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.
Shine (a.) Shining; sheen. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
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.
Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine. -- Shak.
God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Cghrist. -- 2 Cor. iv. 6.
Let thine eyes shine forth in their full luster. -- Denham.
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. "So proud she shined in her princely state." -- Spenser.
Once brightest shined this child of heat and air. -- Pope.
Shine (v. i.) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable. -- Swift.
To make the face to shine upon, or To cause the face to shine upon, To be propitious to; to be gracious to. -- Num. vi. 25.
Shine (v. t.) To cause to shine, as a light. [Obs.]
He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honor and virtues, upon men equally. -- Bacon.
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. [U. S.] -- Bartlett.
Shine (n.) The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.
Now sits not girt with taper's holy shine. -- Milton.
Fair opening to some court's propitious shine. -- Pope.
The distant shine of the celestial city. -- Hawthorne.
Shine (n.) Sunshine; fair weather.
Be it fair or foul, or rain or shine. -- Dryden.
Shine (n.) A liking for a person; a fancy. [Slang, U.S.]
Shine (n.) Caper; antic; row. [Slang]
To cut up shines, To play pranks. [Slang, U.S.]
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. Specifically:
Shiner (n.) A luminary.
Shiner (n.) A bright piece of money. [Slang]
Has she the shiners, d' ye think? -- Foote.
Shiner (n.) (Zool.) 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.) (Zool.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
Blunt-nosed shiner (Zool.), The silver moonfish.
Sparada (n.) (Zool.) A small California surf fish ({Micrometrus aggregatus); -- called also shiner.
Compare: Lepisma
Lepisma (n.) (Zool.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species ({Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture; it feeds on starch and eats sized paper and starched clothes. Called also shiner, silverfish, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.
Compare: Redfin
Redfin (n.) (Zool.) A small North American dace ({Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner.
Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.
Compare: Fallfish
Fallfish (n.) (Zool.) A fresh-water fish of the United States ({Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
Shiner (n.) A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye [syn: shiner, black eye, mouse].
Shiner (n.) Something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
Shiner (n.) Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales [syn: common mackerel, shiner, Scomber scombrus].
Shiner (n.) Any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
Shiner, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 2070
Housing Units (2000): 1016
Land area (2000): 2.435706 sq. miles (6.308450 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007164 sq. miles (0.018554 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.442870 sq. miles (6.327004 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67640
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.430856 N, 97.172115 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 77984
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Shiner, TX
Shiner
Shiness (n.) See Shyness.
Compare: Shyness
Shyness (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.
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.
They shingle their houses with it. -- Evelyn.
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.
Shingle (n.) (Geol.) 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.
I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. -- Ray.
Shingle (n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [Jocose, U. S.]
Shingle oak (Bot.), A kind of oak ({Quercus imbricaria"> Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak ({Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles.
Shingle (n.) Building material used as siding or roofing [syn: shingle, shake].
Shingle (n.) Coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel).
Shingle (n.) A small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
Shingle (v.) Cover with shingles; "shingle a roof."
Shingler (n.) One who shingles.
Shingler (n.) A machine for shingling puddled iron.
Shingler (n.) A worker who shingles roofs.
Shingles (n.) (Med.) A kind of herpes ({Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
Compare: Lap
Lap (v. t.) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
Lap (v. t.) To wrap or wind around something.
About the paper . . . I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk. -- Sir I. Newton.
Lap (v. t.) To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds. -- Dryden.
Lap (v. t.) To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
Lap (v. t.) (Carding & Spinning) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
To lap boards, shingles, etc., to lay one partly over another.
To lap timbers, To unite them in such a way as to preserve the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing. -- Weale.
Shingles (n.) Eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia [syn: herpes zoster, zoster, shingles].
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.) (Metal) The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.
Shingling hammer, A ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron.
Shingling mill, A mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled.
Shingling (n.) (Geology) Sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction.
Shingling (n.) The laying on of shingles; "shingling is a craft very different from carpentry."
Shingly (a.) Abounding with shingle, or gravel.
Shingly (a.) Abounding in small stones; "landed at a shingly little beach" [syn: gravelly, pebbly, shingly].
Shinhopple (n.) The hobblebush.
Compare: Hobblebush
Hobblebush (n.) (Bot.) A low bush ({Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple. Hobbledehoy
Shining (a.) Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor. "Fish . . . with their fins and shining scales." -- Milton.
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. [U. S.] Shinto
Shinplaster (n.) Paper money of little value issued on insufficient security.
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. [Written also Sintu, and Sintuism.]
Shintoist (n.) An adherent of Shintoism.
Shintoist (a.) Relating to or characteristic of Shintoism; "Shinto temples" [syn: Shinto, Shintoist, Shintoistic].
Shintoist (n.) A believer in Shintoism.
Shinty (n.) A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game. -- Jamieson.
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].