Shrewd

Sir 8'" only, • Open not thine heart to every man, lest he requite thee with a shrewd turn' (itai fiii dvaifiep^Tu cot x^-P'" '■ tbe sense, saj's Bissell, is given correctly bj' AV, x"/"" meanin" here ' an ill turn ' ; but RV renders literally, ' And let him not return thee a favour.' [Is ' shrewd ' a tr. of \p(i'oij, which is read before x"/"" i" some good M.SS and by the 'La.t.falsam gratiam':]). The Eng. word 'shrewd' iB a participial adj. meaning 'maliciouB, originally the ptcp.

of Mreic^n, to curse. The verb $hreieen was formed from the subst. 'shrew,' an Anglo-Sax. word, meaning a scolding or cursing person, usually a woman. Id Shaks. ' shrewd * has the general sense of ' bad ' ; it is applied to the contents of a paper, to news, to days and nights. The modern sense of ' clever ' perhaps occurs in Troit. and C'rens. I. ii. 200 — ' He has a shrewd wit, I can tell you.' But the usual meaning is ' sharp-tongued," 'shrewish,' as in Much Adn, ii. i.

20, 'Thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tfmgue.' The expression in Sira<;h (a 'shrewd turn') occurs in All I WrII, III. V. 71 and Uenn/ VIII. v. iii. 178. So Latimer, 6Vwn A>r7/ioii*, 96, 'The greatest man in a realme can not so hurte a judge as the poore wj'ddow, suche a shrcwcde tunie she cwidobiin.' J. Hastings. SHRINE.- See under Diana, vol. i. p. 6(i6'.