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▪ I. shan, n.1|ʃæn|
[Of obscure origin.]
The shanny.
1713Jago in Ray Synopsis Pisc. 164 Cataphractus lævis, Cornubiensis. Smooth Shan. 1851Gosse Nat. Hist., Fishes 168 The most common of our Blennies is the Shanny (Blennius pholis, Linn.), sometimes called the Smooth Shan, an epithet probably alluding to the absence of those fringed appendages to the head with which all our other true Blennies are furnished.
▪ II. shan, n.2 slang. ? Obs.
Also shand.
[Cf. shan a.]
Counterfeit or base coin. Also fig.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Shan, counterfeit money in general. 1815Scott Guy M. xxxii, I doubt Glossin will prove but shand after a'..; but this is a gude half⁓crown ony way. [Note, Cant expression for base coin.]
▪ III. shan, n.3 Naut.|ʃæn|
[Of obscure origin; the Norwegian skaan hard crust (ON. skán thin membrane, film) has been compared.]
(See quot.)
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Shan, a defect in spars, most commonly from bad collared knots; an injurious compression of fibres in timber: the turning out of the cortical layers when the plank has been sawed obliquely to the central axis of the tree.
▪ IV. shan, a.1 Sc. and north. ? Obs.
[Of obscure origin.]
Pitiful, silly; poor, mean, paltry, shabby.
1714Ramsay Elegy on John Cowper xiii, Of umquhile John to lie or bann, Shaws but ill will, and looks right shan. 1719― To Hamilton, 1st Answ. vi, Ye're never rugget, shan, nor kittle. 1776D. Herd Sc. Songs II. 264 Gloss. 1906A. McCormick Tinkler-Gypsies Galloway iii. 128 A flat⁓fitted or shan-winklered (bad-eyed) body. |