shrub (2)

[Arab.shirb, shurb =a drink, a beverage, from shariba he drank. Shrub and syrup are doublets.] [SHERBET.] A drink or liqueur, composed of acid, generally that of lemons and sugar, with spirit, chiefly rum, to preserve it. *shrub, v. t. [SHRUB (1), s.] To prune down, as Naut.: A fine quality of hawser-made rope, used to preserve a shrubby form. for shrouds. shroud-stopper, s. Nautical: A piece of rope made fast, above and below the damaged part of a shroud which has been injured, by shot or otherwise, in order to secure it. shroud-truck, s. Naut .: A wooden thimble secured to the shrouds "Though they be well shrubbed and shred, yet they begin even now before the spring to bud."-Anderson: Expos. of Benedictus (1573), fol. 64.