See shrow in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for shrow meaning in English (5.8kB)
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shrew"
},
"expansion": "shrew",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "See shrew.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shrows",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shrow (plural shrows)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "shrew"
}
],
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1575, Thomas Churchyard, The Firste Parte of Churchyardes Chippes Contayning Twelue Seuerall Labours, London: Thomas Marshe, page 49b",
"roman": "What tongue can scape, the skolding of a shrow.",
"text": "What Hawke can sit, in peace for carraine crow?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1581, Arthur Hall, transl., Ten Books of Homers Iliades, translated out of French, London: Ralph Newberie, Book 1, p. 12",
"text": "For Neptune ioyned with Pallas, and Iuno Dame that shrowe,\nHad enterprisde to bind his hands, & down the heauens him throwe.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1689, Nathaniel Lee, The Princess of Cleve, London, act II, scene 2, page 21",
"text": "Any Man of Wit and Sense like us, Charms all Women, as one Key unlocks all Doors at Court—Nay, I’ll say a bold word for my self, Turn me to the sharpest Shrow that ever Bit or Scratch’d, if I do not make her feed out of my hand like a tame Pidgeon, may I be condemn’d to lye with my Wife.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of shrew"
],
"id": "en-shrow-en-noun-hAtKoWxP",
"links": [
[
"shrew",
"shrew#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative form of shrew"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃɹəʊ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shrow.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "shrow"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shroud"
},
"expansion": "Back-formation from shroud",
"name": "backformation"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Back-formation from shroud",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shrows",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "shrowing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "shrowed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "shrowed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shrow (third-person singular simple present shrows, present participle shrowing, simple past and past participle shrowed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "21 79",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English back-formations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 89",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 91",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 89",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 92",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English heteronyms",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 66",
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Soricomorphs",
"orig": "en:Soricomorphs",
"parents": [
"Mammals",
"Vertebrates",
"Chordates",
"Animals",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1830, The Parterre; Or, Universal Story-teller",
"text": "Dense fogs followed; and early one morning, the city was shrowed in almost Egyptian darkness.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1913, The Nineteenth Century and After - Volume 73, page 1281",
"text": "Neither is there any doubt, but that many Rulers over Cities and countreys, are over ruled by their wives, but as these women knowe howe in time and place, to bee obedient to their husbands, so there are some such restive jades, that they will not at any time be commaunded, and by their importunities, exclamations, scolding, and brawling, continually withstande their husbands willes, and make a mock at them, playing with them a thousand shrowed prankes, which caused a certayne King to say, that they were very fooles that would followe their wife, running away from them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1985, H. C. Das, Cultural Development in Orissa, page 126",
"text": "I may make it clear here that discussion on the important religious cults alongwith their attendant sects in a systematic manner is not an easy task due to the fact that systematic records have not yet been available, some of the religions have been shrowed in oblivion and many of the monuments have been damaged.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To hide or cover; to shroud."
],
"id": "en-shrow-en-verb-8UXGAmh6",
"links": [
[
"hide",
"hide"
],
[
"cover",
"cover"
],
[
"shroud",
"shroud"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To hide or cover; to shroud."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃɹaʊ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shrow (verb).wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow_%28verb%29.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow_%28verb%29.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow_%28verb%29.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow_%28verb%29.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "shrow"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English back-formations",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English heteronyms",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"en:Soricomorphs"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shrew"
},
"expansion": "shrew",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "See shrew.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shrows",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shrow (plural shrows)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "shrew"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1575, Thomas Churchyard, The Firste Parte of Churchyardes Chippes Contayning Twelue Seuerall Labours, London: Thomas Marshe, page 49b",
"roman": "What tongue can scape, the skolding of a shrow.",
"text": "What Hawke can sit, in peace for carraine crow?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1581, Arthur Hall, transl., Ten Books of Homers Iliades, translated out of French, London: Ralph Newberie, Book 1, p. 12",
"text": "For Neptune ioyned with Pallas, and Iuno Dame that shrowe,\nHad enterprisde to bind his hands, & down the heauens him throwe.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1689, Nathaniel Lee, The Princess of Cleve, London, act II, scene 2, page 21",
"text": "Any Man of Wit and Sense like us, Charms all Women, as one Key unlocks all Doors at Court—Nay, I’ll say a bold word for my self, Turn me to the sharpest Shrow that ever Bit or Scratch’d, if I do not make her feed out of my hand like a tame Pidgeon, may I be condemn’d to lye with my Wife.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of shrew"
],
"links": [
[
"shrew",
"shrew#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative form of shrew"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃɹəʊ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shrow.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "shrow"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English back-formations",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English heteronyms",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"en:Soricomorphs"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shroud"
},
"expansion": "Back-formation from shroud",
"name": "backformation"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Back-formation from shroud",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shrows",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "shrowing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "shrowed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "shrowed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shrow (third-person singular simple present shrows, present participle shrowing, simple past and past participle shrowed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1830, The Parterre; Or, Universal Story-teller",
"text": "Dense fogs followed; and early one morning, the city was shrowed in almost Egyptian darkness.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1913, The Nineteenth Century and After - Volume 73, page 1281",
"text": "Neither is there any doubt, but that many Rulers over Cities and countreys, are over ruled by their wives, but as these women knowe howe in time and place, to bee obedient to their husbands, so there are some such restive jades, that they will not at any time be commaunded, and by their importunities, exclamations, scolding, and brawling, continually withstande their husbands willes, and make a mock at them, playing with them a thousand shrowed prankes, which caused a certayne King to say, that they were very fooles that would followe their wife, running away from them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1985, H. C. Das, Cultural Development in Orissa, page 126",
"text": "I may make it clear here that discussion on the important religious cults alongwith their attendant sects in a systematic manner is not an easy task due to the fact that systematic records have not yet been available, some of the religions have been shrowed in oblivion and many of the monuments have been damaged.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To hide or cover; to shroud."
],
"links": [
[
"hide",
"hide"
],
[
"cover",
"cover"
],
[
"shroud",
"shroud"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To hide or cover; to shroud."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃɹaʊ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shrow (verb).wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow_%28verb%29.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow_%28verb%29.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow_%28verb%29.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shrow_%28verb%29.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "shrow"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.