shaffier

[English shafft (e); -er.] One who shuilles, hobbles, or limps. *shaff -nět, subst . [SHAFT MENT.] A measure of about six inches. "One heave the lead again, and sound abaffe, A shaffnet le , seven all." Taylor ( the Water -poet). Shăf-1-ītes, s. pl . [See def.] Mohammedanism : The followers of Mohammed Ibn Idris al Shafei, born in Syria, Hegira 150 (A. D. 767). He wrote three works on the fundamental principles of Islam, and became the founder of the Shafiites, one of the four sects considered orthodox. It still exists in Arabia, India, . [SONNITES.] shaft, *schaft, *shafte, s . [A. S. sceaft , for scaft , from scaf stem of pa. par. of scafan to shave; Dut. schacht, from schaven to smooth, to plane; Icel. skapt a shaved stick, a shaft; Dan.skaft =a handle, a shaft: Sw.skaft ; Ger. schaft . The meaning thus literally=a (shaven) rod.] IMG:content-1295.png:[blocks in formation] "The triumphant setting up of the great shafte (a principal maypole in Corn hill), before the parish church of St. Andrew."- Stow : London, p. 74. IMG:content-1296.png:[blocks in formation] shaft-tug, 8. Harne : The loop depending from the harne saddle, and holding up the shaft that pa es through it.