shright 
That with their piteous cryes, and yelling xhrighUs, 
They made the further shore resounden wide. 
Spenser, V. Q., II. vii. 67. 
shrike't, ''. and . An obsolete form 
shrike- (shrik), . [Also shreek: < ME. *xkriki; 
< AS. scrie, a shrike or thrush (glossed by L. 
turdutt), = Icel. xkrikja, a shrike (butcher-bird). 
so called from its cry: see xltrikr 1 , r. (T. .ilirite. 
a thrush.] 1. A dentirostral oscine passerine 
bird of the family Lfiniidse, having a notably 
strong hooked and toothed bill, and of actively 
predaceous nature ; a butcher-bird ; a nine- 
killer; a wood-chat. The species are very numerous, 
and are found in most parts of the world. The most char- 
aeteristic habit of these birds at least of those of tin- 
^>nus Laniiix and of some allied genera is to catch ami 
kill more insects, small birds, and small quadrupeds than 
they devour at once, and to impale these victims on a 
thorn or sharp twig. The (treat gray or cinereous shrike 
of Kurope is Laniun excubitor, of which the corresponding 
American species is the northern buteher-bird, L. borealin. 
The loggerhead shrike of the United States is L. hidovicia- 
nus. The red-backed shrike of Europe is Lanius or En- 
neoctonux collurio (see wood-chat). See cuts under butcher- 
bird, Liinif :, and Pachycephala. 
2. One of many different birds that resemble 
shrikes, or were held to belong to the genus La- 
H i Hit. This was a Linnean genus, of amplitude and elas- 
ticity, and all the birds that were put in it used to be re- 
corded in the books as shrikes of some sort, whence many 
English phrase-names, now practically obsolete except in 
some hyphenated compounds. Among these birds were 
various thrushes, ant-thrushes of both worlds, flycatchers, 
starlings, etc. See phrases below, and bush-shrike, dron- 
!if>-<hrike, swallow-shrike, Artamidte, Dicruridx, and Tham- 
nophUituf. Cubla shrike. Same as cubla. Dubious 
shrike*. See Scissirostrum. Fiscal shrike, a shrike of 
the genus Fiscus, as F. cottarig; a fiscal. Fork- tailed 
shrike. See fork-tailed. Frontal shrike, falcunculus 
.frontatm of Australia, with a strong curved and toothed 
bill, a crest, above greenish-yellow, below bright-yellow, 
the plumage also varied with black and white, the length 7 
inches. Great northern shrike, the American butcher- 
bird, Lanius borealis. Green shrike*, Leptopteruschabert 
(not ashrikc)of Madagascar. Hook-billed shrike, Van- 
ga cunirostris of Madagascar. See I'anya. Keroula 
Shriket, Tephrodornispondicerianus(not a shrike), inhab- 
iting India and China. See cut under Tephroctornis. Ru- 
fous shrike, Vanga nifa of Madagascar. See Vanga. 
Senegal shrike, Telephonus senegalus. See Telephonus. 
Spotted shrike, a (South American bush-shrike, Thaw- 
nophilu* nxriits, Thick-headed shrikes, the shrikes 
of the genus Pachycephala and related forms, sometimes 
grouped as Pachycephalime. Varied shrike, Laniarius 
multicolor of western Africa. White-headed Shrike, 
Artamia leucocephala of Madagascar. It is 7J inches long, 
and greenish-black in color, with the rump, head, and un- 
der parts white. Yellow-browed shrike, Laniarius 
sulphureipectus, of the whole Ethiopian region. 
shrike-crow (shrik'kro), n. A bird of the genus 
Rurita. Smainson. 
shrill (shril), r. [Also, by transposition, Sc. shirl, 
also unassi Dilated skirl ;< ME. schrillen, scrillen 
= G. schrillen, sound shrill; cf. Norw. skryla, 
skrala, cry shrilly, = Sw. skr'&la = Dan. skraule, 
squall (of children); Icel. skrolta, resound 
shrilly. = AS. scraUetan, cry aloud; partly from 
the adj., but mainly original, from a common 
root *skrel, "skral. See shrill, a. Cf. shilft, 
shrill.] I. intrans. 1. To utter or emit a keen, 
piercing, high-pitched sound. 
Then gan the bagpypes and the homes to shrill 
And shrieke aloud. Spenser, F. Q., VI. viii. 46. 
Like a locust shrills the imprisoned sap. 
Lmcell, Sir Launfal, i. 
The shrilling of the male [cricket] is a sexual call, made 
by raising the fore wings and rubbing them on the hind 
wings. Packard, Guide to the Study of Insects, p. 563. 
2. To sound shrilly ; be shrill. 
The horrid yells and shrilling screams. 
Burke, Rev. in France. 
Idly list the shrilling lay 
With which the milkmaid cheers her way. 
Scott, Mannion, i., Int. 
II. trans. 1. To cause to give out a shrill 
sound. 
About me leap'd and laugh'd 
The modish Cupid of the day, 
And shrill'd his tinsel shaft. 
Tennyson, Talking Oak. 
2. To utter or produce with a shrill sound. 
How poor Andromache shrills her dolours forth ! 
Shale., T. andC.,v. 8. 84. 
The locust shrills his song of heat. 
Whittier, The Summons. 
shrill (shril), n. [E. dial. (Sc.) also, transposed, 
shirl; < ME. /i?'i7, schryt, schrylle = D. gchril = 
LG. schrell, > G. dial, schrill, shrill ; appar. from 
the verb or noun: see shrill, r.] 1. Sharp and 
piercing in sound; high and keen (somewhat 
disagreeably so) in voice or note : the common 
use of the word. 
Shyrle as ones voyse is . . . trenchant. 
Palsgram. L'Eclaircissement, p. 323. 
Thy small pipe 
Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound. 
And all is semblative a woman's part. 
Shak., T. N., i. 4. 33. 
5599 
Some female vendor's scream, belike 
The very shrillest of all London cries. 
Wordmcorth, Prelude, vii. 
2. Emitting or capable of emitting a sharp, 
high, piercing sound. 
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give 
To sounds confused. Shak.. Hen. V., iii., Pro!., 1. 9. 
Wind the thrill horn, or spread the waving net. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. Oti. 
3. Piercing: sharp; affecting the senses sharp- 
ly or keenly ; bright. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
Quen glem of glodez agaynz hem glydez 
Wyth schynierynge schene ful tearyui thay [silver leaves! 
schynde. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), 1. 80. 
The Lady's-head upon the prow 
Caught the thrill salt, and sheer'd the gale. 
Tennyson, The Voyage. 
shrill (shril), n. [< ithrill, .] A keen or pier- 
cing sound. [Rare.] 
I heard a voyce, which loudly to me called, 
That with the suddein shrill I was appalled. 
Spenser, Ruins of Time, 1. 581. 
You may . . . almost fancy you hear the shrill of the 
midsummer cricket. 
H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 151. 
shrill (shril), adr. [< ME. schrille, schirle; < 
shrill, a.] In a shrill manner; shrilly. 
The hounds and horn 
Through the high wood echoing shrill. 
Milton, L' Allegro, 1. 63. 
shrill-edged (shril'ejd), a. Acute, sharp, or 
piercing in sound. [Bare.] 
I heard 
The shrill-edged shriek of a mother divide the shuddering 
night. Tennyson, Maud, i. 4. 
shrill-gorged (shril'gdrjd), a. Having a gorge 
or throat that gives a shrill or acute sound; 
having a clear or high-pitched voice or note. 
Look up a-height ; the shrill-gorged lark so far 
Cannot be seen or heard. Shak., Lear, iv. 6. 58. 
shrilling (shril'ing), n. [Verbal n. of shrill, .] 
A shrill noise or cry: as, the shrilling of the lo- 
cust. 
As if in revenge, some relative of the murdered katydid 
found its way into the room, and began its vibrant shrill- 
ing near her bed. Harper's Mag. , LXXVI. 37. 
shrillness (shril'nes), . The quality of being 
shrill ; acuteness of sound ; high pitch and 
sharpness or fineness of tone or voice. 
Sure, this voice is new, 
Whose shrillness, like the sounding of a bell, 
Tells me it is a woman. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, ii. 4. 
shrill-tongued (shril'tungd), a. Speaking in 
a high and shrill voice. 
Is she shrill-tongued or low? Shak., A. and C., iii. 3. 16. 
shrill-voiced (shril'voist), a. Having a shrill 
or piercing voice. 
What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry ? 
Shak., Rich. II., v. 3. 76. 
Shrilly (shril'i), a. [< shrill + -#!.] Some- 
what shrill. 
Some kept up a shrilly mellow sound. 
Keats, Endymion, L 
Shrilly (shril'li),<Kfe. [< shrill + -ly2.~\ In a shrill 
manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice. 
Mount up aloft, my Muse ; and now more shrilly sing. 
Dr. H. More, Psychathanasia, II. ii. 40. 
The small philosopher . . . cries out shrilly from his 
elevation. Landor, Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. 
shrimp 1 (shrimp), >. t. and i. [Assibilated form 
of scrimp. Cf. shruinp.'] To contract; shrink. 
shrimp 2 (shrimp), n. [< ME. "shrimp, slirymp, 
sclirymp; < *shrimp, assibilated form of scrimp, 
scanty, small: see shrimp 1 , v,, scrimp, .] 1. A 
salt-water long-tailed 
ten-footed crustacean of 
the family Crangonidse, 
and especially of the ge- 
nus Crangon. C.vulgarisits 
the common shrimp of Great 
Britain, about 2 inches long, 
greenish-gray dotted with 
brown, of fragile structure, 
somewhat translucent, and 
esteemed a delicacy as food. 
It boils to a brown color, not 
red as is usual with crusta- 
ceans. The shrimps are close- 
ly related to prawns, and one 
of the prawns, Pandalus an- 
nulicornis, a British species, 
is often miscalled shrimp. 
The name is also extended to 
various related crustaceans. 
Among those bearing this 
name in the United States are 
some Gammaridtt, as Gam- 
marus .fasciatus; species of 
Pandalus, as P. annulicomix, 
the deep-water shrimp, and 
P. danx. which is dried in shri ,, lp (Cranptn 
California for exportation to natural size. 
shrine 
China ; the river-shrimp, Paleemon ohimiis; and Penaul 
Irraxilieivtis of the C'aroluias. Florida, etc. See also cut 
under Gammarus. 
Schrymp, fysche, Stingus. Prompt. Parv., p. 449. 
2. A little wrinkled person ; a dwarfish crea- 
ture ; a manikin : in contempt. 
We borel men been shrympes; 
Of fleble trees ther comen wrecched ympes. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Monk's Tale, 1. 67. 
Alas, this is a child, a silly dwarf! 
It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp 
Should strike such terror to his enemies. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 3. 23. 
Fresh-water shrimp. sue/A-water. Mountebank 
shrimp, a beach-flea or sand-hopper : so called from its 
agility. 
shrimp 12 (shrimp). /. i. [< shrimp'*, .] To 
catch or fish for shrimps. 
shrimp-chaff (shrimp'chaf), 11. Refuse win- 
nowed from dried shrimps by Chinese in Cali- 
fornia, and exported to China as a fertilizer 
for tea-plants. The meat of the shrimp is an 
article of food. [California.] 
Shrimper (shrim'per), . [< shrimp 1 + -er 1 .] 
A person who catches shrimps; a shrimp- 
catcher. 
The shrimpers, who wade nearly to their middle for 
hours. E. P. Wright, Animal Life, p. 53S. 
Fishers and shrimpers by name, smugglers by opportu- 
nity. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 742. 
shrimping (shrim'ping), n. [Verbal n. of 
shrimp*, r.] The occupation or business of 
catching shrimps. 
shrimp-net (shrimp 'net), n. A fishing-net 
adapted to the capture of shrimps; a small- 
meshed bag-net or scoop-net with a long wooden 
handle. 
shrinal (shri'nal), a. [< shrine + -n?.] Of or 
pertaining to a shrine ; containing a shrine ; of 
the nature of a shrine. [Rare.] 
There appears to have been a pagan Saxon household 
close outside the east gate of the City of Exeter, whereof 
the four daughters became Christian two of them mar- 
tyrs, of whom one has left her name, St. Sidwell, in a 
shrinal church on the blood-stained spot. 
N. and Q., 6th ser., IX. 251. 
shrine (shrin), . [< ME. shrync, sehrin, schryne, 
scryne, < AS. serin, an ark (used with ref. to 
the ark of the covenant), = D. schrijn = MLG. 
sehrin = OHG. serial, MHG. sehrin, G. schrein 
= Icel. skrin = Sw. Dan. skrin = OF. serin, 
escrin(> E. scrine), F. fyyrin = Pr. cscrin = OSp. 
escrinio, eserifto, a box, shrine, = It. serigno = 
OBulg. skriniya, skrina = Serv. skrinya = Bo- 
hem, skrzhine = Pol. skrzynia, krzynia = Russ. 
skrynya, skrinu = Hung, szekreny = Lith. skrine 
= Lett, skrine, skritiis, a shrine, = L. scrinium, 
a chest, box, case, letter-case, escritoire, casket, 
ML. (eccles.) a shrine; root unknown. Chest, 
box, and ark are also derived through AS. from 
L. (box ult. from Gr.) ; case is also derived from 
L. through F.] 1. A box; an ark; a chest. 
She [Cleopatre] . . . 
Made hir subtil werkmen make a shryne 
Of allc the rubies and the stones fyne 
In al Egipte that she koude espye ; and forth she fette 
This dede cors, and in the shryne it shette. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 672. 
2. A box for holding the bones of saints or 
other sacred relics; a reliquary. Portable shrines 
containing relics were commonly arched boxes covered 
with precious metal, enamels, and engraving, and in 
churches were generally placed near the altar. See cut 
under monstrance. 
He [Ethelred] bestows the reliques of St. Alban in a 
shrine of Pearl and Gold. Milton, Hist. Eng., iv. 
Over the high altar are preserved, in a very large 
wrought shrine of massy gold, the relicks of St. Firmin, 
their patron saint. Gray, Letters, I. 18. 
Hence 3. A tomb of a canonized or other 
sacred person; the mausoleum of a saint; a 
tomb of shrine-like configuration. 
Howbeit there is a merualous fayre shryne for hym, 
wrought all of fyne whyte marble, of wonderful curyous 
and sumptuous werke. 
Sir R. Guytforde, Pylgrymage, p. 79. 
It was a national as well as a religious feeling that drew 
great multitudes to the shrine of Becket, the first Eng- 
lishman who since the Conquest had been terrible to the 
foreign tyrants. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., i. 
4. An altar, small chapel or temple, or other 
sacred object or place peculiarly consecrated 
to and supposed to be hallowed by the presence 
of some deity, saint, mythological hero, or other 
personality reputed sacred. See cut on follow- 
ing page, and cut under octastyle. 
For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, 
which made silver shrines for [of, R. V.] Diana, brought 
no small gain unto the craftsmen. Acts \ix. 24. 
Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shriitf. 
Within this half-hour, hath received his sight. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 68. 
