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of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon. [Written also noonshun.] Hudibras.

speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause. How commentators each dark passage shun. Young.

on; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy. Clarendon. Weak we are, and can not shun pursuit. Shak.

especially, the game hunted with hawks. "The stone-dead quarry." Spenser. The wily quarry shunned the shock. Sir W. Scott.

ges duly paid 'em, And something over to remember me by. Shak. Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste. Milton.

The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.

With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong. Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an author into vice. Pope.

re coil and the field-magnet coil are in series with the external circuits; -- opposed to shunt winding. --Se"ries-wound`, a.

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

To take shelter. There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool. Milton.

n or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. Dryden.

t; on speedy foot. I will wish her speedy strength. Shak. Darts, which not the good could shun, The speedy ould outfly. Dryden.

by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive. Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love. Pope.

agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress. 'T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. Dryden.

cess and happy victory! Shak. Or teach with more success her son The vices of the time to shun. Waller. Military successes, above all others, elevate the minds of a people. Atterbury.

Early; soon; in good season. Timely advised, the coming evil shun. Prior. Thanks to you, That called me timelier than my purpose hither, For I have gained by it. Shak.

railroad, which may be occupied by one train while another is passing on a main track; a shunt; a siding; a switch.

Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.

Not avoided or shunned. Shak.

To move hastily or swiftly. But whirled away to shun his hateful sight. Dryden.