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Show Venus, in her fpell before him From the fands in fafety bore him. Dryd. Albion o SHEET. v. a. [from the noun. 1. To furnith with theets 2. To enfold in a fheet 3. To cover as with a fheet The fhells ferved as moulds to this fand, which when confolidated, and afterwards freed from it inveftient fbell, is of the {ame fhape as the cavity o Like the ftag, when fnow the pafture fbezts Woodward the fhell He whom ungrateful Athens could expel Shakefpeare The barks of trees thou browfed'ft An ancient Jewif Sue'kEL. 2 /. [.5pw At all times juft but when he fizn'd the jbell. Pope abou 3. The covering of the feeds of filiquou plants Dié Seme fruits are contained within a hard /be//, be coin equal to four Attick drachms, o fou valu i denarii Roma 2s. 6d. fterling 4. The covering of kernels printed upon their fbeck/e on one fide the golde pot which had the manna, and on the othe Aaron's rod Camden The huge iron head fix hundred fbekels weigh'd And of whole bodies but one wound it made Able death's worft comman Chang'd loves are but chang'd forts of mea And, when he hath the kernel eat Who doth not throw away the fbe// Sur'LparLE. z./. A chaffinch SuE'LprRAKE. 7. /i A bird that prey 7. It is ufed for a mufical inftrument i poetry, from teffudo, Latin5 the firft Iyr being faid to have been made by ftraining ftrings over the fhell of a tortoife About his fbelve A beggarly account of empty boxes S/J(?K‘t,'j])t'dl'( Bind faft, or from their fbelwe Your books will come and right themfelves. Swift Lefs than a god they thought there could no dwel Within the hollow of that fhell That fpoke fo fweetly 2. A fand bank in the fea; a rock unde fhallow water congratulat eac Boyle Near the fbelves of Circe's fhores they run A dang'rous coaft Dryden He call'd his money in But the prevailing love of pel Soon fplit him on the former fbelf' He put it out again Dryden 3. The plural is analogically fbelves; Dryden has Jbelfs, probably by negligence He feiz'd the helm j his fellows cheer'd Turn'd fhort upon the fbelfs, and madly fteer'd Dryden SHE'LFY. adj. [from fbelf. 1. Full of hidden rock or banks dangerous fhallows full o Glides by the fyrens cliffs, a fbelfy coaft Long infamous for fhips and failors loft And white with bones 2. I know not well the meanin paflage ; perhaps rocky Dryden in thi The tillable fields are in fome places fo tough that the ploug will fearcel cu them an i fome fo fbelfy, that the corn hath much ado t faften its root Carew SueLL. 7. / [royll, yeeall, Saxon ; fchale Jchelle, Dutch. 1. The hard covering of any thing; th external cruft The fun is as the fire, and the exterior earth i as the /bel/ of the eolipile, and the abyfs as th water within it; now when the heat of the fu had pierced through the fbe//, and reached the waters, it rarefied them Burnet's Theary Whateyer we fetch from under groun what is lodged in the fbe// of the earth is onl Locke 2, The covering of a teftaceous or cruftaceous animal Her women wea "The fpoils or nations in an ea Chang'd for the treafure of a ffell And in their loofe attires do fwell Ben Fonfon's Cataline Albio ‘Was to Neptune recommende Peace and plenty fpread the fails Dryden 8. The fuperficial part other their having now fully efcaped the numerou rpcks,fl;c[ve:,and quickfands Shake[p. Fulius Cafar The marquis of Medina Sidonia made the e of a houfe, that would have been a. very nobl building, had he brought it to perfeétion Addifon on Italy SHELF.n /. [yeyly, Saxon ; feelf, Dutch. 1. A board fixed againft a fupporter, { that any thing may be placed upon it fhal mif 6. The outer part of an houfe foul gro chievous And kill him in the fbell So devout are the Romanifts about this outwar JPel of religion, thatif an altar be moved, or a fton of it broken, it ought to be re-confecrated Ayliffe's Parergon To SHELL. v. a. [from the noun.] T take out of the fhell; to ftrip of th thell Zo SHELL. . 7 1. To fall off as broken fhells 2. To caft the fhell Sue'Lipuck. z /. A kind of wild duck To preferve wild ducks, and fbellducks, have place walled in with a pond. Mortimer's Hufbandry SuE'LLFI1sH. n [ [ /bell and fifb.] Fif invefted with a hard covering ; eithe as oyfters ; or cruftaceous a lobfters The fhells being found, were fo like thofe the faw upon their fhores that they never queftione but that they were the exuviz of /bellfifh, and onc belonged to the fea Woodward SHE'LLY. adj. [from fbell. 1. Abounding with fhells The ocean rolling, and the /belly fhore Beautiful objects, fhall delight no more lover in company yDr ;e The healing plant fhall aid, Fro e ftorms a JPeltery and from heat afhade, Pope 2. A proteftor gives fecurity defender; one thy Thou haft been a fbelter for me, and a ftron tower from the enemy. Plab falm Iy1xi, 24 The ftate pf bein covered ; protec. tion; fecurity Low at his foot a fpacious plain is plac'd the mountai and the ftream embrac'd Which ihade and fbelter from the hill derives While the kind river wealth and beauty gives o Dennham, 5.1 Who into fbelter takes their tender bloom, And forms their minds to fly from ills to come 70 SHELTER Young @. a. [from the noun. 1. To cover from external violence We befought the deep to fbelter Milton Thofe ruins fpelter'd once his facred head When he from Worc'fter's fatal battle fled Watch'd by the genius of this royal place, Dryd. 2. To defend; to protet; to. fuccous with refuge; ta harbour Whar endlefs honour fhall you gain, Te fave and fbelter Troy's unhappy train Dryden's Znide iyl the 0 3. To betake to cover They fbeltered themfelves under a rock Comtfor whe thyfel chieft thoughts fuc wit Ablat, all earthly eomforts fail thee 3 then do thou particularly retreat to thofe confiderations, and™ §. SPelter thyfelf under them dAsterbury 4. To cover from notice. - proper » This feems lef 70 SHE'LTER. ¥. 7 1. To take fhelter There the Indian herdfman, fhunning heat Milton Shelters in cool 2. To give fhelter Then feeks the fartheft ooze, the fbelt'zing weed The cavern'd bank, his old fecure abode. Thomfor. Har SHE'LTERLESS. adj. [from fbelier. bourlefs ; without home or refuge Now fad and fhelterlefs, perhaps, fhe lies ‘Where piercing winds blow fharp. Rowe's Fe «Eb"" SHE'LVING Prior was, that-the firf men, and all animals, were bred in fome war moifture, inclofed in cruftaceous fkins, as lobfters and fo continued, till their /be/ly prifons growin dry, and breaking, made way for them Bentley SHE'LTER. #. /. [Of this word the ety mology is unknown : Stinner deduces i fromy fbell 3 Davies from reylo, a fhield Saxon. 1. A cover from any external injury or violence We hear this fearful tempeft fing Yet feek no fbelter to avoid the frorm Shakefpeare's Richard 11 They with the mountains now might be agai Thrown on them, as a fbelter from his ire. Milton Sloping adj. [from sbelf. inclining; having declivity Her chamber is aloft, far from the gr?und. i clim can o on tha fbe vin f buil An Without apparent hazard of his lifes Shakefpeare Amid# the brake a hollow den was found 2. Conlfifting of fhells The conceit of Anaximande They may learn experience, "an avoid‘a?' as the worlt fbelter from rain, when the ha In vain I firove to check my growing flame Or fhelter paflion under friendihip's name Prior You faw my heart The ulcers were cured, and the fcabs fpelled off Wifeman teftaceous Hetoes of old, when wounde But he, who meets all dangers &fielé?f'd';?"ghti Ev'nir their face his fhip to anchor brought And fteeple high ftood propt upon the maip, D "d Betwee Think him as a ferpent's egg Which hatch'd would, as his kind Deftroying life at once and carcafe too Cowvley This coat of mail weighed five thoufand fhekel of brafs Broome tranfporte Donn 5. The covering of an egg to overdoe upon fifhes Arbuthnot ing the feeds of the plants The Jews, albeit they detefted images, yet im Ou s@E SH 5 H With rocks and fbelving arches vaulted rouzj: Shallow 5 SuE'LVY. adj. [ from fbelf. rocky ; full of banks I ha bee drowned Jhelvy and fhallow bu fhort_? J"r that th Skake Merry W"z‘vffof Windir To SHEND. . a. preter. and part. ;;a Saxon; Jchenaets ‘ [ ycenban fbent Dutch. to {poil; to mifchie Provide3 for thy Oy~ wife, or elfe look to be fherit 1. To ruin Good milchcow for wuue\,»anothcr fo Lent Tuffers n b y n i l o f s r h She e v f l d a h t Your roundels frefh Of Rofalind, that Colin made t e r p r d o h e Such a d t e f b l w d b a f That mu It bodes I fhall have wars |