shafting-box 
shafting-box (shaf'ting-boks), n. An inclosed 
bearing for a shaft. Such a bearing sometimes con- 
sists of a perforated box within another box, the latter 
being kept filled with oil. 
shaft-jack (shaft'jak), H. In a vehicle, a coup- 
ling by which the shafts are secured to the 
axle ; a shaft-coupling jack. 
shaft-line (shat't'lin), n. A narrow sharp line 
of color produced in plumage by the shaft of a 
feather when it is differently colored from the 
vanes. Cones. 
shaft-loop (shaft'lop), n. In harness, a loop or 
tag on a saddle, serving to support a shaft of 
a vehicle. Also called shaft-tug. 
Sa 
mond. 
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shaftmentt, shaftmant, . Same as shaft- 
shaftmondt, . [Also shaftmound, shaftmont, 
shaftment, shaftmon, shaftman, shafman, shaf- 
met, shafitet, etc. ; < ME. scliaftmonde, < AS. 
sceaftmund, scseftmund (Bosworth), a palm, a 
palm's length, < sceaft, a shaft, + mund, a 
hand, also protection, guardianship, = OS. 
mund, hand, = OFries. mund, guardian, guar- 
dianship, = OHG. MHG. munt, palm, hand, 
cubit, protection, protector, G. mund = Icel. 
mund, hand, a hand's measure : see shaft 1 and 
MOtmol.] A span, a measure of about 6 inches. 
Thorowe scheldys they schotte, and scherde thorowe 
males, 
Bothe schere thorowe schoulders a schaftmonde large ! 
Storte Arthure(E. E. T. 8.), 1. 2546. 
Therefore let your bow have good big bend, a shaftment 
and two fingers at the least for these which I have spoken 
of. Ascham, Toxophilus (ed. 1864), p. 104. 
shaft-monture (shaft'mou"tur), n. See mou- 
ture. 
shaft-spot (shaft'spot), n. A short shaft-line 
of color somewhat invading the vanes. See 
shaft-litw. P. L. Selater. 
shaft-stripe (shaft'strip), n. Same as shaft- 
line. 
shaft-tackle (shaft'tak'l), . Same &&poppet- 
head, 2. 
shaft-tip (shaft'tip), n. A cap or ferrule of 
metal forming a finish at the end of a wagon- 
shaft. 
shaft-tug (shaft'tug), n. Same as shaft-loop. 
shaft-tunnel (shaft'tun'el), n. Same as screw- 
alley or shaft-alley. 
shag 1 (shag), i. and a. [< ME. "shagge, < AS. 
sceacga, hair, = leel.sker/g Sw. skagg, a beard, 
= Dan. sJcseg, a barb, beard, wattle; perhaps 
akin to Icel. skaga, jut out, skagi, a eape, head- 
land (> E. skaw). Cf. shogV, shock^, a rough- 
coated dog. Hence shagged, shaggy.] I. H. 
1. Rough matted hair, wool, or the like. 
Of the same kind is the goat hart, and differing onely 
in the beard and long shay abont the shoulders. 
Holland, tr. ol Pliny, viii. 33. 
A sturdy veteran . . . who had cherished, through 
a long life, a mop of hair not a little resembling the 
shag of a Newfoundland dog. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 316. 
Hence 2. The nap of cloth, especially when 
long and coarse. 
True Witney Broad Cloth, with its Shay unshorn, 
Unpierc'd is in the lasting Tempest worn. 
Be this the horseman s fence. Gay, Trivia, i. 47. 
3. Any cloth having a long nap. 
Chiorze, where Buls as big 
As Elephants are clad in silken shag, 
Is great Sems Portion. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Colonies. 
The King, says Petion, wore a coat of dark shag, and his 
linen was not clean. Fortnightly Rev., N. 8., XLII. 294. 
4. A strong tobacco cut into fine shreds. 
The fiery and wretched stuff [tobacco] passing current 
as the labourer's and the ploughman's "shag" and "roll" 
of to-day. Nineteenth Century, XXIV. 574. 
II. a. 1 . Rough and coarse ; hairy ; shaggy. 
Oxen of great strength, with tailes like vnto horses, and 
with long shagge haire vpon their backes. 
Hakluyts Voyages, 1. 116. 
Fetlocks shag and long. Sfta*.,Venus and Adonis, 1. 295. 
2. Made of the cloth called shag. 
A new shay gown, trimmed with gold buttons and twist. 
Pepys, Diary, Oct. 31, 1663. 
I am going to buy a shag ruff. 
Middleton and Del-leer, Roaring Girl, ii. 1. 
Shag tobacco. See I., 4. 
shag 1 (shag), v. ; pret. and pp. shagged, ppr. 
shagging. [< shag*, n.] I. trans. To roughen 
or make shaggy : used chiefly in the past par- 
ticiple. 
Where very desolation dwells, 
By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 429. 
Where the rude torrent's brawling course 
' with thorn and tangling sloe. 
Soott, Cadyow Castle. 
6543 
The eye reposes on a secret bridge, 
Half gray, half shaygeil with ivy to Its ridge. 
Wordsworth, Evening Walk. 
II. intrans. To hang in or form shaggy clus- 
ters. 
With hollow eyes deepe pent, 
And long curld locks that downe his shoulders shagged. 
Spenser, F. CJ., V. ix. 10. 
Shag 2 (shag), n. [Prob. < shag 1 , with ref. to its 
tuft. Cf. Icel. skegg-lingr, mod. skeggla, a kind 
of bird, supposed to be the green cormorant.] 
In ornith., a cormorant; especially, the crested 
cormorant, or scart, J'halacrocorax gracitlus, of 
Europe, so called in Great Britain, it is smaller 
than the common cormorant, when adult of a rich dark 
glossy green varied with purple and bronze, and in the 
breeding season has the head crested with bundles of long 
curly plumes. 
shaganappy (shag-a-nap'i), n. [Also shaggi- 
nappi, UOgfrfneppi, etc. ; Amer. Ind.] Raw hide ; 
also, adjecti vely, tough; rough. [Western U.S.] 
Shaganappi in this part of the world does all that lea- 
ther, cloth, rope, nails, glue, straps, cord, tape, and a num- 
ber of other articles are used for elsewhere. 
0. M. Grant, Ocean to Ocean, p. 129. 
Shagbark (shag'bark), n. 1. A kind of hick- 
ory, Bicoria ovata (Carya alba), which yields 
the best hickory-nuts. Also called shellbark 
(which see), and shagbark walnut. [U. S.] 
2. Same as savonette, 2. [West Indies.] 
shag-busht (shag'bush), n. A hand-gun. Hal- 
liwell. 
shag-dog (shag'dog), n. A dog with shaggy 
hair. Ford, Lady's Trial, iii. 1. 
shag-eared (shag'erd), a. Having shaggy ears. 
Thou liest, thou shag-ear'd villain ! 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 2. 83. 
[Some editions read shag-hair'd.] 
shagebusht, . A corrupt form of sackbut. 
shagged (shag'ed), a. [< ME. *shagged, < AS. 
sceacgede, sceagode, hairy (= Icel. skeggjathr 
= Dan. sksegget, bearded), < sceacga, hair: see 
shag 1 .'] 1. Rough, coarse, thick, or unkempt; 
long and tangled ; shaggy. 
In raging mood 
(Colossus-like) an armed Giant stood; 
His long black locks hung shagged (slouen-like) 
A-down his sides. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Trophies. 
The animal he bestrode was a broken-down plough- 
horse, that had outlived almost every thing but his vicious- 
ness. He was gaunt and shagged, with a ewe neck and a 
head like a hammer. Irving, Sketch- Book, p. 436. 
2. Figuratively, covered with scrub, or with 
some scrubby growth; rugged; rough: as, shay- 
ged hillsides. 
shaggedness (shag'ed-nes), n. Same as shag- 
giness. Dr. H. More. 
shaggily (shag'i-li), adv. [< shaggy + -fi/2.] 
Roughly ; so as to be shagged : as, shaggily pi- 
lose, 
shagginess (shag'i-nes), . [< shaggy + -ness.] 
1. The state of being shagged or shaggy; 
roughness produced by long hair or wool ; hir- 
suteness. 2. Roughness of any sort caused 
by irregular, ragged projections, as of a tree, a 
forest, or a person in rags. 
shaggy (shag'i), a. [= Sw. skaggig, shaggy; as 
shag 1 4- -y 1 .] 1. Rough, coarse, or unkempt; 
thick, rough, and irregular. 
Their masks were accommodated with long shaggy 
beards and hair. Scott, Kenilworth, xxxvii. 
His dark, square countenance, with its almost shaggy 
depth of eyebrows, was naturally impressive. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, viii. 
2. Rough ; covered with long coarse or bushy 
hair, or with something resembling it. 
Liberally the shaggy Earth adorn 
With Woods, and Buds of fruits, of (lowers and corn. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. 
The sapling tree 
Which then was planted stands a shaggy trunk, 
Moss-grown, the centre of a mighty shade. 
Bryant, Fifty Years. 
3. In bot., pubescent or downy with long and 
soft hairs; yillous. 4. In embryol, villous: 
noting specifically that part of the chorion 
which develops long villous processes, and thus 
enters into the formation of the placenta, the 
rest of the chorion remaining smooth. 
shag-haired (shag 'hard), a. Having rough, 
shaggy hair. 
Full often, like a shag-hair'd crafty kern, 
Hath he conversed with the enemy. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 367. 
shagling (shag'ling), a. [Appar. a var. of shack- 
ling.] Shackling; rickety; tottering; infirm. 
Edmund Crispyne of Oriell coll., lately a shagling lec- 
turer of physic, now one of the Proctors of the University. 
A. Wood, Fasti Oxon., i. 72. 
shagragt (shag'rag), n. Same as shake-rag. (pret. shook, schook, shok, schok, pp. schaken, 
shake 
shagreen (sha-gren'), n. and a. [Formerly also 
chagrin = D. segrijn = G. xrl/agriii = Sw. scha- 
grdiig = Dan. chagrin = Russ. shagrinu, < F. 
cliniirin, < It. dial. (Venetian) gagrin, It. zi- 
grino = Pers. nagliri, shagreen, < Turk, saghri, 
saghri, shagreen, lit. 'the back of a horse' (this 
leather being orig. made of the skin of the back 
of the horse, wild ass, or mule). Hence ult., in 
a fig. sense, chagrin?, q. v.] I. n. 1. A kind of 
leather with a granular surface, prepared with- 
out tanning from the skin of the horse, ass, and 
camel, and sometimes the shark, sea-otter, and 
seal. Its granular appearance is produced by embed- 
ding in the skin, while soft, the seeds of a species of Che- 
nopodium, and afterward shaving down the surface, and 
then, by soaking, causing the parts of the skin which had 
been indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is 
dyed with the green produced by the action of sal ammo- 
niac on copper filings. Specifically called Oriental sha- 
green, having been originally and most extensively pro- 
duced in Eastern countries. 
A bible bound in shagreen, with gilt leaves and clasps, 
never opened but once. Steele, Taller, No. 245. 
2. Specifically, the skin of a shark or some re- 
lated selachian, which is roughened with calci- 
fied papillee (placoid scales), making the sur- 
face harsh and rasping. See cut under scale 1 , 
and compare seplien. 
The integument [of sharks, etc.] may be naked, and it 
never possesses scales like those of ordinary fishes ; but 
very commonly it is developed into papillse, which be- 
come calcified, and give rise to tooth-like structures; 
these, when they are very small and close-set, constitute 
what is called shagreen. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 111. 
3. An imitation of genuine shagreen, made by 
passing raw hide in a moist state through roll- 
ers in contact with a roughened copper plate. 
4f. Chagrin. See chagrin*. 
II. a. Made of the leather called shagreen. 
Two Table-Books in Shagreen Covers, 
Fill'd with good Verse from real Lovers. 
Prior, Cupid and Ganymede. 
Shagreen ray, a batoid fish, Raia fullonica, about 30 
inches long and a foot or more broad, covered with sha- 
green, common off the British coasts.- Shagreen skate. 
Same as shagreen ray. 
shagreened (sha-grend'), a. [< shagreen + 
-ed*.] 1. Having a rough surface like that of 
shark-skin. 2. Covered with shagreen. 
shah (sha), n. [Formerly schah, show; = F. 
schah, a shah, = Ar. Turk. Hind, shah, < Pers. 
shah, a king; cf. Skt. kshatra, dominion (see 
satrap). From the Pers. shah, king, are also 
ult. E. check 1 , chess 1 , checker 1 , exchequer, etc. 
Cf. also padishah, pasha, bashaw, etc.] In the 
Persian language, the ruler of a land, as either 
sovereign or vassal. The monarch of Persia 
(usually called the Shah by English writers) 
is designated by the compound appellation of 
padishah. 
Shaheen (sha-hen'), n. [Also shdhin; < Hind. 
slid/tin, < Pers. shdhin, a falcon.] A falcon of 
the peregrine type which does not travel, like 
the peregrine, all over the world. The true sha- 
heen is Indian, and nearly confined to India. Its techni- 
cal names are Falco peregrinator (Sundevall, 1837) ; F. sha- 
heen (Jerdon, 1839) ; F. sultaneus (Hodgson, 1844) ; and F. 
ruber (Schlegel, 1862). The adult female is 10 inches long, 
the wing 12, the tail 6}. 
shahi (sha'i), n. [< Pers. shahi, royal, also roy- 
alty, <shah, king: see shah.] A current cop- 
per coin of Persia. Two-shahi and four-shahi pieces, 
worth respectively H and 3 United States cents, are also 
struck in copper. The shahi was originally struck in sil- 
ver, and weighed in the eighteenth century 18 grains. 
shaik, . See sheik. 
shail ' t (shal), v. i. [Early mod. E. also shayle, 
shale; < ME. schaylen, scheylen. also skailen; cf. 
G. schielen = Sw. skela = Dan. skele, squint; 
Icel. skelgjask, come askew: see shallow.] To 
walk crookedly. 
You must walk straight, without skiewing and shailing 
to every step you set. Sir R. L' Estrange. 
shai! 2 t (shal), . [Appar. a var. of shewelQfE. 
schawles) : see sheircl.] A scarecrow. 
The good husbande, whan he hath sowen his grounde, 
settethe up cloughtes or thredes, whiche some call shailes, 
some blenchars, or other like showes, to feare away birdes. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, i. 23. 
shaird (shard), n. A Scotch form of shard. 
shairl (sharl), n. [Named from the shairl goat.] 
A very fine fabric, a kind of cashmere, made 
from the wool of the shairl goat, a variety of 
goat domesticated in Tibet. 
shakal (shak'al), H. Same as jackal. 
Howling like a hundred shakals. 
E. Moor, Hindu Pantheon (1810), p. 118. 
shake (shak), r. ; pret. shook (formerly also 
shaked), pp. shaken (formerly or dialectally also 
shook), ppr. slinking. [< ME. shaken, schaken 
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