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s; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange.

cal sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.

ess will look to themselves, and leave their companions to schift as well as they can. L'Estrange.

. A man had got a shrew to his wife, and there could be no quiet in the house for her. L'Estrange.

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

Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. [Now dialectical or local, Eng. & U.S.] L'Estrange.

with of; as, to be sick of flattery. He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.

Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange.

Of or pertaining to the Simian. That strange simious, schoolboy passion of giving pain to others. Sydney Smith.

. . . Singe my white head! Shak. I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass. L'Estrange.

Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect. Denham.

Strangely; oddly; as, to behave singularly.

er, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size. Men of a less size and quality. L'Estrange. The middling or lower size of people. Swift.

go sidling; to lie or move obliquely. Child, you must walk straight, without skewing. L'Estrange.

l Essay upon the Faculties of the Human Mind;" but that is a mere skit compared with this strange performance. Leslie Stephen.

htened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange.

Uncertain in effect. L'Estrange.

neatness and order, especially in dress. A slovenly, lazy fellow, bolling at his ease. L'Estrange.

the sting of evil. No creature smarts so little as a fool. Pope. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15.

A greedy fellow. L'Estrange.