Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and
fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death.
Addison.
Sha"drach (?), n. (Metal.) A mass of iron on which the operation of
smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach,
one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace
of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)