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the trunk from the limbs.—The cartilage bracing together 
the two ossa pubis, or sharebones, Bartholine saith, is twice 
thicker and laxer in women than men. Derharn. 
SHARMAN’S CREEK, a river of Pennsylvania, which 
runs into the Susquehanna. Lat. 40. 20. N. long. 77. 5. W. 
SHA'RER, s. One who divides or apportions to others; 
a divider; a partaker; one who participates any thing with 
others. 
Most it seem’d the French king to import, 
As sharer in his daughter’s injury. Daniel. 
People not allowed to be sharers with their companions 
in good fortune, will hardly agree to be sharers in bad. 
L'Estrange. 
SHARESHILL, a village of England, in Staffordshire, 
near the entrance of which are traces of several Roman en¬ 
campments; 5 miles north-north east of Wolverhampton. 
SHA'RING, s. Participation.—By good means of some 
great ones, and privy sharings with the officers of other 
some, he receiveth his debt. Spenser. 
SHARINGTON, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 4 miles 
west-south-west of Holt. 
SHARK, s. A voracious sea-fish. See Squalus. 
His jaws horrific arm’d with threefold fate. 
The direful shark. Thomson. 
A greedy artful fellow; one who fills his pockets by sly 
tricks. [Su Goth, skurk, skurka, homo nequissimus. Sere- 
niusS ]— A low word. —Parasites, jugglers, delators, cheaters, 
sharks and shifting companions. Bp. Reynolds. —Trick ; 
fraud; petty rapine. A low word. —Wretches who live upon 
the shark, and other men’s sins, the common poisoners of 
youth, equally desperate in their fortunes and their manners, 
and getting their very bread by the damnation of souls. 
South. 
To SHARK, v. a. To pick up hastily or slily. 
Young Fontinbras, 
Of uuimproved mettle, hot and full, 
Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there. 
Shark'd up a list of landless resolutes. Shakspeare. 
To SHARK, v. n. To play the petty thief; to practise 
cheats; to live by fraud. A low word. —The sharking 
officer that receives bribes, and spares neither the king nor 
the subject. Dr. White. —Prove to day, who shall shark 
best. B.Jonson. —To fawn for a dinner; to beg.—Gayton 
lived afterwards in London in a sharking condition, and 
wrote trite things merely to get bread to sustain him and his 
wife. Wood. 
SHARK, hammer-headed: see Squalus Zygasna, a 
fish called also the balance-fish. — Shark, long-tailed: see 
Squalus Vulpes.—Shark, spotted : see Squalus Ca- 
tulus. — Shark, lesser spotted: see Squalus Catulus. 
—Shark, smooth: see Squalus Mustelus.—Shark, 
the tope: see Squalus Galeus.—Shark, the angel, or 
monk-fish: see Squalus Squatina. 
SHARK RIVER, a river of New Jersey, which runs into 
the Atlantic. Lat. 40. 10. N. long. 74. 4. W. 
SHA'RKER, s. One who lives upon the shark; an 
artful fellow.—A. hungry renegado, a dirty sharker about 
the Romish court, who only scribbles that he may dine. 
Sir H. Wot ton. 
SHA'RKING, s. Petty rapine; trick.—Thou wouldst 
never be thus covetous, thou wouldst never use this sharking, 
nor these dishonest tricks, if thou didst believe. Dr. West- 
field. 
SHARLESTON, a township of England, West Riding 
of Yorkshire; Ah miles east-by-south of Wakefield. 
SHARM EL KIM AN, a harbour in the Red Sea, on the 
coast of Egypt. Lat. 24. 44. N. 
SIIARMA, a small sea-port of Hadramaut, in Arabia; 
30 miles east-north-e&t of Sahar. 
SHARMAGOL, a village of Korassan, in Persia; 12 
miles south of Nesa. 
SHARMALIC, a village of Diarbekir, in Asiatic Turkey; 
15 miles south-west<of Orfa. 
SHARNBROOK, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 
8 | miles north-west of Bedford. Population 644. 
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SHARNFORD, a parish of England, in Leicestershire; 
4 miles south-east of Hinckley. Population 394. 
SHARON, New, a post township of the United States, 
in Kennebeck county, Maine; 27 miles north-north-west of 
Augusta. Population 944. 
SHARON, a township of the United States, in Hillsbo¬ 
rough county, New Hampshire; 18 miles west-south-west of 
Amherst. Population 446. 
SHARON, a township of the United States, in Windsor 
county, Vermont. Population 1363. 
SHARON, a township of the United States, in Norfolk 
county, Massachusetts; 17 miles south-south-west of Boston. 
Population 1000. 
SHARON, a township of the United States, in Litchfield 
county, Connecticut. Population 2606. 
SHARON, a township of the United States, in Schoharie 
county. New York; 16 miles west of Schoharie. Popula¬ 
tion 3751. 
SHARON, a township of the United States, in Franklin 
county, Ohio. Population 450. 
SHARP, adj. [pceapp, Sax.; scherpe, Dutch.] Keen; 
piercing; having a keen edge; having an acute point; not 
blunt. 
She hath tied 
Sharp tooth’d unkindness like a vulture here. Shakspeare. 
With edged grooving tools they cut down and smoolhen 
away the extuberances left by the sharp pointed grooving 
tools, and bring the work into a perfect shape. Moxon. — 
Terminating in a point or edge ; not obtuse.—To come near 
the point,land draw unto a sharper angle, they do not only 
speak and practice truth, but really desire its enlargement. 
Brown. 
Their embryon atoms 
Light arm’d or heavy, sharp, smooth, light or slow. 
Milton. 
Acute of mind ; witty; ingenious; inventive.—Now as 
fine in his apparel as if he would make me in love with-a 
cloak, and verse for verse with the sharpest witted lover in 
Arcadia. Sidney. —Quick, as of sight or hearing. 
As the sharpest eye discerneth nought, 
Except the sun-beams in the air do shine; 
So the best soul, with her reflecting thought. 
Sees not herself, without some light divine. Davies. 
To sharp-eyed Reason this would seem untrue; 
But reason I through love’s false optics view. Dry den. 
Sour without astringency; sour, but not austere; acid. 
So we, if children young diseased we find. 
Anoint with sweets the vessel’s foremost parts. 
To make them taste the potions sharp we give ; 
They drink deceiv’d, and so deceiv’d they live. Spenser. 
Shrill; piercing the ear with a quick noise; not flat.— 
For the various modulation of the voice, the upper end of 
the windpipe is endued with several cartilages to contract or 
dilate it, as we would have our voice flat or sharp. Ray. — 
Severe ; harsh; biting; sarcastic.—How often may we 
meet with those who are one while courteous, but within a 
small time after are so supercilious, sharp, troublesome, 
fierce and exceptious, that they are not only short of the true 
character of friendship, but become the very sores and bur¬ 
dens of society! South. —Severe; quick to punish; cruel; 
severely rigid. 
There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee; 
And to that place the sharp Athenian law 
Cannot pursue us. Shakspeare. 
Eager; hungry; keen upon a quest. 
My faulcon now is sharp and passing empty. 
And ’till she stoop, she must not be full gorg’d; 
For then she never looks upon her lure. Shakspeare. 
The sharp desire I had 
Of tasting. Milton. 
Painful; 
