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Burns, Duncan Gray. The antelope are getting continually shyer and more difficult to flag. T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p. 195. 2. Shrinking from familiarity or self-a ertivene ; sensitively timid; retiring; bashful; coy. A shy fellow was the duke; and I believe I know the cause of his withdrawing. Shak., M. for M., iii. 2. 138. She [the Venus de Medicis] is represented in a shy, retiring posture, and covers her bosom with one of her hands. Add is on, Guardian, No. 100. to . Gyrations similar to those which used to be famil. iar to one when the crown of a lower boy's hat had been kicked out and shied about the school-yard. Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 772. He has an abject fear of cats - they're witches, he says -and if he can shy a stone at one when it doesn't see him, W. Black , In Far Lochaber, vi. that is delight. Though the world does take liberties with the good tempered fellows, it shies them many a stray favour. Lever , Davenport Dunn, xx. 2. To throw off; to or send out at random. I cannot keep up with the world without shying a letter now and then. Scott , Diary, March 26, 1827. ( Lockhart .) II. in trans. To throw a mi ile; specifically, to jerk. but the observation of a very few minutes convinced her that she was only exceedingly shy .