*shen*

a. Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ashen hue of age. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., obs. pl. for Ashes. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Freshened p. pr. & vb. n. Freshening 1. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salty; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To refresh; to revive. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it. --
To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. --
To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To grow fresh; to lose saltness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A parishioner. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shent p. pr. & vb. n. Shending. ] [ AS. scendan to disgrace, bring to shame, from sceand, sceond, disgrace, dishonor, shame; akin to G. schande, Goth. skanda. See Shame, n. ] 1. To injure, mar, spoil, or harm. [ Obs. ] “Loss of time shendeth us.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I fear my body will be shent. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame. [ Archaic ] R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

The famous name of knighthood foully shend. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

She passed the rest as Cynthia doth shend
The lesser stars. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. [ Obs. ] -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] Fabyan. [1913 Webster]

n. Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Shend, for shendeth. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shend. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not shent; not disgraced; blameless. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not washed. [ Archaic ] “To eat with unwashen hands.” Matt. xv. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]