Get you to the church and shrive yourself.
Beau. & Fl.
Shrive, v. i. To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer
confession and absolution. Spenser.
Shriv"el (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shriveled (?) or Shrivelled; p. pr. &
vb. n. Shriveling or Shrivelling.] [Probably akin to shrimp, shrink;
cf. dial. AS. screpa to pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv,
transitory, frail, Sw. skröpling feeble, Dan. skröbelig, Icel.
skrj&?;pr brittle, frail.] To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to
shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the
skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.
Shriv"el (?), v. t. To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink
onto corruptions.
Shriv"en (?), p. p. of Shrive.
Shriv"er (?), n. One who shrives; a confessor.
Shriv"ing, n. Shrift; confession. Spenser.
Shroff (?), n. [Ar. sarrf.] A banker, or changer of money. [East
Indies]
Shroff"age (?), n. The examination of coins, and the separation of the
good from the debased. [East Indies]
Shrood (?), v. t. [Cf. Shroud.] [Written also shroud, and shrowd.] To
trim; to lop. [Prov. Eng.]
Shroud (shroud), n. [OE. shroud, shrud, schrud, AS. scrd a garment,
clothing; akin to Icel. skruð the shrouds of a ship, furniture of a
church, a kind of stuff, Sw. skrud dress, attire, and E. shred. See
Shred, and cf. Shrood.] 1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or
protects; a garment. Piers Plowman.
Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds.
Sandys.
2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. "A dead man in
his shroud." Shak.