shroud 
Where like a mounting Cedar he should beare 
His plumed top aloft into the ayre, 
And let these shrubs sit vnderneath his shrowdes, 
Whilst in his armes he doth embrace the clowdes. 
Drayton, Queen Margaret to Duke of Suffolk. 
In ellum-sAnmd* the hangliird clings. 
Lowell, Biglow Papers, vi. 
shrouding (shrou'ding), n. [< shroud 1 + -ing 1 .'] 
The sides of a water-wheel which form the ends 
of the buckets. 
shrouding-gear (shrou'ding-ger), . A cog- 
gear in which the cogs are protected or strength- 
ened by a flange at the side which comes out 
even with the face 
of the wheel, and 
makes the cogs in ef- 
fect mortises in the 
face of the wheel. E. 
H. Knight. 
shroud-knot 
(shroud'not), n. A 
knot by which the 
two parts of a shroud 
which has been bro- 
ken or shot away are 
reunited. 
shroudless (shroud'les), a. [< shroud* + -less.'] 
1. Without a shroud: especially noting a dead 
body unburied, or buried hastily. 
To where a mangled corse, 
Expos'd without remorse, 
Lies shroudless, uneutomb'd he points the way. 
Dodsley, Melpomene. 
2. Unveiled; unobscured. 
Above the stars in shroudless beauty shine. 
C. Swain, quoted in Southey's Doctor, Ixxviii. (Dames.) 
Shroud-knots. 
o. Resembling a 
shroudlike (shroud ' Ilk), 
shroud; hence, funereal. 
And thou, whose hands the shroudlike cypress rear. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, i. 25. 
shroud-plate (shroud'plat), . 1. Naut., same 
as chain-plate. See cut under channel'*. 2. In 
Dutch., same as shroud*, 6. 
shroud-rope (shroud 'rop), n. Rope fit to make 
a ship's shrouds of. 
shroud-Stopper (shroud'stop"er). n. Xaut., a 
piece of rope made fast above and below the 
damaged part of a shroud which has been in- 
jured by shot or otherwise, in order to secure it. 
See stopper. 
shroudy (shrou'di), o. [< shroud* + -y 1 .] Af- 
fording shelter. [Rare.] 
If your stray attendance be yet lodg'd 
Within these shroudie limits. 
Milton, MS. of Comus, Trinity College, Cambridge. (Rich.) 
shrove 1 (shrov), n. [Found only in comp. Shrove- 
tide, Shroee Tuesday, and the derived verb 
shrove; < ME. *shrof (in comp. shrofday: see 
Shrove-day), < AS. scrifan (pret. scraf), shrive : 
see shrive*. Cf. shrift.] Shrift; shriving: used 
only in composition , or in such phrases as Shroee 
Tuesday. See shrift and shriring Shrove Mon- 
day, the day before Shrove Tuesday. Also Collop Mon- 
day. Shrove Sunday, the Sunday before Shrove Tues- 
day; Quinquagesima Sunday. Snrove Tuesday, the 
Tuesday before the first day in Lent, or Ash Wednesday : 
so called from the custom of making confession on that 
day, in preparation for Lent. The day formerly was, and 
in some places still is, passed in sports and merrymaking. 
Also called Pancake Tuesday (see pancake). Fastens Tues- 
day, in Scotland Fasteriis-een or Fastens E'en, and by the 
French Mardi grot. See Shrovetide. 
As fit as ... a pancake for Shrove Tuesday. 
Shak., All's Well, ii. 2. 25. 
Cock-fighting and throwing at cocks on Shrove-Tuesday, 
and playing at hand-ball for tansy-cakes at Easter-tide. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 451. 
shrove 1 ( shrov), . i. ; pret. and pp. shroved, ppr. 
shroving. [< shrove*, .] To take part in the 
festivities of Shrovetide ; hence, in general, to 
make merry. 
As though he went 
A shrouing through the city. 
Fletcher (and another), Noble Gentleman, iii. 1. 
Berlinyacciont; one that loueth to shroue ever and make 
good cheere. Florio, 1611. 
shrove 2 (shrov). Preterit of shrive*. 
shrove-cake (shrov'kak), n. 1 . A pancake made 
at Shrovetide, and holding an important place 
in the merrymaking of the season. 2. A small 
cake made to give to children at Shrovetide. 
Halliwell. 
Shrove-dayt, n. [ME. shrofday; < shrove* + 
day.] Same as Shrove Tuesday. 
shrove-prenticet (shrov'pren'tis), n. One of 
a set of ruffianly fellows who took at Shrove- 
tide the name of "London Prentices." 
More cruell then shrove-prentices, when they, 
Drunk in a brothell house, are bid to pay. 
Davenant, Madagascar (1648X p. 28. (Halliwell.) 
5602 
shrover (shro'ver), H. One who goes in com- 
pany with others from house to house singing 
for cakes at Shrovetide. [Prov. Eng.] 
Shrovetide (shrov'tid), n. Time of confession ; 
specifically, the period between the evening of 
the Saturday before Quinquagesima Sunday 
and the morning of Ash Wednesday, as being 
the period when people were shriven in prepa- 
ration for Lent : still further restricted to des- 
ignate Shrove Tuesday. 
And welcome merry Shrove-tide. 
Shalt., 2 Hen. IV., v. 3. 38. 
In Essex and Suffolk, at Shrovetide or upon Shrove-Tnes- 
day, after the confession, it was usual for the farmer to 
permit his ploughman to go to the barn blindfolded, and 
"thresh the fat hen," saying, "if you can kill her then 
give it thy men ; and go you and dine on fritters and pan- 
cakes. " Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 451. 
Shrove-tide, or the week before Lent, brought along with 
it more than one religious and ritual observance. 
Rode, Church of our Fathers, III. ii. 61. 
shrovingt (shro' ving), . [Verbal n. of shrove 1 , 
.] The celebration of Shrovetide; hence, in 
general, any merrymaking or festivity. 
All which we on this stage shall act or say 
Doth solemnize Apollo's shroving day; 
Whilst thus we greete you by our words and pens, 
Our shroving bodeth death to none but hens. 
W. Hawkins, Apollo Shroving (1626X p. 6. (Saxes.) 
Eating, drinking, merry-making, . . . what else, I be- 
seech you, was the whole life of this miserable man here, 
but in a manner a perpetual shroving ? 
Hales, Sermon on Luke xvi. 26. 
shroving-time (shro'ving-tim), . Shrovetide. 
If thir absolute Determination be to enthral us, before 
so long a Lent of Servitude they may permit us a little 
Shroviny-time first, wherin to speak freely, and take our 
leaves of Liberty. Milton, Free Commonwealth. 
shrovy (shro' vi), a. A dialectal variant, assibi- 
lated and transposed, of scurvy*. Halliwell. 
shrowt, . An obsolete form of shrew*. 
shrub 1 (shrub), n. [< ME. shrob, schrub, sehrob, 
an assibilated form of scrub, "scrob, < AS. scrob, 
a shrub; preserved in Scrob-scire, Shropshire, 
Scrobbes-byrig, Shrewsbury (lit. Shrubsbury), 
Scrobbes-byrig-scyre, Shre wsburyshire, the older 
name of Shropshire; cf. scrybbe, a shrubbery. 
Cf. E. dial, shruff, also scroff, refuse wood. See 
scrub 1 .] A woody plant with stems branched 
from or near the ground, and, in general, small- 
er than a tree ; a bush, or woody vine. The line 
which divides trees from shrubs is to a large extent ar- 
bitrary, and is often very unsatisfactory In application, but 
in general the name shrub may be applied to a woody 
plant of less size than a tree, with several permanent 
woody stems dividing from the bottom, more slender and 
lower than in a tree. The line between shrub and herb 
is also indistinct, as many herbaceous plants are more or 
less woody. For practical purposes shrubs are divided 
into the deciduous and evergreen kinds. There are many 
very ornamental flowering shrubs, among the best-known 
of which are those belonging to the genera Rosa, Rhodo- 
dendron, Kalmia, Viburnum, Philadelphus, Vaccinium. 
Among evergreen shrubs are the box and various heaths. 
Compare tree, herb. 
If the Cedar be so Weather-beaten, we poor Shrubs must 
not murmur to bear Part of the Storm. 
Howett, Letters, ii. 76. 
So thick entwined, 
As one continued brake, the undergrowth 
Of shrubs and tangling bushes had perplex'd 
All path of man or beast that pass'd that way. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 176. 
Gooseberries and currants are shrubs ; oaks and cherries 
are trees. Locke. 
Sweetly -smelling Shrubs the Ground o'ershade. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
The laurel-Ar!>8 that hedge it around. 
Tennyson, The Poet's Mind. 
High- water shrub. See Iva. Sweet or sweet-scent- 
ed shrub, the Carolina allspice. See Calycanthus. =Syn. 
Bush, Herb, etc. See vegetable, n. 
shrub 1 (shrub), v. t. ; pret. and pp. shrubbed, 
ppr. shrubbing. [< shrub 1 , .] 1. To prune 
down so that a shrubby form shall be preserved. 
Though they be well shrttbbed and shred, yet they begin 
even now before the spring to bud, and hope again in 
time to flourish as the green bay-tree. 
Anderson, Expos, of Benedictus (1573), fol. 64. 
2. To reduce (a person) to poverty by winning 
his whole stock : a word used at play. Halli- 
well. [Prov. Eng.] 
shrub 2 (shrub) . [A var. of shrab (< Ar. 
sharab), or a transposed form of *shurb, < Ar. 
shurb, shirb, a drink, a beverage, < shariba, 
drink. Cf. shrub, sherbet, and syrup, from the 
same source.] A drink or cordial prepared 
from the juice of fruit and various other in- 
gredients, (o) A drink made by boiling currant-juice 
about ten minutes with an equal weight of sugar, and 
adding a little rum : it is also made with other fruits, and 
sometimes with brandy. 
There never was any liquor so good as rum-8^r&, never ; 
and tbe sausages had a flavor of Elysium. 
Thackeray, Philip, ii. 
shruff 
Shrub, again rum shrub is there any living man who 
now calls for shrub? W. Bezant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 170. 
(6) A cordial or syrup consisting of the acid juice of some 
fruit, as the raspberry, cooked with sugar and vinegar, 
and diluted with water when used. [U. S.] 
"Mr. Peckham, would you be so polite as to pass me a 
glass of shrub ? " Silas Peckham . . . took from the table 
a small glass cup, containing a fluid reddish in hue and 
subacid in taste. 0. W. Holmes, Elsie Venner, vii. 
King and Forbes, sipping their raspberry shrub in a re- 
tired corner of the barroom, were interested spectators of 
the scene. C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 206. 
shrub 3 t, v. An obsolete form of scrub'*. 
"As how, as how?" said Zadock, shrugging and shrub- 
bing. Xashe, Unfortunate Traveller (1594). (Kares.) 
shrubbed (shmbd), a. [< shrub* + -ed?.] 
Shrubby. 
The woods in all these northern parts are short and 
shrubbed. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 419). 
Neere at hand were growing diuers shrubbed trees. 
Warner, Albion's England, ii. 
shrubberied (shrub'er-id), a. [< shrubbery + 
-erf 2 .] Abounding in shrubbery. 
Oxford itself, with its quiet, shady gardens, and smooth, 
grassy lawns, . . . and shrubberied " parks," is attractive 
to many birds. Athenaeum, No. 3240, p. 747. 
shrubbery (shrub'er-i), n. ; pi. shrubberies (-iz). 
[< shrub* + -ery-1 1. Shrubs collectively; low 
shrubby bushes. 
While grey evening lull'd the wind, and call'd 
Fresh odours from the shrubbery at my side, 
Taking my lonely winding walk, I mus'd. 
Cmeper, Four Ages. 
They passed, and, opening an iron gate, came suddenly 
into a gloomy maze of shrubbery that stretched its long 
vistas up the valley. H. Kingsley, Kavenshoe, xC 
2. A plantation of shrubs, as in a garden or 
pleasure-ground . 
A modern shrubbery, formed of a selection of the most 
agreeable flowering shrubs. V. Knox, Essays, No. 115. 
She would give her adyice as to the trees which were 
to be lopped in the shrubberies, the garden-beds to be dug, 
the crops which were to be cut. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, x. 
shrubbiness (shrub'i-nes), . The state or 
quality of being shrubby. Bailey, 1727. 
shrubby (shrub'i), a. [< shrub* + -y*. Cf. 
scrubby.] 1. Abounding in shrubs. 
Lad. Gentle villager, 
What readiest way would bring me to that place? 
Com. Due west it rises from this shrubby point. 
Milton, Comns, 1. 306. 
Farther inland, in a sandy and shrubby landscape, is 
Kendall Green, a private cemetery. 
C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 122. 
2. Consisting of shrubs. 
The goats their shrubby browze 
Gnaw pendent. J. Philips, Cider, i. 
These are their bread, the only bread they know ; 
These and their willing slave the deer, that crops 
The shrubby herbage on their meagre hills. 
Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health, 1. 314. 
3. Shrub-like ; scrubby : said of stunted tree- 
growths. 
The land about it is dry and sandy, bearing only a few 
shrubby trees. Dampier, Voyages, vi. 
4. Somewhat woody : said of herbaceousplants 
with the stem more or less lignified in the older 
parts. 
The woods began to be very full of thorns and shrubby 
bushes. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 419). 
Shrubby althsaa, bittersweet, horsetail. See the 
nouns. Shrubby trefoil. See ftelea. 
shrubless (shrub'les), a. [< shrub* + -less.'] 
Destitute even of shrubs. 
Among the stones I stood a stone, 
And was, scarce conscious what I wist, 
As shrubless crags within the mist. 
Byron, Prisoner of Chillon, ix. 
shrub-shilling (shrub'shiFing), n. See shilling. 
shrub-snail (shrub'snal), . A European snail, 
Helix arbustorum. 
shrub-yellowroot (shrub'yel"6-rot), n. A low 
shrubby ranunculaceous plant, Xanthorrhiza 
apiifolia, of the Alleghany region. Its bark and its 
rootstock are deep-yellow and bitter, and were once used 
by the Indians for dyeing. 
shniff 1 (shruf), . [A form of scruff, which 
is a transposed form of scurf*. Cf. shruff 2 .'] 
Dross of metals. 
shruff 2 (shruf), . [< ME. schroff; an assibilated 
form of scruff, scroff, refuse wood; perhaps 
connected with shrub*, scmb*.~\ 1. Lightrefuse 
wood, used as fuel. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
Thus baterid this bred on busshes aboute, 
And gaderid gomes on grene ther as they walkyd, 
That all the schroff and schroup sondrid ffrom other. 
Richard the Kedeless, ii. 154. 
2. Refuse; rubbish. 
But these mad legers do besides inixe among their 
other sacks of coles store of shru/e dust and small cole to 
their great advantage. 
Greene, Discovery of Ooosnage (1591). (Sores.) 
