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viii. 42. Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires. Swift.

e senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. Rowe. They were a senseless, stupid race. Swift. They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. Clarendon. --- Sense"less*ly, adv. -- Sense"less*ness, n.

. Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us to be their slaves. Swift.

who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part. Swift.

a throne; to settle an allowance. It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful. Swift.

The office of a sexton. Swift.

Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. "The dean was so shabby." Swift.

the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes. Swift as thought the flitting shade Thro' air his momentary journey made. Dryden.

A large and swift Asiatic falcon (Falco pregrinator) highly valued in falconry.

A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.

A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf. A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. Bacon. Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. Dryden.

rtions; to divide. Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger. Swift.

rewd; as, a sharp dealer; a sharp customer. The necessity of being so sharp and exacting. Swift.

-- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters. Swift.

One who is close in bargains; a sharper. Swift.

in a play or a story. Shift the scene for half an hour; Time and place are in thy power. Swift.

ation. Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable. Swift. To make, or cause, the face to shine upon, to be propitious to; to be gracious to. Num. vi. 25.

to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear. Prometheus is laid On icy Caucasus to shiver. Swift. The man that shivered on the brink of sin, Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in. Creech.

ral or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course. [Written also chute, and shute.] [U. S.] To take a shoot, to pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course…

alled from its shape. -- Shoulder slip, dislocation of the shoulder, or of the humerous. Swift. -- Shoulder strap, a strap worn on or over the shoulder. Specifically (Mil. & Naval), a narrow strap worn on the shoulder of a commissioned officer, indicating, by a suitable device, the rank he holds in the service. See I…