shrewash

(See extract.) "A shrew-ash is an ash whose twigs or branches, when applied to the limbs of cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a Into the body "There was not a shred of evidence against his client." shrew-mouse over the part affected. -Hawley Smart: Struck Down, ch. x. *shred-pie, s. A mince-pie. shrěd, *shredde, v. t. [A. S. screadian; Ger. shroten to gnaw, to cut, to saw.] 1. To tear or cut into small pieces, particularly into long and narrow pieces, as of cloth or leather; to tear into strips; to strip. 2. To prune, to lop, to trim. "In lopping and shredding of trees, when the cut standeth open, there would be no hollow places made like cups, for feare that water should stand therein."-P. Holland: Pliny, bk. xvii., ch. xxiii. of the tree a deep hose was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt with several incantations long since forgotten." -White : Nat . Hist . of Selborne , pt. ii., ch. xxvii. shrew-footed uropsile, s. Zool .: Uropsile soricipes , the sole species of the genus, discovered in Eastern Thibet by Père David. The general characters are like those of Urotrichus shrich *shrew-struck, adj . Injured or affected by a Surew. [SHREW-ASH.] "When a horse in the fields happened to be suddenly seized with anything like a numbne in his legs, he was immediately judged by the old persons to be either planet struck or shrew-struck. The mode of cure which they prescribed, and which they considered in all cases infallible, was to drag the animal through a piece of bramble that grew at both ends." - White : Selborne , lett. xxviii. (Note.) *shrew, *shrewe, v.t. [SHREW, 8.] To beshrew, to curse. IMG:content-1401.png:[blocks in formation] *3. Vixenish, scolding, shrewish. "As old as C; bil, and as curst and shrewd As So crates' Xantippe." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew , i. 2. *4. Vexatious, troublesome, mischievous, ill, hurtful, malicious. "No enemy is so despicable but he may do a body a shrewd turn." -L'Estrange: Fables. *5. Spiteful, dangerous. "He made a shrewd thrust at your belly."- Shakesp .: Henry IV ., Pt . II ., ii. 4. *6. Sly, cunning, artful, arch. "That shrewd and knavish sprite." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1. 7. Astute, sagacious, discerning, sharp, acute, keen; as, He is a shrewd man. 8. Characterized by or arising from acutene , sagacity, or acutene of discernment. "Profe ing to despise the ill opinion of mantind creates a shrewd suspicion that we have deserved it." -Secker: Sermons , vol. iii., ser. 15.