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SHOE, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, near the coast 
of Waygoo. Lat. 0. 1. S. long. 130. 53. E. 
SHOE'BLACK, s. One who cleans shoes. Dr. John¬ 
son calls such an one a shoeblacker. 
SHOE'BOY, s. A boy that cleans shoes.—If I employ a 
shoeboy, is it in view to his advantage, or my own conve¬ 
nience ? Swift. 
SHOE'ING-HORN, s. A horn used to facilitate the ad¬ 
mission of the foot into a narrow shoe-, any thing by which 
a transaction is facilitated; any thing used as a medium : in 
contempt—I have been an arrant shoeing-horn for above 
these twenty years. I served my mistress in that capacity 
above five of the number before she was shod. Though she 
had many who made their applications to her, I always 
thought myself the best shoe in her shop. Spectator. 
SHOE'MAKER, s. One whose trade is to make shoes. 
—A cobbler or shoemaker may find some little fault with the 
latchet of a shoe that an Appelles had painted, when the 
whole figure is such as none but an Appelles could paint. 
Watts, 
SHO'ER, s. [pcoepe. Sax., a maker of shoes.] One who 
fits the foot with a shoe: used, in some places, of a farrier. 
SHOE'STRING, s. A string with which shoes are 
tied. 
Bending his supple hams, kissing his bands, 
Honouring shoestrings. Randolph. 
SHOE'TYE, s. The ribband with which women tye 
their shoes. 
I wish her beauty, 
That owes not all its duty, 
To gaudy tire, or glistering shoe-ty. Crashaw. 
Madam, I do as is my duty, 
Honour the shadow of your shoetye. Uudibras. 
SHOG, s. Violent concussion. 
Another's diving bow he did adore, 
Which, with a shog, casts all the hair before. Dry den. 
To SHOG, v. a. To shake ; to agitate by sudden in¬ 
terrupted impulses.—The boat in the myddil of the see was 
schoggid with wawis, for the wynd was contrarie. Wi- 
cliffe. 
To SHOG, v. n. To move off; to be gone; to jog. A 
low obsolete word. 
These fained words agog 
So set the goddesses, that they in anger gan to shog. Hall. 
Will you shog off? Shakspeare. 
SHO'GGING, s. Concussion ; agitation.—Through the 
violence of such shoggings [they] are leapt out of the 
coach. Harmar. 
To SHOGGLE, v. a. To shake about; to joggle. 
Northern. 
SHOKET, a village of Syria, in the pachalic of Damas¬ 
cus, on the Orontes; 140 miles north of Damascus. 
SHOLAPOOR, a district of Hindostan, province of Beja- 
pore, situated about the 18th degree of northern latitude. 
Part of it belongs to the Nizam, the remainder to the Mah- 
rattas. It is advantageously situated between the rivers 
Kistna and Beemah, and under a good government would 
be very productive. 
SHOLAPOOR, the capital of the above-mentioned dis¬ 
trict. It is a fortified town, and was formerly a place of con¬ 
siderable consequence. It is delightfully situated on the 
northern'bank of the river Kistna, and belongs to the Nizam. 
It was taken by the army of Aurungzebe, from the King of 
Bejapore, and was then considered as the strongest bulwark 
of the capital towards Ahmednagur. Lat. 17. 43. N. long. 
75. 40. E. 
SHOLAVANDEN, a town of the south of India, pro¬ 
vince of the Carnatic. Lat. 9. 50. N. long. 78. 10. E. 
SHOLDEN, a hamlet of England, in Kent; 1~ mile west 
of Deal. 
SHOLINGUR, a town of the south of India, province of 
the Carnatic, rendered famous by the defeat of Hyder Aly, in 
November, 1781, by a very inferior British force under the 
command of Sir Eyre Coote. Lat. 13. 8. N. long. 79. 
30. E. 
SHONE. The preterite of shine. —-All his father in him 
shone. Milton. 
SHOOK. The preterite and in poetry participle passive 
of shake. 
Taxallan, shook by Montezuma’s pow’rs. 
Has, to resist his forces, call’d in ours. Dry den. 
SHOON. The old plural of shoe. 
To SHOOT, v. a. preterite, I shot; participle, shot or 
shotten. [jcocian, Sax., skiota, Icel. to dart; an ancient 
word, common to all the northern dialects. Screnius. —To 
discharge auy thing so as to make it fly with speed or 
violence. 
Light 
Shoots far into the bosom of dim night 
A glimmering dawn. Milton. 
To discharge as from a bow or gun. 
I owe you much, and, like a witless youth. 
That which I owe is lost; but if you please 
To shoot an arrow that self way. Shakspeare. 
To let off; used of the instrument.—The two ends of a 
bow shot off, fly from one another. Boyle. —To strike with 
any thing shot.—Not an hand shall touch the mount, but he 
shall be stoned or shot through. Ex. —To emit new 
parts, as a vegetable.—A grain of mustard groweth up 
and shooteth out great branches. St. Mark. —To emit; to 
dart or thrust forth. 
Fir’d by the torch of noon, to tenfold rage, 
Th’ infuriate hill forth shoots the pillar’d flame. Thomson. 
To push suddenly. So we say, to shoot a bolt or 
lock. 
The liquid air his moving pinions wound, 
And, in the moment, shoot him on the ground. Dryden. 
To push forward.—They that see me shoot out the lip, 
they shake the head. Psalms. —To fit to each other by 
planing. A workman's term. —Strait lines in joiner’s 
language are called a joint; that is, two pieces of wood that 
are shot, that is planed or else paired with a pairing-chigsel. 
Aloxon .—To pass through with swiftness. 
Thus having said, she sinks beneath the ground. 
With furious haste, and shoots the Stygian sound. Dryden. 
To SHOOT, v. n. To perform the act of shooting, or 
emitting a missile weapon. 
A shining harvest either host displays, 
And shoots against the sun with equal rays. t)ryden. 
To germinate; to increase in vegetable growth.—Such 
trees as love the sun do not willingly descend far into the 
earth; and therefore they are commonly trees that shoot 
up much. Bacon. 
The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees. 
Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees. Dryden. 
To form itself into shape.—If the menstruum be over 
charged, metals will shoot into crystals. Bacon. —That 
rude mass will shoot itself into several forms, till it make an 
habitable world ; the steady hand of Providence being the 
invisible guide of all its motions. Burnet. —To be 
emitted. 
There shot a streaming lamp along the sky, 
Which on the winged light’ning seem’d to fly. Dryden 
The grand setherial bow 
Shoots up immense. Thomson. 
To protuberate; to jet out.-—This valley of the Tyrol lies 
enclosed on all sides by the Alps, though its dominions shoot 
out into several branches among the breaks of the mountains 
Addison.—To pass as an arrow. 
Thy words shoot through my heart, 
Melt my resolves, and turn me all to love. Addison. 
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