shammelt (shamel)

i. [ This, with streaming, I take to be the plain simple state of mining in general three centuries ago, and from hence is derived the custom of shammeling both above and under ground at this time. Pryce . shammer (sham'ėr), n . [ sham + -er1.] One who shams; an impostor; a liar; a trickster. I shou'd make the worst Shammer in England; I must always deal ingenuously. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iii. 1. IMG:content-0787.png:[blocks in formation] The overture was very shammish . Roger North , Examen, p. 100. (Davies.) shammockt (sham'ok), v . i. [Origin obscure.] To idle; loaf; lounge. Pox take you both for a couple of sham mocking rascals: you broke my tavern, and that broke my heart. Tom Brown , Works, II. 184. ( Davies .) shammy (sham'i), n.; pl. shammies (-iz). [Also shamoy ; formerly shamois , shamoys , chamois , chamois : see chamois .] 1. Same as cha mois , 2. Love thy brave man of war, and let thy bounty Clap him in shamois . Beau. and Fl ., Scornful Lady, ii. The day after to-morrow we go in cavalcade with the Duche of Richmond to her audience; I have got my cravat and shammy shoes. H. Walpole , To Gen. Conway, Jan. 12, 1766. 2. A bag of chamois leather in which miners keep their gold-dust. [Australia.] shamoyt, n. An obsolete form of shammy, chamois , 2. Whilst all the Hibernian kerns, in multitudes, Did feast with shame rags stew'd in usquebagh. shan2 (shan), n. [Cf. shanny1 .] Same as shanny1 . shand (shand), n. and a. [ sconde , also schend (in comp.), sceand , scand , sceond , scond = D. schande = MLG. schande = OHG. scant a, MHG. G. schande = Dan. skand (in comp. skand - skrift , libel) = Goth. skanda , shame; akin to AS. sceamu , etc., shame: see shame.] I. n. 1t. Shame; scandal; disgrace. Forr thatt wa , alls he wi te itt wel, Hi azhenn shame and shande. IMG:content-0788.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0789.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0790.png:[blocks in formation] shandygaff (shan'di-gaf), n. [Origin obscure.] A mixture of bitter ale or beer with ginger- beer. The original English recipe is a pint of bitter beer with a small bottle of old-fashioned ginger-beer; but porter or stout or lager-beer is sometimes substituted for the bitter beer, and ginger-ale for the ginger-beer. If the sun is out, one feels, after scrambling over the rocks and walking home by the dusty road, like taking a long pull at a cup of shandygaf . shangan, n. See shangie . shanghai (shang-hi'), n. [So called from Shang- hai, Shanghae, a city of China.] 1. A very long-legged hen with feathered shanks, reputed to have been introduced from Shanghai, China. The breed (if, despite its great vogue at one time, it could ever claim be one) is now obsolete, having been devel- oped or differentiated into the different varieties of brah- mas and cochins. Also called brahmaputra , brahmapootra . Hence-2. A tall person; especially, a tall dan- dy. [Slang, U. S.] -3. A long, slender oyster; a stick-up or stuck-up; a coon-heel, rabbit-ear, or razor-blade. [Connecticut.] -4. A kind of shanghai (shang-hi'), v . t . [Lit. to ship to Shang- hai, Shanghae , a port of China, representing any distant port to which persons so treated are shipped.] Naut ., to render insensible, as a per- son, by drugs, liquor, or violence, and ship him on a ve el wanting hands, for the purpose of fraudulently securing advance-money and any premium offered for procuring seamen. shangie, shangan (shang'i, -an), n. [Origin obscure; perhaps chaîne , a chain: see chain .] 1. A shackle; the shackle that runs on the stake to which a cow is bound in a cow-house. Jamie son.-2. A ring of straw or hemp put round a jumper by miners to pre- vent the water in the bore-hole from squirting up.-3. A stick cleft at one end, in which the tail of a dog is put by way of mischief. [Scotch in all uses.] Shangti (shang'te'), n. [Chin., shang , high, supreme, + ti , ruler.] One of the names (liter- ally, 'supreme ruler') used among Christians in China for God, the others being Shin ('god' or 'gods, 'spirit' or 'spirits'), used (sometimes with the prefix chin , true) by those who object to the use of Shangti and Tien - chu ('lord of heaven'), used by Roman Catholics. Also shaning (shan'ing), n. Same as shanny1 . shank1 (shangk), n. [ shanke , schanke , schonke, sceonke, sconke , sceanca , scanca, sceonca, the bone of the leg, also a hollow bone, = OFries. skunk a , schonk = D. schonk , a bone, = LG. schunke , also schake , leg, = Sw. skank = Dan. skank , leg, shank; cf. dim. D. schenkel = MHG. G. schenkel , shank, leg, thigh, = Icel. skekill , shank; allied to OHG. scincho, scincha, shank, hollow bone (> It. dial. schinco, stinco , shin-bone), MHG. schinke , G. schinken , ham, = Sw.skink a = Dan. skinke , ham. From the same ult. source is derived E. skink1 .] 1. The leg, or the part of the leg which extends from the knee to the ankle; the tibia or shin-bone. Eftsoones her white streight legs were altered To crooked crawling shankes , of marrowe empted; And her faire face to fowle and loathsome he we, And her fine corpes to a bag of venim grewe. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank . (a) Technically, in an at . and zool ., the shin, crus, or leg proper, between the knee and the ankle; the second seg ment of the hind limb, represented by the length of the tibia. (b) In a horse, popularly, the part of the fore leg between the so-called knee and the fetlock, corresponding to the metacarpus. See cut under horse . 2. In a bird, popularly, the part of the foot be- tween where the feathers usually end and the roots of the toes, commonly held upright and Chaucer , Sir Thopas, 1. 197. appearing like a part of the leg, not of the foot, as it really is; the tarsometatarsus.-3. In en- tom ., the tibia: same as shin , 5.-4. In bot . , the footstalk or pedicel of a flower.-5. A stock- ing, or the part of a stocking which covers the leg; specifically, a stocking in the proce of That he byfore sawe in that stede; Hir a [one] schanke blake, hir other graye, And all hir body lyke the lede. made of the skin of the caribou worn with the hair out- side]. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 510. 6. That part of an instrument, tool, or the like which connects the acting part with a handle or Some say ye suld baith be shank it aff till Edinburgh Castle. Scott , Antiquary, xxxvi. 2. In the making of lenses, to break off (the rough edges) with pliers of soft iron. To shank shank-iron (shangk'i"ėrn), n . In shoe - manuf .: ( a ) A shaping-tool or former for shoe-shanks. (b) A plate of iron inserted as a stiffening be- tween the leather parts of a shank. shank-laster (shangkʻlàs tėr), n . A shoemak- ers' tool, combining a gripping-jaw and a lever, for fitting the upper-leather over the shank of the last. E. H. Knight . shank-painter (shangk'pānter), n . Naut ., a short rope and chain sustaining the shank and flukes of an anchor against the ship's side, as the stopper fastens the ring and stock to the IMG:content-0791.png:[blocks in formation] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary