shie
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[edit]shie (third-person singular simple present shies, present participle shieing, simple past and past participle shied)
- Archaic form of shy (to throw).
- 1787, Jeremy Bentham, Defence of Usury:
- […] a sort of cock, for him, in childish wantonness, to shie at.
References
[edit]- “shie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.