Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 68
Shilf (n.) Straw. [Obs.]
Shill (v. t.) To shell. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Shill (v. t.) To put under cover; to sheal. [Prov.ng.] -- Brockett. Shillalah
Shill (n.) A decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others.
Shill (v.) Act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up".
Shillalah (n.) Alt. of Shillelah.
Shillelah (n.) An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks. [Irish] [Written also shillaly, and shillely.]
Shillalah (n.) A cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) [syn: shillelagh, shillalah].
Shilling (n.) A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency.
Shilling (n.) In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized.
Note: Many of the States while colonies had issued bills of credit which had depreciated in different degrees in the different colonies. Thus, in New England currency (used also in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida), after the adoption of the decimal system, the pound in paper money was worth only $3.333, and the shilling 162/3 cts., or 6s. to $1; in New York currency (also in North Carolina, Ohio, and Michigan), the pound was worth $2.50, and the shilling 121/2 cts., or 8s. to $1; in Pennsylvania currency (also in New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland), the pound was worth $2.70, and the shilling 131/2 cts., or 7s. 6d. to $1; and in Georgia currency (also in South Carolina), the pound was worth $4.20 [frac67], and the shilling 21 [frac37] cts., or 4s 8d. to $1. In many parts of the country . . . the reckoning by shillings and pence is not yet entirely abandoned. -- Am. Cyc. (1890)
Shilling (n.) The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12? cets; -- formerly so called in New York and some other States. See Note under 2.
York shilling. Same as Shilling, 3. Shill-I-shall-I
Shilling (n.) The basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents [syn: Ugandan shilling, shilling].
Shilling (n.) The basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents [syn: Tanzanian shilling, shilling].
Shilling (n.) The basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents [syn: Somalian shilling, shilling].
Shilling (n.) The basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents [syn: Kenyan shilling, shilling].
Shilling (n.) A former monetary unit in Great Britain [syn: British shilling, shilling, bob].
Shilling (n.) An English coin worth one twentieth of a pound.
Shilling, () Eng. law. The name of an English coin, of the value of one twentieth part of a pound. In the United States, while they were colonies, there were coins of this denomination, but they greatly varied in their value.
Shill-I-shall-I (adv.) Alt. of Shilly-shally.
Shilly-shally (adv.) In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner.
I am somewhat dainty in making a resolution, because when I make it, I keep it; I don't stand shill-I-shall-I then; if I say 't, I'll do 't. -- Congreve.
Shilly-shally (v. i.) To hesitate; to act in an irresolute manner; hence, to occupy one's self with trifles.
Shilly-shally (n.) Irresolution; hesitation; also, occupation with trifles.
She lost not one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, -- no shilly-shally in Kate. -- De Quincey.
Shiloh (n.) (Script.) A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as "the Messiah," or as the city "Shiloh," or as "Rest".
Shiloh (n.) The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory [syn: Shiloh, battle of Shiloh, battle of Pittsburgh Landing].
Shily (adv.) See Shyly.
Shim (n.) A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.
Shim (n.) A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.
Shimmered (imp. & p. p.) of Shimmer.
Shimmering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shimmer.
Shimmer (v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
Shimmer (n.) A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.
Shimmering (n.) A gleam or glimmering.
Shimmy (n.) A chemise.
Shin (n.) The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
Shin (n.) A fish plate for rails.
Shinned (imp. & p. p.) of Shin.
Shinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shin.
Shin (v. i.) To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.
Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
Shin (v. t.) To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
Shindle (n.) A shingle; also, a slate for roofing.
Shindle (v. t.) To cover or roof with shindles.
Shindies (n. pl. ) of Shindy.
Shindy (n.) An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.
Shindy (n.) Hockey; shinney.
Shindy (n.) A fancy or liking.
Shone (imp. & p. p.) of Shine.
Shined () of Shine.
Shining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shine.
Shine (v. i.) To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
Shine (v. i.) To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.
Shine (v. i.) To be effulgent in splendor or beauty.
Shine (v. i.) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
Shine (v. t.) To cause to shine, as a light.
Shine (v. t.) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them.
Shine (n.) The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.
Shine (n.) Sunshine; fair weather.
Shine (n.) A liking for a person; a fancy.
Shine (n.) Caper; antic; row.
Shine (v. i.) Shining; sheen.
Phrase: Shine with sth
Shine with sth (C1) If a person's eyes or face shine with a quality, you can see that quality in them very strongly.
// Her eyes shone with delight.
Shiner (n.) That which shines.
Shiner (n.) A luminary.
Shiner (n.) A bright piece of money.
Shiner (n.) Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.
Shiner (n.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
Shiness (n.) See Shyness.
Shingle (n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
Shingle (n.) A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.
Shingle (n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
Shingled (imp. &. p. p.) of Shingle.
Shingling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shingle.
Shingle (v. t.) To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
Shingle (v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
Shingle (v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Shingler (n.) One who shingles.
Shingler (n.) A machine for shingling puddled iron.
Shingles (n.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
Shingles (n.) (Herpes zoster) Is a painful, blistering skin rash. It is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. This is the virus that also causes chickenpox.
Shingles (n.) noun plural but singular in construction medical : A disease that causes pain and red marks on your skin along the path of a nerve.
Shingles (n.) An acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves that is associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains and is caused by reactivation of the herpesvirus causing chicken pox called also herpes zoster, zoster.
Shingles (n.) An acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pain and caused by reactivation of the herpesvirus causing chicken pox called also herpes zoster, zona, zoster.
Shingling (n.) The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.
Shingling (n.) The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.
Shingly (a.) Abounding with shingle, or gravel.
Shinhopple (n.) The hobblebush.
Shining (a.) Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor.
Shining (a.) Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.
Shining (a.) Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.
Shining (n.) Emission or reflection of light.
Shiningness (n.) Brightness.
Shinmoe-dake (n.) (新燃岳) 新燃岳火山是日本九州島南部的一座活火山，位於霧島山脈的中部，處於鹿兒島縣霧島市和宮崎縣小林市的交界。海拔1420.77米。
Is a volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan, and a part of the Mount Kirishima cluster of volcanoes. [1] It is believed to have formed between 7,300 and 25,000 years ago. [2]
Eruptions from Shinmoedake have been recorded in 1716, 1717, 1771, 1822, 1959, 1991, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2017, and 2018. [3]
Shinney (n.) The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.
Shinplaster (n.) Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
Shinto (n.) Alt. of Shintiism.
Shintiism (n.) One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.
Shintoist (n.) An adherent of Shintoism.
Shinty (n.) A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game.
Shiny (a.) 發光的；晴朗的；閃耀的；擦亮的；有光澤的；磨光的，磨損的 Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
Like distant thunder on a shiny day. -- Dryden.
Shiny (a.) Reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" [syn: {glistening}, {glossy}, {lustrous}, {sheeny}, {shiny}, {shining}].
Shiny (a.) Having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed doughnuts" [syn: {glazed}, {shiny}] [ant: {unglazed}].
Shiny (a.) Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents" [syn: {bright}, {burnished}, {lustrous}, {shining}, {shiny}].
Shiny (a.) (Of a smooth surface) Reflecting light, typically because very clean or polished.
‘Shiny hair.’
‘Shiny black shoes.’
-ship (n.) A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.
Ship (n.) Pay; reward. [Obs.]
In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or the wages of servants. -- Chaucer.
Ship (n.) Any large seagoing vessel.
Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving. -- Milton.
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! -- Longfellow.
Ship (n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.
l Port or Larboard Side; s Starboard Side;
1 Roundhouse or Deck House; 2 Tiller; 3 Grating; 4 Wheel; 5 Wheel Chains; 6 Binnacle; 7 Mizzenmast; 8 Skylight; 9 Capstan; 10 Mainmast; 11 Pumps; 12 Galley or Caboose; 13 Main Hatchway; 14 Windlass; 15 Foremast; 16 Fore Hatchway; 17 Bitts; 18 Bowsprit; 19 Head Rail; 20 Boomkins; 21 Catheads on Port Bow and Starboard Bow; 22 Fore Chains; 23 Main Chains; 24 Mizzen Chains; 25 Stern.
1 Fore Royal Stay; 2 Flying Jib Stay; 3 Fore Topgallant Stay;4 Jib Stay; 5 Fore Topmast Stays; 6 Fore Tacks; 8 Flying Martingale; 9 Martingale Stay, shackled to Dolphin Striker; 10 Jib Guys; 11 Jumper Guys; 12 Back Ropes; 13 Robstays; 14 Flying Jib Boom; 15 Flying Jib Footropes; 16 Jib Boom; 17 Jib Foottropes; 18 Bowsprit; 19 Fore Truck; 20 Fore Royal Mast; 21 Fore Royal Lift; 22 Fore Royal Yard; 23 Fore Royal Backstays; 24 Fore Royal Braces; 25 Fore Topgallant Mast and Rigging; 26 Fore Topgallant Lift; 27 Fore Topgallant Yard; 28 Fore Topgallant Backstays; 29 Fore Topgallant Braces; 30 Fore Topmast and Rigging; 31 Fore Topsail Lift; 32 Fore Topsail Yard; 33 Fore Topsail Footropes; 34 Fore Topsail Braces; 35 Fore Yard; 36 Fore Brace; 37 Fore Lift; 38 Fore Gaff; 39 Fore Trysail Vangs; 40 Fore Topmast Studding-sail Boom; 41 Foremast and Rigging; 42 Fore Topmast Backstays; 43 Fore Sheets; 44 Main Truck and Pennant; 45 Main Royal Mast and Backstay; 46 Main Royal Stay; 47 Main Royal Lift; 48 Main Royal Yard; 49 Main Royal Braces; 50 Main Topgallant Mast and Rigging; 51 Main Topgallant Lift; 52 Main Topgallant Backstays; 53 Main Topgallant Yard; 54 Main Topgallant Stay; 55 Main Topgallant Braces; 56 Main Topmast and Rigging; 57 Topsail Lift; 58 Topsail Yard; 59 Topsail Footropes; 60 Topsail Braces; 61 Topmast Stays; 62 Main Topgallant Studding-sail Boom; 63 Main Topmast Backstay; 64 Main Yard; 65 Main Footropes; 66 Mainmast and Rigging; 67 Main Lift; 68 Main Braces; 69 Main Tacks; 70 Main Sheets; 71 Main Trysail Gaff; 72 Main Trysail Vangs; 73 Main Stays; 74 Mizzen Truck; 75 Mizzen Royal Mast and Rigging; 76 Mizzen Royal Stay; 77 Mizzen Royal Lift; 78 Mizzen Royal Yard; 79 Mizzen Royal Braces; 80 Mizzen Topgallant Mast and Rigging; 81 Mizzen Topgallant Lift; 82 Mizzen Topgallant Backstays; 83 Mizzen Topgallant Braces; 84 Mizzen Topgallant Yard; 85 Mizzen Topgallant Stay; 86 Mizzen Topmast and Rigging; 87 Mizzen Topmast Stay; 88 Mizzen Topsail Lift; 89 Mizzen Topmast Backstays; 90 Mizzen Topsail Braces; 91 Mizzen Topsail Yard; 92 Mizzen Topsail Footropes; 93 Crossjack Yard; 94 Crossjack Footropes; 95 Crossjack Lift; 96 Crossjack Braces; 97 Mizzenmast and Rigging; 98 Mizzen Stay; 99 Spanker Gaff; 100 Peak Halyards; 101 Spanker Vangs; 102 Spanker Boom; 103 Spanker Boom Topping Lift; 104 Jacob's Ladder, or Stern Ladder; 105 Spanker Sheet; 106 Cutwater; 107 Starboard Bow; 108 Starboard Beam; 109 Water Line; 110 Starboard Quarter; 111 Rudder.
Ship (n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. [Obs.] -- Tyndale.
Armed ship, A private ship taken into the service of the government in time of war, and armed and equipped like a ship of war. [Eng.] -- Brande & C.
General ship. See under General.
Ship biscuit, Hard biscuit prepared for use on shipboard; -- called also ship bread. See Hardtack.
Ship boy, A boy who serves in a ship. "Seal up the ship boy's eyes." -- Shak.
Ship breaker, One who breaks up vessels when unfit for further use.
Ship broker, A mercantile agent employed in buying and selling ships, procuring cargoes, etc., and generally in transacting the business of a ship or ships when in port.
Ship canal, A canal suitable for the passage of seagoing vessels.
Ship carpenter, A carpenter who works at shipbuilding; a shipwright.
Ship chandler, One who deals in cordage, canvas, and other, furniture of vessels.
Ship chandlery, The commodities in which a ship chandler deals; also, the business of a ship chandler.
Ship fever (Med.), A form of typhus fever; -- called also putrid fever, jail fever, or hospital fever.
Ship joiner, A joiner who works upon ships.
Ship letter, A letter conveyed by a ship not a mail packet.
Ship money (Eng. Hist.), An imposition formerly charged on the ports, towns, cities, boroughs, and counties, of England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for the king's service. The attempt made by Charles I. to revive and enforce this tax was resisted by John Hampden, and was one of the causes which led to the death of Charles. It was finally abolished.
Ship of the line. See under Line.
Ship pendulum, A pendulum hung amidships to show the extent of the rolling and pitching of a vessel.
Ship railway. (a) An inclined railway with a cradelike car, by means of which a ship may be drawn out of water, as for repairs.
Ship railway. (b) A railway arranged for the transportation of vessels overland between two water courses or harbors.
Ship's company, The crew of a ship or other vessel.
Ship's days, The days allowed a vessel for loading or unloading.
Ship's husband. See under Husband.
Ship's papers (Mar. Law), Papers with which a vessel is required by law to be provided, and the production of which may be required on certain occasions. Among these papers are the register, passport or sea letter, charter party, bills of lading, invoice, log book, muster roll, bill of health, etc. -- Bouvier. -- Kent.
To make ship, To embark in a ship or other vessel.
Shipped (imp. & p. p.) of Ship.
Shipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ship.
Ship (v. t.) To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium. -- Knolles.
Ship (v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.
Ship (v. t.) Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [Colloq.]
Ship (v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.
Ship (v. t.) To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
Ship (v. t.) To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
Ship (v. i.) To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.
Ship (v. i.) To embark on a ship. -- Wyclif (Acts xxviii. 11)
Ship (n.) A vessel that carries passengers or freight.
Ship (v.) Transport commercially [syn: transport, send, ship].
Ship (v.) Hire for work on a ship.
Ship (v.) Go on board [syn: embark, ship] [ant: debark, disembark, set down].
Ship (v.) Travel by ship.
Ship (v.) Place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel".
Ship. () This word, in its most enlarged sense, signifies a vessel employed in navigation; for example, the terms the ship's papers, the ship's husband, shipwreck, and the like, are employed whether the vessel referred to be a brig, a sloop, or a three-masted vessel.
Ship. () In a more confined sense, it means such a vessel with three masts 4 Wash. C. C. Rep. 530; Wesk. Inst. h.t. p. 514 the boats and rigging; 2 Marsh. Ins. 727 together with the anchors, masts, cables, pullies, and such like objects, are considered as part of the ship. Pard. n. 599; Dig. 22, 2, 44.
Ship. () The capacity of a ship is ascertained by its tonnage, or the space which may be occupied by its cargo. Vide Story's Laws U. S. Index, h.t.; Gordon's Dig. h.t.; Abbott on Ship. Index, h.t.; Park. Ins. Index, h.t.; Phil. Ev. Index, h.t. Bac. Ab. Merchant, N; 3 Kent, Com. 93 Molloy, Jure Mar. Index, h.t.; l Chit. Pr. 91; Whart. Dig. h.t.; 1 Bell's Com. 496, 624; and see General Ships; Names of Ships.
Shipboard (n.) A ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard.
Shipboard (a.) Casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship; "shipboard romances".
Shipbuilder (n.) A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
Shipbuilder (n.) A carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels [syn: shipwright, shipbuilder, ship builder].
Shipbuilder (n.) A person who builds ships as a business [syn: shipbuilder, ship builder].
Shipbuilder (n.) A business that builds and repairs ships.
Shipbuilding (n.) Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.
Shipbuilding (n.) The construction of ships [syn: shipbuilding, ship building].