1 Tothe stream,when neither friends, nor force, SHA'PESMITH. 1. s. (shape and smith.] Denbam. form of the body. A burlesque word. No sbapesmith yet set up and drove a trade, quire, And shape my foolishness to their desire. Prior. To mend the work that providence had made. Gartb. 3. To image ; to conceive. Lovers and madmen have their seething brains, SHARD. n. s. (schaerde, Trisick.] Such shaping fantasies that apprehend 1. A fragment of an earthen vessel. More than cool reason ever comprehends. For charitable prayers, her; To spy into abuse, and oft my jealousy Yet here she is allow'd her virgin chants, Shapes faults that are not. Shakipeare. Her maiden strewments. Sbakspeare. When fancy has formed and shaped the per- 2. [chard.] A plant. fectest ideas of blessedness, our own more hap- Shards or mallows for the pot py experiences of greater must disabuse us. Keep the loosen'd body sound. Dryden. Bayle. 3. It seems in Spenser to signify a frith or 4. To make; to create. Obsolete. strait. It is used, says Upton, in the I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Psalms. west, for a gap: SHAPE. n. s. (from the verb.] Upon that shore he spied Atin stand, There by his master left, when late he far'd 1. Form ; external appearance, In Phedria's fleet bark, over that per'lous shard. - le beat me grievously in the shape of a wo Fairy Queen. man; for in the sbape of a man, master Brook, I fear not Goliah with a weaver's beam. Shaksp. 4. A sort of fish. The shapes of the locusts were like unto horses SHA'RD BORN, adj. [shard and born.] prepared for battle. Revelations. Born or produced among broken stones The other shape, or pots. Perhaps shard, in Shakspeare, If shape it may be callid that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb. may signify the sheaths of the wings of MIilton, insects. Ere to black Hecat's summons fix on, and are most led by. Locke. The sbardbori: beetle, with his drowsy hums, 2. Make of the trunk of the body. Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done First a charming shape enslav'd me, A deed of dreadful note. Sbakspeere. An eye then gave the fatal stroke; Till by her wit Corinna sav'd me, SHA'RDED. adj. [from shard.] InhabitAnd all my former ferters broke. Addison. ing shards. Fathers and mothers, friends and relations, Often shall we find seem to have no other wish towards the little The sharded beetle in a safer hold, girl, but that she may have a fair skin, a fine Than is the full-wing'd eagle. Sbakspeare, shape, dsess well, and dance to admiration. Law. To SHARE. v. n. (rcearan, rcyran, Sax.] 3. Being, as moulded into form. 1. To divide ; to part among many. Before the gates there sat Good fellows all, On either side a formidable sbape. Milton. The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst you. 4. Idea ; pattern. Sbakspeare. Thy heart Any man may make trial of his fortune, proContains of good, wise, just, the perfect shade. vided he acknowledge the lord's right, by sbarMilton, ing out unto him a toll. Careru. $. It is now used in low conversation for Well may he then to you his cares impart, And sbare his burden where he sbares his heart. SHA'PELESS. adj. [from shape.] Wanting Dryden. regularity of form; wanting symmetry In the primitive times the advantage of priestof dimensions. hood was equally shared among all the order, and none of that character had any superiorit;: You are born To get a form upon that indigest, Colier. Though the weight of a falsehood would be Which he hath left so skapeless and so rude. Shekspeure. too heavy for one to bear, it grows light in their He is deformed, crooked, old and sere; imaginations when it is shared among many. Addisor. Ill fac'd, worse bodied, sbapeless every where. Shaksfrare. Suppose I share my fortune equally between Thrice had I lov'd thee, my children and a stranger, will that unite them? Before I knew thy face or name; Swijt. Co in a roice, so in a sbopeless flame, 2. To partake with others; to seize or Angels affect us oft, and worshipp'd be. Donne. possess jointly with another. Now the victor stretch'd his eager hand, The captain, half of whose soldiers are dead, Where the tall nothing stood, or sccm'd to stand; and the other quarter never mustered or seen, Â shapeless shade, it melted from his sight, comes shortly lo demand payment of his whole Like forms in clouds, or visions of the night! account; where, by good nieans of some great Pope. ones, and privy sbarings with the officers of other Some objects please our eyes, some, he receiveth his debt. Spenser. Which out of nature's common order rise, In vain does valour bleed, The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope. While avarice and rapine share the land. Milt. SHA'PELINESS. n. s. [from shapely. ] Go, silently enjoy your part of grief, And sbare the sad inheritance with me. Drydery. Beauty or proportion of form. Way'd by the want on winds his banner flies, SHA'PELY. adv. [from shape.] Symine- All maiden white, and shares the people's eyes. trical; well formed. Dryden, manner. This was the prince decreed, To stare his sceptre. Dryden. Not a love of liberty, mr chirst of honour, Drew you thus far; but hopes to share the spoil Of conquer'd towns and plunder'd provinces. Addison. All night it rains, the shews return with day; Great Jove with Cæsar shares his sov'reign sway. Lagick. 3. To cut; to separate ; to sheer. (from scean, Şax.] With swift wheel reverse deep ent'ring shar'd All his right side. Miltor. Scalp,face,and shoulders, the keensteel divides, And the sbar'dvisage hangs on equal sides. Dryd. TO SHARE. V. n. To have part; to have a dividend. I am the prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more. Shakse: Had greater haste these sacred rites prepar'd, Some guilty months had in your triumphs shar'd; But this untainted year is all your own. Dryd. A right of inheritance gave every one a title to share in the goods of his father. Locke. This is Dutch partnership, to share in all our beneficial bargains, and exclude us wholly from theirs. Swift. If every just man, that now pines with want, The subdued territory was divided into greater and smaller sbares, besides that reserved to the prince. Temple. Dryden. The youths have equal share Addison. He who doth not perform that part assigned him, is a very mischievous member of the publick; because he takes his share of the profit, and yet leaves his share of the burden to be born by others. Swift. 2. To go shares ; to partake. They went a hunting, and every one to go sbare and share alike in what they took. L'Estr. By being desirous that every one should have their fall sbare of the favours of God, they would not only be content, but glad, to see one ancther happy in the little enjoyments of this transitory life. Law. 3. A part contributed. These, although they bear a share in the discharge, yet have different offices in the composi. tion. Brown. 4. [rcean, Saxon.] The blade of the plough that cuts the ground. Nor laws they knew, nor manners, nor the Of lab'ring oxen, nor the shining share. Dryden. Great cities shall with walls be compass'd round, Dryden. For clay the coulter is long and bending, and the share narrow. Mortimer. SHA'RE BONE. n. s. [share and bone. ] The os pubis; the bone that divides the trunk from the limbs. The cartilage bracing together the two ossa pubis, or sharebones, Bartholine saith, is twice inici.er and laxer in women than men. Derbam, SHARER. N. s. [from share.] 1. One who divides or apportions to others; a divider. 2. A partaker; one who participates any thing with others. Most it seem'd the French king to import, As sbarer in his daughter's injury. Daniel. People not allowed to be sharers with their companions in good fortune, will hardly agree to be sbarcrs in bad. L'Estrange, An overgrown estate falling into the hands of one that has many children, it is broken into so many portions as render the sbarers rich enough, Addison. If, by taking on himself human nature at large, he hath a compassionate and tender sense of the infirmities of mankind in general, he must needs, in a peculiar manner, feel and commiserate the infirmities of the poor, in which he himself was so eminent a sbarer. Atterbury. I suffer many things as an author militant, whereof in your days of probation you have been a sharer. Pope to Szvift. SHARK. n. s. [canis charcharias, Latin.] 1. A voracious sea fish. His jaws horrifick arm’d with threefold fate, The direful sbark. Thomson. 2. A greedy artful fellow ; one who fills his pockets by siy tricks. A low word. David's messengers are sent back to him, like so many sharks and runnagates, only for endeavouring to compliment an ill nature out of itself, and seeking that by petition which they might have commanded by their sword. South, 3. Trick; fraud ; petty rapine. A low word. Wretches who live upon the shark, and other men's sins, the common poisoners of youth, equally desperate in their fortunes and their manners, and getting their very bread by the damnation of souls. Soutb. To SHARK. v. a. To pick up hastily or slily. Young Fontinbras, Shark'd up a list of landless resolutes. Sbaksp. The fly leads a lazy, voluptuous, scandalous, sharking, life, hateful wherever she comes. L'Esirange, 2. To cheat; to trick. A low word. Ainsworth. There are cheats by natural inclination as well as by corruption: nature taught this boy to shark, not discipune. L'Estrange. The old generous English spirit, which heretofore made this nation so great in the eyes of all the world, seems utterly extinct; and we are degenerated into a mean, shariing, fallacious, undermining, converse; there being a snare and a trapan almost in every word we hear, and every care Tbomson. South, action we see. ven. 3. TO SHARK. To fawn upon for a Different simple ideas are sometimes express dinner. ed by the same word, as sweet and sbarp are apo SHARP. adj. [reeanp, Sax. scherpe, Dut.] plied to the objects of hearing and tasting., Watts. 1. Kecn; piercing; having a keen edge; 6. Shrill; piercing the ear with a quick having an acute point; not blunt. noise ; not flat. She hath tied Starp tooth'd unkindness like a vulture here. In whistling you contract the mouth, and, to Shakspears. make it more sharp, men use their finger. Bacon. In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade Let one whistle at the one end of a trunk, and Oppose himself against a troop of kerns; hold your ear at the other, and the sound strikes And fought so long, till that his thighs with darts so sbarp, as you can scarce endure it. Bacon. For the various modulation of the voice, the Were almost like a sbarp quillid porcupine. Sbakspeare. upper end of the windpipe is endued with seveThy tongue deviseth mischiefs, like a sbaro ral cartilages to contract or dilate it, as we would Psalms. have our voice flat or sharp. razor working deceitfully: Ray. With edged grooving tools they cut down and 7. Severe; harsh ; biting; sarcastick. smoothen away the extuberances left by the If he should intend his voyage towards my sharp pointed grooving tools, and bring the work wife, I would turn her loose to him; and what into a perfect shape. Moxon. he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie 2. Terminating in a point or edge; not on my head. Sbakspears. How often may we meet with those who are obtuse. The form of their heads is narrow and sharp, one while courteous, but within a small time after are so supercilious, sharp, troublesome, that they may the better cut the air in their swift flight. More. fierce, and exceptious, that they are not only short of the true character of friendship, but beThere was seen some miles in the sea a great come the very sores and burdens of society! pillar of light, not sharp, but in form of a column Soutb. or cylinder, rising a great way up towards hea Cease contention: be thy words severe, Bacon, To come near the point, and draw unto a Sbarp as he merits; but the sword forbear. Dryden. sbarper angle, they do not only speak and practise truth, but really desire its enlargement. 8. Severe ; quick to punish; cruel; se Brown. verely rigid. There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee; I Milton. Sbakspeare. And, till she stoop, she must not be full gorg'd; And untaught Indian, on the stream did glide, For then she never looks upon her lure. Shaks. Ere sbarp keeld boats to stem the flood did The sharp desire I had learn, Of tasting, Milton. Or fin-like oars did spread from either side. 10. Painful; afflictive. Dryden. That she may feel 3. Acute of mind, witty ; ingenious; in- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, ventive. To have a thankless child. Sbakspeare. Now as fine in his apparel as if he would make He caused his father's friends to be cruelly me in love with a cloak, and verse for verse with tortured; grieving to see them live to whom he the sharpest witted lover in Arcadia. Sidney. was so much beholden, and therefore rewarded If we had nought but sense, each living wight, them with such sharp payment. Knolles. Which we call brute, would be more sbarp than Death becomes Davies. His final remedy; and after life Sharp to the world, but thoughtless of renown, Try'd in sharp tribulation, and refin'd They plot not on the stage, but on the town. By faith and faithful works. Milton. Dryden. 'It is a very small comfort that a plain man, There is nothing makes men sharper, and sets lying under a sharp fit of the stone, receives their hands and wits more at work, than want. from this sentence. Tillotson. Addison. 11. Fierce; ardent; fiery. Many other things belong to the material Their piety feign'd world, wherein the sharpest philosophers have In sharp contest of battle found no aid. Milton. never yet arrived at clear and distinct ideas. A sharp assault already is begun; Watts. Their murdering guns play fiercely on the walls. 4. Quick, as of sight or hearing. Dryden. As the sharpest eye discerneth nought, 12. Attentive ; vigilant. Except the sun-beams in the air do shine; Sharp at her utmost ken she cast her eyes, So the best soul, with her reflecting thought, And somewhat floating from afar descries. Sces not herself without some light divine. Dav. Dryders. To sbarp-ey'd reason this would seem untrue; Is a man bound to look out sharp to plague But reason I through love's false opticks view. himself, and to take care that he slips no opporDryden. tunity of being unhappy? Collier, 5. Sour without astringency; sour, but A clergyman, established in a competent liv. not austere : acid. ing, is not under the necessity of being so sbare So we, if children young diseas'd we find, and exacting Swift. Anoint with sweets the vessel's foremost parts, 13. Acrid; biting ; pinching ; piercing, as To make them taste the potions sharp we give; the cold. They drink deceiv'd, and so deceiv'd they live. The windpipe is continually moistened with a Spenser. glutinous humour, issuing out of small glandules Sharp tasted citrons Median climes produce; in its inner coat, to fence it against the sharp air, Bilter the rind, but generous is the juice. Dryd. a we. use. Nor here the sun's meridian rays had pow'r, Such an assurance will sharpen men's deNor wind sbarg piercing, nor the rushing show'r, sires, and quicken their endeavours for obtaining The verdant arch so close its texture kept. Pope. a lesser good, ought to inspire men with more 14. Subtile ; nice; witty; acute : of vigour in pursuit of what is greater. Tillotson. things. 5. To make fierce or angry. Sbarp and subtile discourses procure very great Mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. applause; but being laid in the balance with that Fob. which sound experience plainly delivereth, they 6. To make biting, sarcastick, or severe. are overweighed. Hooker. My haughty soul would swell; The instances you mention are the strongest Sharpen each word, and threaten in my eyes. ani sbarpest that can be urged. Digby. Smith. 15. (Among workmen. Hard. 7. To make less flat; to make more piercThey make use of the sharpest sand, that be- ing to the ears. ing best for mortar to lay bricks and tiles in. Enclosures not only preserve sound, but in Moxon. Bacon, 16. Emaciated ; lean. 8. To make sour. His visage drawn he felt to sbarp and spare. SHA'R PER. n. s. [from sharp.] A tricking Milton. SHARP. n. s. (from the adjective.] fellow; a petty thief; a rascal. 1. A sharp or acute sound. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. It is the lark that sings so out of tune, He should retrench what he lost to sharpers, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. Shakspeare. Arbuthnot, 2. A pointed weapon ; small sword; ra- I only wear it in a land of Hectors, pier. A low word. Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. If butchers had but the manners to go to Pope. sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a SHA'R PI.Y. adv. [from sharp.) rubber at cuits. Collier. 1. With keenness; with good edge or TO SHARF. v. a. [from the noun.] To point. make keen. 2. Severely; rigorously; roughly. When the whetstone sharps to eat, They are more sharply to be chastised and reThey cry, miistenes are good meat. B. Jonson. formed than the rude Irish, which, being very To SHARP.2.1. To play thievish tricks. wild at the first, are now become more civil. I live upon what's iny own; whereas your Spenser. scandzious life is only cheating or sharping one 3. Keenly; acutely ; vigorously. half of the year, and starving the other. L'Estr. The mind and memory are more sharply.exe To Sad'PEN 2.a. [from sharp.] ercised in comprehending another man's things than our own. 1. To make keen ; to edge; to point. Ben Jonson, The weaker their helps are, the more their 4. Affictively, painfully. need is to sbarpen the edge of their own indus At the arrival of the English ambassadors the try: Hooker. soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayw. The Israelites went down to the Philistines, s. With quickness. to sbarpen every man his share and his coulter. You contract your eye when you would see 1 Samuel, sbarply; and erect your ear when you would His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword. hear attentively. Bacon, Wisdom. 6. Judiciously; acutely; wittily, The grating of a saw, when sharpen'd, offends so much, as it setteth the teeth on edge. Bacon. SHA'R PNESS. 1. s. [from sharp.] The squadron bright, sbarp'ning in mooned 1. Keenness of edge or point. horos Palladius neither suffering us nor himself to Their phalanx. Milton. take in hand the party till the afternoon; when It may contribute to his misery, heighten the we were to fight in troops, not differing otheranguish, and sharpen the sting of conscience, and wise from earnest, but that the sharpness of the so add fury to the everlasting flames, when he weapons was taken away. Sidney. shall reflect upon the abuse of wealth and great- A second glance came gliding like the first; South. And he who saw the sharpness of the dart, No: 't is resistance that inflames desire; Without defence receiv'd it in his heart., Dryd. Sharpens the darts of love, and blows the fire. 2. Not obtuseness. Drydea. Force consisteth in the roundings and raisings Ere ten moons had sbarper'd either horn, of the work, according as the limbs do more or To crown their bliss, a lovely boy was born. less require it; so as the beholder shall spy no Dryden. sbarpness in the bordering lines. Wotton. Her nails are sharpen'd into pointed claws; 3. Sourness without austereness. Her hands bear half her weight, and turn to There is a sharpness in vinegar, and there is a paws. Addison. sharpness in pain, in sorrow, and in reproach; 2. To make quick, ingenious, or acute. there is a sharp eye, a sharp wit, and a sharp Overmuch quickness of wit, either given by sword: but there is not one of these several nature, or sharpened by study, doth not com- sharpnesses the same as another of them; and a monly bring greatest learning, best manners, or sharp east wind is different from them all. Waits. happiest life in the end. Ascbam. Provoking sweat extremely, and taking away 3. To make quicker of sense. all sharpness from whatever you put in, must be The air sbarpen'd his visual ray of good effect in the cure of the gout. Temple. To objects distant far. Milton. 4. Severity of language ; satirical sarcasm. 4. To make eager or bungry. There's gold for thee; Thou must not take my former sharpness ill, Sbarpen with cloyless sauce his appetite, Sbaks. I will employ thee back again, Shakspeare ness. Some did all folly with just sharpness blame, 1. To break at once into many pieces; to While others laugh'd and scorn'd them into break so as to scatter the parts. shame; He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound, But, of these two, the last succeeded best, That it did seem to shatter all his bulk, And rend his being. Sbakspeare. Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sear, The sharpness of his satire, next to himself, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, falls most heavily on his friends. Dryden. And with forc'd fingers rude This is a subject of which it is hard to speak Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. without satincai sbarpness, and particular reflec Milton, tions, on many churches of christians. Spratt. They escape dissolution, because they can 5. Painfulness; afflictiveness. scarce ever meet with an agent minute and At this time swiftly enough moved to sbatter or dissociate We sweat and bleed; the friend hath lost his the combined parts. Boyle. friend; A monarchy was shattered to pieces, and diAnd the best quarrels in the heat are curst vided amongst revolted subjects, into a mulBy those that feel their sharpness. Sbakspear?. titude of little governments. Locke. Not a single death only that then attended this Black from the stroke above, the smouldring profession; but the terror and sharpness of it was pine redoubled in the manner and circumstances. Stands as a shatter'd trunk. Thomson. South. 2. To dissipate; to make incapable of 6. Intellectual acuteness; ingenuity; wit. close and continued attention. Till Arianism had made it a matter of great A man of a loose, volatile, and sbattered, hue sharpness and subtilty of wit to be a sound be mour, thinks only by fits and starts. Norris. lieving christian, men were not curious what syl To be broken, or lables or particles of speech they used. Hicker. TO SHA'TTER. V. n. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, to fall, by any force applied, into fragSbarpness of wit and active diligence. Dryden. ments. The son returned with strength of constitu- Of bodies, some are fragil, and some are tough tion, sharpness of understanding, and skill in lan- and not fragil; and, in the breaking, some fragil guages. Addison. bodies break but where the force is; some shui7. Quickness of senses. ter and fly in many places. Bacox. If the understanding or faculty of the soul be SHA'TTER. n. s. [from the verb.] One like unto bodily sight, not of equal sharpness in part of many into which any thing is all; what can be more convenient than that, broken at once. even as the dark-sighted man is directed by the clear about things visible, so likewise, in matters Stick the candle so loose, that it will fall upon of deeper discourse, the wise in heart doth shew the glass of the sconce, and break it into sbate the simple where his way lieth. Hooker. Swift. SHARP-SET. adj. (sharp and set.] SHA'TTER BRAINED. 1. Hungry; ravenous. SHATTER PATED. ter, brain, and The seely dove pate.] Inattentive; not consistent. A Two sharp-set hawks do her on each side hem, low word. And she knows not which way to fly from them. Suz'ttery. adj. [from shatter.] Dis Brown. An eagle sharp-set, looking about her for her united; not compact ; easily falling into prey, spied a leveret. L'Estrange. many parts ; loose of texture. A brittle shattery sort of spar, found in form 2. Eager; vehemently desirous. Basilius forced her to stay, though with much of a white sand chiefly in the perpendicular tisado; she being sharp-set upon the fulfilling of a sures amongst the ores of metal. Woodward. shrewd office, in overlooking Philoclea. Sidney. TO SHAVE. v. a. pret. siated; part. Our senses are sharp-set on pleasures L'Estr. shaved or shaven. irceafan, Saxon; A comedy of Johnson's, not Ben, held seven scharven, Dutch.] nights; fer the town is sbarp-sct on new plays. 1. To pare off with a razor. Pepe He that is to be cleansed shall sbrve of all his SHARP-SIGHTED. adj. [sharp and sight.] hair. Levitic: s. Having quick sight. Zelim was the first of the Ottomans that did If she were the body's quality, skove his beard: a bashaw asked, Why he alterThen would she be with it sick, maim'd, and ed the custom of his predecessors? He answered, blind; Because you bashaws may not lead me by the But we perceive, where these privations he, beard, as you did them. Bacon. An healthy, perfect, and sha:p-sighted, mind. Dest thou not know this sbaven páte? Truly Davies. it is a great man's head. Knolles. I am not so sharp-sighted as those who have I caused the hair of his head to be shaved oft. discerned this rebellion contriving from the death Wiseman. of queen Elizabeth. Clirondon, 2. To pare clcse to the surface. Your majesty's clear and sharp-sighted judga Sweet bird! ment has as good a title to give law in matters Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among of this nature, as in any other. Dembam. I wooe, to hear thy evening song: Nothing so fierce but love will soften, nothing And missing thee, I walk unseen so sharp-sighted in other matters but it throws a On the dry smooth shaven green. Miltoe. mist before the eyes on 't. L'Estrange. The bending scythe SHARP-VISAGED. adj. [sharp and visag Sbaves all the surface of the waving green. Gay. ed.) Vaving a sharp countenance. 3. To skim by passing near, or slightly The Welsh that inhabit the mountains are touching. commonly sharp-visaged. Hale. He sbaves with level wing the deep; then soars TO SHA’TTER. v.a. [schetteren, Dutch.] Up to the fiery concave tow'ring high. Milton. ters. |