shumact, shumacht, shumackt

Obsolete spellings of sumac. shun (shun), v.; pret. and pp. shunned, ppr. shun ning. [ (pp. * gescuned, gescunned), shun, usually in comp. a- scunian, hate, detest, shun, avoid, accuse, on-scunian, an-scunian, on-sceonian, onscynian, regard with loathing, fear, or disfavor, reject, shun, also irritate; connections uncertain; not used in AS. in the physical sense 'go aside from,' and for this reason and others prob.not connected with scyndan, hasten, ascyn dan, take away; cf. shunt. But the physical sense appears in scoon, scon1, skip, which are appar. variants of scun2, an una ibilated form of shun: see scun2, scoon, and cf. scoundrel, schooner, etc.] I. trans. 1. To detest; abhor; shrink from. [Obsolete or archaic.] Hu ancren owen to hatien ham, and schunien . Ancren Riwle , p. 82. So let me, if you do not shudder at me, Nor shun to call me sister, dwell with you. Tennyson, Guinevere. 2. To go or keep away from; keep out of the neighborhood of; avoid. And zif him wrattheth be ywar and his we ye shonye. Piers Plowman (B), Prol., 1. 174. Which way wilt thou take? That I may shun thee, for thine eyes are poison To mine, and I am loath to grow in rage. Beau. and Fl., Phil aster, iv. 2. See how the golden groves around me smile, That shun the coast of Britain's stormy isle. Add is on, Letter from Italy. IMG:content-0990.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Same as raft - duck : so called from its shuf- 4. To refrain from; eschew; neglect; refuse. fling over the water. See cut under scaup.— 3. The coot, Fulica american a . [Local, U. S.] shuffle-scale (shuf'l-skal), n. A tailors' mea- sure graduated at both ends, each end admitting of independent adjustment. E. H. Knight. shuffle wing (shuf'l-wing), n. The hedge- chanter, Accentor modular is . Macgillivray . See cut under accentor . [Local, Eng.] shuffling (shuf'ling), p . a. 1. Moving clum- sily; slovenly. He knew him by his shuffling pace. Somerville , The Happy Disappointment. 2. Evasive; prevaricating. shuffling (shuf'ling), n. [Verbal n. of shuffle , The act of one who shuffles, in any sense. v.] With a little shuffling you may choose A sword unbated, and in a pa of practice Requite him for your father. Shak . , Hamlet, iv. 7. 138. shufflingly (shuf'ling-li), adv . In a shuffling manner; with a shuffle. Especially-(a) With an irregular, dragging, or scraping gait. I may go shufflingly at first, for I was never before walked in trammels. Dryden, Spanish Friar, i. 2. (b) Undecisively; evasively; equivocatingly. The death of Hexam rendering the sweat of the honest man's brow unprofitable, the honest man had shufflingly declined to moisten his brow for nothing. Whose Fingers are too fat, and Nails too coarse, Should always shun much Gesture in Discourse. Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 5. To shove; push. Bailey, 1731; Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] II.t in trans. 1. To shrink back; fall back; retreat. Ne no more schoune fore the swape of their scharpe suerddes Then fore the faireste flour thatt on the folde growes! Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 314. 2. To avoid or evade danger or injury. Whether hade he no helme ne hawb[e]rgh nauther,.. Ne no schafte, ne no schelde, to schune ne to smyte. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 205. 3. To withhold action or participation; refrain, as from doing something. It [Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac) is goddis will, it sall be myne, Agaynste his saande sall I neuer schone. York Plays , p. 63.