shop1 (shop)

[ ML. shoppa ), OF. eschoppe, eschope, F. échoppe ), a booth, G. dial. schopf, a building without walls, a vestibule; cf. G. schoppen, schuppen ( Ac march a uns metten with hym and made hym abyde, And shutten hym in here shoppes to shewen here ware. Piers Plowman (C), iii. 223. A prentys whilom dwelled in oure citee, And of a craft of vitailliers was hee;. He loved bet the taverne than the shoppe . Chaucer, Cook's Tale, 1. 12. A sumptuous Hall, where God (on euery side) His wealthie Shop of wonders opens wide. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. Hence-2. A building, or a room or suite of rooms, appropriated to the selling of wares at retail. IMG:content-0917.png:[blocks in formation] [In the rural districts and smaller towns of the United States the term store takes almost exclusively the place of the British shop, but the latter word is in occasional and increasing use in this sense in large cities. I was amused by observing over one of the stores, as the shops are called, great, staring, well-wigged figure painted on the sign, under which was written Lord Eldon. Capt . B. Hall , Travels in North America, I. 8.] 3. A room or building in which the making, preparing, or repairing of any article is carried on, or in which any industry is pursued: as, a machine - shop; a repair - shop; a barber's shop; a carpenter's shop. And as for yron and laten to be so drawen in length, ye shall se it done in xx shoppis almost in one strete. Sir T. More, Works, p. 127. Like to a censer in a barber's shop. Shak., T. of the S., iv. 3. 91. Hence, figuratively - 4t. The place where anything is made; the producing place or source. Then [he] gan softly feel Her feeble pulse, Which when he felt to move, he hoped faire To call backe life to her forsaken shop . Spenser, F. Q., II. 1. 43. Because I [the belly] am the store-house and the shop Of the whole body. Shak ., Cor., i. 1. 187. Galen would have the Liver, which is the Shop and Source of the Blood, and Aristotle the Heart, to be the Howell , Letters, I. iii. 30. first framed. 5. In gla - making , a team or set of workmen. See the quotation. They [gla -makers] are grouped into sets or shops of three or four, who work together and share profits to gether on a well-understood grade of division. Generally four constitute a shop , the most skilful workman (the blower) at the head, the gatherer (a young fellow) next, and two boys, one handling moulds or tools, and the other carrying the products to the annealing oven. Harper's Mag ., LXXIX. 259. 6. One's own busine , craft, calling, or profe ion; also, talk specifically relating to this: used in a ludicrous or contemptuous sense. Compare to talk shop, below. Had to go to Hartley Row for an Archdeacon's Sunday school meeting, three hours usele (I fear) speechifying and shop. Kingsley, Letter, May, 1856. (Davies.) All men, except the veriest, narrowest pedants in their craft, avoid the language of the shop. G. P. Marsh , Lects. on the Eng. Lang., xi. Chow-chow shop. See chow -chow. -Fancy shop. See fancy store, under fancy. - Forfeits in a barber's shop. lishment of any kind. [Ludicrous.] forfeit. The other shop, a rival institution or "Senior Wrangler, indeed; that's at the other shop." "What is the other shop, my dear child?" said the lady. "Senior Wranglers at Cambridge, not Oxford," said the scholar. Thackeray , Vanity Fair, xxxiv. To shut up shop, figuratively, to withdraw from or abandon any enterprise. [Colloq.] I'll quite give o'er, and shut up shop in cunning. Middle ton, Women Beware Women, ii. 2. If it go on thus, the commi ioners may shut up shop. Court and Times of Charles I., II. 21. To sink the shop, to refrain from talking about one's busine , or matters pertaining to it. [Colloq.] There was only one thing he [Story] did not talk about, and that was law; as the expre ive phrase goes, he sunk the shop ; though this same "shop" would have been a subject most interesting. Josiah Quincy , Figures of the Past, p. 193. To talk shop, to converse in general society about matters pertaining to one's own calling or profe ion. [Colloq.] Actors and actre es seem the only artists who are never ashamed of talking shop. Whyte Melville , White Rose, II. vii. shop1 (shop), v.; pret. and pp. shopped , ppr. shopping . [ We have been a- shopping, as Mrs. Mirvan calls it, all this morning, to buy silks, caps; gauzes, and so forth. Mi Burney, Evelina, x. She had gone shopping about the city, ransacking entire depôts of splendid merchandise, and bringing home a ribbon. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xii. II. trans. To shut up; put behind bars; imprison. [Cant.] A main part of his [a bum-bailiff's] office is to swear and bluster at their trembling prisoners, and cry, "Confound us, why do we wait? Let us shop him." Four for a Penny (1678) (Harl. Misc., IV. 147). (Davies.) They had likewise shopped up themselves in the highest of their house. W. Patten , Exped. into Scotland, 1548 (Eng. Garner, [III. 86). It was Bartlemy time when I was shopped .... Arter I was locked up for the night, the row and din outside made shop mate the thundering old jail so silent that I could almost have beat my brains out. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xvi. shop2t. An obsolete preterit of shape. shop-bell (shop'bel), n. A small bell so hung as to give notice automatically of the opening. of a shop-door. But, at this instant, the shop - bell , right over her head, tinkled as if it were bewitched. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, iii. shop-bill (shop'bil), n. An advertisement of a shopkeeper's busine , or a list of his goods, printed for distribution. shop-board (shop'bord), n . A broad board or bench on which work (especially tailors' work) is done. No Error near his [a tailor's] Shop - board lurk'd; He knew the Folks for whom he work'd. Prior , Alma, i. shop-book (shop'bük), n . A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. I will study the learned languages, and keep my shop book in Latin. Beau . and Fl . , Woman-Hater, ii. 2. shop-boy (shop'boi), n. A boy employed in a shop. shopet. An obsolete preterit and past participle of shape . shopent. An obsolete past participle of shape. shop-girl (shop'gėrl), n. A girl employed in a shop. Her personal beauty was an attraction to customers, and he valued her aid as shop -girl. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 12. shophar (shō'fär), n . [Heb.] An ancient Hebrew musical instrument, usually made of the curved horn of a ram. Also written shofar . A shopkeeper. shop holder (shop'holder), n. [Rare.] Hit ys ordeyned by the M. and Wardons that at euery coste of ale that ys geven into the forsayde ffraternyte and Gyld euery shop holder shall spend ther-to j. d. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 315.