Chapter Shunter to Sick of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.

The horses of the army . . . were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting.

Swift.

2. Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.

What makes you so shy, my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.

Arbuthnot.

The embarrassed look of shy distress
And maidenly shamefacedness.

Wordsworth.

3. Cautious; wary; suspicious.

I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines.

Boyle.

Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of thier successors.

Sir H. Wotton.

To fight shy. See under Fight, v. i.

Shy
(Shy), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shying.] [From Shy, a.] To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; — said especially of horses.

Shy
(Shy), v. t. To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper. T. Hughes.

Shy
(Shy), n.

1. A sudden start aside, as by a horse.

2. A side throw; a throw; a fling. Thackeray.

If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.

Punch.

Shyly
(Shy"ly), adv. In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve. [Written also shily.]

Shyness
(Shy"ness), n. The quality or state of being shy. [Written also shiness.]

Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul.

Baxter.

Syn. — Bashfulness; reserve; coyness; timidity; diffidence. See Bashfulness.

Shyster
(Shy"ster) n. [Perh. from G. scheisse excrement.] A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. [Slang, U.S.]

Si
(Si) [It.] (Mus.) A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.

Siaga
(||Si*a"ga) n. (Zoöl.) The ahu, or jairou.

Sialogogue
(Si*al"o*gogue) n. [Gr. si`alon saliva + leading, from to lead: cf. F. sialagogue.] (Med.) An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.

Siamang
(||Si"a*mang`) n. [Malay siamang.] (Zool.) A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

Siamese
(Si`a*mese") a. Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language.