet. 2. Rigid; austere; morose; harsh; not indulgent. church. Am I upbraided? not enough severe, It seems, in thy restraint. In his looks serene, Milton. When angry most he seem'd, and most severe, What else but favour shone? Nor blame severe his choice, Warbling the Grecian woes. 3. Cruel; inexorable. Milton. Pope's Odyssey. His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword. Perchance are to this business purblind. Shakesp. 4. Regulated by rigid rules; strict. There was not time enough to hear The severals. Shakesp. That will appear to be a methodical successive observation of these sererals, as degrees and steps preparative the one to the other. Hammond's Fund. Several of them neither arose from any conspicuous family, nor left any behind them. Addis. Freeh. 3. Any inclosed or separate place. They had their several for heathen nations, their several for the people of their own nation, their several for men, their several for women, their several for their priests, and for the high priest alone their several. 4. Inclosed ground. There was a nobleman that was lean of visage, SEVERALLY. adv. [from several.] from others. Consider angels each of them severally in himself, and their law is, All ye his angels praise him. Hooker. Nature and scripture, both jointly and not severally, either of them, be so complete, that unto everlasting felicity we need not the knowledge of any thing more than these two may easily furnish our minds with. Truth, wisdom, sanctitude, severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom plac'd. Milton Exempt from all levity of appearance; grave; sober; sedate. His grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace. Milton. Their beauty I leave it rather to the delicate wit of poets, than venture upon so nice a subject with my severer style. More. Painful; afflictive. These piercing fires are soft, as now severe. Milt. Close; concise; not luxuriant. The Latin, a most serere and compendious language, often expresses that in one word, which Dryden. modern tongues cannot in more. SEVERELY, adv. [from severe.] 1. Painfully; afflictively. We have wasted our strength to attain ends different from those for which we undertook the "war; and often to effect others, which after a peace we may severely repent. 2. Ferrociously; horridly. Hooker. 3. Th' apostles could not be confin'd To these or those, but severally design'd Their large commission round the world to blow. Dryden. We ought not so much to love likeness as beauty, and to chuse from the fairest bodies severally the fairest parts. Dryden. Others were so very small and close together, VOL. II. Swift. More formidable Hydra stands within; Whose jaws with iron teeth severely grin. Dryden. Strictly; rigorously. Savage. To be or fondly or severely kind. SEVERITY. n. s. [severitas, Lat.] 1. Cruel treatment; sharpness of punish ment. I laugh to see your ladyship so fond, To think that you have aught but Talbot's shadow Whereon to practice your severity. Shakesp. No man seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment. Mark, ii. 21. To SEW up. To close in any thing sewed, If ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me up ir the skirts of it. Shakesp. Taming of the Shrew My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. Job, xiv. 17. To SEW. v. a. To drain a pond for the the fish. Ainsworth. SEWER. n.s. [escuyer trenchant, Fr. or asseour, old Fr. from asseoir to set down; for those officers set the dishes Newton's Milton.] on the table. 1. An officer who serves up a feast. Marshall'd feast, Serv'd up in hall with sewers and seneschals: The skill of artifice or office mean. Milton. Swift The cook and sewer each his talent tries, In various figures scenes of dishes rise. 2. [From issue, issuer.] A passage for water to run through, now corrupted to shore. Cowel The fenmen hold that the sewers must be ke, so, as the water may not stay too long in the sprin till the weeds and sedge be grown up. Baco Men suffer their private judgment to be draw into the common sewer or stream of the preser vogue. King Charles As one who long in populous city pent, 3. He that uses a needle. SEXAGENARY. adj. [sexagenaire, Fr. The grubs from their sexangular abode SEXTAIN. n. s. [from sextans, sex, Lat.] A stanza of six lines. SEXTANT. n. s. [sextant, Fr.] The sixth part of a circle. SEXTARY, n. s. [sextarius, Lat.] A pint and a half. SEXTARY. n. s. The same as sacristy. Dict. SEXTRY. SEXTILE. adj. [sextilis, Lat.] In such a position or aspect of two planets, when at 60 degrees distance, or at the distance of two signs from one another, and is marked thus*. Harris. Planetary motions and aspects, In sextile, square, and trine. Milton. The moon receives the dusky light we discern in its sextile aspect from the earth's benignity. Glanv. SEXTON. n. s. [corrupted from sacristan.] An under officer of the church, whose business is to dig graves. A stool and cushion for the sexton. Shakesp. When any dies, then by tolling a bell, or bespeaking a grave of the sexton, the same is known to the searchers corresponding with the said sexton. Graunt. SEXTONSHIP. n. s. [from sexton.] The office of a sexton. They may get a dispensation to hold the clerkship and sextonship of their own parish in commendam. Swift. SEXTU'PLE. adj. [sextuplus, Lat.] Sixfold; six times told. Man's length, being a perpendicular from the vertex unto the sole of the foot, is sextuple unto his breadth, or a right line drawn from the ribs of one side to another. Brown. To SHAB. v. n. To play mean tricks: a low barbarous cant word. SHA'BBILY. adv. [from shabby.] Mealy; reproachfully; despicably; paltrily. A cant word. It is great, To do that thing that ends all other deeds; about indifferent matters. Locke Philips. So the stretch'd cord the shackled dancer tries, As prone to fall as impotent to rise. Smith. SHACKLES. n. s. wanting the singular. [reacul, Sax. schaeckels, Dut.] Fetters; gyves; chains for prisoners. Himself he frees by secret means unseen, His shackles empty left, himself escaped clean. Fairy Queen. A servant commonly is less free in mind than in condition; his very will seems to be in bonds and shackles, and desire itself under durance and captivity. South. The forge in fetters only is employ'd; Our iron mines exhausted and destroy'd In shackles. SHAD. n. s. [clupea.] Dryden's Juvenal. A kind of fish. SHADE. n. s. [rcadu, Sax. schade, Dut.] 1. The cloud or opacity made by interception of the light. SHA'BBINESS. n. s. [from shabby.] Mean-8. ness; paltriness. He exchanged his gay shabbiness of clothes, fit for a much younger man, to warm ones that would be decent for a much older one. Spectator. SHA'BBY. adj. [a word that has crept into conversation and low writing, but ought not to be admitted into the language.] Mean; paltry. The dean was so shabby, and look'd like a ninuy, That the captain suppos'd he was curate to Jenny. Swift To SHACKLE. v. a. [from the noun shackles; schaeckelen, Dut.] To chain; to fetter; to bind, | The full blaze of thy beams, and through a cloud Thy skirts appear. Milten To cover from the light or heat; to overspread. A seraph six wings wore to shade His lineaments divine. Mile And, after these, came arm'd with spear and shield An host so great as cover'd all the field; And all their foreheads, like the knights before, With laurels ever green were shaded o'er. Drydes. I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens. Dryd Sing, while beside the shaded tomb 1 mourn, And with fresh bays her rural shrine adorn. Pop 3. To shelter; to hide. Ere in our own house I do shade my head, The good patricians must be visited." Shaker 4. To protect; to cover; to screen. Milam The portal shone, inimitable on earth By model, or by shading pencil drawn. 6. To paint in obscure colours. SHA'DINESS. n. s. [from shady.] The state of being shady; umbrageousness. SHADOW. n. s. [rcadu, Sax. schaduwe, Dut.] 1. The representation of a body by which the light is intercepted. Poor Tom! proud of heart, to ride over fourinch'd bridges, to course his own shadow for a traitor. Shakerp Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. Shaken Such a nature, Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon. Shakesp The body, though it moves, yet not changing perceivable distance with some other bodies, the thing seems to stand still, as in the hands of clocks, and shadows of sun-dials. 2. Opacity; darkness; shade. "Tis ev'ry painter's art to hide from sight, And cast in shades, what seen would not delight. A colour; gradation of light. Dryden. 5. White, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees or shades and mixtures, as green, come in only by the eyes. Locke. 9. The figure formed upon any surface corresponding to the body by which the light is intercepted; the shadow. Envy will merit, as it shade, pursue. Pope. 10. The soul separated from the body; so called, as supposed by the ancients to be perceptible to the sight, not to the touch. A spirit; a ghost; manes. To Tranchin, swift as thought, the flitting shade Thro' air his momentary journey made. Dryden. Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation came a nobler guest; To the secret shadows I retire, Το pay my penance till my years expire. Dryden. Dark part of a picture. A shadow is a diminution of the first and s cond light. The first light is that which pre ceeds immediately from a lightened body, as the beams of the sun. The second is an accidental light, spreading itself into the air, or medium, poceeding from the other. Shadows are threeful!: the first is a single shadow, and the least of all; and is proper to the plain surface, where it is nat wholly possessed of the light. The second is the double shadow, and it is used when the surface begius once to forsake your eye, as in columns. T third shadow is made by crossing over your double shadow again, which darkeneth by a third part It is used for the inmost shadow, and farthest from the light, as in gulfs, wells, and caves. Peacham After great lights there must be great shadows. Dryden. 4 . Type; mystical representation. Types and shadows of that destin'd seed. Milton. 0. Protection; shelter; favour. Keep me under the shadow of thy wings. Psalms. To SHADOW. v. a. [from the noun.] . To cover with opacity. The warlike elf much wonder'd at this tree, So fair and great, that shadow'd all the ground. Spenser. The Assyrian was a cedar with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud. . To cloud; to darken. Ezek. xxxi. 3. Shakesp. Mislike me not for my complexion; The shadow'd livery of the burning sun, To whom I am a neighbour. 3. To make cool, or gently gloomy, by interception of the light or heat. A gentle south-west wind comes creeping over flowery fields and shadowed waters in the extreme Sidney. heat of summer. 4. To conceal under cover; to hide; to 5. To protect; to screen from danger; to shroud. God shall forgive you Cœur de Lion's death, The rather, that you give his offspring life, Shadowing their right under your wings of war. Shakesp. 6. To mark with various gradations of colour, or light. Turnsoil is made of old linen rags dried, and laid in a saucer of vinegar, and set over a chafingdish of coals till it boil; then wring it into a shell, and put it into a little gum arabick: it is good to shadow carnations, and all yellows. Peacham. From a round globe of any uniform colour, the idea imprinted on our minds is of a flat circle, variously shadowed with different degrees of light coming to our eyes. Locke. More broken scene, made up of an infinite variety of inequalities and shadowings, that naturally arise from an agreeable mixture of hills, groves, Addison. and vallies. 7. To paint in obscure colours. If the parts be too much distant, so that there be void spaces which are deeply shadowed, then place in those voids some fold, to make a joining of the parts. Dryden's Dufresnoy. 8. To represent imperfectly. Milton's Paradise Lost. Augustus is shadowed in the person of Æneas. Dryden. Dryden. I have shadowed some part of your virtues under another name. 9. To represent typically. Many times there are three things said to make up the substance of a sacrament; namely, the grace which is thereby offered, the element which hadoweth or signifieth grace, and the word which esseth what is done by the element. Hooker. More pleasant light Shadowy sets off the face of things. 3. Faintly representative; typical. When they see Fenton. Milton. Law can discover sin, but not remove, 4. Unsubstantial; unreal. Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of sin and death; by which he hath interwoven in Addison. his fable a very beautiful allegory. 5. Dark; opake. By command, ere yet dim night SHA'DY. adj. [from shade.] To pierce pursuing shield, By parents train'd, the Tartars wild are taught, With shafts shot out from their back-turned bow. Sidney. Who, in the spring, from the new sun Already has a fever got, Too late begins those shafts to shun Which Phoebus thro' his veins has shot. Waller. They are both the archer and shaft taking aim afar off, and then shooting themselves directly upon the desired mark. More. So lofty was the pile, a Parthian bow With vigour drawn must send the shaft below. Dryden. [Shaft, Dut.] A narrow, deep, perpendicular pit. They sink a shaft or pit of six foot in length. The fulminating damp, upon its ascension, gives a crack like the report of a gun, and makes an explosion so forcible as to kill the miners, and force bodies of great weight from the bottom of Woodward. the pit up through the shaft. Suppose a tube, or, as the miners call it, a shaft were sunk from the surface of the earth to the center. Arbuthnot. 3. Any thing straight; the spire of a church. Practise to draw small and easy things, as a cherry with the leaf, the shaft of a steeple. Peach. SHAG. n. s. [rceacza, Sax.] 1. Rough woolly hair. Full often, like a shag-hair'd crafty kern, Lean are their looks, and shagged is their hair. Dry. About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin, The early valiant Swede draws forth his wings, They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods; and by the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. Milton's Paradise Lost. There, where very desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Milton. Be it not done in pride. Through Eden went a river large, Nor chang'd his course, but through the shaggy hill Pass'd underneath ingulph'd. Milton. How would the old king smile To see you weigh the paws when tipt with gold, And throw the shaggy spoils about your shoulders. Child, you must walk straight, without skiewing and shailing to every step you set. L'Estrange. To SHAKE. v. a. preterite shook; part. pass. shaken, or shook. [rceacan, Sax. shecken, Dut.] 1. To put into a vibrating motion; to move with quick returns backwards and forwards; to agitate. Who honours not his father, Henry the fifth, that made all France to quake, Shake he his weapon at us, and pass by. Shak. I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants. Zech. ii. 9. I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house; even thus be he shaken out and emptied. Neh. v. The stars fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind. Rev. vi He shook the sacred honours of his head: With terror trembled heav'n's subduing hill, And from his shaken curls ambrosial dews distil. Dryden She first her husband on the poop espies, Shaking his hand at distance on the main; She took the sign, and shook her hand again. Dry. 2. To make to totter or tremble. The rapid wheels shake heav'n's basis. Milton. Let France acknowledge that her shaken throne Was once supported, Sir, by you alone. Roscom. 3. To throw down by a violent motion. Macbeth is ripe for shaking, and the powers above Put on their instruments. Shakesp. |