Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for
winter.
Bacon.
3. Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or
known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt. [Colloq.] "A shady business."
London Sat. Rev.
Shady characters, disreputable, criminal.
London Spectator.
On the shady side of, on the thither side of; as, on the shady side of
fifty; that is, more than fifty. [Colloq.] -- To keep shady, to stay in
concealment; also, to be reticent. [Slang]
Shaf"fle (?), v. i. [See Shuffle.] To hobble or limp; to shuffle. [Obs.
or Prov. Eng.]
Shaf"fler (?), n. A hobbler; one who limps; a shuffer. [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.]
Sha"fi*ite (?), n. A member of one of the four sects of the Sunnites,
or Orthodox Mohammedans; -- so called from its founder, Mohammed
al-Shafeï.
Shaft (?), n. [OE. shaft, schaft, AS. sceaft; akin to D. schacht, OHG.
scaft, G. schaft, Dan. & Sw. skaft handle, haft, Icel. skapt, and
probably to L. scapus, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;&?;, a staff.
Probably originally, a shaven or smoothed rod. Cf. Scape, Scepter,
Shave.] 1. The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, That lean he wax,
and dry as is a shaft.
Chaucer.
A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the
feathers, and the head.
Ascham.
2. The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon
itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as,
shafts of light.
And the thunder, Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage,
Perhaps hath spent his shafts.
Milton.
Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . have been attacked with all
the shafts of ridicule.