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tempt, ignominy, or reproach; a disgrace or for if he once glue him selfe to hourd, . . . he shall euery 
dishonor JaJ ' '"" into a thousand enils, shames, and confusions. 
Why. thou shame of women, Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 250. 
Whose folly or whose impudence is greater The rose with its sweet, shamefaced look. 
Is doubtful to determine ! W. Mothermll, Certain Pleasant Verses. 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Cure, iv. i shamefacedly (sham'fast-li), adr. Bashfully ; 
And then eleven great Stars thought it no shame with excessive modesty. 
. [A cor- 
To crouch before me who admired them. qha.mpfarpr]np<! ( nam'ffist 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. ill. snameiacei s (sn, 
It isn't for want of cleverness he looks like a poor man, 
Miss Lyon. I've left off speaking, else I should say it 's a 
sin and a shame. George Eliot, Felix Holt, xxii. 
4. Grossly injurious or ignominious treatment 
or acts ; ignominy ; disgrace ; dishonor ; deri- 
sion; contempt; contumely. 
Whenne he to his lorde come, 
The lettre sone he hym nome, 
And sayde. Alle gose to schoine ! 
And went his way. 
MS. Lincoln, A. i. 17, f. 130. (UaUiwdl.) 
Many shames that the lues hym diden ; and after that 
he suffred bitter deth tor vs upon the crosse. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 59. 
God geve yow bothe on shames deth to dyeu. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 1133. 
Ye have borne the shame of the heathen. 
r./i-k. xxxvi. 6. 
I think the echoes of his shames have deaf'd 
The ears of heavenly justice. 
Fletcher (and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 2. 
5. The parts of the body which modesty re- 
quires to be covered. 
ruption of shamefastness, q. v.] 
excess of modestv. 
Bashfulness ; 
shammy 
shameless, < sceamu, scanni, shame, 
+ -Iran, E. -less.'] 1. Having no shame ; lack- 
ing in modesty ; immodest ; impudent ; auda- 
cious ; insensible to disgrace. 
Thanne Mede for here mysdedes to that man kneled, 
And shroue hire of hire shrewednesse shamelees, I trowe. 
Piers Plowman (li). in. -14. 
To tell thee whence thou earnest, of whom derived, 
Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shame- 
lest. Shale., 3 Hen. VI., i. 4. 120. 
2. Done without shame ; indicating or charac- 
terized by lack of shame : as, a shameless dis- 
regard of honesty. 
The shameless denial hereof by some of their friends, 
and the more shameless justification by some of their flat- 
terers, makes it needful to exemplify. Jialeiyh. 
= Syn. 1. Unblushing, brazen ; profligate, reprobate, aban- 
doned, incorrigible. 
est; bashful. [Obs"oleteTr archaic*: see 8/mme- shamelessly (sham'les-li), adc. In a shameless 
faced, the form now usual.] manner; without shame ; impudently. 
ShamefaM she was in mayden's shamefastnesse. ShameleSSneSS (sham'les-nes), ,,. The state 
Chaucer Doctor's Tale 1 55 or Character of being shameless; utter want ot 
It is a lamentable thing to see, that a mother shal send * hame ' . lack , of sensibility to disgrace or dis- 
her sonne to the house of a Gentleman, clad, shod, shame- honor ; impudence. 
fast, honest, solitarie, well manered, and deuoute, and at shamelyt (sham'li), ode. [ME. schamvli, schonu- 
the yeares end the poore young man shall retume ragged, /,/, schameliche, schomeliclie, < AS. sceamlic (= 
The embarrassed look of shy distress, 
And maidenly shamefacediiess. 
Wordsworth, To a Highland Girl. 
shamefast (sham'fast), a. [< ME. sltumi-fnxt, 
sehamefast, schamfast, sceomefest, < AS. sceam- 
feest, scamfeest, modest, lit. 'firm' or 'fast in 
shame,' i. e. modesty, < sceamu, scamit, shame, 
+ feest, fast, firm : see shame and fart 1 .] Mod- 
bare legged, dissolute, . " . and a quareller. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 151. 
I'll not meddle with it [conscience] : ... 'tis a blush- 
ing shamefast [nhamefae'd in f. 1823] spirit that mutinies 
in a man's bosom. Shot., Hich. III., i. 4. 142. 
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall shamefastneSS (sham'fast-nes), . [Early mod. 
be seen. " Isa. xlvii. 8. 
For shame! an interjectional phrase, signifying 'you 
should be ashamed ! ' ' shame on you ! ' 
For shame now ; here is some one coming. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 2. 
To put to shame, to cause to feel shame ; inflict shame, 
disgrace, or dishonor on. 
Seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of Ood afresh, 
and put him to an open shame. Heb. vi. 8. 
= Syn. 1. Mortification. 4, Opprobrium, odium, oblo- 
quy, scandal. 
shame (sham), v.; pret. and pp. shamed, ppr. 
shaming. [< ME. shamen, schamen, schamieii, 
schomien, scheomien, seomien, < AS. sccamian, 
seamian, sceomian, scomian, intr. be ashamed, 
tr. (refl.) make ashamed, = OS. seamian = D. 
schameii = OHG. seamen, scamon, MHG. scha- 
men, G. schamen = Icel. xlcamma = Sw. skdmma 
= Dan. skamme = Goth, skaman, refl., make 
ashamed; from the noun. Ci.ashamc, ashamed.] 
1. intrants. To be or feel ashamed. 
And the! seyn that God made Adam and Eve all naked, 
and that no man scholde shame that is of kyndely nature. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 178. 
I do shame 
To think of what a noble strain you are, 
And of how coward a spirit. 
Shalt., Pericles, iv. 3. 23. 
Art thou a man ? and sham'st thou not to beg ? 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, ii. 3. 
II. trans. If. To be ashamed of. 
For who so schameth me and my wordis, mannus sone 
schal schame hym, whanne he cometh in his maieste and 
of the fadris, and of the hooli aungels. 
W yclif, Luke ix. 26. 
2. To make ashamed; cause to blush or to 
feel degraded, dishonored, or disgraced. 
Shame enough to shame thee, wort thou not shameless. 
Shale., 3 Hen. VI., i. 4. 120. 
Who shames a scribbler? break one cobweb through, 
He spins the slight, self.pleasing thread anew. 
OHG. scamalih, MHG. xehamelieli, schemelich = 
Sw. skamlig = Dan. skammelig), shameful, < 
sceamu, shame, + -lie, E. -fy 2 .] Shamefully. 
Bot, I trow, ful tyd, ouer-tau that he [Jonah] were, 
So that schmnelit to schort he schote of his ame. 
Alliterative Poems (E. E. T. S.), iiL 128. 
... Callous or insen- 
sible to shame. 
E. also shamfastnes ; < ME. shamefastnessi; , ., , 
schameffutnessc ; < shame + fasti + .,.] Shame-proof (sham prof), a. 
Modesty; bashfulness; shamefacedness. 
solete or archaic.] 
And ye, sir clerk, let be your shamefastiiesse. 
Chaucer, Gen. ProL to C. T., 
To blush with a genuine shamefastness. 
E. H. Plumptre, Sophocles, xxxiii. 
shame-flower (sham'flou'^r), n. Same as 
blush u-ort. 
shameful (sham 'ful), a. [< ME. schamfiil, 
. 840. 
King. They will shame us ; let them not approach. 
Knit. We are shame-proof, my lord. 
Shale., L. L. L., v. 2. 518. 
shamer (sha'mer), n. [< shame + -fri.] One 
who or that which makes ashamed. 
My means and my conditions are no shamers 
Of him that owes 'em, all the world knows that, 
And my friends no reliers on my fortunes. 
Fletcher, Tamer Tamed, L 3. 
schemneful (= Sw. skamfull = Dan. skamfuM), shameragt, . An obsolete form ot shamrock. 
modest; < shame + -ful.] If. Modest; shame- shame-reel (sham'rel), n. In some parts of 
faced. Scotland, the first reel or dance after the cele- 
bration of a marriage. It was performed by 
the br j de aj]d begt mftn an( j thg bridegroom 
au d best maid. Jamiesoii. 
"tamevoust ,a [ME., irreg. < shame + -evous 
bounteous, plenteous.-] 
\Vhri rhi he would have hid 
His shamefull head. Spenser, . Q., III. v. 18. 
For certain, sir, his bashfulness undoes him, 
For from his cradle he had a shameful face. 
fletcher (and another), Queen of Corinth, iv. 1. 
2f. Full of shame ; tinged or permeated with 
a feeling of shame. 
Shameful reflections on all our past behaviours. 
C. Mather, Mag. Chris., iv. 7. 
3. That brings or ought to bring or put to shammatha (sha-ma'tha), n. [< Heb. sham- 
shame; disgraceful; scandalous: as, shameful mdtha'.'] The highest degree of excommunica- 
tion among the ancient Jews, consisting in final 
yff atwlx8t his handi9 he hym haue m 
He wold make hym ende, and shameuous deth dight ! 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3444. 
conduct. 
And Phii-bus, flying so most shamefull sight, 
His blushing face in foggy cloud implyes. 
And hydes for shame. Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 6. 
Who submitted himselfe to a death in itselfe bitter, 
before men shamefull, and of God accursed. 
Purchat, Pilgrimage, p. 32. 
A change so shameful, say, what cause has wrought? 
Pope, niad, xiii. 147. 
Shameful reel. Same as shame-reel. [Scotland.] ' 
"Win up, win up, now bride," he says, 
"And dance a shamefu' reel." 
Sweet Willie and Fair Jlaisry (Child's Ballads, II. 338). 
exclusion from the Jewish church for life. 
shammelt (shain'el), n. 1. An obsolete form 
ot shamble 1 . Specifically 2. In mining, a stage 
or shelf -like arrangement of boards, or a plat 
cut in the rocks, upon which the ore was shov- 
eled by the miner in the ancient method of 
working a mine, "cast after cast ; " as it was 
called. The shammels were about six feet apart. 
Also called shamble. [Cornwall, Eng.] 
If the lode was wide and the walls of it and the adjoin- 
3. To cover with reproach or ignominy ; dis- 
grace. 
Alle tho that ben of his kyn, or pretenden hem to ben 
his Frendes, and thei come not to that Feste, thei ben re- 
preved for evere and schamed, and maken gret doel. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 202. 
Thou hast in a few days of thy short reign, 
In over-weening pride, riot, and lusts 
Sham'd noble Dioclesian and his gift. 
Fletcher (and another T), Prophetess, v. 1. 
4. To force or drive by shame. 
In female breasts did sense and merit rule, 
The lover's mind would ask no better school ; 
Shamed into sense, the scholars of our eyes, 
Our beaux from gallantry would soon be wise. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, Epil. 
5f. To shun through shame. 
My master sad for why, he shames the court 
Is fled away. Greene, James IV., v. 6. (Davies.) 
6f. To mock at ; deride ; treat with contumely 
or contempt. 
ing country very hard, solid ground, it was in such case 
more easy for them to make shammels or stages, with such 
timber, Ac., as was cheapest and nearest at hand. Pryce. 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 89. shamef'ullyTsham'ful-i), adv. [< ME. 'scham- shammelt (sham'el), f. i. [< shammel, .] In 
= Syn. 3. Dishonorable, disreputable, outrageous, villain- 
ous, heinous, nefarious. 
fully, ssamvolliehe ; < shameful + -ty 2 .] In a 
shameful manner; with indignity or indecency ; 
disgracefully. 
But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, 
Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. 
Dryden, Abs. and Achit, ii. 503. 
shamefulness (sham'ful-nes), n. [< ME. schame- 
fulnes; < shameful + -ness.'] If. Modesty; dif- 
fidence. 
mining, to work a mine by throwing the mate- 
rial excavated on to a shammel (which see) in 
the "cast after cast" method, which was the 
usual way before the art of regular mining by 
means of shafts and leads had been introduced. 
[Cornwall, Eng.] 
This, with streaming, I take to be the plain simple state 
of mining in general three centuries ago, and from hence 
is derived the custom of shammelingboth above and under 
ground at this time. Pryce. 
To suche as shall see it to be oner presumptuous, let shammer (sham'er), n. [< sham + -erl.] One 
them lay the fault Upon your honour, whiche did first n-hr, U>. ,,,,< an Imnnatnr- a HOT" a ti-inlruta>- 
write unto me, and riot on me, that do aunswere with W " ' an im P ostor > a llar > a trickster. 
shamefulnesse. I shou'd make the worst Shammer in England ; I must 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 75. always deal ingenuously. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iii. 1. 
2. Shameful character; disgracefulness. 3. shammisht (sham'ish), a. [< sham + -wfti.] 
Shame; disgrace. Deceitful. 
The overture was very shammish. 
Roger North, Exam en, p. 100. (Davies.) 
shammockt (sham'ok), r. i. [Origin obscure.] 
To idle; loaf; lounge. 
Pox take you both for a couple of shammocldng rascals : 
. . . you broke my tavern, and that broke my heart. 
Tom Brown, Works, II. 184. (Davies.) 
The king debated with himself 
If Arthur were the child of shamefulness, 
Or born the son of Gorlois. 
Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. 
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor. 
=Syn. 2. To mortify, humiliate, abash. 
shamefaced (sham'fast), a. [A corruption of shameless (sham'les), a. 
shamefast, simulating face: see shamefast.'] shamelees, schameles, schomeles, schomeleas,< AS. shammy (sham'i), .; pi. shammies (-iz). [Also 
Modest; bashful: originally shamefast. sceamleds, scamleds (= D. schaamteloos = MLG. xhaiuoy; formerly shamoig, shamoys, cliamoix, < 
Men shamefaced and of noble mindes haue greate cause schamelos = OHG. scamalos, MHG. schamelos, F. chamois: see chamois.] 1. Same as cha- 
to beware that they begin not to hourd or laye vp mony : G. schamlos = Icel. skammlauss = Sw. Dan. mois, 2. 
Ps. xiv. 8. shamelt, shamellt, . Obsolete forms of gliam- 
[< ME. shameles, 
