Impoverished: needing money.
1862. The Government must go into the streets shinning for the means [to pay its debts], like an individual in failing circumstances.—Mr. Elbridge G. Spaulding, of New York, House of Repr., Jan. 28: Cong. Globe, p. 526/1.
1863. Mr. Chase assumed the [U.S. Treasury] chest to find it in a “shinning” condition, with such demands upon it as never before were made of the Department.—O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ ii. 234.
