Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.

In a shifting manner.

Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management.

Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.

A sportsman; esp., a native hunter.

Straw.

The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.

To put under cover; to sheal.

An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks.

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.

Irresolution; hesitation; also, occupation with trifles.

In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner.

A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as /the Messiah,/ or as the city /Shiloh,/ or as /Rest./

See Shyly.

A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.

A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.

A gleam or glimmering.

A chemise.

To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.

To cover or roof with shindles.

An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.

Shining; sheen.

That which shines. A luminary. A bright piece of money.

See Shyness.

To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

One who shingles.

A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.

The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.

Abounding with shingle, or gravel.

The hobblebush.

Emission or reflection of light.

Brightness.

The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.

One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.

An adherent of Shintoism.

A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game.

A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.

Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.

Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.

A ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard.

A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.

Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.

As much or as many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a ship.

A shipowner.

Destitute of ships.

A little ship.

The load, or cargo, of a ship.

A seaman, or sailor.

The captain, master, or commander of a ship.

One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.

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.

Owner of a ship or ships.

A stable; a cowhouse.

One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.

The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.

Cloisonn/ enamel on a background of metal or porcelain; -- also called shippo yaki.

A cowhouse; a shippen.

In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.

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.

One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.

A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.

A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.

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.

One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

One who shirks.

Disposed to shirk.

See Schorl.

The bullfinch.

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.

Made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.

To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.

A woman's blouse resembling a men's shirt in cut and style; -- in England called a blouse.

Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.

Not having or wearing a shirt.

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.

The wood of the shittah tree.

Wavering; unsettled; inconstant.

A shuttlecock.

Instability; inconstancy.

A slice; as, a shive of bread.

The act of shivering or trembling.

A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.

In a shivering manner.

Tremulous; shivering.

The Japanese warrior gentry or middle class, formerly called samurai; also, any member of this class.

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.

The tracing of veins of metal by shoads.

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.

The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.

Becoming shallow gradually.

Full of shoals, or shallow places.

A prop. See 3d Shore.

A young hog. Same as Shote.

Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

Shock-headed.

Having a thick and bushy head of hair.

See 7th Shock, 1.

Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.

f Shoe.

Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as, shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy.

The quality or state of being shoddy.

The parting of the hair on the head.

A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.

To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor.

A large African wading bird (Balaeniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak.

One who polishes shoes; same as bootblack.

A contrivance for throwing the track temporarily to one side for convenience in filling washouts or effecting other repairs.

to squeeze or force into a tight-fitting space, with or as though with a shoehorn; -- often used figuratively.

A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe.

a length of cord for tying the upper parts of a shoe together. Commercial shoelaces usually come in different lengths, and have each end confined in a narrow plastic tube for convenience in inserting the cords through the holes in a shoe upper. Also called shoestring.

Destitute of shoes.

One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.

The business of a shoemaker.

One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses.

same as shoelace.

To jog; to move on.

To joggle.

A title originally conferred by the Mikado on the military governor of the eastern provinces of Japan. By gradual usurpation of power the Shoguns (known to foreigners as Tycoons) became finally the virtual rulers of Japan. The title was abolished in 1867.