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Shend [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. ptet. and participle passive shent .

2. To injure, mar or spoil. Obs .

3. That much I fear my body willbe shent . Dryden .

4. To blame, reproach. revile, degrade, disgrace.

5. The famous name of knighthood foully shend . Spenser .

6. To overpower or surpass.

7. She pass'd the rest as Cynthia doth shend

8. The lesser stars.

Shend [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To injure, mar, spoil, or harm.

2. To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame.

Shendful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful.

Shending [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Shend

Shendship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace.

Shendy Encyclopedia Britannica

SHENDY, a town on the right bank of the Nile, about 130 miles south of Berber and 100 north of Khartum, which, while its present population does not exceed 2500, was previous to its destruction by the Egyptians in 1822 a place of some 50,000 inhabitants and a station on the great caravan route between Sennâr and Egypt and Mecca. The terrible massacre perpetrated by the Egyptians was in revenge for the treacherous assassination by the native chiefs at Shendy of Ismail Pasha and his suite, who were first drugged and then burned to ashes with their huts. Shendy was the capital of a considerable district, and lies only 20 miles south of the ruins of Meroe.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 21, p. 794
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