Shrow

/ʃɹəʊ/ · noun

Meaning

(obsolete) Alternative form of shrew..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of shrew.
2. (obsolete) To hide or cover; to shroud.

Example Sentences

What Hawke can sit, in peace for carraine crow? What tongue can scape, the skolding of a shrow.

For Neptune ioyned with Pallas, and Iuno Dame that shrowe, Had enterprisde to bind his hands, & down the heauens him throwe.

Hortensio. Now go thy ways; thou hast tam’d a curst shrow. Lucentio. ’Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam’d so.

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.

Dense fogs followed; and early one morning, the city was shrowed in almost Egyptian darkness.

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.

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.

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• shrows
• shrowing
• shrowed

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