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SHO'WINESS, s. State of being showy. 
SHO'WISH, adj. Unused. —Splendid; gaudy.—The 
escutcheons of the company are show is h, and will look 
magnificent. Swift. —Ostentatious. 
SHOWN, pret. and part. pass, of To show. Exhibited. 
—Mercy shown on man by him seduc’d. Milton. 
SHOWY, adj. Splendid; gaudy.—The men would 
make a present of every thing that was rich and showy to 
the women whom they most admired. Addison. —Osten¬ 
tatious.—Men of warm imaginations neglect solid and sub¬ 
stantial happiness for what is showy and superficial. Addi¬ 
son. 
SHOZAW. See Skotschau. 
To SHRAG, v. a. [pcpeaban. Sax., to shred.'] To lop; 
to trim; as to shrag trees. Prompt. Parv. Huloet and 
Barret. —This is what in some parts is still called to shrood. 
Unused. 
SHRAG, s. A twig of a tree cut off. Huloet. Un¬ 
used. 
SHRA'GGER, s. A lopper; one that trims trees. Hu¬ 
loet. Unused. 
SHRAHEEN, a mountain of Ireland, in the county of 
Mayo; 11 miles norlh-north-east of Castlebar. 
SHRANK. The preterite of shrink.. —The children of 
Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank upon the hollow of 
the thigh. Gen. 
SHRAP, or Shrape, s. A place baited with chaff to 
entice birds. Phillips. Utiused: —You fell, like another 
dove, by the most chaffy slirap that ever was set before the 
eyes of winged fowl. Bp. Bedell. 
SHRAVEY LAND, in Agriculture, a term used in some 
districts, as those of Sussex, and some others, to signify that 
of a strong, gravelly, or flinty nature. The scars or holes 
on the sides of steep hills, where the turf or sward has 
slipped away, and laid bare the soil on the South Down, are 
sometimes called shraves. See Soil. 
SHRAWARDINE, a parish of England, in Salop; 
6| miles west-north-west of Shrewsbury. 
SHRAWLEY, a parish of England, in Worcestershire, 
situated on the banks of the Severn; 7| miles north-north¬ 
west of Worcester. Population 530. 
To SHRED, v. a. pret. shred, (jcpea'fcan, Sax.] To 
cut into small pieces. Commonly used of cloth or herbs; 
formerly applied to lopping or trimming trees; as, “ schreg- 
ging or schredynge of trees.” Prompt. Parv. ]—Well 
shrubbed and shred. Anderson. —One gathered wild gourds, 
and shred them. 2 Kings. 
Where did you whet your knife to-night, he cries, 
And shred the leeks that in your stomach rise. Dry den. 
SHRED, s. A small piece cut off. 
The mighty Tyrian queen that gain’d 
With subtle shreds a tract of land. 
Did leave it with a castle fair 
To his great ancestor. Hudihras. 
A fragment. 
Shreds of wit and senseless rhimes 
Blunder’d out a thousand times. Swift. 
SHRE'DDING, s. [Sax., fcpeabunj.] What is cut off. 
—It hath a number of short cuts or shreddings, which may 
be better called wishes than prayers. Hooker. 
To SHREW, v. a. [pyppan. Sax., to beguile, may per¬ 
haps be the origin of this word. From this forgotten verb, 
no doubt, the substantive shrew is derived ; which ancieutly 
was applied to either sex; and in Robert of Gloucester 
denotes a tyrant, according to Hearne’s Glossary. In Chau¬ 
cer, it is used for an evil, a detestable, or a cursed person ; 
and also for a tyrant or cruel.] To beshrew; to curse. Ob¬ 
solete. —O nice proud churl, I shrewe his face. Chaucer. 
SHREW, s. [schreien, Germ., to clamour. Dr. Johnson. 
—From the Sax., pyppan (not to beguile, to lay snares for.] 
A peevish, malignant, clamorous, spiteful, vexatious, turbu¬ 
lent woman; formerly applied also to a worthless or wicked 
man. . 
There dede of hem vor hunger a thousand and mo. 
And yat nolde the screwen to none pes go. 
Robert of Gloucester. 
Punish thes^rea>es and misdoers, and—defende the goode 
men. Chaucer. 
Be merry, be merry, my wife has all; 
For women are shrews both short and tall. Shakspeare. 
By this reckoning he is more shrew than she. Shakspeare. 
SHREW, or Shrew-Mouse, in Zoology, the common 
name of the Sorex Araneus of Linnaeus; which see. 
SHREWD, adj. [the participle of the verb shrew; ori¬ 
ginally meaning evil, perverse, hurtful, dangerous. “ Where 
is envie and stryf, there is unstidefastnesse and al schrewid 
werk.” Wicliffei] —Having the qualities of a shrew; mali¬ 
cious ; troublesome; mischievous. 
Her eldest sister is so curst and shrewd. 
That till the father rids his hands of her, 
Your love must live a maid. Shakspeare. 
Cunning; artful; clever.—It was a shrewd saying of the- 
old monk, that two kind of prisons would serve for all offen¬ 
ders, an inquisition and a bedlam: if any man should deny 
the being of a God, and the immortality of the soul, such a 
one should be put into the first, as being a desperate heretic ; 
but if any man should profess to believe these things, and yet 
allow himself in any known wickedness, such a one should 
be put into bedlam. Til/otson. —A spiteful saying gratifies 
so many little passions, that it meets with a good reception ; 
and the man who utters it is looked upon as a shrewd satirist. 
Addison. —Corruption proceeds from employing those who 
have the character of shrewd worldly men, instead of such 
as have had a liberal education, and trained up in virtue. 
Addison. —Marked; painful; pinching; dangerous; mis¬ 
chievous. 
Every of this number, 
That have endur’d shrewd nights and days with us, 
Shall share the good of our returned fortune. Shakspeare. 
SHRE'WDLY, adv. Mischievously; destructively.—This 
practice hath most shrewdly past upon thee. Shakspeare. 
—At Oxford, his youth and want of experience in maritime 
service, had somewhat been shrewdly touched, even before 
the sluices of popular liberty were set open. Wotton. —Vex- 
atiously.—The obstinate and schismatical are like to think 
themselves shrewdly hurt, forsooth, by being cut off from 
that body which they choose not to be of. South. —Cun¬ 
ningly.—Four per cent, increases not the number of lenders; 
as any man at first hearing will shrewdly suspect it. Locke. 
SHREWDNESS, s. Mischievousness; petulance.—In 
their houses is iniquitee and shrewdnessc. Chaucer. —Sly 
cunning; archness. 
The neighbours round admire his shrewdness. 
For songs of loyalty and lewdness. Swift. 
SHRE'WISH, adj. Having the qualities of a shrew; to¬ 
ward ; petulantly clamorous. 
Angelo, you must excuse us; 
My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours. Shakspeare. 
SHREWISHLY, adv. Petulantly; peevishly; clamo¬ 
rously; frowardly.—He speaks very shrewishly; one 
would think his mother’s milk were scarce out of him. 
Shakspeare. 
SHRE'WISHNESS, s. The qualities of a shrew; to- 
wardness; petulance; clamorousness. 
I have no gift in shrewishness, 
I am a right maid for my cowardice; 
Let her not strike me. Shakspeare. 
SHREWLEY, a hamlet of England, in Warwickshire; 
4| miles north-west of Warwick. 
SHREWMOUSE, s. [pcpeajta. Sax.] A mouse. See 
Mus. , , ' 
SHREWSBURY, an ancient market town and borough 
of England, in the county of Salop, and the chief town of 
the 
