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Shent  v.  Obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Shend, for shendeth.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shent" Quotes from Famous Books



... sufficiency, till they removed the food from before him, whilst the boat drove on with them they knew not whither it was wandering. It drifted with them at the will of the winds and the waves, night and day a great while, till their victual was spent and they saw themselves shent and were reduced to extreme hunger and thirst and exhaustion, when behold, suddenly they sighted an island from afar and the breezes wafted them on, till they came thither. Then, making the cock-boat fast to the coast and leaving one therein to guard it, they fared on into the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton

... that to Rome went, Halt nat o path, or alwey o manere; Eek in som lond were al the gamen shent, If that they ferde in love as men don here, As thus, in open doing or in chere, 40 In visitinge, in forme, or seyde hire sawes; For-thy men seyn, ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer



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