2. (general).—To RUSTICATE (_q.v._)._The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

*Shirk*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—An old building of some

dimensions, containing a number of private rooms; erected

for temporary use, but since found of too much service to be

demolished.

1884. _Stonyhurst Mag._, i. 277. Gothic architecture of all

descriptions, including Elizabethan, was trampled out by the

Renaissance (revived Greek), of which SHIRK is a very bad specimen

(where it tries to be ornamental, as in its triangular pediment and

the pilasters beside the larger window).

_Verb._ 1. (Eton).—To hide when liable to be caught out of

bounds. Obsolete.

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