shitepoke

The small, green heron of North America ( But or ides virescens). The plumage of its crest and upper parts is mainly glo y green; the under parts are brownish-ash, varied with white on its belly. Also called poke and fly - up - the - creek. shit-tah ( pl . shit-tim), s. [Heb. shittah , for shintah (see def.), (pl. shittim ); Coptic sont , sant , santh acacia.] Script.: A tree mentioned in the singular in Isa. xli. 19, and repeated in the plural, as used in constructing the ark of the covenant (Exod. xxv. 10, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; shivering shittah-tree, s. [SHITTАН.] shit-tim, s. [SHITTAH.] *shittle, *schit-el, *schet-yl, *seyt-yl, *schyt-tyl, a. & 8. [SHUTTLE.] A. As adj.: Wavering, unsettled, unsteady. "Their shittle hate makes none but cowards shrinke." Mirror for Magistrates , p. 456. B. As subst.: A shuttle. "Stone cups, stone ve els, shittles, all of stone." Chapman: Homer's Ody ey, ziil *shittle-cock, s. A shuttle-cock (q. v.). "The pat of a shittle - cock , or the creaking of a jack, will do his busine ." - Collier . *shittle-witted, a. Flighty, unsteady. "Shittle-witted fools."-Greene: Quip for an Upstart Courtier. *shit'-tle-ne , subst . [Eng.shittle; -ne .] Unsettledne , unsteadine , wavering, ficklene . "The vain shittlene of an unconstant head."-Barret: Alvearie. shive (1), *sheeve, s . [ Icel.skifa =aslice; Dan. skive ; Sw. skifva a slice, a disk; Dut. schijf ; Ger. scheibe.] [SHEAVE, SHIFT.] 1. A thin slice or cut. "Easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, ii. 1. 2. The scale or bark removed from the fibrous portion of hemp or flax in braking. 3. A name given by cork-cutters to the small bungs used to close wide-mouthed bottles, in contradistinction to the phial corks used for narrow necked bottles; also, a thin wooden bung used by brewers. shive (2), s. [CHIVE (2), 2.] shiv-er (1), s. [SHIVE, (1).] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A small piece or fragment into which anything is broken by sudden violence. (Usually in plural.) "This time, all the blade, like gla Sprang in a you sand shivers on the helm." Matthew Arnold : Sohrab and Rustum. *2. A thin cut or slice; a shive. "Of your white breed nat but a shiver." 3. A small wedge or key. II. Technically : Chaucer: C. Т. , 7,422. 1. Min.: A species of blue slate; schist, shale. 2. Naut.: A small wheel; a sheave.