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.

The office or dignity of a Shogun.

See Sola.

See Shoal.

Harm; disgrace; shame.

imp. p. p. of Shine.

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

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

To pack, as staves, in a shook.

pl. of Shoe.

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

One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.

Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.

Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.

To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

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

A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts.

A boy employed in a shop.

p. p. of Shape.

A girl employed in a shop.

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

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.

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

Suiting a shop; vulgar.

A shopgirl.

A shopkeeper; a retailer.

One who shops.

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

Abounding with shops.

The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.

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

A woman employed in a shop.

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

Duty paid for goods brought on shore.

To set on shore.

Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean.

See Shorling.

One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.

Toward the shore.

The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore.

See Schorl, Schorlaceous.

The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing.

p. p. of Shear.

To fail; to decrease.

Having short-breath, or quick respiration.

To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.

Having little time to run from the date.

Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.

Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.

Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.

Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.

Having a short waist.

Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.

Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.

Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.

Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.

The act of falling, or coming short The failure of a crop, or the like. Neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty.

To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

One who, or that which, shortens.

The act of making or becoming short or shorter.

A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.

A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.

One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.

In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.

The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath.

Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.

The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.

Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.

Lying near the shore.