shie
English
Pronunciation
Verb
shie (third-person singular simple present shies, present participle shieing, simple past and past participle shied)
- Alternative form of shy (to throw).
- 1787, Jeremy Bentham, Defence of Usury
- […] a sort of cock, for him, in childish wantonness, to shie at.
- 1787, Jeremy Bentham, Defence of Usury
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)