Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 69
Shipfuls (n. pl. ) of Shipful.
Shipful (n.) As much or as many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a ship.
Shipholder (n.) A shipowner.
Shipless (a.) Destitute of ships. -- Gray.
Shiplet (n.) A little ship. [R.] -- Holinshed.
Shipload (n.) The load, or cargo, of a ship.
Shipload (n.) The amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car; "he imported wine by the boatload" [syn: boatload, shipload, carload].
Shipmen (n. pl. ) of Shipman.
Shipman (n.) 【古】 船員；船長 A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or Poetic] -- Chaucer. R. Browning.
About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. -- Acts xxvii. 27.
Shipman's card, The mariner's compass. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Shipman, IL -- U.S. town in Illinois
Population (2000): 655
Housing Units (2000): 273
Land area (2000): 1.320976 sq. miles (3.421311 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.013297 sq. miles (0.034438 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.334273 sq. miles (3.455749 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69563
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.118240 N, 90.043506 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Shipman, IL
Shipman
Shipmaster (n.) The captain, master, or commander of a ship. -- Jonah i. 6.
Shipmate (n.) One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.
Shipmate (n.) An associate on the same ship with you.
Shipment (n.) 運輸；運送；裝運 [C] [U] [（+from/ to）]；運輸的貨物；裝載的貨物（量） [C] [（+from/ to/ of）] The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the west.
Shipment (n.) That which is shipped.
The question is, whether the share of M. in the shipment is exempted from condemnation by reason of his neutral domicle. -- Story.
Shipment (n.) Goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment].
Shipment (n.) The act of sending off something [syn: dispatch, despatch, shipment].
Shipper (n.) One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.
Shipper (n.) Someone who ships goods.
Shipper (n.) A company in the business of shipping freight.
Shipper (n.) One who ships or puts goods on board of a vessel, to be carried to another place during her voyage. In general, the shipper is bound to pay for the hire of the vessel, or the freight of the goods. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1030.
Shipping (a.) Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
Shipping (a.) Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
Shipping (n.) The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
Shipping (n.) The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
Shipping (n.) Navigation. "God send 'em good shipping." -- Shak.
Shipping articles, Articles of agreement between the captain of a vessel and the seamen on board, in respect to the amount of wages, length of time for which they are shipping, etc. -- Bouvier.
To take shipping, To embark; to take ship. [Obs.] -- John vi. 24. -- Shak.
Shipping (n.) The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials [syn: transportation, shipping, transport].
Shipping (n.) Conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry [syn: shipping, cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels].
Shippon (n.) A cowhouse; a shippen. [Prov. Eng.]
Bessy would either do fieldwork, or attend to the cows, the shippon, or churn, or make cheese. -- Dickens.
Ship-rigged (a.) (Naut.) Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
Shipshape (adv.) In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
Shipshape (a.) Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner's
mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner. -- De
Quincey.
Keep everything shipshape, for I must go -- Tennyson.
Shipshape (a.) Of places;
characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn
was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat" [syn: shipshape,
trim, well-kept].
Shipworm (n.) (Zool.) Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
Compare: Teredo
Teredo (n.; pl. E. Teredos, L. Teredines.) (Zool.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in Appendix.
Shipworm (n.) Wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells [syn: shipworm, teredinid].
Shipwreck (n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
Shipwreck (n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage. -- Dryden.
Shipwreck (n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck. -- 1 Tim. 1. 19.
It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck. -- J. Morley.
Shipwrecked (imp. & p. p.) of Shipwreck.
Shipwrecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shipwreck.
Shipwreck (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break. -- Shak.
Shipwreck (v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business. -- Addison.
Shipwreck (n.) A wrecked ship (or a part of one).
Shipwreck (n.) An irretrievable loss; "that was the shipwreck of their romance".
Shipwreck (n.) An accident that destroys a ship at sea [syn: shipwreck, wreck].
Shipwreck (v.) Ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career".
Shipwreck (v.) Suffer failure, as in some enterprise.
Shipwreck (v.) Cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea".
Shipwreck (v.) Destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked".
Shipwreck. () The loss of a vessel at sea, either. by being swallowed up by the waves, by running against another vessel or thing at sea, or on the coast. Vide Naufrage; Wreck.
Shipwright (n.) One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.
Shipwright (n.) A carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels [syn: shipwright, shipbuilder, ship builder].
Shipyard (n.) A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.
Shipyard (n.) A workplace where ships are built or repaired.
Shiraz (n.) A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.
Shiraz (n.) A city in central southwestern Iran; ruins of ancient Persepolis are nearby.
Shire (n.) A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.
An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a county or shire. -- Blackstone.
Shire (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county. [U. S.]
Note: Shire is commonly added to the specific designation of a county as a part of its name; as, Yorkshire instead of York shire, or the shire of York; Berkshire instead of Berks shire. Such expressions as the county of Yorkshire, which in a strict sense are tautological, are used in England. In the United States the composite word is sometimes the only name of a county; as, Berkshire county, as it is called in Massachusetts, instead of Berks county, as in Pensylvania.
The Tyne, Tees, Humber, Wash, Yare, Stour, and Thames separate the counties of Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, etc. -- Encyc. Brit.
Knight of the shire. See under Knight.
Shire clerk, An officer of a county court; also, an under sheriff. [Eng.]
Shire mote (Old. Eng. Law), The county court; sheriff's turn, or court. [Obs.] -- Cowell. -- Blackstone.
Shire reeve (Old Eng. Law), The reeve, or bailiff, of a shire; a sheriff. -- Burrill.
Shire town, The capital town of a county; a county town.
Shire wick, A county; a shire. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Shire (n.) A former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county.
Shire (n.) British breed of large heavy draft horse [syn: shire, shire horse].
Shire () Eng. law. A district or division of country. Co. Lit. 50 a.
Shirk (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
Shirked (imp. & p. p.) of Shirk.
Shirking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shirk.
Shirk (v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
You that never heard the call of any vocation, . . . that shirk living from others, but time from Yourselves. -- Bp. Rainbow.
Shirk (v. t.) To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
The usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties. -- Hare.
Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
Shirk (v. i.) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
One of the cities shirked from the league. -- Byron.
Shirk (v.) Avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties" [syn: fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick].
Shirk (v.) Avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties".
Shirker (n.) One who shirks. -- Macaulay.
Shirker (n.) A person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) [syn: slacker, shirker].
Shirky (a.) Disposed to shirk. [Colloq.]
Shirl (a.) Shrill. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Shirl (n.) (Min.) See Schorl.
Shirley (n.) (Zool.) The bullfinch.
Shirley, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 337
Housing Units (2000): 172
Land area (2000): 2.391675 sq. miles (6.194409 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.067913 sq. miles (0.175893 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.459588 sq. miles (6.370302 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63980
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.655936 N, 92.316554 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72153
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Headwords:
Shirley, AR
Shirley
Shirley, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 25395
Housing Units (2000): 7774
Land area (2000): 11.126033 sq. miles (28.816291 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.325186 sq. miles (0.842228 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.451219 sq. miles (29.658519 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67070
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 40.796914 N, 72.871020 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 11967
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Headwords:
Shirley, NY
Shirley
Shirley, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 806
Housing Units (2000): 339
Land area (2000): 0.370045 sq. miles (0.958412 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.370045 sq. miles (0.958412 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69516
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.890516 N, 85.579823 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47384
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Headwords:
Shirley, IN
Shirley
Shirley, MA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Massachusetts
Population (2000): 1427
Housing Units (2000): 664
Land area (2000): 1.346975 sq. miles (3.488650 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.017340 sq. miles (0.044910 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.364315 sq. miles (3.533560 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61555
Located within: Massachusetts (MA), FIPS 25
Location: 42.543240 N, 71.650987 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Shirley, MA
Shirley
Shirley, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 337
Housing Units (2000): 172
Land area (2000): 2.391675 sq. miles (6.194409 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.067913 sq. miles (0.175893 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.459588 sq. miles (6.370302 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63980
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.655936 N, 92.316554 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72153
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Shirley, AR
Shirley
Shirley, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 25395
Housing Units (2000): 7774
Land area (2000): 11.126033 sq. miles (28.816291 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.325186 sq. miles (0.842228 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.451219 sq. miles (29.658519 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67070
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 40.796914 N, 72.871020 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 11967
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Shirley, NY
Shirley
Shirr (n.) (Sewing) A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and gauging.
Shirr (v.) Bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set; "shirr the eggs".
Shirred (a.) (Sewing) Made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.
Shirred (a.) (Cookery) Broken into an earthen dish and baked over the fire; -- said of eggs.
Shirted (imp. & p. p.) of Shirt.
Shirting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shirt.
Shirt (v. t. & i.) To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt. -- Dryden.
Shirt (n.) A loose under-garment for the upper part of the body, made of cotton, linen, or other material; -- formerly used of the under-garment of either sex, now commonly restricted to that worn by men and boys.
Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts. -- Addison.
She had her shirts and girdles of hair. -- Bp. Fisher.
Shirt (n.) A garment worn on the upper half of the body.
Shirt (v.) Put a shirt on.
Shirting (n.) Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.
Shirting (n.) Any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts.
Shirtless (a.) Not having or wearing a shirt. -- Pope. -- Shirt"less*ness, n. shirtwaist
Shist () Alt. of Shistose.
Shistose () See Shist, Schistose. Shittah
Shithole (n.) (vulgar slang) 原指茅坑，在這裡指落後的國家 An extremely dirty, shabby, or otherwise unpleasant place.
// This place is a shithole, I hope you know that.
Shittah (n.) Alt. of Shittah tree.
Shittah tree (n.) A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color. Shittim
Shittah (n.) Source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia [syn: shittah, shittah tree].
Shittim (n.) Alt. of Shittim wood.
Shittim wood (n.) The wood of the shittah tree.
Shittim (n.) Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit [syn: southern buckthorn, shittimwood, shittim, mock orange, Bumelia lycioides].
Shittim, () Acacias, also called "Abel-shittim" (Num. 33:49), a plain or valley in the land of Moab where the Israelites were encamped after their two victories over Sihon and Og, at the close of their desert wanderings, and from which Joshua sent forth two spies (q.v.) "secretly" to "view" the land and Jericho (Josh. 2:1).
Shittim, () Thorns.
Shittle (n.) A shuttle. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Shittle (a.) Wavering; unsettled; inconstant. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Shittlecock (n.) A shuttlecock. [Obs.]
Shittleness (n.) Instability; inconstancy. [Obs.]
The vain shittlenesse of an unconstant head. -- Baret.
Shive (n.) 碎片；麵包片 A slice; as, a shive of bread. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Shive (n.) A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.
Shive (n.) 薄型軟木塞 A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.
Shiver (n.) 碎片 [the P] One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. "All to shivers dashed." -- Milton.
Shiver (n.) 薄片；碎片 A thin slice; a shive. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "A shiver of their own loaf." -- Fuller.
Of your soft bread, not but a shiver. -- Chaucer.
Shiver (n.) (Geol.) A variety of blue slate.
Shiver (n.) (Naut.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
Shiver (n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
Shiver (n.) A spindle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Shivered (imp. & p. p.) of Shiver.
Shivering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shiver.
Shivering (a.) 顫抖的；使顫抖的；shiver的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands" [syn: {shaky}, {shivering}, {trembling}].
Shivering (n.) 顫抖；發抖；（馬肌肉的）顫抖 A sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever [syn: {chill}, {shivering}].
Shiver (v. t.) 粉碎 To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.
All the ground With shivered armor strown. -- Milton.
Shiver (v. i.) 被打碎 To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
There shiver shafts upon shields thick. -- Chaucer
The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms. -- Woodward.
Shiver (v. i.) 顫抖，哆嗦 To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
Prometheus is laid On icy Caucasus to shiver. -- Swift.
The man that shivered on the brink of sin, Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in. -- Creech.
Shiver (v. t.) (Naut.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
Shiver (n.) 顫抖；寒顫 The act of shivering or trembling.
Shiver (n.) A reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement [syn: tremble, shiver, shake].
Shiver (n.) An almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson, shiver, chill, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle].
Shiver (v.) Tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement [syn: shudder, shiver, throb, thrill].
Shiver (v.) Shake, as from cold; "The children are shivering--turn on the heat!" [syn: shiver, shudder].
Shiveringly (adv.) In a shivering manner.
Shiver-spar (n.) (Min.) A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
Shivery (a.) Tremulous; shivering. -- Mallet.
Shivery (a.) Easily broken; brittle; shattery.
Shivery (a.) Cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather".
Shivery (a.) Provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery].
Shoad (n.) (Mining) A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines. [Written also shode.]
Shoading (n.) (Mining) The tracing of veins of metal by shoads. [Written also shoding.] -- Pryce.
Shoal (a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
Shoal (n.) 一片淺水；淺水處 [C]；淺灘；沙洲 [C]；【喻】暗礁，陷阱；潛在危險 [P1] A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their span. -- Mortimer.
Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor. -- Shak.
Shoal (n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
The god himself with ready trident stands, And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, Then heaves them off the shoals. -- Dryden.
Shoal (v. i.) 變淺 To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
Shoal (n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. "Great shoals of people." -- Bacon.
Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. -- Waller.
Shoal (v. t.) 使變淺；駛入（淺水等） To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep. -- Marryat.
Shoaled (imp. & p. p.) of Shoal.
Shoaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoal.
Shoal (v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place. -- Chapman.
Shoal (n.) A sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide.
Shoal (n.) A stretch of shallow water [syn: shoal, shallow].
Shoal (n.) A large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" [syn: school, shoal].
Shoal (v.) Make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn: shallow, shoal].
Shoal (v.) Become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn: shallow, shoal].
Shoaliness (n.) The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.