shrivaltyt

An obsolete spelling of shrievalty. shrivel (shriv), v.; pret. shrove, shrived, pp. shriven, shrived, ppr. shriving. [Formerly also shrieve; Persie, beleeue me, thou shryvest me verie neere in this latter demaund, which concern eth vs more deeply than the former, and may worke vs more damage than thou art aware of. Nashe, Pierce Penile e, p. 67. "In the week immediately before Lent, every one shall go to his confe or," said the Ecclesiastical Institutes, "and confe his deeds; and his confe or shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do." Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. ii. 61. 2. To receive a confe ion from (a penitent) and grant absolution; hence, to receive an acknowledgment (of a fault) from, and pardon. In that chapelle, yf thou wolte crave, vii M yere thou myghtest have, And so many lenttis more yff tho we be screffe, thou mayste have sOO. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 130. I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. IMG:content-0973.png:[graphic] Shak ., M. of V., i. 2. 144. Let me go hence, And in some cloister's school of penitence, Acro those stones, that pave the way to heaven, Walk barefoot, till my guilty soul be shriven ! Long fellow , Wayside Inn, King Robert of Sicily. 3. To acknowledge a fault; confe to a priest and receive absolution: used reflexively. A scolere at Pares had done many full synnys, the whylke he hade schame to schryfe hym of. Hampole , Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 7. Thanne Mede for here mysdedes to that man kneled, And shroue hire of hire shrewedne e shame lees, I trowe. Per shamed. I am bound,.. if I have hurt my neighbor, to shrive myself unto him, and to make him amends. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 23. Bid call the ghostly man Hither, and let me shrive me clean and die. Per. It fell upon a holy eve, Hey, ho, hallidaye! Per. When holy fathers went to shrieve; Wil . Now ginneth this roundelay. changer, a banker (cf. Heb. sōrēf , a goldsmith), sarafa , change (money), spend (money).] 1. In India, a banker or money-changer.-2. In China, Japan, etc., a native teller or silver-ex- Ligber [Lucifer] he sridde a dere srud, An he wurthe in him-seluen prud. pert, employed by banks and mercantile estab- 2t. To clothe one's self in; put on. lishments to inspect and count all dollars that reach the firm, and detect and throw out the bad or defaced ones. for the purpose of detecting and throwing out what is bad: as, to shroff dollars. [Ports of China and Japan.] shroffage (shrof'āj), n. [ shroff 2 + -age .] 1. The examination of coins by an expert, and the separation of the good from the debased or de- faced.-2. The expense of such expert inspec- tion. And who art thou, thou Gray Brother, That I should shrive to thee? shrivel (shriv'l), v.; pret. and pp. shriveled or shrivelled , ppr. shriveling or shrivelling . [Not found in ME.; a freq. form, perhaps ult. based on ONorth. screpa , pine away; cf. Norw.skrypa , waste, from the adj., Norw. skryv , transitory, frail, Sw. dial. skryp , weak, feeble, frail, = Icel. skrjūpr , brittle, frail (cf. Sw. skröplig = Dan. skröbelig , feeble); perhaps ult.connected with shrimp1 , shrink . The relations of these forms are not clear.] I. in trans. To contract; draw or be drawn into wrinkles; shrink and form corrugations, as a leaf in the hot sun, or the skin with age. When, shriveling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll. The century shrivels like a scroll, The past becomes the present. And the vines shrivelled in the breath of war. Whittier, Mithridates at Chios. =Syn. To shrivel is to become wrinkled or corrugated by contraction; to shrink is, as a rule, to contract while preserving the same general form. A fire from heaven came and shrivell'd up Their bodies, even to loathing. That grew both under a breere, And sett them threescore rood in twaine Ther is neither busk nor hay In May, that it nyl shrouded ben. Rom . of the Rose , 1. 55. Thy Virgin Womb in wondrous sort shall shrowd Jesus the God. Cowley, Davideis, ii. Sorrow close shrouded in hart, I know, to kepe is a burdenous smart. Take heed thou hast not, under our integrity, Shrouded unlawful plots. Ford , Broken Heart, iii. 1. And sometimes too he shrowds His soaring Wings among the Clouds. shrood (shröd), v . t. A variant of shroud3 . shroud1 (shroud), n . [Early mod. E. also shrowd; shrud , schrud, 5. To shelter; screen; hide. srud , scrūd , a garment, clothing, = Icel. skridh , the shrouds of a ship, standing rigging, tackle, gear, appendages, ornaments, the fur- niture of a church, also a kind of stuff, = Norw. skrud , dre , ornament, = Sw. Dan. skrud , dre , attire; prob. orig. a piece of stuff cut,' ✓ skrud , whence also shred : see shred.] 1. A garment; a covering of the nature of a gar- ment; something which envelops and conceals; clothing. I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe [shepherd] were, In habite as an here mite vnholy of workes. Than by cometh the ground so proude That it wol have a newe shroude . IMG:content-0974.png:[blocks in formation] The shroud wherein our Saviours ble ed body was Shak ., Pericles, ii. 4. 9. wrapped when it was put into the Sepulchre. Dipping the bough of life, so pleasant once, In fire which shrivelled leaf and bud alike. Browning , Ring and Book, I. 289. IMG:content-0975.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0976.png:[blocks in formation] Coryat, Crudities, I. 79. The knell, the shroud , the mattock, and the grave. Young , Night Thoughts, iv. 10. IMG:content-0977.png:[blocks in formation] One evening sumptuously lodged; the next Humbly, in a religious hospital; I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past. Shak ., Tempest, ii. 2. 43. We see a cloud, And, fearing to be wet, do run and shroud Under a bush. But it would warm his spirits To hear from me you had left Antony, And put yourself under his shrowd , The universal landlord. Lydgate , MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 23. ( Hall i well .) Vnto a selly shrowde, A sheepecote closely builte Amid the woodds. Gas coigne, Philomene (ed. Arber), p. 97. The shroud to which he won his fair-eyed oxen. Chapman . Run to your shrouds within these brakes and trees. Milton , Comus, l. 147. 5. A place under ground, as the burrow of an animal, a vault, the crypt of a church, etc.: sometimes in the plural, used collectively as a singular. The shrowds, a covered space on the side of the church [St. Paul's), to protect the congregation in inclem- Pennant , London (ed. 1813), p. 512. 6. One of the two annular plates at the periph- ery of a water-wheel which form the sides of the buckets. shroud1 (shroud), v . [Early mod. E. also shrowd ; den , shriden , sriden (pret. schrudde , also schred , srid , pp. shrid , schred , ischrud , iscrud ), scrīdan (= Icel. skrýtha ), clothe, scrud , a garment: see shroud1 , n. Cf. enshroud.] I. trans. 1. To cover as with a garment or veil; especially, to clothe (a dead body) for burial. Thus shrowd ing his body in the skinne, by stalking he Capt. John Smith , True Travels, I. 134. As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest. Shak., Hen. VIII., iv. 1. 72. Twice the Saylours had e ayd To heaue him o're, And now the third time stroue they him to cast; Yet by the shrowds the third time held he fast. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. Bentinck shroudst. See bentinck . shroud3 (shroud), v . t. [Also shrowd, shrood ; a var. of shred (due in part to a ociation with the ult. related shroud1 ): see shred , v.] To lop the branches from; trim, as a tree. [Prov. Eng.] IMG:content-0978.png:[blocks in formation] Milton, MS. of Comus, Trinity College, Cambridge. ( Rich. ) shrovel (shrov), n. [Found only in comp. Shrove tide, Shrove Tuesday, and the derived verb shrove; As fit as... a pancake for Shrove Tuesday . Shak ., All's Well, ii. 2. 25. Cock-fighting and throwing at cocks on Shrove - Tuesday , and playing at hand-ball for tansy-cakes at Easter-tide. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 451. IMG:content-0979.png:[blocks in formation] 5602 shrover (shrō'vér), n. One who goes in company with others from house to house singing for cakes at Shrove tide. [Prov. Eng.] Shrove tide (shrov'tid), n. Time of confe ion; specifically, the period between the evening of the Saturday before Quinquagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday, as being the period when people were shriven in preparation for Lent: still further restricted to designate Shrove Tuesday. And welcome merry Shrove -tide. shruff Shrub, again-rum shrub - is there any living man who now calls for shrub? W. Besant , Fifty Years Ago, p. 170. (b) A cordial or syrup consisting of the acid juice of some fruit, as the raspberry, cooked with sugar and vinegar, and diluted with water when used. [U. S.] "Mr. Peckham, would you be so polite as to pa me a gla of shrub ?" Silas Peckham took from the table a small gla cup, containing a Huid reddish in hue and subacid in taste. In E ex and Suffolk, at Shrove tide or upon Shrove-Tuesday, after the confe ion, it was usual for the farmer to permit his ploughman to go to the barn blindfolded, and "thresh the fat hen," saying, "if you can kill her then give it thy men; and go you and dine on fritters and pancakes." Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 451. Shrove- tide , or the week before Lent, brought along with it more than one religious and ritual observance. Rock , Church of our Fathers, III. ii. 61. The woods in all these northern parts are short and shrubbed . Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 419). Neere at hand were growing diuers shrubbed trees. Warner, Albion's England, ii. [ shrubbery + shrovingt (shro'ving), n. [Verbal n. of shrovel , shrubberied (shrub'er-id), a . v.] The celebration of Shrove tide; hence, in -ed2.] Abounding in shrubbery. general, any merrymaking or festivity. All which we on this stage shall act or say Doth solemnize Apollo's shroving day; Whilst thus we greete you by our words and pens, Our shroving bodeth death to none but hens. W. Hawkins , Apollo Shroving (1626), p. 6. ( Nares .) Eating, drinking, merry-making,. what else, I beseech you, was the whole life of this miserable man here, but in a manner a perpetual shroving? Hales , Sermon on Luke xvi. 25. shroving-time (shrō'ving-tīm), n. Shrove tide. If thir absolute Determination be to enthral us, before so long a Lent of Servitude they may permit us a little Shroving - time first, wherin to speak freely, and take our leaves of Liberty. Milton , Free Commonwealth. shrovy (shrō'vi), a. A dialectal variant, a ibilated and transposed, of scurvy1. Hall i well . shrowt, n. An obsolete form of shrew1 . shrub1 (shrub), n. [ scrub , * scrob , scrob , a shrub; preserved in Scrob - scire , Shropshire, Oxford itself, with its quiet, shady gardens, and smooth, gra y lawns,. and shrubberied "parks," is attractive to many birds. Athenæum, No. 3240, p. 747. shrubbery (shrub'er-i), n.; pl. shrubberies (-iz). [ shrub1 +-ery.] 1. Shrubs collectively; low shrubby bushes. While grey evening lull'd the wind, and call'd Fresh odours from the shrubbery at my side, Taking my lonely winding walk, I mus'd. Cowper , Four Ages, They pa ed, and, opening an iron gate, came suddenly into a gloomy maze of shrubbery that stretched its long vistas up the valley. H. Kingsley, Raven shoe, xi. 2. A plantation of shrubs, as in a garden or pleasure-ground. A modern shrubbery , formed of a selection of the most agreeable flowering shrubs. V. Knox, E ays, No. 115. She would give her advice as to the trees which were to be lopped in the shrubberies , the garden-beds to be dug, the crops which were to be cut. Thackeray , Vanity Fair, x. name of Shropshire; cf. scrybbe, a shrubbery. Cf. E. dial. shruff, also scroff, refuse wood. See scrubl.] A woody plant with stems branched from or near the ground, and, in general, smaller than a tree; a bush, or woody vine. The line which divides trees from shrubs is to a large extent arbitrary, and is often very unsatisfactory in application, but in general the name shrub may be applied to a woody plant of le size than a tree, with several permanent woody stems dividing from the bottom, more lower than in a tree. The line between shrub and herb is also indistinct, as many herbaceous plants are more or le woody. For practical purposes shrubs are divided into the deciduous and evergreen kinds. There are many very ornamental flowering shrubs, among the best-known of which are those belonging to the genera Rosa, Rhododendron, Kalmia, Viburnum, Philadelphus, Vaccinium. Among evergreen shrubs are the box and various heaths. Compare tree, herb. If the Cedar be so Weather-beaten, we poor Shrubs must not murmur to bear Part of the Storm. Howell , Letters, ii. 76. So thick entwined, As one continued brake, the undergrowth Of shrubs and tangling bushes had perplex'd All path of man or beast that pa 'd that way. Milton , P. L., iv. 176. Gooseberries and currants are shrubs ; oaks and cherries are trees. Locke . Sweetly-smelling Shrubs the Ground o'ershade. Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. Tonnyson, The Poet's Mind. High-water shrub. See Iva . - Sweet or sweet-scented shrub, the Carolina allspice. See Calycanthus. = Syn. The laurel- shrubs that hedge it around. Herb , etc. See vegetable , n.