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iog of Ihem; yet, pro. ided <1,., Ihcy m,y be ccrt.inly made
o():Jt by due iJttention to lhe ful-j rlt treated upon. and the
icliom o{ lhe hnC~13ge, it will be [uR'icu:nt : for the Je;unu
"rr.ult be advt..l'lifed, thJt thefe contraél ions ;ue not ddign –
.cd lO b~ t.lught as lhe comnlon method of wrillllg
{hort-hand '!,IIon all occalions.- That method which \~ as
caught in lhe fillt r art, and \'.'hlch \\ ill be as cafily rcad,
\~?on a hule praélice, as COOlmo n Itmg- h:tnd, \ViII be found
f\Jffi~iendy (hon for all comOlon I'urpofc=s i and it nlOuld
tht:lcfore be kept lO when very gre.u diCpatch i5 nOI re·
qu irc=d.
Inventors of Olon h:3 nd have l!cnera1ly introduced ioto
,thYir fyllcms a nlUltitUdc of Dréilror)' m~rks, 10 figOlfy par–
ticul.u words flnd phTcl(es, which are OrtCn chofen rather
upnn account 01 their length th an their frequen t OCCllr rencc.
Thc injudiciollS arplicauon of there arbitrary marks is not
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,SHOT , a d, eomination ci,'eo 10 all rOTtS of ball. for fire·
arnl5 -; thoCe {or c.tnnon being of iron, aod lhore fu r gun"
pillol" Óc. oE I.,d.
SHOVELI:.R. io oroilhology. Sce A"AS.
SHOULDEll' BowE, iD anatomy . Se< 1l:NATOMY, p.
175·
S HOULDER .BLADE. Sce AI\ATOMY , p. ]16.
, iD meleorology, a cloud ~.fulvcd iOlo raio.
S.. RAIN .
SHREW MOUSE. See Mus .
SHREWSBUll Y, ,he eouOlY· lo". of Shroprhire, filu.lcd
on the nvcr S(vern : W . ,long. ,046', N. lat. 52° 46'.
h Ceods twO members to parliameot.
SHRI MP, io iehlhyolo[!y. See SQ..UILLA.
SHR1N E, iD ecl<r..lllc. l hinory, • or box, 10 holJ
the relic5 of fome hint .
SHROPSHIRE , . counlyoEEoglood, bounded by Chdhire
on the nonh. by St;,dFlIrdfh ire 00 lhe ean, by B t re·
fordrhire on Ihe foulh, and by Monlcomeryrhire 00 Ihe
wcH
SHROVE TUESDAY. i. lheTuefd'yarler~
Su nd. y, or Ihe d.y immediately prcceding Ihe firn of
L lot ; bei-ng ro calltd from Ihe Saxon wordjhrivl, which
lignifies ,. confil" os h••,ng been cmploytd by Ihe peo·
ple in time of popery, in cor.teffing lheir {jos, in arder
to receiH the (acrament. ó!.nd thereby qUtllify lhemrelvea
for a more religioul obrerva,ion or Leot.
SHROWDS, in • rhip. ore lhe g,e. , ropes whieh come
do~'n bOlh fid.. of Ihe malls, and are f.llened belolV 10
Ihe eh.ins 00 Ihe /hip's fide . ,nd .Iofl 10 lhe rop of Ihe
mdl, bt:ini1 p~rcellt:d and rerved in order to prevent ,he
mall's galling them . The top-milfl nlrowcis are faOened
10 Ihe pUlloek' pla<es, by dcad .yes and luniards, as Ihe
olhers are.
SHRU B, amor.g naTuraliO,. denotes ó\ dwarf.tree, or a
woody pltlot lefs th",o a trce j fuch ale holly, box, pri–
vel. b e.
SHUTTLE, in Ihe manur.élu,"s, ,. inAromenl moeh ured
by wea vcTS, in Ihe mlodle of which is in t)'C, or ca.vny,
wherein is iocJQfed the (poQI wilh Ihe \\'oof.
SI, in mullck. :t (tvc:nth note Or (ound, ad.ded by Le Maire
to the fix ~pcient nOles inventcd by GUido Areune, viz.
uf; r~, mi, ftl, fl l, Id, ji,
SIA/lI. Ile "pi,,1 of a kingd~ru of Ihe r, me i.lhe
VOL . 1I1 N° 94. 2
,he only objtélioo 'g.infl Ihe",. They are nOI o"ly
bUI dcnfun:e lO the memory, and tcdious f\nd diffi .:uh to be
leo.\rotd, bUI :He fllrgllt evc.: n by Ihe \\ nler himrelf, unl~ í~ he
fits uownto decyphcr immedialc:ly whiln cvery thing is rH ih
io hí!> m\'m·)ry.
T hefc :t\ioos lie not againfl the ahove methuds of
abb, c"ií\tioo. They bUlden the meOlory "ilh no oeU' anJ
albiHary marks, and with bUI fcw Tules fur lhe c:<tt:'n(ion
of Ihe puwcrs of the alphabeticí\l rh.\f.(éters j and th:.
rule, ::Irt (o gelJera l. and :tpplicable tO fucly a mlJltll uJe of
cares perpctu.illl y occurrin~. ,hat tho!"y gíve thís fyClem Ihe
advam:¡gt, even in point 01 expedaion. Qver arbitruy m:arks.
and at ,he Cf\nle tiole Icave (he wrilin~ It~ible, \\rhittevcr
Jen;jth of t;me int:rvcncs . oot only 10 Ihc writa hiOlrdf,
bUI al ~o to every feJlow-praflifer of tbe f..me mc:thod .
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fOTlher pcoioful. oflndi.: E. lonf. 10 1°, N. 1 ... 14' .
SfBA, a province of che hither India, rilllatcd bc:tweef\
Tibel on Ihe colt, and L ahor on ,he well.
SIHALDIA, in , a genus of Ihe peolO.dri, penta.
gyOla claC,. The calix coorills of lrn fegments, 3nd the
corolla of fi\1e petals loferted lOtO the c~hx ; the nyli are
pllCed on lhe filie Qf the germen; 3nd there are ñge Ceeds ,
The (peci"s 3fe t\Vo. only one of thcm . viz. the pr.·
cumot ns, o{ hafiard clnqueroil. a native of Uritífin.
SIHERIA. or ASlATI C RUBIA . Ihe mon nOTlhem
COllntry of Afia, fi (uated bet \Vt cn 60° and 130" E. long.
and betwcen 470 and 12° N. lat. belng upward5 of two
thonraoo miles in It'nglh from ean lO wdl, and one thou–
r,nd five hundred miles in bre.dlh from ocTlh to roulh.
We ¡nelude the Calmoc T~rtars within ¡he limits o( Si·
beri. ; " Ihey acknowledge IheOlrelve, fu bjetl10 Ihe em·
pire of Rum...
SIHTHORPIA, io botany, • cenas of Ihe didyn,mi. ' n·
giofpermia darse The c11ix confiOs of five fegments, and
the corolla of ftve equal onn; the pairs of tlamina are
remate ; the caprule is comprelTed, globular, ifld has
two ct lls, with a. tranrverfe diffepimemu'm.
SlBYLS, in p,can anliquilY. ceTl.i. women r,id 10
been endowed with a prophetic Cp,rit, and to have deli–
vered oracles fortlhcwing the fates and rerollltioDs of
kingoom. oc.
The moflemiocnl oflhe len fibJI. menlioned by .ocieot
writen. wa,!'he whom the R oman, called Ihe CUOlzan
or Erylhr",.n fibyl, from her bcing boro" ErYlhr", io
lonia, and rc:moving from thence to Cuma:: in Iraly,
wbere fhe ddi'O'ered all her oracl~s from a Cí\VC dug out
of Ihe m,io ro.k, .eeording 10 Virgil, lEn. IIL 441,
oc.
There is nil1 prcfe,.ed, in eiChl boo!:s of Grcck ~err<,.
a colltétron ol vttfcs prlCtcnded to have been deltvercd
by ,he fibyls ; bUI Ihe gene"Hly of e"tie, look upon il
as Cpuriolls : and ir is the opin:on of l)rideaux, lhat the
nory of rhe Ih"e books of Ihe fibyls, rold 10 T"quio,
w"s ji Oate·tri k or fetch of politiC'! .
SICILY, ,he largefl oE ,11 Ihe hali,n iOands, anciendy
o l1cd Trinacria, fromín triangular figu re I it is fituated
belweco 120 ,nd 16° E long ood belwccn 37° .nd
39° N . 1" bclng aboul one huodrcd .nd fevenly IDiles
long, and one hundred broad.
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