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gooseberries and currants are shrubs ; oaks and cherries are 
trees. Locke. 
He came into a gloomy glade. 
Cover’d with boughs and shrubs from heaven’s light. 
Spenser. 
A liqueur, probably from the Arabic s/iarab, syrup. 
To SHRUB, v. a. To rid from bushes or trees. Unused. 
—Thoughlhey be well shrubbed and shred, yet they begin 
even now before the spring to bud, and hope again in time 
to flourish as the green bay-tree. Anderson. 
SHUB'BBERY, s. A plantation of shrubs.—He placed a 
cast of the Medicean Venus in his shrubbery ; and one of 
the piping Fawn in a small circle of firs, hazels, and other 
elegant shrubs. Graves. 
SHRU'BBY, adj. Resembling a shrub.—'Plants appear¬ 
ing withered, shrubby and curled, are the effects of im¬ 
moderate wet. Mortimer. —Full of shrubs; bushy. 
Gentle villager. 
What readiest way would bring me to that place ? — 
Due west it rises from this shrubby point. Milton. 
Consisting of shrubs. 
On that cloud-piercing hill 
Plinlimmon, the goats their shrubby browze 
Gnaw pendent. Philips. 
SHRUFF, s. Dross; the refuse of metal tried by the fire. 
Unused. Johnson. 
To SHRUG, v. n. [shricken, Dutch; to tremble.— 
Sueth. skruka, to lift up the shoulders; from schrick, Dutch, 
skraeck, Su., a trembling.] To express horror or dissatis¬ 
faction by motion of the shoulders or whole body.—Like a 
fearful deer that looks most about when he comes to the best 
feed, with a shrugging kind of tremor through all her prin¬ 
cipal parts, she gave these words. Sidney. 
To SHRUG, v. a. To contract or draw up.—Let me 
shroud and shrug myself into my shell, as a tortoise. Florio. 
He shrugg'd his sturdy back, 
As if he felt his shoulders ake. Hudibras. 
SHRUG, s. A motion of the shoulders, usually expressing 
dislike or aversion. 
And yet they ramble not to learn the mode, 
How to be drest, or how to lisp abroad. 
To return knowing in the Spanish shrug. Cleaveland. 
As Spaniards talk in dialogues. 
Of heads and shoulders, nods and shrugs. Hudibras. 
SHRULE, a river of Ireland, which runs into the 
Mourne; 5 miles south of Strabane. 
SHRUNK, the preterite and part, passive of shrink .— 
Leaving the two friends alonC, I shrunk aside to the Ban- 
queting-house, where the pictures were. Sidney. 
SHRU'NKEN, the part, passive of shrink. — If there 
were taken out of men’s minds vain opinions, it would leave 
the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full 
of melancholy. Bacon. 
SHUBENACADIE, a river of Nova Scotia, which rises 
within a mile of the town of Dartmouth, on the east side of 
Halifax harbour, and empties into Cobequid bay, taking in 
its course the Slewiack and Gay’s rivers. The great lake of 
the same name lies on the east side of the road which leads 
from Halifax to Windsor, and about seven miles from it, 
and 21 miles from Halifax. 
SHUCK, in Agriculture, provincially a stack, or twelve 
sheaves of corn set up together in the harvest field. 
SHUCKBURGH, Upper, a parish of England, in War¬ 
wickshire ; 3 miles east of Southam. 
SHUCKBURGH, Lower, a parish in the above county; 
2 miles east of the foregoing. 
To SHU'DDER, v. n. [schuttern, Germ. freq. of schut- 
ten, to tremble; schudden, Teut. the same.] To quake 
with fear, or with aversion. 
Vol. XXIII. No. 1562. 
All the other passions fleet to air, 
As doubtful thoughts, and rash embrac’d despair, 
And shuddering fear. Shakspeare. 
SHU'DDER, s. A tremor; the state of trembling.— 
Into strong shudders, and to heavenly agues. Shakspeare. 
SHUDY CAMPS, a parish of England, in Cambridge¬ 
shire; 4 miles east of Linton. 
To SHU'FFLE, c. a. [peypelmj, Sax. a bustle, a tumult. 
Dr. Johnson. —Rather from fcufan, to shove, to push with 
violence, to drive forward; schuyffen, schuyffelen, Teut. 
the same.] To throw into disorder; to agitate tumultu¬ 
ously, so as that one thing takes place of another ; to con¬ 
fuse ; to throw together tumultuously.—In most things good 
and evil lie shuffled, and thrust up together in a confused 
heap; and it is study which must draw them forth and range 
them. South. —We shall in vain, shuffling the little money 
we have from one another’s hands, endeavour to prevent our 
wants; decay of tiade will quickly waste all the remainder. 
Locke. —To change the position of cards with respect to 
each other.—The motions of shuffling of cards, or casting 
of dice, are very light. Bacon. —To remove, or introduce 
with some artificial or fraudulent tumult. 
Her mother, 
Now firm for Doctor Caius, hath appointed 
That he shall likewise shuffle her away. Shakspeare. 
To Shuffle off. To g^t rid of. 
In that sleep of death, what dreams may come. 
When we have shuffled o/?'this mortal coil. 
Must give us pause. Shakspeare. 
To Shuffle up. To form tumultuously, or fraudulently. 
—They sent forth their precepts to convene them before a 
court of commission, and there used to shuffle up a summary 
proceeding by examination, without trial of jury. Bacon. 
To Shu'ffle, v. n. To throw the cards into anew order. 
Cards we play 
A round or two; when us’d, we throw away, 
Take a fresh pack: nor is it worth our grieving 
Who cuts or shuffles with our dirty leaving. Granville. 
To play mean tricks; to practise fraud; to evade fair ques¬ 
tions.—I myself, leaving the fear of heaven on the left hand, 
and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. 
Shakspeare. —Though he durst not directly break his ap¬ 
pointment, he made many a shuffling excuse. Arbuthnot. 
—To struggle; to shift. 
Your life, good master. 
Must shuffle for itself. Shakspeare. 
To move with an irregular gait. 
Mincing poetry, 
’Tis like the forc’d gait of a shuffling nag. Shakspeare. 
SHU'FFLE, s. The act of disordering things, or making 
them take confusedly the place of each other.—Is it not a 
firmer foundation for contentment, to believe that all things 
were at first created, and are continually disposed for the 
best, than that the whole universe is mere bungling, nothing 
effected for any purpose, but all ill-favouredly cobbled and 
jumbled together, by the unguided agitation and rude 
shuffles of matter. Bentley. —A trick; an artifice.—The gifts 
of nature are beyond all shams and shuffles. L'Estrange. 
SHU'FFLEBOARD, s. The old name of Shovel- 
board ; which see. 
SHU'FFLECAP, s. A play at which money is shaken in 
a hat.r—He lost his money at chuckfarthing, shufflecap, and 
all-fours. Arbuthnot. 
SHU'FFLER, s. One who plays tricks, or shuffles. 
SHU'FFLING, s. Act of throwing into disorder; con¬ 
fusion.—Children should not lose the consideration of human 
nature in the shufflings of outward conditions: the more 
they have, the better humoured they should be taught to be. 
Locke. —Trick; artifice.-—His own book is a perpetual detail 
of his own shufflings or mistakes. Bentley. —An irregular 
gait. 
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