The type of religion which once prevalied among all the Ural-Altaic peoples (Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkish), and which still survives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizard priest, deals with good as well as with evil spirits, especially the good spirits of ancestors.

An adherent of Shamanism.

To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.

An awkward, irregular gait.

To be ashamed; to feel shame.

Shameless.

Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest.

Modest; shamefaced.

Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful.

Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace.

One who, or that which, disgraces, or makes ashamed.

One who shams; an impostor.

The chamois.

See Shammy.

A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather, which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning.

The act of shampooing.

One who shampoos.

A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.

A jocosely depreciative name for a vehicle.

A mixture of strong beer and ginger beer.

A large and tall breed of domestic fowl.

To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off.

See Schenkbeer.

Having a shank.

See Chancre.

The European smooth blenny (Blennius pholis). It is olive-green with irregular black spots, and without appendages on the head.

To inhabit a shanty.

That may be shaped.

Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.

Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.

The quality or state of being shapely.

Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.

One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.

The oorial.

Chaparajos.

A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.

Borne on shards or scaly wing cases.

Having elytra, as a beetle.

Having, or consisting of, shards.

To have part; to receive a portion; to partake, enjoy, or suffer with others.

The part of the plow to which the share is attached.

The pubic bone.

A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.

A farmer who rents a parcel of land from its owner and pays a portion of the crop as the rent.

One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property.

One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer.

A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe.

To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

One who lives by sharking.

Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices.

An East Indian coin of the value of 12/ pence sterling, or about 25 cents.

To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.

Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well-defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.

Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set.

Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively.

Having an acute or nicely discerning mind.

To grow or become sharp.

A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.

A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.

A stickleback.

The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.

The great titmouse; -- so called from its harsh call notes.

One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.

A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.

The pintail duck. The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken.

The scarf of a turban.

A mountain peak, etc., in California.

A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas.

A shaftment.

A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.

Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild; similar to scatter-brained.

Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.

A thin slice; a shaving.

A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt.

One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.

The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.

A thicket; a small wood or grove.

The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at.

To wrap in a shawl.

A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.

A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.

A chaise.

This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.

A tithing, or division, in the Isle of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.

To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.

A shell or pod.

Same as Sheeling.

To deviate. See Sheer.

The black skimmer. See Skimmer.

See Shard.

One who shears.

The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

A sheep but once sheared.

One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

Dung; excrement.

A cutting instrument. An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.

The common tern. Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.

Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (Puffinus Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (Puffinus obscurus), and the greater shearwater (Puffinus major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.

A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.

A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.

Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.

Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas.

To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.

Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.

One who sheathes.

Same as Sheatfish.

That which sheathes. The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing. The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general.

Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.

Forming or resembling a sheath or case.

To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.

Made of straw.

A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies.

A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop; a primitive dwelling; a shanty.

A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.

See Shekinah.

A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton.

A parting; a separation; a division.

One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears.

The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood.