Shaman
(Sha"man) n. [From the native name.] A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists.
Shamanic
(Sha*man"ic) a. Of or pertaining to Shamanism.
Shamanism
(Sha"man*ism) n. The type of religion which once prevalied among all the Ural-Altaic peoples
and which still survives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizard priest, deals with
good as well as with evil spirits, especially the good spirits of ancestors. Encyc. Brit.
Shamanist
(Sha"man*ist), n. An adherent of Shamanism.
Shamble
(Sham"ble) n. [OE. schamel a bench, stool, AS. scamel, sceamol, a bench, form, stool, fr.
L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum a bench, stool.]
1. (Mining) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown
successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
2. pl. A place where butcher's meat is sold.
As summer flies are in the shambles.
Shak. 3. pl. A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
To make a shambles of the parliament house.
Shak. Shamble
(Sham"ble), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shambled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shambling ] [Cf. OD. schampelen
to slip, schampen to slip away, escape. Cf. Scamble, Scamper.] To walk awkwardly and unsteadily,
as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
Shambling
(Sham"bling) a. Characterized by an awkward, irregular pace; as, a shambling trot; shambling
legs.
Shambling
(Sham"bling), n. An awkward, irregular gait.
Shame
(Shame) n. [OE. shame, schame, AS. scamu, sceamu; akin to OS. & OHG. scama, G. scham,
Icel. skömm, shkamm, Sw. & Dan. skam, D. & G. schande, Goth. skanda shame, skaman sik to
be ashamed; perhaps from a root skam meaning to cover, and akin to the root (kam) of G. hemd shirt,
E. chemise. Cf. Sham.]
1. A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something
which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
HIde, for shame,
Romans, your grandsires' images,
That blush at their degenerate progeny.
Dryden.
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?
Shak. 2. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt.
Ye have borne the shame of the heathen.
Ezek. xxxvi. 6.
Honor and shame from no condition rise.
Pope.
And every woe a tear can claim
Except an erring sister's shame.
Byron.
