*Shame-faced Maiden. Anemone nemorosa, L., Wood Anemone (Sarum Dioc. Gazette).—S.W. (Farley.)
Shammock. To shamble or shuffle along hastily.
*Shandy. A row about nothing (S.). Probably a form of Shindy.—S.W.
Shape (pronounced shap). To manage, arrange, attempt, try. 'I'll shap to do 't,' try to do it. Compare the similar use of frame in some counties.—N.W. (Devizes.)
Shard, Shord, Sheard. (1) A gap in a hedge (A.B.).—N. & S.W.
'I went drough a sheard in th' hedge, instead o' goin' drough th' geat.'—Wilts Tales, p. 167.
'1636. Itm. to Robert Eastmeade for mendinge a shard in Englands ijd.'—Records of Chippenham, p. 207.
(2) A narrow passage between walls or houses; usually Shord.—S.W. (3) 'To put in a shard, or shord,' to bay back or turn the water in a meadow trench by a rough dam, such as a piece of wood or a few sods of turf.—N.W.
(4) 'A cow-shard,' a cow-clat.
*Shares. The cross-bars of a harrow (D.).
Sharpish. Considerable. 'I be eighty-vive to-year, an' 'tis a sharpish age.'—N.W. (Huish, &c.)