SHAFT
SH'AFT, nounL. scapus; from the root of shape, from setting, or shooting, extending.]1. An arrow; a missile weapin; as the archer and the shaftSo loftly was the pile, a Parthian...
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SHAFTED
SH'AFTED, adjective Having a handle; a term in heraldry, applied to a spearhead.
SHAFTMENT
SH'AFTMENT, noun A span, a measure of about six inches. [Not in use.]
SHAG
SHAG, noun1. Coarse hair or nap, or rough wooly hair.True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay.2. A kind of cloth having a long coarse nap.3. In orinthology, an aquatic...
SHAGGED
SHAG'GED, adjective
SHAGGEDNESS
SHAG'GEDNESS, noun
SHAGGINESS
SHAG'GINESS, The state of being shaggt; roughness with long losse hair or wool.
SHAGGY
SHAG'GY,1. Rough with long hair or wool.About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin. Dryden.2. Rough; rugged; as the shaggy tops of hills.And throw the shaggy spoils about your sh...
SHAGREEN
SHAGREE'N, noun A kind of grained leather prepared of the skin of a fish, a species of Squalus. To prepare it, the skin is stretched and covered with mustard seed, which is brui...
SHAH
SHAH, noun A Persian signifying king.
SHAIK
SHAIK, noun
SHAIL
SHAIL, verb transitive To walk sidewise. [Low and not in use.][This word is probably the G. schielen, Dan. skieler, to squint.]
SHAKE
SHAKE, verb transitivepreterit tenseshook; participle passiveshaken.1. To cause to move with quick vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to agitate; as, the wind sh...
SHAKEN
SHAKEN, participle passivesha'kn.1. Impelled with a vacillating motion; agitated.2.adjective Cracked or split; as shaken timber.Nor is the wood shaken nor twisted, as those abou...
SHAKER
SHA'KER, noun1. A person or thing that shakes or agitates; as the shaker of the earth.2. In the United States, shakers is the name given to the very singular sect of Christians,...
SHAKING
SHA'KING, participle present tense Impelling to a wavering motion; causing to vacillate or waver; agitating.2. Trembling; shivering; quaking.SHA'KING, noun1. The act of shaking ...
SHAKY
SHA'KY, adjective Cracked, as timber.
SHAL
SHAL, verb auxiliary. pret, should. [Latin scelus.]
SHALE
SHALE, verb transitive To peel. [Not in use. See Shell.]SHALE, noun1. A shell or husk.2. In natural history, a species of shist or shistous clay; slate clay; generall of a bluis...
SHALL
SHALL,1.Shall is primarily in the present, and in our mother tongue was followed by a verb in the infinitive, like other verbs. 'Ic sceal fram the beon gefullod.' I have need to...
SHALLOON
SHALLOON', noun A slight woolen stuff.
SHALLOP
SHAL'LOP, noun [This word is changed into sloop; but the two words have now different significations.]1. A sort of large boat with two masts, and usually rigged like a schooner....
SHALLOW
SHAL'LOW, adjective1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal; as shallow water; a shallow stream; a shallow brook.2. Not deep; not entering far into the earth; as a shallow furrow...
SHALLOW-BRAINED
SHAL'LOW-BRAINED, adjective Weak in the intellect; foolish; empty headed.
SHALLOWLY
SHAL'LOWLY, adverb1. With little depth.2. Superficially; simply; without depth of thought or judgement; not wisely.
SHALLOWNESS
SHAL'LOWNESS, noun1. Want of depth; small depth; as the shallowness of water, of a river, of a stream.2. Superficialness of intellect; want of power to enter deeply into subject...
SHALM
SHALM, noun A kind of musical pipe. [Not used.]