shuttlecock, #shut tel cock

[Eng. shuttle, s., and cork.] 1. Ord . Lang .: A cork stuck with feathers, which is struck with a battledore; also the game itself. "With dice, with cards, with balliards farre unfit, With shuttlecocks , mi eeming manlie wit." 1. Joinery: A framing hung upon hinges to the sash-frame of a window, and serving to close out the light or spectators. There are inside and outside shutters. The former are usually in several pieces, called flaps, which are hinged together and fold into a casing called a boxing. [FRONT SHUTTER.] Some shutters are arranged to be opened and closed by a sliding movement, either shuttlecock. Spenser: Mother Hubberd's Tale. 2. Bot.: Peripter a punicea , a malvaceous plant, a native of Spain. The flowers have the shape of a fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, father; we, wět, hëre, camel, her, thêre; 2. Sensitively timid; reserved, modest, bashful, coy, retiring; not familiar or free of behavior. "Like some shy maid in convent bred." Scott : Rokeby , ii. 16. 3. Cautious, wary, careful, chary. (Followed by of .) "I am very shy of employing corrosive liquors in the preparations of medicines." - Boyle . 4. Suspicious, distrustful, jealous. (Generally followed by of .) their succe ors." Wotton. "Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of 5. Lacking something requisite; as, He was shy $5 of the required amount. [The term is borrowed from card-playing, being applied to a player who lacks money to enable him to meet a specified bet.] IMG:content-1418.png:[blocks in formation] Music : A name given in some systems to the seventh note of the natural or normal scale (scale of C); in others to the seventh note of any diatonic scale.