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Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire. "Sapphirine degree of hardness." Boyle.

See Scirrhus.

n denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded.

A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.

n, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire. An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a county or shire. Blackstone.

One of an English breed of heavy draft horses believed to be descended largely from the horses used in war in the days of heavy armor. They are the largest of the British draft breeds, and have long hair on the back of the cannons and fetlocks. Brown or bay with white on the face and legs is now the commonest color.…

o obtain by mean solicitation. You that never heard the call of any vocation, . . . that shirk living from others, but time from Yourselves. Bp. Rainbow.

One who shirks. Macaulay.

Disposed to shirk. [Colloq.]

Shrill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The bullfinch.

drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and gauging.

Made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.

by men and boys. Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts. Addison. She had her shirts and girdles of hair. Bp. Fisher.

A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.

A costume consisting of a plain belted waist and skirt of the same material.

Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.

Not having or wearing a shirt. Pope. -- Shirt"less*ness, n.

An English breed of black-faced hornless sheep similar to the Southdown, but larger, now extensively raised in many parts of the world.

An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.