sheltron 
drome, childrome(AJ?. fhiltron), a body of guards 
or troops, squadron, hence defense, protection, 
shelter, < AS. sci/ld-truma, lit. ' shield-troop,' a 
guard of men with shields, < scyld, a shield, + 
irunia, a band or troop of men (of. getritm, a 
cohort), < tritm, firm, steadfast: see shield and 
trim. Hence shelter, q. v.] 1. A body of troops 
in battle array ; a squadron; a battalion. 
Thaire shippis in sheltrons shotton to loud, 
Knyt horn with cables & with kene ancres. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 6033. 
His archers on aythere halfe he ordaynede ther-aftyre 
To schake in a sheltrone, to schotte whene thame lykez. 
Morte Arthurs (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1992. 
A-gein hem myght endure noon harneys, ne no kynge, 
ne warde, ne sheltron, were it neuer so clos. 
Merlin. (E. E. T. S.), ii. 326. 
2. Shelter ; refuge ; defense. See shelter. 
For-thi mesure we vs wel and make owre f aithe owre schel- 
troun, 
And thorw faith cometh contricioun conscience wote wel. 
Piers Plowman (B), xiv. 81. 
shelty 1 , sheltie (shel'ti), . ; pi. shelties (-tiz). 
[Also slialt, sholt; said to be an abbr. dim. of 
Shetland pony.'] A small sturdy horse ; a Shet- 
land pony. [Scotch.] 
Three shelties . . . were procured from the hill little 
shagged animals, more resembling wild bears than any 
thing of the horse tribe, yet possessed of no small degree 
of strength and spirit. Scott, Pirate, xi. 
shelty 2 (shel'ti), n. ; pi. shelties (-tiz). [Cf. 
sJieafi (?).] A sheal ; a cabin or shanty. 
The Irish turf cabin and the Highland stone shelty can 
hardly have advanced much during the last two thousand 
years. A. R. Wallace, Nat. Select., p. 212. 
shelve 1 (shelv), v. t. ; pret. and pp. shelved, ppr. 
shelving. [Also shelf; < sfiflf 1 , n.} 1. To place 
on a shelf: as, to shelve books. 2. To lay by 
on a shelf ; put away or aside as disposed of 
or not needed ; hence, to put off or neglect : 
as, to shelve a question or a claim. 
But even though he die or be skeined, the race of trai- 
tors will not be extinct. W. Phillips, Speeches, etc., p. 79. 
3. To furnish with shelves, as a room or closet. 
shelve 2 (shelv), v. ; pret. and pp. shelved, ppr. 
shelving. [Prob. ult. < Icel. skelgja-sk, refl., 
become askew, lit. 'slope itself '(= Sw. dial. 
skjalgas, skjalgas, refl., become crooked, twist),< 
skjdlgr, wry, oblique, hence sloping, = Sw. dial. 
skjalg, crooked, skjeelg, oblique, awry : see shal- 
low 1 , shoal 1 , sheld 2 , of which shelve 2 is thus 
practically the verb. The change of the final 
guttural g to v appar. took place through w, 
which appears in shallow and some of its cog- 
nate forms.] I. intrans. To slope ; incline. 
After we had, with much ado, conquered this hill, we 
saw in the midst of it the present mouth of Vesuvio, 
which goes shelving down on all sides till above a hun- 
dred yards deep. 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, I. 439). 
At Keeling atoll the shores of the lagoon shelve gradu- 
ally where the bottom is of sediment. 
Darwin, Coral Eeefs, p. 40. 
In the stillness she heard the ceaseless waves lapping 
against the shelving shore. 
Mrs. Gaikett, Sylvia's Lovers, xlv. 
II. trans. To incline or tip (a cart) so as to 
discharge its load. [Prov. Eng.] 
shelve 2 (shelv), n. [< shelve'*, v., or a variant 
of sfieZ/ 2 .] A shelf or ledge. [Rare.] 
Couch'd on a shelve beneath its [a cliff's] brink, . . . 
The wizard waits prophetic dream. 
Scott, L. of the L., iv. 5. 
Above her, on a crag's uneasy shelve, 
Upon his elbow raised, all prostrate else, 
Shadow'd Enceladus. Keats, Hyperion, ii. 
shelver (shel'ver), n. [< shelve* + -er 1 .} A 
wagon or truck shelving or sloping toward the 
back. 
shelves, . Plural of shelf. 
shelving 1 (shel'ving), n. [Verbal n. of shelve 1 , 
v.} 1. Materials for shelves, or shelves collec- 
tively. 2. The act of placing or arranging on a 
shelf or shelves : as, the shelving of one's books ; 
hence, the act of putting away, off, or aside. 
3. In husbandry, an open frame fitted to a wagon 
or cart to enable it to receive a larger load of 
some light material, as hay or leaves. 
shelving 2 (shel'ving), H, [Verbal n. of shelve^, 
v.} 1. Sloping. 2. A shelvy place; a bank or 
reef. [Rare.] 
He spoke, and speaking, at his stern he saw 
The bold Cloanthus near the shelmngs draw. 
Dryden, ^Eneid, v. 219. 
shelvy (shel'vi), a. [< shelve?, shelf'*, + -y 1 .} 
Shelving; sloping; shallow. 
I had been drowned but that the shore was shelvy and 
shallow. Shalt., M. W. of W., ill. 5. 15. 
The bat in the shelvy rock is hid. 
J. R. Drake, Culprit Fay. 
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shemeringt, . A Middle English f orm of shim- 
nieriii;/. 
Shemite (shem'it), n. [< Shem + -itc%. Cf. 
Semite.} Same as Semite. 
Shemitie (she-mit'ik), a. [< Shemite + -ic. Cf. 
Semitic.} Same as Semitic. 
Shemitish (shem'i-tish), a. [< Shemite + -ish 1 .} 
Same as Semitic. 
Shemitism (shem'i-tizm), i. [< Shemite + -ism.} 
Same as Semitism. 
shenanigan (she-nan'i-gan), . [Origin ob- 
scure.] Nonsense; humbug; deceit: as, now, 
no shenanigan about this. [Slang.] 
shendt (shend), v. [< ME. shenden, schenden, 
scenden, < AS. scendnn, bring to shame, dis- 
grace, harm, ruin, = OS. scendan = OFries. 
schanda = MD. D. schenden = MLG. schenden 
= OHG. scentan, MHG. schenden, G. schanden 
= Sw. skanda = Dan. skjsende, bring to shame, 
disgrace; from the noun: AS. scand, sceand, 
scond, sceond = OHG. scanta, MHG. G. schande, 
etc., = Goth, skanda, shame, disgrace, ruin: 
see shand.~\ I. trans. 1. To put to shame; 
bring reproach, disgrace, or ignominy upon; 
disgrace. 
We be all shent, 
For so fals a company in englond was nevar. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 10. 
Debatefull strife, and cruell enmity, 
The famous name of knighthood fowly shend. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 35. 
2. To blame; reprove; reproach; scold; revile. 
Though that I for my prymer shal be shent, 
And shal be beten thryes in an houre, 
I wol it conne, our lady for to honoure. 
Chmuxr, Prioress's Tale, 1. 89. 
For silence kepynge thon shall not be shent, 
Where as thy speache May cause thee repent. 
Babees Book(E. E. T. S.), p. 344. 
Alas, sir, be patient. What say you, sir? IamAn<for 
speaking to you. Shak., T. N., iv. 2. 112. 
3. To injure ; harm ; spoil ; punish. 
Herowde the kyng has malise ment, 
And shappia with shame yow for to ghende, 
And for that ge non harmes shulde hente, 
Be othir waies God will ye wende. 
York Plays, p. 137. 
Hasty processe will shende it euery dele, 
Avise yow wele and do be good councell. 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. S.X L 1657. 
4. To ruin; destroy. 
Of me unto the worldes ende 
Shal neither ben ywriten nor ysonge 
No goode worde, for this bokes wol me ghende. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 1060. 
Such a dream I had of dire portent 
That much I fear my body will be shent ; 
It bodes I shall have wars and woeful strife. 
Dryden, Cock and Fox, 1. 110. 
5. To defeat; outdo; surpass. 
Anthony is thent, and put hire to the flighte. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 652. 
That did excell 
The rest, so far as Cynthia doth shend 
The lesser starres. Spenser, Prothalamion, L 122. 
6. To forbid. HaUiwell.T. To defend ; pro- 
tect. 
Not the aide they brought, 
Which came too late, nor his owne power could shend 
This wretched man from a moste fearfull end. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 68. 
Let David's harp and lute, his hand and voice, 
Give laud to him that loveth Israel, 
And sing his praise that shendeth David's fame, 
That put away his sin from out his sight, 
And sent his shame into the streets of Oath. 
Peele, David and Bethsabe. 
II. intrans. To be ruined ; go to destruction. 
Less the tender grasses shende. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 1400. 
Shendfult (shend'ful), a. [ME. schendful, schind- 
ful; < shand, "shend, n., + -ful.} Ignominious. 
She is ful glad in hir corage, 
If she se any gret lynage 
Be brought to nought in schynfvl wise. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 259. 
Swuch was Codes death o rode pinful and shendful 
ouer alle othre. Ancren Ritcle, p. 356. 
shendfullyt (shend'ful-i), adv. [ME. schendful- 
liche; < shendful + -ly 2 .} Ignominiously ; mis- 
erably; shamefully. 
Spec hire scheome schendfuliche. Ancren Riwle, p. 316. 
As the bible telleth, 
God sende to seye that Saul schulde dye, 
And al his seed for that sunne schendjfulliche ende. 
Piers Plowman (A), iii. 261. 
The enemyes of the lande were shendfully chasyd and 
utterly confounded. Fabyan. 
shendshipt (shend'ship), n. [< ME. shend- 
nhipe, schendschip, schenschip, schenship, schen- 
chip, schendshepe; < shand, *shend, n., + -ship.'] 
Shame; punishment; injury; harm. 
shepherd 
And thair schendschepe salle be mare 
Than ever had any man here in thoght. 
Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 1. 7146. 
To much defouled for shendshipe that man is worthy to 
have. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
shenet, a. and v. A Middle English form of 
sheen 1 . 
Shenshai (shen'shi), n. A member of one of 
the two sects into which the Parsees of India 
are divided. Compare Kadmee. 
shentt. Preterit and past participle of shend. 
she-oak (she'ok). . [Cf. she-pine.} One of va- 
rious shrubs and trees of the peculiar, chiefly 
Australian, genus Casuarina. They are without 
true leaves, the place of these being supplied by whorls of 
slender deciduous branchlets. The latter are of an acidu- 
lous taste, and are relished by cattle. The wood is very 
hard, excellent as fuel, and valuable for fine or coarse 
woodwork ; its appearance gives to some species the name 
of beef wood. The species specifically called she-oak are 
C. stricta (C. quadrivalvis), the coast she-oak (sometimes, 
however, called he-oak), C. glauca, the desert she-oak, and 
C. suberosa, the erect she-oak. See Casuarina. 
Sheol (she'61), n. [Heb. she'ol, a hollow place, 
a cave, < shd'al, dig, hollow out, excavate.] 
The place of departed spirits : a transliteration 
of the Hebrew. The original is in the authorized ver- 
sion generally rendered grave, hell, or pit; in the revised 
version of the Old Testament the word Sheol is substituted. 
It corresponds to the word Hades in Greek classic litera- 
ture and in the revised version of the New Testament. 
See helli. 
sheolic (she-6'lik), a. [< Sheol + -ic.} Per- 
taining to Sheol or hell. N. and Q., 7th ser., 
vi. 398. [Bare.] 
shepeH, An old spelling of sheep 1 , sheep'*. 
shepe 2 t, [ME., < AS. scipe, wages.] Wages; 
hire. 
In withholdynge or abreggynge of the shepe, or the 
hyre, or of the wages of servauntz. 
Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
shepent, An obsolete form of shippen. 
shepherd (shep'erd), n. [Early mod. E. also 
shephard, shepheard, sheepherd (also as a sur- 
name Shepherd, Sheppard, Shepard); < ME. 
scheepherde, shepherd, shephirde, schepherd, 
schephurde, schepphirde, scheperde, schepparde, 
< AS. scedphyrde, scephyrde (= G. schafhirte), 
a keeper of sheep, shepherd (of. sceapheorden, a 
sheepfold), < scedp, sheep, + hyrde, a herd, a 
guardian: see sheep 1 and herd%.} A man who 
herds, tends, and guards sheep in pasture; a 
pastor. 
In the Weye to Jerusalem, half a Myle fro Betheleem, 
is a Chirche, where the Aungel seyde to the Scheppardes 
of the Birthe of Crist. Mandeville, Travels, p. 72. 
The Lord is our shepherd, and so called in more places 
than by any other name. Donne, Sermons, vii. 
Shepherd kings, or Hyksos, a race or dynasty probably 
of Semitic origin, who took Memphis, and rendered the 
whole of Egypt tributary. The conquest appears to have 
taken place about 2200 or 2100 B. C., and dynasties XV. 
and XVI. were probably Hyksos. Their rule in Egypt 
may have lasted from 200 to 500 years. Attempts have 
been made to connect their expulsion with the narrative 
in the book of Exodus. Shepherd's crook, a long staff 
having its upper end curved so as to form a hook, used by 
shepherds. Shepherd's dog, a variety of dog employed 
by shepherds to protect the flocks and control their move- 
ments. It is generally of considerable size, and of power- 
ful, lithe build, with the hair thick-set and wavy, the tail 
inclined to be long and having a bushy fringe, the muzzle 
sharp, and the eyes large and bright. The collie or sheep- 
dog of Scotland is one of the best-known and most intelli- 
gent dogs of this wide-spread and useful variety. Shep- 
herd's flute, either a flageolet or an oboe of simple con- 
struction, such as is used by shepherds. Also shepherd's 
pipe. Shepherd's plaid. Same as shepherd's tartan. 
Shepherd's tartan. See tartan. Shepherd's wea- 
ther-glass, the pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis. Also poor- 
man's weather-glass. These and the names shepherd's-dock, 
-watch, -calendar, and -sundial, and John-go-to-bed-at-noon 
allude to the closing of its flowers early in the afternoon 
or at the approach of bad weather. See pimpernel, 4. 
The Good Shepherd, a title given to Jesus Christ (John 
x. 11). The Shepherds, a fanatical sect which origi- 
nated among shepherds in northern France about 1251, 
professedly for the deliverance of Louis IX. (St. Louis), who 
had been prisoner in Egypt. The Shepherds were fiercely 
opposed to the clergy and monks, and usurped priestly 
functions. They held possession of Paris for a while, and 
committed many outrages, especially upon the Jews. The 
movement was soon suppressed. An outbreak of mendi- 
cants similarly named took place under Philip V. in 1320, 
but this also soon came to an end. 
shepherd (shep'erd), r. t. [< shepherd, n.} 1. 
To tend or guide as a shepherd. 
Multitudes of dense white fleecy clouds 
Were wandering in thick flocks along the mountains, 
Shepherded by the slow, unwilling wind. 
Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, ii. 1. 
2. To attend or wait on ; gallant. [Jocose.] 
Shepherding a lady. Edinburgh Rev. 
3. To watch over, as a mining claim, and estab- 
lish a right to it by doing a certain amount of 
work on it : said especially of digging small 
pits in the neighborhood of a rich deposit of 
gold ; hence, to attend or hang about (a person) 
