Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SHAME-LESS-LY, adv.

Without shame; impudently; as, a man shamelessly wicked. – Hale.

SHAME-LESS-NESS, n.

Destitution of shame; want of sensibility to disgrace or dishonor; impudence. He that blushes not at his crime, but adds shamelessness to shame, has nothing left to restore him to virtue. – Taylor.

SHAM-ER, n.

One who makes ashamed; that which confounds.

SHAM-ING, ppr.

Making ashamed; causing to blush; confounding.

SHAM'MER, n. [from sham.]

One that shams; an impostor. [Low.]

SHAM'OIS, or SHAM'MY, n. [Fr. chamois; It. camozza; Sp. gamuza; Port. gamo; from Sp. gama, a doe, or it root; gavyr, a goat; Corn. and Ir. gavor.]

1. A species of Antelope, the Antilope Rupicapra, a ruminant mammal of the tribe Caprids, inhabiting the mountain: of Savoy, Piedmont, and the Pyrenees.
2. A kind of leather prepared from the skin of this animal. It is dressed in oil or tanned, and much esteemed for it softness, pliancy, and the quality of bearing soap without damage. A great part of the leather which bears this name, is counterfeit, being made of the skin of the common goat, the kid, or even of sheep. – Encyc.

SHAM-POO', or CHAM-POO', v.t. [Oriental?]

To rub and percuss the whole surface of the body, and at the same time, to flex and extend the limbs and rack the joints, in connection with the hot bath. What is now popularly shampooing, was anciently called tripsis, and it is still so called technically.

SHAM-POO'ED, pp.

Rubbed, percussed, &c., in connection with the hot bath.

SHAM-POO'ING, n.

The act or practice of kneading, rubbing and working any part of the body, as after bathing.

SHAM-POO'ING, ppr.

Rubbing and percussing the whole surface of the body, at the same time flexing and extending the limbs, and racking the joints, in connection with the hot bath.

SHAM'ROCK, n.

The Irish name for a three-leafed plant, the Oxalis Acetosella. – Spenser.

SHANK, n. [Sax. scanc, sceanc; G. and D. schenkel; Sw. skank.]

1. The whole joint from the knee to the ankle. In a horse the part of the fore leg between the knee and the footlock.
2. The tibia or large bone of the leg; as, crooked shanks.
3. The long part of an instrument; as, the shank of a key. – Moxon. The beam or shaft of an anchor. – Mar. Dict.
4. A plant, [Bryonia.] – Johnson.

SHANK'ED, a.

Having a shank.

SHANK'ER, n. [from Fr. chancre.]

A primary syphilitic ulcer, always occasioned by the application of the specific secretion from another primary syphilitic ulcer. It is always the first manifestation of true at regular syphilis.

SHANK'LIN, n.

A triple alternation of sands and sandstone with clays. – Mantell.

SHANK-PAINT-ER, n.

With seamen, a short rope and chain which sustains the shank and flukes of an anchor against the ship's side, as the stopper fastens the ring and stock to the cat-head. – Mar. Dict.

SHAN'SCRIT, n.

The Sanscrit, or ancient language of Hindoostan. [See Sanscrit.]

SHAN'TY, a.

for janty, gay; showy. [Not in use or local.]

SHAN'TY, n. [said to be from Ir. sean, old, and tig, a house.]

A hut, or mean dwelling.

SHAPE, n.

1. Form or figure as constituted by lines and angles; as, the shape of a horse or a tree; the shape of the head, hand or foot.
2. External appearance. He beat me grievously in the shape of a woman. – Shak.
3. The form of the trunk of the human body; as, a clumsy shape; an elegant shape.
4. A being as endowed with form. Before the gates there sat, / On either side, a formidable shape. – Milton.
5. Idea; pattern. – Milton.
6. Form. This application comes before the legislature in the shape of a memorial.
7. Manner.

SHAPE, v.i.

To square; to suit; to be adjusted. – Shak.

SHAPE, v.t. [pret. shaped; pp. shaped or shapen. Sax. sceapian, sceppan, scipan or scyppan, to form, to create; Sw. skapa; Dan. skaber; C. schaffen, to ereate, to make or get, to procure, furnish or supply; D. scheppen, schaffen; San. shafana. The Sw. has skaffa, to provide, and the Dan. skaffer.]

1. To form or create. I was shapen in iniquity. – Ps. li.
2. To mold or make into a particular form; to give form or figure to; as, to shape a garment. Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty deck'd her face. – Prior.
3. To mold; to cast; to regulate; to adjust; to adapt to a purpose. He shapes his plans or designs to the temper of the times.
4. To direct; as, to shape a course. – Denham.
5. To image; conceive. Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not. – Shak.

SHAP-ED, or SHAP-EN, pp.

Formed; molded; cast; conceived.

SHAPE-LESS, a.

Destitute of regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; as, deformed and shapeless. – Shak. The shapeless rock or hanging precipice. – Pope.

SHAPE-LESS-NESS, n.

Destitution of regular form.