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the breaking and shivering of a great state, you may be sure 
to have wars. Bacon. 
SHIVERS, in a Ship, the seamen’s term for those little 
round wheels in which the rope of a pulley or block runs.— 
In Rope-making, the foul particles taken from the hemp, 
when hatchelling. 
SHI'VERY, adj. Loose of coherence; incompact; 
easily falling into many fragments.-—There were observed 
incredible numbers of these shells thus flatted, and extremely 
tender, in shivery stone. Woodward. 
SHOA, a province in the southern extremity of Abyssinia, 
having Ambara on the north, and Efat on the east. It is 
fertile, and furnishes a great body of cavalry, equally brave 
and well equipped. This province was at one time the 
royal residence, and contains Tegulet, the ancient capital. 
At the present moment, Shoa and Efat form a kingdom, 
still under the government of an Abyssinian prince, while 
the Galla occupy all the surrounding countries, including 
Gondar, the capital. 
SHOAD, in Mining, a term for a train of metalline stones 
mixed with earth, sometimes lying near the surface, some¬ 
times at considerable depths, but always serving to the miners 
as a proof that the load or vein of the metal is thereabout. 
The deeper the shoad lies, the nearer is the vein. 
SHOA'DSTQNE, s. Shoadstone is a small stone, smooth 
without, of a dark liver colour, and of the same colour within, 
only with the addition of a faint purple. It is a fragment 
broke off an iron vein. Woodward .—The loads or veins 
of metal were by this action of the departing water made 
easy to be found out by the shoads, or trains of metallic frag¬ 
ments borne off from them, and lying in trains from those 
veins towards the sea, in the same course that water falling 
thence would take. Woodward. 
SHOAD-STONES, a term used by miners, to express such 
loose masses of stone, as are usually found about the entrances 
into mines. 
SHOAL, [j-ceole, Sax., a multitude.] A croud; a 
great multitude; a throng. 
Around the goddess roll 
Broad hats, and hoods, and caps, a sable shoal. 
Thick, and more thick the black blockade extends. Pope. 
A shallow; a sand-bank, [a contraction of shallow.'] The 
haven’s mouth they durst not enter, for the dangerous shoals. 
Abbot. 
To SHOAL, v. n. To croud; to throng.—-The wave- 
sprung entrails, about which fausens and fish did shole. 
Chapman .—To be shallow; to grow shallow. 
What they met 
Solid or slimy, as in raging sea. 
Tost up and down, together crouded drove. 
From each side shoaling tow’rds the mouth of hell. AIilton % 
SHOAL, adj. Shallow; obstructed or incumbered with 
banks. Applied by Spenser to one of his personified 
rivers. 
Molanna, were she not so shole, 
Were no less faire and beautiful than she. Spenser. 
SHOAL BAY, a bay on the east coast of New Holland, 
in lat. 29. 26f. S. 
SHOAL CREEK, a river of the United States, in Illi¬ 
nois, which has a course south-by-west of about 70 miles, 
and joins the Kaskaskia, in lat. 38. 27. N. It is a fine and 
rapid stream, and is navigable for boats about 30 miles. 
SHOAL INLET, a channel of the United States, between 
two small islands, on the coast of North Carolina, Lat. 34. 
5. N. long. 77. 58. W. 
, SHOA'LINESS, s. Shallowness; frequency of shallow 
places. 
SHOALNESS, a low point on the west coast of North 
America. Captain Cook, who met with several of the na¬ 
tives on this coast, thus describes their character and man¬ 
ners ; —While we lay here, 27 men of the country, each 
in a canoe, came off to the ships, which they approached 
with great caution, hallooing and opening their aims as 
they advanced. This, we understand, was to express their 
pacific intentions. At length some approached near enough 
to receive a few trifles that were thrown to them. This 
brought on a traffic between them and our people, who got 
dresses of skins, bows, arrows, darts, wooden vessels, &c.; 
our visitors taking in exchange whatever was offered them. 
They seemed to be the same kind of people that we had 
lately met with along this coast; wore the same ornaments 
in their lips and noses, but were far more dirty, and not so 
well clothed. They appeared to be wholly unacquainted 
with people like us; knew not even the use of tobacco ; nor 
was any foreign article seen in their possession, unless a 
knife may be considered as such. This indeed was no more 
than a piece of common iron fitted into a wooden handle. 
They however knew the value and use of this instrument so 
well, that it seemed to be the only article they wished for. 
Most of them had their hair shaved or cut short off, leaving 
only a few locks behind, or on one side. As a covering for 
the head they wore a hood of skins, and a bonnet apparently 
of wood. One part of their dress was a kind of girdle, very 
neatly made of skin, with trappings depending from it, and 
passing between the legs, so as to conceal the adjoining 
parts. By the use of such a girdle, it should seem that they 
sometimes go naked, even in this high latitude, for they 
hardly wear it under their own clothing. The canoes were 
made of skins, like all the others we had lately seen; except 
that these were broader, and the hole in which the man sits 
was wider than in any I had before met with." Lat. 60. N. 
long. 198. 12. E. 
SHOALS, Isles of, or Smith’s Islands, seven islands 
on the coast of New Hampshire; 11 miles south-east of Ports¬ 
mouth. Lat. 42. 59. N. long. 70. 33. W. Staten island, 
on which is the town of Gosport, belongs to New Hamp¬ 
shire ; the rest belong to Maine. They are inhabited by 
about 100 fishermen. 
SHOAL-WATER BAY, a bay on the east coast of New 
Holland, visited by Capt.Flinders in 1802, who mentions that 
it offers no advantages to ships which may not be had on any 
other part of the coast, except that the tides rise higher, and 
that in the winter season fish are more plentiful than farther 
to the south. Long, of Aken’s Island, situated at its entrance, 
150. 15. E. Lat. 22. 21. 35. S. 
SHOAL-WATER BAY, a bay on the west coast of North 
America. Lat. 46. 50. N. long. 124. 10. W. 
SHOAL-WATER CAPE, a high and bluff headland on 
the north-west coast of North America, so called by Captain 
Mears. Lat. 46. 47. N. long. 235. 11. E. 
SHOA'LY, adj. Full of shoals; full of shallow places. 
The watchful hero felt the knocks, and found 
The tossing vessel sail’d on shoaly ground. Pry den. 
SHOBA, a town of Darfur, in Central Africa; 42 miles 
west-south-west of Cobbe. 
SHOBDON, a village and parish of England, in the 
county of Hereford. The church here has been elegantly 
rebuilt at the expense of Lord Viscount Bateman, who has an 
elegant seat in the neighbourhood, called Shobdon Court. 
Population 501 ; 8 miles from Leominster. 
SHOBROOKE, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 2 
miles east-north-east of Crediton. Population 724. 
SHOBURY, North and South, two villages of Eng¬ 
land, in Essex, near the mouth of the Thames, and opposite 
the buoy of the Nore. South Shobury is situated on a point 
of land called Shobury Ness; 2| miles from the rising village 
of Southend. It contains only about 200 inhabitants, but it 
is recorded to have been anciently a town of some conse¬ 
quence, and many remains of Danish intrenchments are still 
visible. 
SHOCCOE SPRINGS, mineral springs in the United 
States, in Warren county, North Carolina, which are much 
resorted to. 
SIIOCHIE, a small river of Scotland, in the county of 
Perth, which falls into the Tay at Luncartie. 
SHOCK, s. {choc, old Fr. as our word was also sometimes.' 
written. See Chock. The Teut. word is schoc/c, con- 
cussus.] 
