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in Dorsetshire; 6 f mjles north-west of Blandford Forum. 
Population 385. 
SHILLUK, a country on the higher part of the Bahr el 
Abiad, to the south of Sennaar, in Africa. The inhabitants 
are all black, and pagans; they have no other covering than 
bands of long grass, which they pass round the waist and 
between the thighs. They have the command of the river, 
and exact a toll from all vessels that pass up and down. The 
term Shilluk is not Arabic, and its meaning is unknown. 
They are represented as shewing hospitality to those who 
come peaceably among them, and as never betraying those 
to whom they have once promised protection. In the be¬ 
ginning of the sixteenth century the Shilluks conquered Sen¬ 
naar, over which country their descendants now reign. See 
Sennaar. 
SHILOH, in Scripture Criticism, a term that occurs in 
Jacob’s celebrated prophecy concerning the Messiah; con¬ 
cerning the etymology and application of which, biblical 
commentators have differed in opinion, some regarding the 
word as meaning “ the deliverer," and suppose it to have 
been applied to Jesus Christ. The Jews expect the Shiloh is 
still to come. 
SHILTON, a parish of England, in Berkshire; 2§ miles 
south-south-east of Burford. 
SHILTON, a parish of England, in Warwickshire; 6 
miles north-east of Coventry. 
SHILVINGTON, a hamlet of England, in Northumber¬ 
land ; 6 miles south-west of Morpeth. 
SHl'LY, adv. Not familiarly ; not frankly. 
SHIM (provincial)-, an implement for breaking sods, 
loosening the earth, and clearing away weeds. 
SHIMENE, Port, on the north side of the island of St. 
John, in the gulf of St. Lawrence. Its entrance, west of St. 
Peter’s harbour, is very narrow; but the basin within is very 
spacious. 
To SHI'MMER, v. n. [pc^mpian. Sax.; schimmern. 
Germ, to shine.] To gleam .—“ Alitel shemering of light.” 
Chaucer. —In the north, it is shimmer. 
SHIMPLING, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 3| miles 
north-east of Diss. 
SHIMPLINGTHORNE, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 
7 miles from Sudbury. Population 393. 
SHIN, s. [pcina, Sax.; sckien, Germ.] The forepart 
of the leg.—I bruised my skin the other day with playing at 
sword and dagger. Shahspeare. —The shin bone, from the 
jcnee to the instep, is made by shadowing one half of the 
leg with a single shadow. Peacham. 
SHIN, Loch, a lake of Scotland, in the county of Suth¬ 
erland, about 20 miles long from north-west to south-east, 
and from 1 to 2 broad; the banks of which, especially on 
the south side, are covered with natural wood. It discharges 
itself, at its eastern extremity, by the river Shin, which, 
after a course of 6 or 8 miles, during which it forms several 
cascades, falls into the head of the frith of Dornoch, at a 
small village called Invershin. 
SHINAAS, a small sea-port on the Persian gulf, situated 
between the town of Sinja and Cape Bastana. Refreshments 
may be obtained here. 
SHINCLIFF, a hamlet of England, county of Durham; 
2 miles south-east of Durham. 
To SHINE, v. n. pret. I shone, I have shone; some¬ 
times I shined, I have shined. [Goth, sheinan ; Icel. 
shyma, splendere, shin, fulgur; Sax. pcinan.] To have 
bright resplendence; to glitter; to glisten ; to gleam. 
To-day the French, 
All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, 
'Shone down the English; and to-morrow they 
Made Britain India; every man that stood, 
Shew’d like a mine. Shahspeare. 
Fair daughter, blow away these mists and clouds. 
And let thy eyes shine forth in their full lustre. Denham. 
To be without clouds. 
The moon shines bright: in such a night as this, 
When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, 
And they did make no noise. Shahspeare. 
To be glossy.—Fish with their fins and shining scales. 
Milton. —The colour and shining of bodies is nothing but 
the different arrangement and refraction of their minute 
parts. Loche. —To be gay; to be splendid. 
So proud she shined in her princely state, 
Looking to heaven ; for earth she did disdain. Spenser. 
To be beautiful. 
Of all the enamell’d race, whose silvery wing 
Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the Spring, 
Or swims along the fluid atmosphere. 
Once brightest shin'd this child of heat and air. Pope. 
To be eminent or conspicuous. 
Her face was veil’d; yet to my fancied sight 
Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shin'd 
So clear, as in no face with more delight. Milton. 
To be propitious. To give light real or figurative. 
Celestial light 
Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers 
Irradiate. Milton. 
To SHINE, v. a. To cause to shine.—So schyme your 
light bifore men, that they see your gode workis. Wicliffe. 
SHINE, s. [peine. Sax. bright.] Fair weather.—Be it 
fair or foul, or rain or shine. Dry den. —He will accustom 
himself to heat and cold, and shine and rain ; all which if 
a man’s body will not endure, it will serve him to very little 
purpose. Loche. Brightness; splendour ; lustre. 
Say, in what mortal soil thou deign’st to grow ? 
Fair opening to some court’s propitious shine. 
Or deep with diamonds in the flaming mine ? Pope. 
SHI'NESS, s. Bashfulness; reserve; (in horses) restive¬ 
ness.—They were famous for their justice in commerce, but 
extreme shiness to strangers: they exposed their goods with 
the price marked upon them, and then retired. Arbuthnot. 
—An incurable shiness is the vice of Irish horses, and is 
hardly ever seen in Flanders, because the winter forces the 
breeders there to house and handle their colts Temple. 
SHINFIELD, a parish of England, in Berks and Wilt¬ 
shire; 3| miles south-by-east of Reading. Population 948. 
SHINGARIN, a salt mine situated near the southern ex¬ 
tremity of the great desert of Sahara, in Central Africa; about 
400 miles west-north west of Tombuctoo. 
SHINGEIAT, a town of Bergoo, in Central Africa; 90 
miles west of Wara. 
SHINGEY, a parish of England, in Cambridgeshire; 65 
miles north-west of Royston. » 
SHINGIIAM, a parish of England, in Norfolk; Smiles 
south-west of Swaffham. 
SHI'NGLE, s. \schindel. Germ.] A thin board to cover 
houses; a sort of tiling.—The best to cleave, is the most 
useful for pales, laths, shmg/es, and wainscot. Mortimer. 
—I reached St. Asaph, a bishop’s see, where there is a very 
poor cathedral church, covered with shingles or tiles. Ray. 
To SHI'NGLE, v. a. To cover with tiles or shingles.— 
Unused. —They shingle their houses with it. Evelyn. 
SHINGLE, is a term sometimes applied to the thinnings 
of fir and other timber trees, in the northern districts, and 
which are of much use for various purposes in farming, as the 
making of fences, &c.—A substance found and collected on 
the sea-beach, or shore, which is used for several pur¬ 
poses, as ballasting of ships, filling hollow drains, protect¬ 
ing the foundations of embankments, and other similar 
uses. 
SHI'NGLES, s. (cingulum, Lat.] A kind of tetter or 
herpes that spreads itself round the loins.—Such are used 
successfully in erysipelas and shingles, by a slender diet of 
decoctions 
