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To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice. I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Acts xx. 26,27. Scarcity and want shall shun you. Shak.

Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable. [R.] "Shunless destiny." Shak.

To shun; to move from. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif., a valve, actuated by the governor, used in one system of marine-engine governing to connect both ends of the low-pressure cylinder as a supplementary control.

t and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding. --Shunt"-wound` (#), a.

A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough- haired and the smooth-haired.

See Nunchion. Nares.

Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.

To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun. [Obs.] Spenser.

To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.…

Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. "The avoidance of pain." Beattie.

One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.

A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists. Badger dog. (Zoöl.) See Dachshund.

To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk. [Obs. or Obsolescent] By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the Evelyn. Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat. Bp. Hall. Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he meeteth. Drayton.

To move off; to stir; to walk away. I'll not budge an inch, boy. Shak. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. Shak.

nt to. Monarchs should their inward soul disguise; . . . Should compliment their foes and shun their friends. Prior.

which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result. Shun to taste, And shun the bitter consequence. Milton.

companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband. Milton. He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, Well pleased to want a consort of his bed. Dryden. The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere. Thakeray. The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort. Darwin.…