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it consists of a light oozy soil, which, after sudden rains, 
or the overflowings of the adjacent rivers, are changed into 
many quicksands, and occasion serious danger to the un¬ 
wary traveller. A considerable number of streams, both 
from the north and south, empty themselves into the 
Shott. 
SHO'TTEN. adj. Having ejected the spawn.—Go thy 
ways, old Jack; die when thou wilt, if good manhood be 
not forgot upon the earth, then am I a shotten herring. 
Shakspeare. —Curdled by keeping too long.—Shooting out 
into angles. 
I will sell my dukedom, 
To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm 
In that nook -shotten isle of Albion. Shakspeare. 
Sprained ; dislocated.—His horse, shoulder shotten. Shak- 
speare. 
SHOTTESBROOK, a parish of England, in Berkshire; 
5 miles south-west of Maidenhead. 
SHOTTISHAM, All Saints, and St. Mary’s, ad¬ 
joining parishes of England, in Norfolk; 4| miles north¬ 
east of St. Mary Stratton. Population 723. 
SHOTTISHAM, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 
4 miles south-east of Woodbridge. 
SHOTTLE, a township of England, in Derbyshire; 8 
miles north-by-west of Derby. Population 636. 
SHOTTON, a village of England, county of Durham; 
5| miles north-east of Barnard Castle. 
SHOTTON, another village in the same county; 8| miles 
east-by-south of Durham. 
SHOTTON, a village of England, in Northumberland ; 
6 miles south-by-east of Morpeth. 
SHOTTS, a parish of Scotland, in the north-east corner 
of the county of Lanark. It is 10 miles in length, by 7 in 
breadth, and is of a rectangular form. Population 2933. 
SHOTTS WELL, a parish of England, in Warwick¬ 
shire ; 7 miles south-east of Kineton. 
SHOTWICK, a parish of England, in Cheshire, situated 
on the banks of the river Dee, which is here nearly a mile 
over. Here are the remains of a castle, an ancient palace 
belonging to the king of England; 6 miles north-west of 
Chester. 
To SHOVE, v. a. [pcupan, pcopan, Sax. schuyffen, 
schui/ven, Teut. skuffa, Su. Goth. Our old form of the 
word was also shofe, to push by main strength. “Part of the 
banke he shofe down right.”]—The hand could pluck her 
back, that sliov'd her on. Shakspeare .-—To push; to rush 
against. 
Behold a reverend sire 
Crawl through the streets, shov'd on or rudely press’d 
By his own sons. Pope. 
To SHOVE, v. n. To push forward before one.—The 
seamen towed, and I shoved till we arrived within forty yards 
of the shore. Swift. —To move in a boat, not by oars but 
a pole. 
He grasp’d the oar. 
Receiv’d his guests aboard, and shov'd from shore. Garth # 
SHOVE, s. The act of shoving; a push.—I was 
forced to swim behind, and push the boat forward with one 
of my hands; and the tide favouring me, I could feel the 
ground; I rested two minutes, and then gave the boat another 
shove Swift. 
SHO'VEL, s. [pcopl. Sax. schoeffel, school, Teut. simi¬ 
lar to the latter of which is our provincial word school. 
Exam, dialect, and shawl or showl in other places.] An 
instrument consisting of a long handle and broad blade with 
raised edges.—A handbarrow, wheelbarrow, shovel and 
spade.— Tusser. 
To SHO'VEL, v. a. To throw or heap with a shovel. 
I thought 
To die upon the bed my father died. 
To lie close by his honest bones; but now 
Some hangman must put on my shrowd, and lay me 
Where no priest shovels in dust. Shakspeare. 
To gather in great quantities.—Ducks shovel them up as 
they swim along the waters; but divers insects also devour 
them.— Per ham. 
SHOVEL, Sir Cloudesley, a British naval hero. See 
England. 
SHO'VELBOARD, s. A long board on which they play 
by sliding metal pieces at a mark. 
So I have seen, in hall of lord, 
A weak arm throw on a long shovclboard; 
He barely lays his piece. Dry den. 
SHO'VELLER, orSHOVELARD, s. A bird. —.This for¬ 
mation of the wizzon is not peculiar to the swan, but com¬ 
mon unto the platea, or shovclard, a bird of no musical 
throat. — Brown. 
SHOUGH, s. A species of shaggy dog; a shock. 
In the catalogue ye be for men. 
As hound and greyhounds, mungrels, spaniels, curs, 
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are ’cleped 
All by the name of dogs. Shakspeare . 
SHOULD, ». n. [pceolban. Sax. schuld, Teut. old Engl. 
shulde, pi. shulden. 
This is a kind of auxiliary verb used in the conjunctive 
mood, of which the signification is not easily fixed. 
I Should go. It is my business or duty to go. 
If I Should go. If it happens that I go. 
Thou Should’st go. Thou oughtest to go. 
If thou Should’st g o. If it happens that thou goest. 
The same significations are found in all the other persons 
singular and plural. 
It was used for would, formerly; and in later times for 
could, may, might, must. It has been well observed, that 
this sign respects time variously; the present, the past, and 
the future. When it respects the present, it generally im¬ 
plies duty or obligation, fitness, propriety, decency, or rea¬ 
sonableness ; is often used in the way of supposition, and of 
comparison upon supposition; often also marks conduct or 
event as involuntary or accidental; often carries doubt in 
it; and seems frequently to mark the power, energy, influ¬ 
ence, or force of things upon the speaker, or otherwise; and 
it follows interjections of grief. In denoting time past, it 
either implies doubt or marks the event as involuntary or 
accidental. But of all the other periods of time, the future 
seems to be that, in which should most frequently makes its 
appearance. It marks the hypothetical, and denotes the 
common future; in both cases it is still conditional, never 
absolute. It refers to the hypothetical future; and, in doing 
so, marks the event either as doubtful and precarious, or as 
conditional and preparatory to spmewhat else, or as highly 
probable but fit to be prevented, or as predetermined. 
Whilst it respects the common future, it either puts the event 
in the way of supposition, or marks it as precarious, or as 
certain in the highest degree, or as conditionally certain, or 
as certain but improper, or as certain but involuntary, or 
threatens, or follows verbs of desire or wishing, or denotes 
the event to be fit or proper. 
Should is sometimes omitted, as when it marks the 
event as precarious. 
I pray you, sir, receive the money now. 
For fear you ne'er see chain, nor money more. Shakspeare. 
Should be. A proverbial phrase of slight contempt 
or irony.—-I conclude, that things are not as they should be. 
Swift.- —The girls look upon their father as a clown, and the 
boys think their mother no better than she should be. 
Addison. 
Should have. This sign barely points at the sup¬ 
posed existence of an event, or circumstance of conduct, in 
former time; or places that supposed behaviour as the result 
of something that preceded or might have preceded it; and, 
in doing this, either puts the event in the way of supposi¬ 
tion, or marks it as accidental, or as involuntary, or as cer¬ 
tain, or as morally or naturally fit and becoming ; and is also 
found in the hypothetical future, or marking an imaginary 
event or behaviour as proceeding from or succeeding in 
course 
