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Out of season; untimely. [Obs.] Burton. Intempestive bashfulness gets nothing. Hales.

d or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson.

A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.

A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume.

Modest to excess; bashful. -- O"ver*mod"est*ly, adv.

k in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw. [Written also pacha.]

To be renewed, or as at first. [Obs.] Night's bashful empress, though she often wane, As oft repeats her darkness, primes again. Quarles .

Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise. Dryden.

A weak, bashful, silly fellow. Ainsworth.

Over-bashful; sheepish.

Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess. Wanting change of company, he will, when he comes abroad, be a sheepish or conceited creature. Locke. -- Sheep"ish*ly, adv. -- Sheep"ish*ness, n.

Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance. The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. Goldsmith.

A paltry fellow; a sneak. [Obs.] "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.

le by adding to the present the suffix - ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).

.), the European yellow-hammer. -- Yellow cat (Zoöl.), a yellow catfish; especially, the bashaw. -- Yellow copperas (Min.), a hydrous sulphate of iron; -- called also copiapite. -- Yellow copper ore, a sulphide of copper and iron; copper pyrites. See Chalcopyrite. -- Yellow cress (Bot.), a yellow-flowered, crucifer…