sharp visaged (sharpviz"ajd)

Having a sharp or thin face. tra; shathmontt, n. Same as shaftmond . shatter (shat'er), v. [ schateren , scatter, dash (of falling water); an a ibilated form of scatter : see scatter .] I. trans. 11. To scatter; disperse. I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Milton , Lycidas, 1. 5. 2. To break or rend in pieces, as by a single blow; rend, split, or rive into splinters, flinders, or fragments. He raised a sigh so piteous and profound, As it did seem to shatter all his bulk. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 1. 95. IMG:content-0812.jpg:[graphic] Here shattered walls, like broken rocks, from far Rise up in hideous views, the guilt of war. Add is on, The Campaign. 3. To break; disorder; derange; impair; destroy: as, shattered nerves; a constitution shat tered by di ipation. No consideration in the World doth so break in pieces and confound and shatter the Spirit of a Man, like the apprehension of God's wrath and displeasure against him for his sins. Stilling fleet , Sermons, II. ix. I was shattered by a night of conscious delirium. George Eliot, Mill on the Flo , vii. 3. =Syn. 2. Smash , etc. See dash . II. in trans. To scatter; fly apart; be broken or rent into fragments. Some [fragile bodies] shatter and fly in many pieces. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 841. In welt'ring waves my ship is tost, My shattering sails away be shorn. Sonnet (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 460).