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A mean fellow; a wretch. [Obs.] hak.

One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. "A sorry scrub." Bunyan. We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us. Goldsmith.

Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind. Borne on the scud of the sea. Longfellow. The scud was flying fast above us, throwing a veil over the moon. Sir S. Baker.

ner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.

A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle. To their nests of sedge and sea tang. Longfellow.

A beach lying along the sea. "The bleak seabeach." Longfellow.

e." Milton. Like a red seal is the setting sun On the good and the evil men have done. Lonfellow.

To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.

The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.

personality. "Those who liked their real selves." Addison. A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world. Pope. The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compar…

vessel is carried bodily. [Written also scend.] W. C. Russell. "The send of the sea". Longfellow.

Chaucer. The magistrates sent the serjeant, saying, Let those men go. Acts xvi. 35. This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest. Shak.

Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. "Very shabby fellows." Clarendon.

A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby. All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble. H. W. Beecher. Common of shack (Eng.Law), the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to…

Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. The shades of night were falling fast. Longfellow.

Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow.

Rough; rugged; jaggy. Milton. [A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell. Keble.

A boy; a lad; a little fellow. [Colloq.] "These unlucky little shavers." Salmagundi. As I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver, I am on a chase in the name of the king. Dickens.

A weak, bashful, silly fellow. Ainsworth.

ody or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body. He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts x. 10, 11. If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets. S…