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SHRIGHT, for shrieked. 
Dame Pertelote shright 
Ful louder than did Hasdruballes wife. Chaucer. 
She hid her face, and lowdly shright. Spenser. 
SHRIGHT, s. A shriek.—That ladies loud and piteous 
shright. Spenser. 
SHRIGLEY, a village of England, in Cheshire; 4§- miles 
north-north-east of Macclesfield. 
SHRIKE, in Ornithology, an English name for several 
species of the Lanius ; which see. 
SHRILL, adj. [from skoerl and skralt, Su. Goth, and 
Icel. an outcry; skrae/a, skralla, to make a noise or cla¬ 
mour. The old form of this word is shirt or shir lei] Sound¬ 
ing with a piercing, tremulous or vibratory sound. 
Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them. 
And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth. Shatcspeare. 
The cock that is the trumpet to the morn. 
Doth with his lofty and -s/iri/Z-sounding throat 
Awake the god of day. Shakspeare. 
Look up a height, the shrill- gorg’d lark so far 
Cannot be seen or heard. Shakspeare. 
To SHRILL, v. n. To pierce the ear with sharp and 
quick vibrations of sound. Unused. 
The sun of all the world is dim and dark; 
O heavy herse. 
Break we our pipes that shrill'd as loud as lark, 
O careful verse. Spenser . 
A shrilling trumpet sounded from on high. 
And unto battle bade themselves address. Shakspeare. 
The females round, 
Maids, wives and matrons, mix a shrilling sound. Pope. 
To SHRILL, v. a. To express in a shrill manner; to 
cause to make a shrill sound. Unused. 
Hark, how the minstrels gin to shrill aloud 
Their merry music. Spenser. 
How Hecuba cries out! 
How poor Andromache shrills her dolours forth! 
Shakspeare. 
SHRILLA, a small town of Ludamar, in Central Africa; 
38 miles east-south-east of Benowm. 
SHRI'LLNESS, s. The quality of being shrill.—These 
parts first dispose the voice to hoarseness or shrillness. 
Smith. 
SHRI'LLY, adv. With a shrill noise.—Mount up aloft, 
my muse; and now more shrilly sing. More. 
SHRIMP, s. \schrumpe , a wrinkle, German: scrympe, 
Danish.] A small crustaceous vermiculated fish.—Of shell¬ 
fish there are wrinkles, shrimps, crabs. Carew. —Hawks 
and gulls can at a great height see mice on the earth, and 
shrimps in the waters. Derham.- —A little wrinkled man; 
a dwarf.—So scrimp is the Scottish adjective for deficient, 
scanty, narrow; and to scrimp, is to straiten, to limit. 
It cannot be, this weak and writhled shrimp 
Should strike such terror in his enemies. Shakspeare. 
He hath found. 
Within the ground. 
At last, no shrimp, 
Whereon to imp 
His jolly club. B. Jonson. 
SHRIMP, in Natural History, is the Cancer Crangon 
of Linnaeus; which see. 
The white shrimp, or cancer squilla, is the prawn. (See 
Cancer Squilla.) It inhabits the coast of Kent. 
By 30 Geo. II. c. 21., white shrimps in the river Thames 
and Medway are only to be taken from Bartholomew day to 
Good Friday ; hnd red shrimps in the river Medway only 
from April 25 to July I. 
To SHRIMP, v. a. To contract. Unused. —Such things 
as these go for wit, so long as they continue in Latin; but 
what dismally shrimped things would they appear, if turned 
into English! Echard. 
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SHRINE, s. [fcin, Sax. scrinium, Lat.] A case in 
which something sacred is reposited.—Lovers are in rapture 
at the name of their fair idol; they lavish out all their in¬ 
cense upon that shrine, and cannot bear the thought of 
admitting a blemish therein. Watts. 
To SHRINK, v. n. pret. J shrunk, or shrank; part. 
shrunken, [fcpincan, Sax.] To contract itself into less 
room; to shrivel; to be drawn together by some internal 
power. 
But to be still hot summer’s tantlings, and 
The shrinking slaves of winter. Shakspeare. 
I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen 
Upon a parchment, and against this fire 
Do I shrink up. Shakspeare. 
To withdraw as from danger. 
Nature stands aghast; 
And the fair light which gilds this new made orb, 
Shorn of his beams, shrinks in. Dryden. 
All fibres have a contractile power, whereby they shorten; 
as appears if a fibre be cut transversely, the ends shrink, 
and make the wound gape. Arbuthnot. —To express fear, 
horror, or pain, by shrugging, or contracting the body. 
The morning cock crew loud. 
And at the sound it shrunk in haste away. 
And vanish’d from our sight. Shakspeare. 
I’ll embrace him with a soldier’s arm. 
That he shall shrink under my courtesy. Shakspeare. 
To fall back as from danger. 
I laugh, when those who at the spear are bold 
And venturous, if that fail them, shrink and fear 
To endure exile, ignominy, bonds. Milton. 
Fall on: behold a noble beast at bay. 
And the vile huntsmen shrink. Pry den. 
To SHRINK, v. a. part. pass, shrunk, shrank, or 
shrunken. To make to shrink. 
O mighty Csesar! dost thou lie so low ? 
Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils. 
Shrunk to this little measure ? Shakspeare. 
SHRINK, s. Unused. —Corrugation; contraction into 
less compass.—There is in this a crack, which seems a 
shrink, or contraction in the body since it was first formed. 
Woodward. —Contraction of the body from fear or horror. 
This public death, receiv’d with such a chear. 
As not a sigh, a look, a shrink bewrays 
The least felt touch of a degenerous fear. Daniel. 
SHRI'NKER, s. One who shrinks. 
We are no cowardly shrinkers. 
But true Englishmen bred. Old Sea-Song. 
SHRI'NKING, s. Act of falling back as from danger, 
or of drawing back through fear.—If a man accustoms 
himself to slight or pass over these first motions to good, or 
shrinkings of his conscience from evil,—conscience will by 
degrees grow dull and unconcerned. South. 
SHRl'VALTY, s. Corrupted for Sheriffalty; which 
see. 
To SHRIVE, v. a. [pcpipan, Saxon; skrifta, Su. Goth, 
from the Lat. scribo, to write; the priests anciently giving 
to those whom they confessed, a written direction or form 
of penance.] To hear at confession. Not in use. 
What, talking with a priest, lord chamberlain ? 
Your honour hath no shriving work in hand. Shakspeare. 
If he had the condition of a saint, and the complexion of 
a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. 
Shakspeare. 
To SHRIVE, v. n. To administer confession.—Where 
holy fathers wont to shrive. Spenser. 
To SHRI'VEL, v. n. It is perhaps only another form of 
rivel.' See To Rivel.] To contract itself into wrinkles.— 
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