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To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander. [R.] "The serpenting of the Thames." Evelyn.

meals; to supply with food; as, to serve customers in a shop. Others, pampered in their shameless pride, Are served in plate and in their chariots ride. Dryden.

a home, or the like. And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him, until he was ashamed. 2 Kings viii. 11. (Rev. Ver.) The father thought the time drew on Of setting in the world his only son. Dryden.

To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame. [Archaic] R. Browning. The famous name of knighthood foully shend. Spenser. She passed the rest as Cynthia doth shend The lesser stars. Spenser.

Harm; disgrace; shame. [Obs.] Chaucer.

aleigh. Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that light the skies, To shroud my shame. Dryden.

A trick; an artifice; an evasion. The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange.

dy loves you better than I. Arbuthnot. The embarrassed look of shy distress And maidenly shamefacedness. Wordsworth.

Hence, place or situation; seat. [Obs.] Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever. Painter (Palace of Pleasure).

To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts. Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once. Shak.

Slow-moving, like a snail. Bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame. Shak.

o creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away. Dryden.…

treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers. Nor sneered nor bribed from virtue into shame. Savage.

Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England. Southdown sheep (Zoöl.), a celebrated breed of shortwooled, hornless sheep, highly valued on account of the delicacy of their flesh. So called from the South Downs where the breed originated.

Cause of reproach; shame. Sir P. Sidney.

late. Shak. The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. Crabbe.

by piercing; as, to stick a beast. And sticked him with bodkins anon. Chaucer. It was a shame . . . to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray. Sir W. Scott.

y subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary. It is a shame to stand stiff in a foolish argument. Jer. Taylor. A war ensues: the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to defend their hospitable laws. Dryden.

To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. Thames among the wanton valleys strays. Denham.

def. 6, above. They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch. Fuller.