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for, let it fall as it will, the fuze setsfire to the powder within, which burststhe shell, and causes great devastation.The shells had much better be made ofan equal thickness, for then they burstinto more pieces.

34essttge-SHSLLS are nothing morethan howitzer shells, in the inside ofwhich a letter, or other papers, are put;the fuze hole is stopt up with wood orcork, and the shells are fired out of aroyal or howitzer, either in a garrison orcamp. It is supposed that the personto whom the letter is sent knows thetime, and accordingly appoints a guardto look out for its arrival. During thebombardment of Flushing, and whilethe communication with Cadsand wascut off, means were found to convey aletter from the garrison in the latterplace. It was inclosed in a shell, whichwithout being filled with inflammablematerials, was discharged from a mor-tar planted on one of the sea-batteries.The shell was taken up in Cadsand andemptied of its contents, which were for-warded to Paris .

To find the weight of a Shell. Rule.Double the difference of the cubes ofthe diameters of the shell and hollowsphere, and 7 times the result gives theweight in pounds, cutting off the tworight hand figures of whole numbers.

Example.. Let the diameter of theshell be 13 inches, and that of the hol-low sphere 9.5. Then the cube of 13 is2197, and that of 9.5, is 857.357; thedifference is 1339.625, its double is2679.25, which multiplied by 7, gives18754.625, and cutting off two places inwhole numbers, the result is 1871b. or1 cwt. 2 qrs. 211b. the weight of the shell.

To Shell, among horses, to have theteeth completely bare and uncovered,which happens about the fifteenth orsixteenth year.

Shrapnel- Shells, shells of a peculiarconstruction, invented by Col. Shrapnelof the royal artillery. They were usedwith peculiar effect against the Frencharmy, which Sir Arthur Wellesley , nowDuke of Wellington , fought on the 21stAugust, 1808; and also at the battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Sh ELi-toot hed horse is one that fromfour years, to old age, naturally hears amark in all his fore teeth, and there stillkeeps that hollow place with a blackmark, which we call the eye of a bean,insomuch, that at twelve or fifteen he

appears with the mark of a horse that isnot vet six.

SHERISCFIERWAR, Ind. a wordwhich corresponds with Saturday.

SHERISTA, Ind. an officer; a re-gistry.

SIIfDES, } in building, are small

SHINGLES, \ pieces of wood or quar-tered oaken boards, sawed to a certainscantling, or more usually cleft to aboutan inch thick at one end, and made likewedges, four or five inches broad, andeight or nine inches long.

To SHIFT, in a military sense, tochange place or station. Hence, toshift quarters. In the exercise, &c. of abattalion, officers commanding divisionsare, upon particular occasions, such asmarching past, &c. to shift from theright to the left, to conduct the heads offiles, or the pivot flanks, in column orechelon. Whenever officers shift, theymust pass briskly by the rear, and neveralong the front of the division. Thecovering Serjeants always move withthem.

SHIFTS, a term formerly used inEngland, to signify a certain per centageor douceur, which usurers exacted, andfor which they were liable to fine andimprisonment, &c. before the interestfor the use of money was fixed at a cer-tain standard in the reign of Henry theVHIth.

The SHILLINGS, a phrase in fami-liar use among army brokers, to expressa certain profit, or per centage, whichthey gain in the sale, purchase, and ex-change of commissions. The regulatedprice of a company in any regiment offoot being 15001. that sum only can helodged at an agent’s, or a banker’s; butif the company he (what is called) in themarket, the broker who transacts thebusiness, receives one shilling in thepound, and in order to produce thispremium, the purchaser gives 1500 gui-neas, out of which the shillings, amount-ing to 751. are paid to the broker, leav-ing the nett regulation untouched.

SHINGLE, a lath or cleft of wood tocover houses with.

SHINGLES ^ a disease, a spreadinginflammation about the waist, which killsthe patient if it get quite round. Horsesare subject to this complaint.

SHIP , a general name given to allvessels navigated upon the ocean; insea language, however, it is more parti-cularly applied to a vessel furnished with5 L 2