shape smith (shapsmith)

[ No shape - smith set up shop and drove a trade To mend the work wise Providence had made. Garth, Cleremont, 1. 98. IMG:content-0800.png:[blocks in formation] They are his shards , and he their beetle. Shak., A. and C., iii. 2. 19. Like the shining shards of beetles. Long fellow , Hiawatha, xii. shard2 (shärd), n. [ * shard (not found in this sense?), prob. skardh = D. schaard = MLG. schart , a notch, = OHG. scart i , MHG. G. scharte , a notch, cut, fi ure, saw-wort; of like origin with shard1 -namely, sceard = OHG. scart = Icel. skardhr , etc., adj., cut, notched: see shard1 .] 1. A notch. Hall i well . -2. A gap in a fence. Stan i hurst .-3. An opening in a wood. Hall i well .-4. A bourn or boundary; a division. Upon that shore he spyed Atin stand, There by his maister left, when late he far'd In Phædrias flitt barck over that perlous shard . Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 38. 5. The leaves of the artichoke and some other vegetables whitened or blanched. Shards or mallows for the pot. Dryden, tr. of Horace's Epodes, ii. 82. [Obsolete or provincial in all uses.] shard3 (shärd), n. [Cf. shard1 , sharn .] Dung; excrement; ordure. [Prov. Eng.] Such souls as shards produce, such beetle things. Dryden, Hind and Panther, i. 321. One of the Geo- shard-beetle (shärd'bē"tl), n. tryp inæ. shard-bornet (shärd'born), a. Borne along by shards or scaly wing-covers. [Rare.] The shard - borne beetle with his drowsy hums. Shak ., Macbeth, iii. 2. 42. IMG:content-0801.png:[blocks in formation]