SHU 
To exclude. 
On various seas, not only lost. 
But shut from every shore, and barr’d from every coast. 
Dryden. 
To contract; not to keep expanded.—Harden not thy 
heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother. Deut. 
To Shut out. To exclude; to deny admission to.— 
Sometimes the mind fixes itself with so much earnestness on 
the contemplation of some objects, that it shuts out all other 
thoughts. Locke. 
To Shut up. To close; to make impervious; to make 
impassable, or impossible to be entered or quitted. Up is 
sometimes little more than emphatical.— .His mother shut up 
half the rooms in the house, in which her husband or son 
had died. Addison. 
To Shut up. To confine; to inclose; to imprison.— 
Lucullus, with a great fleet, shut up Mithridates in Pitany. 
Arbuthnot. 
To Shut up. To conclude. 
The king’s a-bed, 
He is shut up in measureless content. Shakspeare. 
To leave you blest, I would be more accurst 
Than death can make me ; for death ends our woes, 
And the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. Dryden. 
To SHUT, v. n. To be closed; to close itself: as, 
flowers open in the day, and shut at night. 
SHUT. Participle adjective. Rid; clear; free. Obso¬ 
lete. —We must not pray in one breath to find a thief, and 
in the next to get shut of him. L'Estrange. 
SHUT, s. Close ; act of shutting. 
I sought him round his palace, made inquiry 
Of all the slaves; but had for answer, 
That since the shut of evening none had seen him. Dryden. 
Small door or cover.—The wind-gun is charged by the 
forcible compression of air, the imprisoned air serving, by 
the help of little falls or shuts within, to stop the vents by 
which it was admitted. Wilkins. 
SHUTE, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 2 miles 
north of Colyton. Population 584. 
SHUTESBURY, a township of the United States, in 
Franklin county, Massachusetts; 80 miles west of Boston. 
Here is a medicinal spring, opened by an earthquake in 
1815. It is much resorted to in all cutaneous complaints. 
SHUTFORD, East and West, adjoining hamlets of 
England, in the parish of Swacliff, Oxfordshire; 5 miles 
west of Banbury. 
SHUTLANGER, a hamlet of England, in Northampton¬ 
shire ; 7 miles from Stony Stratford. 
SHU'TTER, s. One that shuts; a cover; a door. 
The wealthy, — 
Sleep at ease ; the shutters make it night. Dryden. 
SHUTTINGTON, or Shuttendon, a parish of Eng¬ 
land, in Warwickshire; 3| miles east-by.-north of Tam- 
worth. 
SHU'TTLE, s. [schietspoele, Teut., skutul, Icelandic; 
from skiuta, Sueth. to shoot, to push, to drive through. 
Sereniusi] The instrument with which the weaver shoots 
the cross threads. 
Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide 
My feather’d hours. ' Sandys. 
This instrument, with a thread it contains, either of woollen, 
silk, flax, or other matter, serves to form the woofs of stuff's, 
cloths, linen, ribbands, &c„ by throwing the shuttle alter, 
nately from left to right, and from right to left, across be¬ 
tween the threads of the warp, which are stretched out 
lengthways on the loom. 
In the middle of the shuttle is a kind of cavity, called the 
eye or chamber of the shuttle; in which is enclosed the 
spoul, which is a part of the thread destined for the woof; and 
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this is wound' on a little tube of paper, rush, or other 
matter. 
The ribband-weaver’s shuttle is very different from that of 
most other weavers, though it serves for the same purpose; it 
is of box, six or seven inches long, one broad, and as much 
deep; shod with iron at both ends, which terminate in 
points, and are a little crooked, the one towards the right, 
and the other towards the left, representing the figure of an 
tzi horizontally placed. 
SHU'TTLECOCK, s. A cork stuck with feathers, and 
beaten backward and forward. See Shittlecock. 
With dice, with cards, with billiards far unfit. 
With shuttlecocks misseeming manly wit, Spenser. 
SHUTUP, Point, a cape in the straits of Magellan, on 
the South American shore. Lat. 53. 54. S. long. 71. 32. W. 
SHY, adj. [schouw , Teut. as, “ schow or schouwigh 
peerd,” a shy or timid horse; sky skyg, Su. Gofh., applied 
also to a horse. See Kilian, and Junius. Serenius cites the 
Su. Goth, sky, to avoid, to shun; which agrees with the 
Teut. schowen, or schu-weni] Reserved; not familiar; not 
free of behaviour.—What makes you so shy, my good 
friend i There’s no body loves you better than I. Arbuth¬ 
not. —Cautious; wary ; chary. 
We grant, although he had much wit, 
H’ was very shy of using it, 
As being loth to wear it out. 
And therefore bore it not about. Hudibras. 
Suspicious; jealous; unwilling to suffer acquaintance.— 
Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their suc¬ 
cessors ; and there may be supposed in queens regnant a 
little proportion of tenderness that way more than in kings. 
Wotton. 
SHY'LY, or Shily, adv. Not familiarly. 
SHY'NESS, s. Unwillingness to be familiar; unsociable¬ 
ness ; reservedness.—Mr. Loveday used to style shyness the 
English madness. If indulged, it may be the cause of mad¬ 
ness, by driving men to shun company, and live in solitude; 
which few heads are strong enough to bear; none, if it be 
joined with idleness. Or it may be the effect of madness, 
which is misanthropic and malignant: some say, pride is 
always at the bottom. Bp. Horne. 
SI, a town of China, of the third rank, in Honan. 
SI, or Sia, a town of China, of the second rank, in Chan- 
si. Lat. 36. 40. N. long. 110. 31. E. 
SIABERSDASJOLK, a considerable river of Norwegian 
Lapland, which joins the Altenelv, a larger stream that falls 
into the northern ocean at Altengard. 
SIABISCH, a river of Asiatic Russia, which falls into the 
Abakan, near Bankalova, in the government of Kolivan. 
SIACHOQUE, a settlement of South America, in New 
Granada, and in the province of Tunja; half a league north¬ 
east of Tunja. Population 600, one-half Indians. 
SI-ACTION, in law, the conclusion of a plea to the 
action, when the defendant demands judgment, if the 
plaintiff ought to have his action, &c. 
SIAK, a river of Sumatra, and one of the largest in the 
island, which discharges itself into the sea nearly opposite 
Malacca, in lat. 1. 40. N. It was recently surveyed by Mr. 
Lynch, under file orders of the British government of Prince 
of Wales island. From the place where it discharges itself 
into the straits of Campar, or Bancalis, to the town of Siak, 
is about 65 miles, and from thence to a place called Pakanb- 
haru, where the survey discontinues, is about 100 more. 
The width of the river is in general from about half to three 
quarters of a mile, and its depth from 7 to 15 fathoms; 
but on the bar at low water there are only 15 feet, and se¬ 
veral shoals near its mouth; the tides about 11 feet at the 
town. Not far within the river is a small island, on which 
the Dutch had formerly a factory. According to the infor¬ 
mation of the natives, the river is navigable for sloops to a 
place called Panti Chermin, being eight days’ sail, with the 
assistance of the tide, and within half a day’s journey by 
land, 
