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SHIP COVE, a small sea-port of New Zealand . Lon. 175, 6.E. Lat. 21. 10. S.

SIIIP-MONEY, was an imposition charged upon the ports,towns, cities, boroughs, and counties, of this realm, in the reign ofking Charles I. by writs, commonly called ship-writs, under thegreat seal of England, in the years 1035 and 1630, for the pro-viding and furnishing of certain ships for the king’s service, &c.which was declared to be contrary to the laws and statutes of thisrealm, the petition of right and liberty of the subject, by stat. 17.Car. 1. c. 14. See Blackstone’s Commentaries, vol. iv. p. 30.

SHIPPENSBURG, a town of Pennsylvania , in Cumberlandcounty, 10 miles S. E. of Cbambersburg, and 140 W. of Phila-delphia .

SHIP-SHAPE, according to the fashion of a ship, or in themanner of an expert sailor; as, the mast is not rigged ship-shape ;trim your sails ship-shape.

SfilPSTON, orSHIPTON, an ancient town of England, inWorcestershire, 11 miles S. S. E. of Stratford upon Avon, 14 W.of Banbury, and 83 N. W. of London . Lon. 1.25. VV. Lat. 52. 5. N.

SHIRE, is the same with county. Comity, comitatus, is plainlyderived from comes, the count of the ancient Franks, that is, theearl or alderman (as the Saxons called him) of the shire, to whomthe government of it was intrusted. This he usually exercisedby his deputy, still called in Latin vice-comes (whence Viscount ),and in English the sheriff, or shire-reeve, signifying the officer oftlie shire; upon whom, in process of time, the civil administrationof it totally devolved. See Sheriff.

SHIRT, is a loose garment, commonly of linen, worn next thebody. Some doubt the propriety of changing the linen when aperson is sick. Clean linen promotes perspiration; and it may berenewed as often as the patient pleases, whether the disorder he ofthe acute or the chronical kind. Except during a crisis in fevers,whilst the patient is in a sweat, a change of linen, if well dried andwarmed, may be daily used. Shirts were not worn by Jews ,Greeks, or Romans, but their place was supplied by thin tunic*of wool. The want of linen among the ancients made frequentwashings and ablutions necessary.

SII1TTIM, or SHITTAII, a sort of precious wood, of whichMoses made the greatest part of the tables, altars, and planks, be-longing to the tabernacle. It is supposed to be the wood of theacacia, which is the only tree that grows in Arabia Deserta. Je-rome says it resembled the wood of the white thorn. It is said tohave been almost incorruptible.

SHIVERS, in the sea-language, little rollers, or round wheelsof pulleys.

SHOA, or XOA, a province of Abyssinia, where the royal lineof Solomon lived during their expulsion from the throne.

SHOAD, among miners, denotes a train of metalline stone,serving to direct them in the discovery of mines.

Shoad-stones, a term used by the miners of Cornwall andother parts of England to express such loose masses of stones asa (e usually found about the entrances into mines, sometimes run-ning in a straight course from the load or vein of ore to the sur-face of the earth.

SHOAL , in the sea-language, denotes likewise a great quantityof fishes, as a shoal of herrings.

Shoals, Isles of, seven islands on the coast of New Hamp-s ’>ire ; called also Smith’s Isles. Lon. 70. 33. W. Lat. 42. 59. N.

SHOCK, in electricity. The effect of the explosion of acharged body, that is, the discharge of its electricity on any oiliero°dy, is called the electric shack. See Electricity.

SHOE OF AN ANCHOR, a small block of wood, convex on: le hack, and having a small hole, sufficient to contain the point of‘he anchor fluke, on the foreside. It is used to prevent the an-chor from tearing or wounding the planks on the ship’s bow, whenascending or descending; for which purpose the shoe slides updown along the bow between the fluke of the anchor ami thefor*'^’ as ^ ein 8 pressed close to the latter by the weight of the

w among the Jews , were made of leather, linen, rush, or

w >0< > those of soldiers were sometimes of brass or iron. They•p^ rc ll e<l with thongs which passed under the soles of the feet.0 j. P l 't off their shoes was an act of veneration; it was also a signlatd°r n ' ,ns an< ^ humiliation : to bear one’s shoes, or to untie thelets of them, was considered as the meauest service. Among

the Greeks shoes of various kinds were used. Sandals were wornby women of distinction. The Lacedemonians wore red shoes.The Grecian shoes generally reached to the middle of the leg.The Romans used two kinds of shoes; the calcetis, which coveredthe whole foot somewhat like our shoes, and was tied above withlatchcts or strings; and the solea, or slipper, which covered onlyihe sole of the foot, and was fastened with leathern thongs.

Shoes for Horses, or Horse-shoes. See Farriery

Shoe an Anchor, is to cover the flukes with a broad triangu-lar piece of plank, whose area or superficies is much larger thanI that of the flukes.

SllOGLE, a town of Syria , seated on the Asi, the ancientOrontes; 18 miles S. bv E. of Antioch, and 45 S. VV'. of Aleppo .Lon. 36. 40. E. Lat. 3a'. 20. N.

SHOOTING, in the military art. See Artillery, Gun-nery, Platoon-Exercise, and Projectiles.

Shooting, in sportsmanship, the killing of game by the gun,with or without the help of dogs. See Game .

SHORE, Jane, the celebrated concubine of the licentious kingEdw. IV. was the wife of Mr. Maft. Shore, a goldsmith in LombardStreet, London . Kings are seldom unsuccessful in their amorouspursuits; therefore there was nothing wonderful in Mrs. Shore ’sremoving from Lombard Street to shine at court as the royal fa-vourite. H istorians represented her as extremely beautiful, remark-ably cheerful, and of most uncommon generosity. The king, it issaid, was no less captivated with her temper than with her person ;she never made use of her influence over him to the prejudice ofany person; and if ever she importuned him, it was in favour ofthe unfortunate. After the death of Edward, she atttached herselfto lord Hastings, and when Richard III . cut off that nobleman asan obstacle to his ambitious schemes, Jane Shore was arrested as anaccomplice, on the ridiculous accusation of witchcraft. This,however, terminated only in a public penance; excepting thatRichard rifled her of all her little property : but whatever severitymight have been exercised towards her, it appears that she wasalive, though sufficiently wretched, in the reign of Henry VIII .when Sir Thomas Moore saw her poor, old, and shrivelled, with-out the least trace of her former beauty. Mr. Rowe, in his tra-gedy of Jane Shore , has adopted the popular story related in (heold historical ballad, of her perishing by hunger in a ditcli whereShoreditch now stands. But Stoiv assures us that street was sonamed before her time.

Shore , a place washed by the sea, or by some large river.Count Marsigli divides the sea-shore into three portions: the firstof which is that track of land which the sea just reaches in stormsand high tides, but which it never covers; the second is thatwhich is covered in higli tides and storms, but is dry at othertimes; and the third is the descent from this,-which is always co-vered with water.

SHOREHAM , New, a borougli of England, iq Essex, seatedon an arm of t lie sea, whereby it has some trade, th'euigh ((.has nosafe harbour; 10 miles VV. of Brighthelmstone, and 5trSTV. ofLondon . ——

SHORL, a species of stones. It occurs commonly in granite,gneiss, and other similar rocks; often in mass, but very frequentlycrystallized. The primitive form of its crystals is an obtuse rhom-boid, the solid angle at the summit of which is 139°, having rhom-boid faces, with angles of 114° 12' and 65° 48'; but it usually oc-curs in 3, 6, 8, 9, or 12, sided prisms, terminated by four or five-sided summits, variously truncated.

Shorl, Black.. Colour black. Found in mass, disseminatedand crystallized. Crystals three-sided prisms, having their lateraledges truncated. Sometimes terminating in a pyramid. Lateralfaces of the prism striated. Vitreous. Fracture conchoidal.Opaque. Scratch grey. Feel cold. Specific gravity about 3.It becomes electric by heat.

SHORLING, and MORLING, are words to distinguish fellsof sheep ; shorling being the fells after the fleeces are shorn off thesheep’s back; and inorling, the fells dead off after they die or arekilled.

SHORLITE, a stone which received its name from Mr. Klap-roth , is generally found in oblong masses, which, when regular,are six-sided prisms, inserted in granite. Its texture is foliated-colour greenish or yellowish white. It is composed of equal partsof alumina and silica,

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