The shrouds. See Shroud, n., 7.

Without a shroud.

Affording shelter.

To join in the festivities of Shrovetide; hence, to make merry.

The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.

The festivity of Shrovetide.

A shrew.

See Shrood.

To lop; to prune.

A collection of shrubs.

Quality of being shrubby.

Full of shrubs.

having no shrubs.

Rubbish. Dross or refuse of metals. Light, dry wood, or stuff used for fuel.

To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing doubt, indifference, dislike, dread, or the like.

A gesture consisting of drawing up the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing doubt, indifference, or dislike; -- it is sometimes accompanied by a slight turning of the hands outward or upward. Such a gesture may be made, as in answering "who knows" to a question, suggesting utter ignorance of an answer and a disinclination to pursue the topic further.

To ignore; to disregard; to brush aside; to minimize{2} the effects of; as, to shrug off predictions of disaster.

p. p. a. from Shrink.

A village or small town; -- usually referring to Jewish towns in Eastern Europe.

A person's special talent, line of business, or habitual activity.

To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.

One who shucks oysters or clams

The act of shuddering, as with fear.

In a shuddering manner.

The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.

The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

See Shovelboard.

A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap.

One who shuffles.

The hedg sparrow.

In a shuffling manner.

To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.

Sumac.

To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.

Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable.

A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding.

A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.

The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.

Same as Chute, or Shoot.

One who shuts or closes.

Furnished with shutters.

To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.

To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.

See Shuttlecock.

Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.

See Schwan-pan.

A sudden start aside, as by a horse.

In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.

The quality or state of being shy.

A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.

The ahu, or jairou.

An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.

A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam.

Related by blood; akin.

A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch.

Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as, a Siberian winter. A native or inhabitant of Siberia.

The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.

To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.

Hissing; sibilant.

Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant.

of or pertaining to a sibling, n.; as, sibling rivalry: the common rivalry between siblings.

A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.

One who believes in a sibyl or the sibylline prophecies.

Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.

Thus.

See Sycamore.

A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.

To dry.

The act or process of drying.

Drying; causing to dry. That which promotes drying.

Causing dryness.

Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture.

The number six at dice.

A strong drink; cider.

Such.

A native or inhabitant of Sicily.

A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.

A kind of rich poplin.

To fall sick; to sicken.

Disordered in the brain.

To become sick; to fall into disease.

Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.

To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.

Somewhat sick or diseased.

A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.

Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer. A curlew. A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.

Furnished with a sickle.

One who uses a sickle; a reaper.

One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

Free from sickness.

A plant of the genus Coronilla (Coronilla scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods. The healall (Brunella vulgaris).

Made sickly. See Sickly, v.

The quality or state of being sickly.

To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

A shekel.

A genus of malvaceous plants common in the tropics. All the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax.

Soft; pulpy.

To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.

A line pertaining or attached to the side of a thing. Specif., a line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.

See Skid, below.

A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction.

Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.

A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.

Having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided.

A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (as lightning) and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.

The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.

To render unable to participate in an activity, such as a sporting event; as, the pitcher was sidelined by a groin injury.

Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.

Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.

The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.

Cider.

Relating to the stars.

Planet-struck; blasted.

The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis.