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▪ I. shelve, n.1|ʃɛlv|
[A new sing. evolved from shelves pl. of shelf n.2]
= shelf n.2 Also Comb. † shelveflat.
1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 35 Then sootherne swashruter huffling Flundge vs on high shelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. §210. 861 Guidelesse she droue with the tyde vpon a shelue in the shoare of Callis. 1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. 122 There lies a Shelve a League in length..at the mouth of the Riuer, which at low water holds not above five or six foot water. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 78. 2/1 The Shelve which stop'd up Sandwich Haven. 1831Scott Pirate Introd., The wild cape, or formidable shelve, which requires to be marked by a lighthouse.
fig.1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 120 That desperate Shelve upon which both our Church and State have suffer'd miserable Shipwreck. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xx, This plan was wrecked upon the ordinary shelve, to wit, the difficulty of finding performers.
▪ II. shelve, n.2|ʃɛlv|
[f. shelve v.1 (sense 1).]
A ledge or shelf of rock, or mountain.
a1701Maundrell Journ. Jerus. 28 Mar. (1703) 76 On the left side of it is shewn the Prophet's Bed, being a shelve on the Rock. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 416 We find the valley or shelve, between the third and the highest mountain,..covered with a species of oak. 1808Forsyth Beauties Scot. V. 290 The rapidity and rumbling of the rivers, falling from shelve to shelve. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. xvi, Precipices..Yielding no track for goat or deer, Save the black shelves we tread. 1820Keats Hyperion ii. 64 Above her, on a crag's uneasy shelve, Upon his elbow rais'd, all prostrate else, Shadow'd Enceladus.
▪ III. † shelve, v.1 Obs.—1
[perh. an arbitrary alteration of shelde shield v. for the sake of rhyme. Cf. shelf v.1]
trans. ? To shield, defend.
c1425Cast. Persev. 2576 in Macro Plays (1904) 154 Whyl he held hym in þis halle, fro dedly synne we did hym schelue [rhyme-word delue].
▪ IV. shelve, v.2|ʃɛlv|
[f. shelves pl. of shelf n.1]
†1. intr. To project like a shelf, overhang. Obs.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. iii. i. 115 Her chamber is aloft..And built so sheluing, that one cannot climbe it.
2. trans. To provide with shelves, esp. to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.
1598in H. Bradshaw Coll. Papers 169 Item a studdye desked and shelved rounde. 1727[E. Dorrington] Philip Quarll (1816) 52 His barrack..he shelved round with platted twigs after the manner of his table. 1861L. L. Noble After Icebergs 181 You would be delighted, though, with the little vales, notched and shelved with craggy terraces. 188618th Rep. Dep. Kpr. Rec. Irel. 9 Six bays have been shelved with galvanized iron, instead of..wooden fittings.
3. To place on a shelf or shelves; esp. to place or arrange (books) upon shelves.
1655Fuller Cambridge 79 The..Libraries..are bestowed upon Cambridge, and are beautifully shelved. 1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XI. 648/1 This..long expected work, will of course be shelved with eagerness in the libraries of scholars. 1827Scott Jrnl. 1 July, I employed myself..entering all the books..into a temporary catalogue, so as to have them shelved and marked. 1864Reader 21 May 652/1 To have each book, as it is brought in, registered, shelved, and catalogued.
b. transf.
1832J. H. Newman Lett. (1891) I. 288 You knock your head, you bruise your arms, all the while being shelved in a cupboard five feet from the floor. 1847H. Miller First Impress. Eng. iv. 58 We find it [the bone-bed] shelved high, if I may so speak, in the first storey of the [Upper Silurian] system.
4. fig. To lay aside as on a shelf, to put away or up as done with.
a. To remove (a person) from active service. Also refl.
1812Sporting Mag. XL. 131 Defeat, which would tend to annihilate their fame, and what is technically termed shelve them. 1838Lytton Alice ix. i, [He] being shelved with a plausible excuse of tender compassion for his infirmities. 1850Ld. Stanley in Croker Papers (1884) 18 Aug., Some of the present Government..will be shelved. 1876Mrs. Oliphant Curate in Charge viii, To shelve himself in an obscure place like Brentburn. 1885Manch. Exam. 11 June 5/1 To be shelved in a safe place is not what Lord R. Churchill wants.
b. To put aside (a question, etc.) from consideration.
1847Illustr. Lond. News 10 July 27/1 In order that the opera should not be shelved. 1855Dickens Dorrit i. x, The Circumlocution Office, being reminded that my lords had arrived at no decision, shelved the business. 1877E. R. Conder Bas. Faith ii. 62 In deliberative assemblies, an expedient is sometimes resorted to for shelving the matter in debate by raising what is termed ‘the previous question’. 1890Spectator 29 Mar. 433/2 It was evident..that the more ambitious part of the original programme would be shelved by common consent.
▪ V. shelve, v.3|ʃɛlv|
[Of obscure origin: formation from shelf n.1 or n.2 seems unlikely on account of the sense. Cf. WFris. skelf adj., somewhat oblique, not quite straight or level.]
1. intr. Of a surface: To slope gradually. Also with away, in, off, etc.
1614Gorges Lucan iii. 106 Whose hollow pent-house sheluing steepe Did them from blowes and danger keepe. Ibid. vi. 215 That long stretching Malean straine That shelues so farre into the maine. 1657Austen Fruit Trees i. (ed. 2) 129 A loose warme soyle is accompted best if it be shelving upon the sunne. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 402 The bank shelves away very fast from the Northern shore. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitland Club) 122 The first [fish-pond]..was made with no great nicety; it shelved in from all sides. 1823F. Clissold Ascent Mt. Blanc 11 A precipitous declivity, which shelved down, upon our right, in one plane of smooth rock, to the depth of 1000 feet. 1860tr. Hartwig's Sea & Wonders i. 7 The valley of the Atlantic deepens in mid-ocean.., gradually shelving up towards both continents. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 129 Precipitous banks of wood, which shelved downwards from our feet. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche May iii, A little hill, whose base Shelved off into the valley all around.
†2. To have an inclined position. Obs.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies xix. §1. 166 If you hold a sticke in running water, sheluing against the streame. 1763Mills Pract. Husb. IV. 351 The shoots [of the vine] should be fastened so as that, when they grow beyond the frame, they may go shelving from it, and not hang by their binding.
3. trans. To tilt or tip up (a cart). dial.
1587[implied in shelver1 and shelving vbl. n.2]. 1853W. D. Cooper Sussex Gloss. (ed. 2), Shelve, to turn manure, &c., from a cart, by raising its front part and causing it to lie obliquely. E[astern]. 1875W. D. Parish Sussex Gloss. |