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Behold yon poor and starved hand. 
And your fair shew shall suck away their souls, 
Leaving them but the shales and husks of men. Shahspeare. 
A black slaty substance, or a clay hardened into a stony 
consistence, and so much impregnated with bitumen, that it 
becomes somewhat like a coal. It forms large strata in 
Derbyshire. Chambers. —Coals and aluminous earths, or 
shale. Philos. Trans. 
To SHALE, v. a. To peel; to shell: a northern word. 
Grose. 
SHALES, a village of England, situated on the Barbeck, 
west of Orton. 
SHALFLEET, a parish of England, in the Isle of Wight, 
Southamptonshire. The church is large, and of Norman ar¬ 
chitecture, with some painted glass in the windows; 3§ miles 
east-by-south of Yarmouth. Population 709. 
SHALFORD, a parish of England, in Essex, situated on 
the Blackwater; 5 miles north-north-west of Braintree. Po¬ 
pulation 539. 
SHALFORD, a parish of England, in Surrey; If mile 
south-south-east of Guildford. Population 620. 
SHALL, v. defective, [fceal, Sax. is originally I owe , 
or I ought. In Chaucer, the failhe I shall to God, means, 
the faith I owe to God: thence it became a sign of the 
future tense. The French use devoir, dois, doit, in the same 
manner, with a kind of future signification ; and the Swedes 
have shall, and the Icelanders skal, in the same sense. It 
has no tenses but shall future, and should imperfect.—The 
explanation of shall, which foreigners and provincials 
confound with will, is not easy. 
/Shall love. It will so be that I must love; I am 
resolved to love. 
Shall I love ? Will it be permitted me to love ? 
will you permit me to love ? will it be that I must love ? 
Thou Shalt love. I command thee to love; it is 
permitted thee to love: [in poetry or solemn diction] it will 
be that thou must love. 
Shalt thou love? Will it be that thou must love? 
Will it be permitted to thee to love. 
He Shall love. It will be that he must love; it is 
commanded him that he love. 
It is a mind, that shall remain. 
- Shall remain! 
Hear you this triton of the minnows? Mark you 
His absolute shall ?- Shahspeare. 
See Romulus the great: 
This prince a priestess of your blood shall bear, 
And like his sire in arms he shall appear. Dry den. 
Shall he love ? Is it permitted him to love ? In solemn 
language, will it be that he must love ? The plural persons 
follow the signification of the singulars. 
SHALLO'ON, s. [from ChalSns, a town in Champagne, 
where this kind of stuff was made.] A slight woollen stuff. 
In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad, 
And Scipio trail an Irish purple plaid. Swift. 
SHA'LLOP, s. [ chaloupe , Fr.] A small boat. 
Our hero set 
In a small shallop, fortune in his debt. Waller. 
SHALLO'T, s. An eschalot. 
SHALLOT CREEK, a river of North Carolina, which 
runs into the Atlantic. Lat. 33. 53. N. long. 78. 28. W. 
SHA'LLOW, ad), [this word is probably compounded of 
shoal and low. Dr. Johnson.'] Not deep; having the 
bottom at no great distance from the surface or edge.—-I had 
been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and shallow; 
a death that I abhor. Shahspeare. —In shallow furrows 
vines securely grow. Dryden.- —Not intellectually deep; 
not profound; not very knowing or wise; empty; trifling ; 
futile; silly. 
I’ll shew my mind, 
According to my shallow simple skill. Shahspeare. 
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One would no more wonder to see the most shallow nation 
of Europe the most vain, than to find the most empty fellows 
in every nation more conceited than the rest. Addison. — 
Not deep of sound.—If a virginal were made with a double 
concave, the one all the length of the virginal, and the other 
at the end of the strings, as the harp hath, it must make the 
sound perfecter, and not so shallow and jarring. Bacon. 
SHA'LLOW, s. A shelf; a sand; a flat; a shoal; a 
place where the water is not deep. 
I should not see the sandy hour-glass run, 
But I should think of shallows and of flats; 
And see my wealthy Andrew dock’d in sand, 
Veiling her high top lower than her ribs, 
To kiss her burial. Shahspeare 
To SHA'LLOW, v. a. To make shallow. 
That thought alone thy state impairs. 
Thy lofty sinks, and shallows thy profound. Young. 
SHALLOW WATER, Point, a cape on the west coast 
of North America. Lat. 63. N. long. 197. 8. E. 
SHA'LLOW-BRAINED, ad). Foolish; futile; trifling; 
empty.—It cannot but be matter of just indignation to all 
good men to see a company of lewd shallow-brained huffs 
making atheism, and contempt of religion, the sole badge of 
wit. South. 
SHA'LLOWLY, adv. With no great depth.—The load 
lieth open on the grass, or but shallowly covered. Carew. 
—Simply; foolishly. 
Most shallowly did you these arms commence, 
Fondly brought here, and foolishly sent hence. Shahspeare. 
Want of depth; want of thought; want of understanding; 
futility; silliness; emptiness. 
By it do all things live their measur’d hour: 
We cannot ask the thing which is not there. 
Blaming the shallowness of our request. Herbert. 
SHALM, s. [ scahlmey, Teut., chalemie or chalemelle, 
old Fr., from calamus, Lat. Our word is also written and 
pronounced shawn.] A kind of musical pipe-—Every cap¬ 
tain was commanded to have his soldiers in readiness to set 
forward upon the sign given, which was by the sound of a 
sha/m or hoboy. Knolles. 
SHALSTON E, a parish of England, in Buckinghamshire ; 
4 miles north-west of Buckingham. 
SHALT. Second person of shall. 
To SHAM, v. a. [ shommi, Welsh, to cheat. Dr. Johnson. 
■—Or from the Teut., schimpen, to jeer, to scoff; schimp, 
joke, sport.] To trick; to cheat; to fool with a fraud; to 
delude with false pretences. A low word. —Men tender in 
point of honour, and yet with little regard to truth, are 
sooner wrought upon by shame than by conscience, when 
they find themselves fooled and shammed into a conviction. 
H Estrange. —To obtrude by fraud or folly.—We must 
have a care that we do not, for want of laying things and 
things together, sham fallacies upon the world, for current 
reason. L'Estrange. 
To SHAM, v. n. To make mocks. 
Then all your wits that flee and sham, 
Down from Don Quixote to Tom Tram, 
From whom I jests and puns purloin, 
And slily put them off for mine, 
Fond to be thought a country wit. Prior, 
SHAM, s. Fraud; trick ; delusion; false pretence; im¬ 
posture. A low word. 
That in the sacred temple needs would try 
Without a fire the unheated gums to fry. 
Believe who will the solemn sham, not I. Addison. 
SHAM, adj. False; counterfeit; fictitious; pretended. 
Never join the fray. 
Where the sham quarrel interrupts the way. Gay. 
SHAMBE, a small river of West Florida, which empties 
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