shrine 
Shrine ot St. Calmine, Duke of Aquitaine, in enameled and gilded 
copper ; early ijth century. 
(From Viollet-le-Duc's " Diet, du Mobilier francais.") 
It [sculptured relief with figure of a goddess] is in the 
form of a small ihrine (fnunoc la little temple]). 
Harrison and Verratt, Ancient Athens, p. 44. 
8f. Erroneously, an image. 
From the four corners of the earth they come, 
To kiss thissAriw, this mortal-breathing saint 
Shot., M. of V., ii. 7. 40. 
Hearing us praise our loves of Italy, 
... for feature, laming 
The ihrine of Venus, or straight-pight Minerva. 
Shak., Cymbeline, x. 5. 164. 
6. Metaphorically, a thing or place hallowed 
and consecrated by its history or past associa- 
tions, or supposed to be the incarnation of some 
object of worship. 
Shrine of the mighty ! can it be 
That this is all remains of thee? 
Byron, The Giaour, 1. 106. 
I ... worshipped at innumerable shrines of beauty. 
Willis, Florence Gray. 
7f. A charnel-house. Hollyband. (Halliirell.) 
Bell-shrine , a cover put over a bell when it is not in 
use: an ecclesiastical utensil, and as such usually deco- 
rated with religious emblems, especially in early Irish art. 
shrine (shnn), c. t. ; pret. and pp. shrined, ppr. 
shrining. [< ME. shrunen, schrynen, enshrine, 
canonize; < shrine, n. Cf. enshrine.} 1. To 
place in a shrine ; enshrine ; hence, figurative- 
ly, to deify or canonize. 
Ye might be shryned for your brotelnesse, 
Bet than Dalyda, Creseide, or Candace. 
Against Women (Inconstant. 
The Almighty Father, where he siU 
Shrined in his sanctuary of heaven secure. 
Milton, P. L., vi. 672. 
2. To inclose in something suggestive of the 
great preciousness of what is inclosed: as, the 
jewel was shrined in a velvet casket. 
In painting her I shrined her face 
'Mid mystic trees. D. G. Rossetti, The Portrait. 
shrink (shringk), t 1 . ; pret. shrank and shrunk, 
pp. shrunk and shrunken (formerly also shrinked), 
ppr. shrinking. [< ME. shrinben, schrinken, 
scrinken (pret. schrank, schrotik, pp. shrunken, 
shrunke), < AS. scrincan (pret. scranc, pp. 
scruncen), contract, shrivel up (chiefly in comp. 
for-scrincan), = MD. schrinken, shrink; in cau- 
sal form OHG. screnchan, screnken, schrenken, 
MHG. schrenken, G. schrdnken, cause to shrink, 
intr. sink, go aside; cf. Sw. skrynka, a wrinkle, 
skrynkla, wrinkle, rumple, dial, skrukka, shrink 
together, Icel. skrenkr, shrunk; prob. akin to 
shrimp 1 , scrimp. Cf. scringe, shrng.~\ I. in trans. 
1. To contract spontaneously; draw or be 
drawn into less length, breadth, or compass by 
an inherent property : as. woolen cloth shrinks 
in hot water ; a flaxen or hempen line shrinks 
in a humid atmosphere. 
He touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew 
that shrank. Gen. xxxii. 32. 
Water, water everywhere, 
And all the boards did shrink. 
Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, ii. 
2. To diminish ; reduce. 
O mighty Caesar ! dost thou lie so low ? 
Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, 
Shrunk to this little measure? Shak., J. C., iii. 1. 160. 
Philosophy, that lean'd on Heaven before, 
Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. 
Pope, Dunciad, iv. 644. 
3. To shrivel; become wrinkled by contraction, 
as the skin. 
I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen 
Upon a parchment, and against this flre 
Do I shrink up. Shak. , K. John, v. 7. 34. 
And shrink like parchment in consuming flame. 
Dryden, Annns Mirabilis, st. 266. 
4. To draw back or retire, as from danger; re- 
coil physically, as in fear, horror, or distrust; 
sometimes, simply, to go aside. 
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But no way he saw he could so much pleasure them as 
by leaving the two friends alone, who being shrunk aside 
to the banqueting house, where the pictures were, there 
Palladius recounted unto Pyrocles his fortunate escape 
from the wreck and his ensuing adventures. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. 
It is shamefull for a King to boast at Table and shrink 
in flght. Milton, Hist. Eng., v. 
E'en as a bather might 
Shrink from the water, from the naked night 
She shrank a little. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 316. 
5. To decline or hesitate to act, as from fear; 
recoil morally or mentally, as in fear, horror, 
distrust, distaste, and the like. 
The proud have had me exceedingly in derision ; yet 
have I not shrinked from thy law. 
Book of Common Prayer, Psalter, Ps. cxix. 51. 
I have seen him do such things belief would shrink at 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, i. 1. 
He shrunk from no deed of treachery or violence. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 1. 
6. To express fear, horror, or pain by shrug- 
ging or contracting the body; wince; flinch. 
The gray mare 
Is ill to live with, when her whinny shrills 
From tile to scullery, and her small good-man 
Shrinks in his arm-chair. Tennyson, Princess, v. 
= Svn. 3. See shrivel. 4-6. To flinch, blench. 
II. trans. 1. To cause to contract: as, to 
shrink flannel by immersing it in boiling water. 
To shrink mine arm up like a wlther'd shrub. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 156. 
The first is merry drunk, 
And this, although his braines be somewhat shrtink 
I'th' wetting, hath, they say, but little hart 
In his demeanour. Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 63. 
Keep it from coming too long, lest it should shrink the 
corn In measure. Mortimer, Husbandry. 
2. To make smaller ; make appear smaller. 
He had some other drawbacks as a gardener. He shrank 
the very place he cultivated. The dignity and reduced 
gentility of his appearance made the small garden cut a 
sorry figure. R. L. Stevenson, An Old Scotch Gardener. 
3. To withdraw: formerly with in. 
The Lihyck Hammon shrinks his horn. 
Milton, Nativity, 1. 203. 
His [Beelzebub's] awful Horns above his crown did rise, 
And force his friends to shrink in theirs. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. 16. 
That the Mountains should shrink in their heads, to fill 
up the vast places of the deep. 
StiUinyfleet, Sermons, I. ill. 
Another-while onder the Crystoll brinks 
Her alabastrine well-shap't Limbs she shrinks, 
Like to a Lilly sunk into a glaase. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du BarUs's Weeks, ii., The Trophies. 
To shrink on. to fix firmly by causing to shrink : thus, the 
tire of a wheel or the hoop or Jacket of a cannon is shrunk 
on by making it slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, 
expanding it by heat till it can be slipped into place, and 
then rapidly cooling it. 
This mortar was strengthened by heavy wrought-iron 
bands shrunk on it. Jiissler, Mod. High Explosives, p. 72. 
shrink (shringk), H. [< shrink, .] 1. The act 
of shrinking; a spontaneous drawing into less 
compass. 
Although they [horses] be striken cleare through, or 
that the bullets do still remaine in them, they after the 
first shrinck at the entring of the bullet doo passe their 
Carrire as though they had verie little or no hurt 
Sir J. Smyth, in Ellls's Letters, p. 55. 
2. A contraction. 
There is in this a crack, which seems a shrink or con- 
traction in the body since it was first formed. Woodward. 
3f. A shrug. 
shrive 
I have also sulijri-tnl the cortex to the action c.f (tlycc- 
rine, with more remarkable results in the way of shrink- 
aye. Alien, and Keurol., VI. 559. 
2. Figuratively, a similar reduction of any 
kind, as loss of weight ; especially, loss of val- 
ue: as, shrinkage in real estate. 3. Amount of 
diminution of surface or bulk, weight or valur: 
as, the shrinkage of cast-iron by cooling is one 
eighth of an inch to a foot ; the xhrinkiigi' n t ln> 
goods was 10 per cent. 4. In gun., the differ- 
ence between the outside diameter of the inner 
cylinder and the inside diameter of the outer 
cylinder of a built-up gun. The quantity by which 
the former exceeds the latter Is often called the absolute 
shrinkage, and is expressed in the decimal parts of an 
inch. Relative shrinkage is the ratio obtained riy dividinc 
the absolute shrinkage by the interior diameter of the 
outer cylinder. It is expressed in thousandths and deci- 
mal parts of thousandths of an inch, and represents the 
absolute shrinkage per linear inch of the diameter of the 
outer cylinder. The theoretical shrinkage for a particular 
gun is that deduced by mathematical computation from 
known and assumed conditions and dimensions. Theoc- 
tual shrinkage is that actually obtained in practice, and 
varies from the theoretical shrinkage on account of the 
imperfections of manufacture. 
Shrinkage-crack (shring'kaj-krak), n. One of 
various small cracks such as are occasionally 
seen to form a kind of network on the surface 
of a bed of rock, and which appear to have 
been caused by shrinkage soon after that par- 
ticular layer had been deposited and while it 
was being dried by exposure to the sun and 
air; a sun-crack. 
An entirely different kind of shrinkage-crack is that 
which occurs in certain carbonised and flattened plants, 
and which sometimes communicates to them a marvellous 
resemblance to the netted under surface of an exogenous 
leaf. Dawson, Geol. Hist, of Plants, p. 33. 
shrinkage-rule (shring'kaj-rol), n. A rule, 
used by pattern-makers, in which the gradua- 
tions are so much larger than the normal mea- 
surements that the patterns measured off by 
such a rule will be large enough to allow for 
shrinkage, without any computation on the part 
of the workman. The rule must be graduated 
with special reference to the metal to be cast. 
shrinker (shring'ker), n. One who shrinks; one 
who withdraws from danger. 
shrinking-head(shring'king-hed), . Amass 
of molten metal poured into a mold to com- 
pensate for the shrinkage of the first casting. 
Also called sinking-head and riser. 
shrinkingly (shring'king-li), adr. In a shrink- 
ing manner ; by shrinking. 
Shrite (shrit), . [Prob. a var. of shrike, < ME. 
"shrike, < AS. scric, a thrush : see shrike 2 ."] The 
mistlethrush, Turdus riscivorus. Macgillivray. 
See cut under mistlethrush. 
shrivaltyt, . An obsolete spelling of shrievalty. 
shrive 1 (shriv), v. ; pret. shrore, shrived, pp. 
rly also 
We 
That tread the path of public business 
Know what a tacit shrug is, or a shrink. 
B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, i. 1. 
You cannot blame the Spaniard to be satyrical against 
Q. Elizabeth ; for he never speaks of her but he fetcheth 
a Shrink in the Shoulder. Howell, Letters, ii. 71. 
4. A diminution; a falling away ; shrinkage. 
I saw a visible shrink in all orders of men among us, 
from that greatness and that goodness which was in the 
first grain that our God brought from three sifted king- 
doms into this land, when it was a land not sown. 
C. Mather, Mag. Chris., Hi., Int. 
5. A withdrawing from fear or horror; recoil. 
Not a sigh, a look, or shrink bewrays 
The least felt touch of a degenerous fear. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, i. 52. 
Shrinkable (shring'ka-bl), a. [< shrink + 
-nble.~\ Capable of being shrunk; able or liable 
to shrink. 
shrinkage (shring'kaj), n. [< shrink + -age.'} 
1. The contraction of a material to a smaller 
surface or bulk, whether by cooling after be- 
ing heated, as a metal, or by drying, as timber 
or clay, or by wetting, as cord or fabrics. 
There are some grades of imported wool on which the 
shrinkage and loss in manufacture are so great that the 
compensating duty is not excessive. 
Tautsig, Tariff History, p. 211. 
shriven, shrived, ppr. shriring. [Formerly 
shrieve; < ME. shriven, shryven, schriven, schry- 
ren, schryfen (pret. shrore, shrof, schrof, schraf, 
pp. shriven, schriven, scriven, screffe, y-shryre), 
< AS. scrifan (pret. scrdf, pp. scrifen), pre- 
scribe penance, hear confessions, = OFries. 
skriva, shrive ; cf. Icel. skripta, shrive, confess, 
impose penance. = Sw. skrifta = Dan. skrifte, 
confess (from the noun represented by E. 
shrift); usually identified, as orig. 'write,' with 
OS. scribhan = OFries. skriva = D. sehrijren = 
MLG. schriren = OHG. scriban, MHG. schriben, 
G. schreiben, write, < L. scribere, write, draw up 
(a law, decree, charge, etc.), enroll: see scribe, 
v. Cf. shrift, Shrovetide.] I. trans. 1. To pre- 
scribe penance to for sin ; impose penance on. 
Persie, beleeue me, thou shryvest me verie neere in this 
latter demaund, which concerneth vs more deeply than 
the former, and may worke vs more damage than thou art 
aware of. Nashe, Pierce Penilesse, p. 67. 
"In the week immediately before Lent, every one shall 
go to his confessor," said the Ecclesiastical Institutes, 
"and confess his deeds; and his confessor shall so shrive 
him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do." 
Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. ii. 61, 
2. To receive a confession from (a penitent) 
and grant absolution ; hence, to receive an ac- 
knowledgment (of a fault) from, and pardon. 
In that chapelle, yf thou wolte crave, 
vii M yere thou myghtest have, 
And so many lenttis more 
yff thowe Tie screffe, thou mayste have BOO, 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 130. 
I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. 
Shak., M. of V., i. 2. 144. 
Let me go hence, 
And In some cloister's school of penitence, 
Across those stones, that pave the way to heaven, 
Walk barefoot, till my guilty soul be shriven .' 
Lowjfelltnr, Wayside Inn, King Robert of Sicily. 
3. To acknowledge a fault; confess to a priest 
and receive absolution : used reflexively. 
