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Shinplaster

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

Shintiism Shinto

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

Shinty

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

Shintyan Shintiyan

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

Shiny

Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

Ship

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

Ship-rigged

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

Shipboard

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

Shipbuilder

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

Shipbuilding

Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.

Shipful

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

Shipmaster

The captain, master, or commander of a ship.

Shipmate

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

Shipment

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.

Shipper

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

Shipping

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

Shippo

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

Shipshape

In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.

Shipworm

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.

Shipwreck

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.

Shipwright

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

Shipyard

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

Shiraz

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

Shire

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.

Shirk

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

Shirr

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.

Shirred

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

Shirt

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

Shirt waist shirtwaist

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

Shirting

Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.

Shittah tree Shittah

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.

Shittle

Wavering; unsettled; inconstant.

Shive

A slice; as, a shive of bread.

Shiver

The act of shivering or trembling.

Shiver-spar

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

Shizoku

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

Shoad

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.

Shoading

The tracing of veins of metal by shoads.

Shoal

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.

Shoaliness

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

Shoaly

Full of shoals, or shallow places.

Shoar

A prop. See 3d Shore.

Shoat

A young hog. Same as Shote.

Shock

Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

Shocking

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

Shoddy

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

Shoddyism

The quality or state of being shoddy.

Shode

The parting of the hair on the head.

Shoder

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

Shoe

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

Shoebill

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.

Shoeblack

One who polishes shoes; same as bootblack.

Shoefly

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

Shoehorn

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

Shoeing-horn Shoehorn

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

Shoelace

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.

Shoemaker

One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.

Shoer

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

Shog

To jog; to move on.

Shogun

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.

Shone

imp. p. p. of Shine.

Shoo

Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

Shooi

The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus);- so called from its cry.

Shook

To pack, as staves, in a shook.

Shoop

imp. of Shape. Shaped.

Shoot

The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.

Shooter

One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.

Shooting

Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.

Shooty

Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.

Shop

To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

Shopboard

A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench.

Shopbook

A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts.

Shopkeeper

A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.

Shoplifter

One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.

Shoplifting

Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.

Shoppish

Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.

Shopshift

The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.

Shopwalker

One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.

Shopworn

Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.

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