Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.

Shoveler.

The shoveler.

A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.

One who, or that which, shovels.

As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.

A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.

The common sand shark. See under Snad. A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil. A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus). A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white sturgeon.

p. p. of Shove.

The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.

Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.

To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.

Full of showers.

Quality of being showery.

Rainless; freo from showers.

Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.

In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.

The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.

Appearance; display; exhibition.

Showy; ostentatious.

One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.

p. p. of Show.

A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.

Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.

To trim, as trees; to lop.

One who lops; one who trims trees.

To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.

imp. of Shrink.

A place baited with chaff to entice birds.

Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army. A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively.

To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather.

The fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain.

The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.

Consisting of shreds.

Having no shreds; without a shred.

To beshrew; to curse.

Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish.

having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.

A shrew; especially, the erd shrew.

A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.

One who utters a shriek.

Of or pertaining to a sheriff.

The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty.

To shrive; to question.

The act of shriving.

A shriek; shrieking.

Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (Lanius borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.

To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.

Having a throat which produces a shrill note.

Having a shrill voice.

The quality or state of being shrill.

Somewhat shrill.

Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to Crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also prawns. See Illust. of Decapoda. In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form. In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.

One who fishes for shrimps.

To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine.

a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. See shrine{4}.

The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.

The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.

One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.

a. n. from Shrink.

same as shrink-wrap, n..

a type of plastic film, usually transparent, that shrinks upon application of heat, and may be used to form a wrapping around objects that fits tightly and closely follows the contours of the wrapped object; -- also called shrink-pack, shrinkpack or shrink-wrapping.

Shrievalty.

To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution.

To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.

p. p. of Shrive.

One who shrives; a confessor.

Shrift; confession.

A banker, or changer of money.

A money dealer's commission; also, more commonly, the examination of coins, and the separation of the good from the debased.

To trim; to lop.

An English breed of black-faced hornless sheep similar to the Southdown, but larger, now extensively raised in many parts of the world.

To lop. See Shrood.

Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage.

Provided with a shroud or shrouds.

The shrouds. See Shroud, n., 7.

Without a shroud.

Affording shelter.

To join in the festivities of Shrovetide; hence, to make merry.

The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.

The festivity of Shrovetide.

A shrew.

See Shrood.

To lop; to prune.

A collection of shrubs.

Quality of being shrubby.

Full of shrubs.

having no shrubs.

Rubbish. Dross or refuse of metals. Light, dry wood, or stuff used for fuel.

To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing doubt, indifference, dislike, dread, or the like.

A gesture consisting of drawing up the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing doubt, indifference, or dislike; -- it is sometimes accompanied by a slight turning of the hands outward or upward. Such a gesture may be made, as in answering "who knows" to a question, suggesting utter ignorance of an answer and a disinclination to pursue the topic further.

To ignore; to disregard; to brush aside; to minimize{2} the effects of; as, to shrug off predictions of disaster.

p. p. a. from Shrink.

A village or small town; -- usually referring to Jewish towns in Eastern Europe.

A person's special talent, line of business, or habitual activity.

To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.

One who shucks oysters or clams

The act of shuddering, as with fear.

In a shuddering manner.

The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.

The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

See Shovelboard.

A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap.

One who shuffles.

The hedg sparrow.

In a shuffling manner.

To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.

Sumac.

To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.

Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable.

A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding.

A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.

The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.

Same as Chute, or Shoot.

One who shuts or closes.

Furnished with shutters.

To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.

To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.