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and some are tough and not fragil; and in the breaking, 
some fragil bodies break but where the force is; some 
shatter and fly in many places. Bacon. 
SHA'TTER, s. One part of many into which any thing 
is broken at once.—Stick the.candle so loose, that it will fall 
upon the glass of the sconce, and break it into shatters. 
Swift. 
SHA'TTERBRAINED, or Sha'tterpated, adj. In¬ 
attentive ; not consistent. A low word. —You cannot, 
without doing violence to your discretion, but conclude, that 
religion and devotion are far from being the mere effects of 
ignorance and imposture, whatever some shatterbrained 
and debauched persons would fain persuade themselves and 
others. Goodman. 
SHA'TTERY, adj. Easily broken into many parts; 
loose of texture.—A brittle shattery sort of spar, found in 
form of a white sand chiefly in the perpendicular fissures 
amongst the ores of metal. Woodward. 
SHATTON, a township of England, in Derbyshire; 6 
miles .north-east of Tideswell. 
SHAVAKAT, a town of independent Tartary, on the 
Sihon or Jaxartes; 20 miles south of Taschkent. 
SIIAUBAKO, a village of Upper Egypt, on the left bank 
of the Nile; 16 miles south of Cairo. 
To SHAVE, r. a. preterite shaved, part, shaved or 
shaven, [j'capan, pete pan, Saxon; schaeven, Dutch.] To 
pare off; as with a razor.—Zelim was the first of the 
Ottomans that did shave his beard: a bashaw ask’d, why he 
alter’d the custom of his predecessors ? He answered. 
Because you bashaws may not lead me by the beard, as you 
did them. Bacon. 
The bending scythe 
Shaves all the surface of the waving green. Cray. 
To skim by passing near, or slightly touching. 
He shaves with level wing the deep; then soars 
Up to the fiery concave towering high. Milton. 
To cut in thin slices.—Make some medley of earth, with 
some other plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root. 
Bacon. —To strip; to oppress by extortion; to pillage. 
SHAVE GRASS, s. An herb. 
SIIA'VELING, s. A man shaved ; a friar, or religious. 
Used in contempt; and introduced into the language 
about the time of the Reformation by the protestants, in 
order to designate a Romish priest.— Shave/ynges of 
prodigious beastlinesse. Bale. —Of elfes, there be no such 
things; only by bald friars and knavish shavelings so 
feigned. Spenser. 
SHA'VER, s. [Sax. pcsepepie.] A man that practises 
the art of shaving.—The shaver might easily have cut his 
[Sampson’s] throat, being asleep. Bp. Richardson .—A 
man closely attentive to his own interest. 
My lord 
Was now dispos’d to crack a jest. 
And hid friend Lewis go in quest; 
This Lewis is a cunning shaver. Swift. 
A robber ; a plunderer.—They fell all into the hands of 
the cruel mountain-people, living for the most part by theft, 
and waiting for wrecks, as hawks for their prey: by these 
shavers the Turks were stript of all they had. Kit olles. 
SHAUGH, a hamlet of England, in Devonshire; 5 miles 
north of Plvmpton Earls. Population 485. 
SHA'VING,A thin slice pared otf from any body.—. 
By electrick bodies I do not conceive only such as take up 
shavings, straws, and light bodies, but such as attract all 
bodies palpable whatsoever. Brown. 
SHAVINGTON, a hamlet of England, in Cheshire; 4f 
miles east of Nantwich. 
SHAVINGTON, a village of England, in Salop, north¬ 
west of Drayton. 
SHAVOYA, or Shawia, an inland province of Moroc¬ 
co, having Temsena on the west, Morocco Proper on the 
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south, Fez on the north, and Tedla on the east. It is very 
fertile in corn and cattle; but a great part of it consists of 
mountains, inhabited by a rude and lawless race, who sub¬ 
sist chiefly by robbery and violence. 
SHAUR, a small island in the Red Sea. Lat. 27. 20. N. 
long. 34. 58. E. 
SHAW, s. [ycua, Sax. a shade: schawe, Dutch; 
skugga, Icel.] A small shady wood in a valley: an old 
word, and still common in many parts of England, 
especially in Kent and Surrey.—I will abide under the 
shawe. Gower. —Whither ridest thou under this grene 
shaw ? Chaucer. —When shows been sheene. Old Ballad 
of Robin Hood. 
SHAW, a parish of England, in Berkshire, near the river 
Lamborn; 1 mile north-east of Speenhamland. Population 
480. 
• SHAW (Thomas), was born at Kendal, in or about the 
•year 1692. He was educated at the grammar-school of that 
town, and, in 1711, was admitted of Queen’s college, Ox¬ 
ford. Soon after he had taken orders, he was appointed 
chaplain to the English factory at Algiers, in which station 
he remained several years, making use of the opportunity 
which it afforded .of travelling into various parts of Barbary, 
and into Egypt. In 1727, he was elected fellow of his col¬ 
lege ; in 1733, he commenced D.D., and, in the following 
year, he was elected a member of the Royal Society in 
• London. In 1738, he published his “Travels, or Obser¬ 
vations on several Parts of Barbary and the Levant,” to 
which a supplement was added in 1746; and about ten 
years afterwards the whole appeared in a second edition, 
with considerable improvements. Few books of the kind 
• stand higher in reputation than Dr. Shaw’s Travels, which 
contain many learned dissertations respecting the countries 
which he had visited, with divers remarks on their manners 
and customs, and valuable observations in natural history. 
They have been regarded as particularly useful in illustrating 
the scriptures by comparisons between the ancient and mo¬ 
dern state of the eastern regions. Dr. Shaw, on his return 
from his travels, brought back a large collection of dried 
plants. He presented to the university of Oxford some relics 
of antiquity which he had collected, of three of which en¬ 
gravings were made in the “ Marmora Oxoniensis.” In the 
year 1740, he was chosen principal of St. Edmund’s Hall, 
and was at the same time presented to the vicarage of Bram- 
ley, in Hampshire. Soon after, the regius professorship was 
conferred upon him, which he held till his death, in 1751. 
His travels have been translated into various modern lan¬ 
guages. An attack was made on them by Dr. Pocock, 
which led the author to defend them in his supplement, and 
in a letter of Dr. Clayton, bishop of Clogher. 
SHAW (Peter), a physician, and contemporary of the 
former, was the author ofseveral works, which enjoyed 
a considerable reputation in their day. His first publication 
was entitled “ New Practice of Physic,” in two volumes, 
and first printed in 1726: it contained a brief description of 
diseases and the methods of treating them. His next work 
was an “ Enquiry into the Virtues of Scarborough Spaw 
Waters,” which he visited during the season ; it was printed 
in 1734. In the same year he published also “ Chymical 
Lectures publicly read in London 1731, 1732, and Scar¬ 
borough 1733.” This was deemed a scientific and valuable 
work, and was translated into French. He published some 
minor works, “ A Portable Laboratory,” 1731; “ On 
Scurvy,” 1736; “Essays in Artificial Philosophy,” 1731 ; 
“On the Juice of the Grape,” 1724; and he edited the 
“ Dispensatory of the College of Physicians of Edinburgh,’’ 
in 1727. See Eloy Diet. Hist, de la Med. 
SHAW (George), the younger of two sons of the re¬ 
verend Timothy Shaw, was born December 16th, 1751, at 
Bierton, in Buckinghamshire, of which place his father was 
vicar. He shewed, at. a very early age, a great propensity 
to study, and when he was only four years old, instead of 
following the amusements common to young children, he 
usually entertained himself with books, or by the side of 
ditches 
