Editing List of Old English Words in the OED/SH

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|Shab ||n||(O.E. scab???) A cutaneous disease in sheep; scab or scabies. 2. a low fellow, afflicted with scabs.
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|Shack ||n||Grain fallen or shaken from the ear of a plant, used for the feeding of pigs, poultry etc after the harvest. 2. a supply of fallen grain for this purpose; mast. 3. a residue of barley. 4. stubble. 5. a catch of miscellaneous unsorted fish. 6. bait pick up from the sea, as dead fish, birds; distinguished from fresh or live bait. 7. an idle, a disrepute fellow. 8. 'golden shackle' financial arrangements designed to discourage employees changing employers.
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|Shackle ||n||A fetter, chain, hobble. 2. in building industry, a device for coupling and fastening; a link or staple.
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|Shackle ||vb||to confine with fetters or shackles.
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|Shackle-bolt ||n||A bolt for closing a shackle. 2. a bolt with a shackle at its end.
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|Shackle-bone ||n||The wrist.
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|Shackled ||adj||Confined or restricted by shackles.
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|Shackledom ||n||Imprisonment, incarceration, detention, jailing. 2. marriage (jocular).
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|Shackleless ||adj||That has no shackles, or is not in shackles.
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|Shackling ||n||Idling, loafing, bulging, dissipation.
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|Shackling ||n||One confined by shackles.
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|Shad ||n||Any one of several species of food fish that make up the genus Alosa (Clupidae) to which the herring belongs.
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|Shad-berry ||n||The shadbush or its fruit.
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|Shad-blow ||n||(USA) So called because its flowers bloom (on the shadbush) when the shad first appear in rivers each spring.
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|Shade ||n||Comparative obscurity owing to interruption of the rays of light. 2. an obscure place, a spot not exposed to light. 3. a hidden or unseen retreat. 4. darkness, obscurity. 5. that which shelters from light or the direct rays of the sun. 6. that which protects from the heat of the sunrays or wind. 7. a screen, a protecting shelter, cover. 8. '''the soul after its departure from the body'''; so called because the ancients thought it perceptible to sight, though not touch it. 9. a spirit, ghost, phantom, a shade. 10. a darker portion of a picture or artwork; a degree of variation of color, as darker or lighter. 11. minute variation of thought, belief, opinion, expression; anything which distinguishes from an other similar thing by slight variation. 12. "The Shades": the abode of souls after leaving the body: Hades, Hell.
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|Shade ||vb||Becloud, bedarken, cloud over, dim out, darken, block out.
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|Shade ||phr||"Put in the Shade" - appear to be very superior to a person or thing. 2. to outdo someone. 3. make seem less important, significant, attract to oneself all the applause and encomiums one has been enjoying.
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|Shade ||phr||"Shades of" - reminiscent of.
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|Shade ||phr||"Shade (Off) Into" (of one color adjoining another) - merge gradually into that color.
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|Shade ||phr||"Throw Someone in the Shade" - to surpass or outdo someone.
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|Shaded ||adj||Being in the shade; not in direct light. 2. having a slight color added (of a diagram or picture) or being slightly darkened as if in the shade.
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|Shadeful ||adj||Full of shade; shady.
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|Shade-house ||n||A green house used to provide plants with shade in a hot climate.
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|Shade-leaf ||n||Shade leaves are larger and thinner than normal sun leaves, and often appear a darker green (they contain more chlorophyll). See 'Sun-leafs"
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|Shadeless ||adj||Without shade; exposed, not sheltered from the sun. 2. in a without shade way, without shades or color.
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|Shadelessly ||adv||In a shadeless way; exposed without shelter.
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|Shade-like ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a shade.
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|Shades ||n||"The Shades": the abode of souls of the departed after leaving the body: Hades, Hell, the dark inn.
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|Shad-fly ||n||An American, Canadian insect (mayfly)- so called because it usually appears at the time when the the shad begins to run in the rivers.
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|Shad frog ||n||An American spotted frog (Rana helicus)- so called because it usually appears at the time when the the shad begins to run in the rivers.
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|Shadily ||adv||In a shady manner; particularly used in the sense of untrustworthy.
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|Shadiness ||n||The property or quality of being shady.
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|Shading ||n||The representation of light and shade, e.g. by penciled lines, on a map or drawing. 2. the graduation of tones from light to dark to create a sense of depth. 3. interception of light , tinting or lining a picture , or drawing to show parts in relief.
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|Shadow ||n||An place without illumination; darkness. 2. something existing in perception or something refuge from danger or observation. 3. a dominating or pervasive presence. 4. a spy employed to follow someone and report their movement. 5. an inseparable companion. 6. darkness, shade, obscurity, shaded place, shelter, protection, security. 7. a reflected image, as in a mirror or water. 8. a spirit, ghost, apparition, phantom, uninvited guest. 9. an adumbration, dimming body, a mystical form. 10. a small degree: a shade. 11. moral darkness or gloom. Nb: Shade differs from shadow as it implies no particular form of definite limit. One speaks of the shade of a tree, we have no reference to it's form; but if one speaks of measuring a pyramid or other thing by it's shadow, we have definite knowledge of it's form and extent.
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|Shadow ||vb||To follow, usually without the persons knowledge. 2. cast a shadow over, shade, shadow. 3. to make appear small by comparison; overshadow, dwarf. 4. to cast off light from, put in shade. 5. throw shadow over. 6. overspread with obscurity, shroud. 7. conceal hide, screen. 8. to protect, shelter, from danger 8. to make graduation or light, to shade. 9. to adumbrate, to represent faintly or with imperfection. 10. to cloud, darken, cast in gloom. 11. to follow and watch closely, as a detective a criminal.
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|Shadow ||phr||"Be In Someone's Shadow" - to be unable to exert one's personality because of association with a more important person.
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|Shadow ||phr||"Cast? a Shadow Over Something" - to introduce a sign of warning or sadness in regard to some matter.
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|Shadow ||phr||"Even a White Lily Throws a Black Shadow" - everything and everybody has faults or shortcomings.
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|Shadow ||phr||"Frightened of One's Own Shadow" - timid, afraid.
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|Shadow ||phr||"May Your Shadow Never Grow Less" - may your prosperity always continue and increase.
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|Shadow ||phr||"Old Sins Have Long Shadows" - past misdeeds are liable to return to haunt a person.
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|Shadow ||phr||"Overshadow Someone" - to reduce the importance of someone by outshining her/him.
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|Shadow ||phr||"Shadow of Death" - darkness and gloom with a feeling of impending of death.
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|Shadow ||phr||"Throw a Long Shadow" - to have widespread ramifications.
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|Shadow ||phr||"Worn to a Shadow" - make thin, tired through working hard.
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|Shadow-adder ||n||A serpent lurking in shady places; fig. "a snake in the grass."
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|Shadow-box ||n||A wall-mounted display box.
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|Shadowcast ||n||The performance of a film by a group of amateurs at the time as it is screening.
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|Shadow casting ||n||The generation of shadows for a 3-dimensional model????.
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|Shadower ||n||A spy, one who follows others to keep watch upon their actions. 2. private detective.  3. a member of a gang of robbers employed to gather information about the activities and movements of their potential victim. 4.a constant companion.  5.in sport, a player who guards an opponent closely.
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|Shadowily ||adv||In shadowy manner.
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|Shadowiness ||n||The state or property of being shadowy or indistinct. 2. a lack of precision or substance.
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|Shadowing ||n|| The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission. 2. the situation where an individual repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones). 3. (espionage) secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance. 4. faint representation; an adumbration. 5. (computing) The technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times, the ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses. 5. (education) A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.
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|Shadowish ||adj||Characterized by shadow, shadowiness, shadowy in look, feeling or umbrage.
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|Shadow-land ||n||Land or abode of ghosts, spirits, phantom. 2. a place of shadow or shadows. 3. a gloomy unhappy place. 4. a border land between places.
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|Shadowless ||adj||Without shadow or shadow
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|Shadow-play ||n||An ancient form of story-telling and entertainment using opaque articulated figures in front of an illuminated back ground to create the illusion of moving images. 2. an asian form of drama where the shadows of flat cardboard figures with thing wires for manipulating the limbs are projected onto the screen.
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|Shadow shift ||n||Shadow Shift is increasingly becoming an important part of the interview process. It is the opportunity for your potential employer to place you into situations that you will face if you accept a job with them. This is also a time for you to know if their company is one that you like.
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|Shadowy ||adj||Like or having a shadow. 2. full of shadows serving to shade. 3. vague, indistinct, faintly representative. 4. spying, following, trailing, tracking.
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|Shady  ||adj||Full of shade, casting a shade. 2. shaded or sheltered. 3. morally questionable, dubious, suspicious. 4. quiet, hidden, unreal, fanciful.
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|Shady ||phr||"A Bit on the Shady Side" - somewhat cunning, tricky, deceitful, not trustworthy
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|Shady ||phr||"Keep Shady" - to stay hiding; keep out of the way. 2. to hide and protect (another).
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|Shady ||phr||"On the Shady Side of" - older than; past the age of.
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|Shaft ||n||In OE only: creation, origin. 2. make, shape, constitution, nature or species. 3. a creature, that which is created. 4. anything long and slender, as the handle of a striking implement or tool. 5. the stem of a tree. 6. the bars or poles, of a horse-driven vehicle etc. 7. the cylindrical part, or body, of a column between base and capital. 8. the part of a chimney above the roof. 9. a vertical excavation leading to a mine. 10. a ventilating pipe or conduit.
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|Shaft ||vb||To equip with a shaft or long, narrow passage. 2. to defeat somebody through trickery or deceit.
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|Shaft ||phr||"Get the Shaft" - be dismissed from employment. 2. abused or treated badly. 3. give somebody the ahaft.
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|Shaft bow ||n||Part of a horse harness, an arch from shaft to shaft over the horse's shoulders.
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|Shafted ||adj||Fitted with a shaft. 2. (heraldry, of a spear) having a shaft and head of different tinctures. 3. (slang) cheated, screwed, scammed.
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|Shaft-horse ||n||A horse which is harnessed between the shafts of a carriage.
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|Shafting ||n||Shafts, collectively. 2. (engineering) a system of connected shafts for transmitting power to machinery and communicating motion. 3. material from which to make or cut shafts.
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|Shaftless ||adj||Without a shaft.
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|Shaftlike ||ad||Resembling or characteristic of a shaft.
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|Shaftman ||n||A man who sinks a mine-shaft.
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|Shaftway ||n||The vertical shaft in a building in which the elevator or a lift travels.
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|Shaftwork ||n||(Engineering): shafts, collectively.
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|Shag ||n||Rough matted hair, wool. 2. a mass of matted hair. 3. a collection of shredded bark. 4. long coarse cloth. 5. tangled mas of trees, foliage, shrubs. 6. rough or coarsely woven carpet. 7. of an unkempt or untidiness. 8. roughness and brutality of men (collectively).
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|Shagginess ||n||The property or state of being shaggy or tousled. 2. having a rough growth of hair. 3. of hair coarse and abundant. 4. shaggedness.
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|Shaggy ||adj||Long and unkempt of hair. 2. covered with rough, fuzzy hair or wool. 3. ragged, tousled, unkempt. 4. unkempt, unpolished said of manners.
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|Shake ||n||A fissure in the earth or a rock; a fissure or crack in timber, caused by being dried to quickly. 2. roofing material, a shingle. 3. a frothy drink, as in a milkshake. 4. a grasp or shaking of a person's hand in an act of friendship, welcoming or congratulations. 5. a musical note that alternates rapidly with another note. 6. a tremulous tone. 7. a trembling of the body because of cold, fear, excitement. 8. a movement repeatedly from side to side. 9. a stirring or feeling of emotion.
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|Shake ||vb||To get rid of: shake off. 2. to grasp or shake another hand in an act of friendship, welcoming or congratulation. 3. to shake one's finger, fist, head in order to communicate a feeling, such as greeting, anger, peace etc.
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|Shake ||phr||"Be On Shaky Ground" - not to have a strong argument.
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|Shake ||phr||"Get a Golden Handshake" - receive a large payment in connection with or as an inducement to retirement.
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|Shake ||phr||"Give Me a Shake Up" - wake me up (at a requested time).
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|Shake ||phr||"Give Somebody the Shake" - get rid of someone.
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|Shake ||phr||"No Great Shakes" - not very good or significant; nothing extraordinary or particularly clever. 2. of small account; of indifferent quality; not very good.
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|Shake ||phr||"Off to a Shaky Start" - to begin hesitatingly and with uncertainty.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake a Cloth In the Wind" - be a bit tipsy, but not really drunk.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake a Foot" - dance.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake and Bake" - something fast or easy to use or perform, as a simple crude object or action. 2. crude, unsophisticated, not professionally done, improvised.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake a Tree" - to do something in order to see what will result.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake Down" - to cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to. 2. settle properly into position or running order. 3. settle into harmony with one's companion, etc. 4. to shake someone so money falls from their pockets. 5. (by extension) to get money from someone using threats. 6. to search exhaustively. 7. to subject something to a shakedown test. 8. to sleep on an improvised bed.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake Hands" - to shake another person's hand, as an expression of greeting, welcome, agreement.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake In One's Shoes" - tremble with fear or apprehension.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake It" - (slang): to dance.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake Like a Leaf" - to shake, tremble with fear, nervousness, apprehension, or cold, etc., shiver.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake Off" - to cause to move from side to side or up and down with jerky movements. 2. get rid of; be cured off. 3. by taking avoiding action, get rid of pursuers.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake off the Dust from One's feet" - to renounce, to have no more to do with a person or a project.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake One's Ass" - (slang)to perform a dance which has lots of movement of one's buttocks.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake One's Fist" - express anger, threaten (by waving one's clenched fist).
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake One's Head" - move one's head from side to side to indicate disagreement, disapproval, negation, disbelief, disapproval, or dismay. 2. move one's head from side to side to express refusal. 3. move one's head from side to side to give advice or or a warning to. 4. move one's head from side to side to express sorrow, concern, perplexity.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake One's Sides" - to be convulsing with laughter.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake On It" - to agree, close a deal.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake Out" - empty by shaking. 2. spread or open a sail, flag by shaking. 3. move into a more open formation (to offer less of a target to enemy fire.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake Out of" - make somebody change his normal way of life, attitudes or feelings, by giving them a sharp shock.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake the Dew of the Lily" - the act of urination by shaking and squeezing the last drops of urine off the penis.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake the Dust off One's Feet" - depart indignantly or disdainful. 2. leave an unpleasant place, trying consciously to rid oneself of its associations.
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|Shake ||phr||"Shake Up" - enliven, drastically change. 2. disturb, make uncomfortable, by shaking. 3. discipline idle people by handling them vigorously. 4. something sudden that startles one out of one's lethargy and rouses one to action. 5. move a bottle etc to and fro vigorously, thus mixing the contents well. 6. shake a cushion etc after somebody has been sitting on it, to restore it s shape.
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|Shake ||phr||"Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail" - very quickly or soon; in an instance.
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|Shake-down ||n||Any makeshift bed, esp. one of straw. 2. a period or process of adjustment or change. 3. a forced contribution; an instance of extortion, a swindle, hoax, scam. 4. denote a voyage, flight, etc., to test new ship, aircraft, etc., and its crew. 5. a search of a person or place.
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|Shake-down ||adj||For the purpose of adjusting parts or habituating people.
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|Shake-fork ||n||A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork. 2. (heraldry) a pall, especially one which stops short of the edges of the shield and which has pointed ends.
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|Shake-hole ||n||A steep-sided, often conical depression caused by sinking of ground into cavity beneath; may or may not contain a cave entrance and/or stream sinks swallow hole, swallet.
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|Shaken ||n||The act of shaking, vibration, jolt. 2. a shock to the system as a result of illness. 3. a friendly grasping of the hands by two individuals as a token of goodwill and pleasure.
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|Shaken ||adj||Weakened, agitated, cracked.
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|Shake-off ||n||Move or remove by agitating, vacillating or wavering. 2. rapid motion one way or another.
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|Shakenly ||adv||In a shaken or nervous manner.
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|Shakenness ||n||The quality of being shaken.
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|Shake-out ||n||A situation where many investors exit their position, often at a loss or an uncertainty or recent bad news circulating about a particular security or industry.
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|Shake-over ||n||To frisk; to search by feeling for concealed weapons.
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|Shakes ||n||"The Shakes": fever, ague, cold or flu.
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|Shake-up ||n||An upheaval or drastic reorganization in a business etc.
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|Shakeworthy ||adj||(Of a hand, hands): worthy to be shaken of a person or one whose life has been dedicated to the betterment of his fellow human and the lessening of suffering.
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|Shakily ||adv||In a shaky manner.
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|Shakiness ||n||The state or condition of being shaky.
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|Shakingly ||adv||In a shaking manner, shakily.
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|Shaky ||adj||Shaking, full of cracks, unsound. 2. unsteady, in firmed, unreliable. 3. unsound, infirm (a shaky hand).
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|Shale ||n||In wider meaning: a thing that separate. 2. a shell, husk, esp. the shell or outer covering of a nut, which encloses the kernel. 3. a pod of peas or beans. 4. an example of something without value, valueless. 5. scales of a fish. 6. shavings of metal. 7 mesh of a net. 8. collection or pile of loose ore. 9. a dish goblet, cup. 10. finely-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated and often of a friable structure.
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|Shale ||vb||To shell or husk .
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|Shaley ||adj||Pertaining to, or resembling shale in some aspect.
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|Shalk ||n||Originally a servant in alliterative poetry and one of the synonyms for a man, man -- sometimes used in a contemptuous way. Second element in the word 'marshal.' ?
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|Shall ||vb||OE: I am obliged to owe, be under obligation for, to be obliged, must. 2. as an auxiliary indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking.
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|Shall ||phr||"He Who shall Be Nameless" - someone who will not be named, as an informant.
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|Shallow ||n||????A freshwater fish, commonly known as "The Rudd. "
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|Shallow ||n||A shoal, a shallow spot in a river or sea, " The Shallows."
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|Shallow ||adj||Lacking depth, not far from the top, shoaly. 2. lacking intellectual depth, not wise, profound or mentally sharp.
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|Shallow-brained ||n||Empty-headed, silly.
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|Shallow-hearted ||adj||Having no depth or feeling of compassion for others; superficial.
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|Shallowing ||n||The act of becoming shallower.
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|Shallowish ||adj||Somewhat shallow.
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|Shallowly ||adv||Superficial, foolishly.
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|Shallow-minded ||adj||Having no depth of intellect or thought. 2. shallow-brained
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|Shallowness ||n||The condition or state of being shallow.
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|Shallow-read ||adj||Reading few books or only those of popular appeal.
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|Shallow-rooted ||adj||Having no depth of roots or a rooting system, as the eucalyptus tree. 2. having only shallow-dug foundation or base, (also fig.)
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|Shallows ||n||"The Shallows." - a shallow spot in a river or sea.
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|Shallow-thoughted ||adj||Examining matters on a superficial level only.
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|Shallow-witted ||adj||Having no depth of intellectual or thought.
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|Shaly ||adj||Resembling shale in some aspect.
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|Shamble ???||n||In OE. a table or counter for offering goods for sale, counting money etc. 2. a footstool, a stool. 3. a place where meat, fish is sometimes sold. 4. a flesh or meat market. 5. slaughter-house, abattoirs. 6. a place of carnage, wholesale slaughter. 7. scene of disorder, devastation and sin; a mess. 8. the frame of wood that hangs over a shaft horse in a cart. 9. a shoal
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|Shamble ||vb||To cut up and dispose of a corpse; to cut or slaughter in a shamble; to render shambled. 2. 3. ill-shaped, wry, distorted.
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|Shamble ||phr||To Throw Something Into a Shamble" - to make something messy and useless.
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|Shame ||n||A painful emotion or sensation coming from or caused by an awareness of a lack, an inadequacy, a guilty feeling or impropriety which may damage reputation, or that which one may wish to conceal. 2. state of dishonor, disgrace, ignominy. 3. an unfortunate development, put-down, show-up, shyness. 4. reproach, incurred or suffered, dishonor, ignominy, persons state of being. 5. shame, shamefacedness, modesty.
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|Shame ||vb||Compelled through a sense of shame; to be ashamed. 2. to be surpassed or beaten by wide margin. 3. to be made to feel ashamed. 4. to bring about in a person, a feeling of guilt or impropriety or behavior unfavorable to regulation. 5. to cover with reproach or ignominy. 6. to dishonor, disgrace, deride, mock, bring down, bring low, put down.
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|Shame ||phr||"For Shame" - a reproof to a person for not showing shame.
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|Shame ||phr||"Put to Shame" - disgrace or humiliate by revealing superior qualities etc.
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|Shame ||phr||"Shame Into" - cause somebody to behave well by making her/him feel ashamed of their earlier wrongdoings.
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|Shame ||phr||"Shame on You!" - an expression of disapproval: you should be ashamed.
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|Shame ||phr||"What a Shame" - how unfortunate, unlucky.
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|Shamefast ||adj||Bashful, modest, modest or virtuous in behavior and character. 2. in a deprecatory sense, shy, awkward in company, sheepish, shamefaced. 3. of action, behavior, appearances: shameful, modest, bashful. 4. ashamed, abashed, full of shame.
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|Shamefastly ||adv||In a shamefaced manner.
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|Shamefastness ||n||The state or quality of being modest, shy, bashful. 2. the state or being full of shame; shamefaced.
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|Shameful ||adj||Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraced. 2. giving offense; disgraceful, scandalous, indecent.
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|Shamefulness ||n||The state or quality of being shameful.
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|Shameless ||adj||Impudent; brazen, immodest. 2. done without shame, indicating a want of decency. 3. infamous, unworthy, wicked. 4. unbecoming, indecent, untrustworthy.
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|Shamelessly ||adv||In a shameful manner; without same; impudently..
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|Shamelessness ||n||The state or characteristic of being shameless. 2. an utterance or action which is shameless.
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|Shamelike ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of shame.
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|Shamepole ||n||A totem pole set up to shame an individual for a misdeed or an unpaid debt.
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|Shamesome ||adj||Characteristic or marked by shame.
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|Shameworthy ||adj||Of which one ought to be shamed of.
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|Shaming ||n||The activity by which somebody is shamed .
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|Shamingly ||adv||In a shaming manner.
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|Shank ||n||That part of the leg which extends from the knee to the ankle. 2. the tibia or shinbone. 3. the legs as whole (joc). 4. one's legs. 5. in animals, the lower part of the foreleg esp. the horse's between the knee and the fetlock; the tarsus of a bird; the tibia of some insects. 6. a part of a joint of meat, eg. in a ham, a leg of mutton. 7. a kind of fur obtained from the legs of kids, goats, sheep used for trimmings. 8. a stocking esp. a knitted one. 9. the legs as a triangle. 10. each of the two portions of a pair of scissors between the bows and the joints. 11. stem or straight part of anything, a goblet, a glass. 12. straight part of a nail, pin, drill between the head and the taper. 13. the stem of a plant; footstalk. 14. trunk of a tree. 15. stalk of a flower. 16. the body as distinguished from the shoulders, face and feet. 17. stem of a tobacco pipe. 18. the shaft of a column. 19. the stem of a chisel. 20. the tang of a knife. 21. fang of a tooth. 22. the projecting part of a hill, or narrow ridge, which like a stem, joins the mass level ground; a downward spur or projection of a hill, a descending ridge which joins a hill summit to the plain. 23. the latter end of anything; the remainder of last part of a thing, esp. in the phrase " the shank of the night" ; " the shank of life (shankdom)."
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|Shank ||vb||To go or travel on foot. walk, travel on foot. 2. to hit a golf ball on the bottom part of the club. 3. to hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction in golf, tennis, soccer. 4. of a plant, leaf, flower to decay at the stem, or footstalk. 5. to sink a shaft. 6. to knit stockings. 7. (slang) to stab, especially with an improvised blade. 8. (slang) to remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
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|Shank ||phr||"Going by Shanks Mare" - walking; on foot.
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|Shank ||phr||"Shank of the Evening" - twilight, dusk.
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|Shank ||phr||"Shank of Life" - the latter part of one's life.
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|Shank ||phr||"Shank of Night" - the latter part of night; predawn.
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|Shank-bone ||n||Tibia, the shanker.
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|Shanked ||adj||Having a shank. 2. (botany) affected by disease of the shank.
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|Shanking ||n|| The action or an act of stabbing a person, esp. with a makeshift knife.
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|Shank's mare ||n||One's own legs used for walking; on foot, walking to one's destination.
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|Shankweary ||adj||Weary-legged.
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|Shape ||n||OE: state, creation, creature, condition, fate, destiny, of the nature of what is decreed. 2. form, excellence of form, beauty. 3. species, kind; a creature. 4. phantom, a ghost, an ethereal, a figure dimly or uncertainty perceived. 5. sexual organs; the distinctive organs of either sex; the private parts of a female. 6 the visual appearance of someone or somebody. 7. the state of good health: "in good shape." 8. a perpetual structure, composition of music. 9. character or construction of a thing, it's outward look, figure, form, 10. embodiment in form, conception or thought; a concrete embodiment. 11. configuration, contour, body, human body, physical body, build, figure, physique, anatomy, frame, flesh, embodiment, model, lay-out, mold.
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|Shape ||vb||To take shape, influence, give direction or direct. 2. make or mold something for a specific function. 3. to form, to assume a definite form, create, forge, mold. 4. to adapt for a purpose; to lay out. 5. to imagine, conceive, to call forth idea. 6. to design, prepare, plan, arrange. 7. to build or shape oneself, to prepare, make ready. 8. to hew, cut, sculpt, trim. 8. to put together, put up, set up, work out, get up, write, compose. 9. to knead, prepare, mold.
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|Shape ||phr||"Get Into Shape" - get fit.
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|Shape ||phr||"In Good Shape" - satisfactory, or (physically) fit.
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|Shape ||phr||"In the Shape of" - in the form of.
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|Shape ||phr||"Knock into Shape" - make presentable or efficient. 2. make something conform to a requirement.
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|Shape ||phr||"Lick Into Shape" - make something better, more presentable and effective.
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|Shape ||phr||"Shape Into" - give to material (metal, clay, stone, wood) a particular shape or form.
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|Shape ||phr||"Shape of Things to Come" - future events; future conditions of life or work.
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|Shape ||phr||"Shape Up" - Of a person, to improve one's behavior, activities, attitude, etc. 2. of a situation or person, to develop or progress satisfactorily. 3. to be prepared to fight someone
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|Shape ||phr||"Shape Up or Ship Out"- either do properly what one is supposed to be doing or simply go away --- rather than doing it badly.
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|Shape ||phr||"Shape Up Well" - be promising; show great promise.
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|Shape ||phr||"Take Shape" - to have or assumed a definite form. 2. develop towards a particular form.
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|Shaped ||adj||Having a defined external form or outline. 2. formed, resembling in shape; used in compounds, as in leaf-shaped, key-shaped.
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|Shapeless ||adj||Without or lacking shape or form; amorphous. 2. deformed, ugly.
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|Shapelessly ||adv||In a shapeless manner
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|Shapelessness  ||n||The property of being shapeless.
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|Shapeliness ||n||Beauty of shape or outline.
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|Shapely ||adj||Fit, likely, suitable. 2. of good or elegant shape,, appearance well-formed. 3. well proportioned; symmetrical; pleasing to form.
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|Shapen ||vb||To shape, to form.
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|Shapend ||n||A creator, maker, fabricator, manufacturer.
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|Shaper ||n||The Creator, The Great Shaper, God. 2. one who fashions of shapes something.
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|Shape-shifter ||n||Mythical creature who can change form, such as Proteus or Odin.
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|Shapesmith ||n||A corset maker (jocular). 2. a fitness trainer (jocular).
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|Shape-up ||n||To improve; correct one's bad habits. 2. transform into, morph.
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|Shapewear ||n||Women's tight-fitting underwear intended to control and shape the figure.
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|Shaping ||n||The action of the verb 'to shape"
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|Shapish ||adj||Of somewhat good or elegant shape or formed.
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|Shard ||n||A cleft, gap. 2. a gap in an enclosure, esp in a hedge. 2. (a) water(way) which divides. 3. a gap or notch in the blade of a tool. 4. fragments, remnant of something worn or decayed. 5. a broken piece of brittle substance or fragment, as of a earthen vessel. 6. a hard, thin, or a wing cover of an insect. 7. shell, scales of a dragon. 8. cow-dung.
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|Shard ||vb||Of a tree: to shed it's bark or sharding.
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|Sharded ||vb||Of a serpent, caterpillars: scaly, ecdysis, shedding, casting off. 2. reduced to shards, fragments. 3. of the moon: reduced to a crescent.
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|Sharding ||n||The breaking into shards. 2. a decomposition of a database into a smaller units that can handle handle requests indivdually.
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|Shardlike ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a shard.
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|Shardy ||adj||Hving, or consisting of, shards.
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|Share ||n||The iron blade in a plow which cuts the ground and the bottom of a furrow: plough-share.
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|Share ||n||The division or fork of a body. 2. the pubic region or groin.
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|Share ||n||Assets belonging to an individual, person or group. 2. any (equal)portions into which something is divided. 3. a part played by an individual in bringing about a result. 4. a sharp steel wedge of a plowshare that breaks up the soil's top layer, so that the seed can be sown.
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|Share ||vb||To have something in common, eg. children, an interest, a house as tenants. 2. to use jointly, individually, together or in common. 3. to have, give out as one's portion or share. 4. communicate an idea, a thought, or incident. 5. to part among two or more, to distribute in portions; to divide. 6. to partake of, use or experience with others. 7. to take and possess in common. 8. to cut, shear, cleave or divide.
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|Share ||phr||"Go Shares With" - share (usually cost /money).
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|Share ||phr||"Share a Bed" - (euphemistic): to engage in share activity with someone.
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|Share ||phr||"Share and Share Alike" -(idiomatic) for members of a group, equal portions of or equal access to tangible or intangible goods, entitlements, or obligations — i.e., each person's share like each of the other shares. 2. (law) equal rights to or equal portions of profits, assets, bequests, or other valuable items legally owed to investors, partners, beneficiaries, or other named associates
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|Share ||phr||"Share of the Cake" - a portion of the total available for distribution.
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|Share ||phr||"Share Out" - to share evenly. 2. give a share of something to each of a group of people.
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|Share ||phr||"Share With" - give to one or more persons a part of what one has. 2. use facilities in common with one or more other people.
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|Share-beam ||n||The part of a plow to which the share is attached.
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|Share-bone ||n||The pubis bone.
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|Sharebroker ||n||A broker who deals in financial shares.
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|Sharecrop ||n||To participate in a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a share (part) of a crop raised on that land.
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|Sharecropper ||n||A person who enters an agreement with a land owner to farm the land and then pays a portion (share) of produce as rent. 2. one who sharecrops.
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|Sharecropping ||n||The system where a tenant farmer, especially in the southern US. farms the land in exchange for portion of the crop.
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|Shared ||adj||Used by multiple entities, or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways,
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|Share herd ||vb||To care for livestock that belongs to someone else, in exchange for percentage of the profit or offspring. 2. to work as a shareholder.
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|Share-herder ||n||One cares for livestock that belongs to someone else, in exchange for percentage of the profit or offspring.
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|Share-herding ||n||The caring for livestock that belongs to someone else, in exchange for percentage of the profit or offspring
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|Shareholder ||n||An owner of shares in a company. 2. one who by virtue of possessing a share (or shares) in a company etc. is entitled to share in the profits
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|Shareholding ||n||The owning of shares in a company.
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|Share-house ||n||A house shared by several persons (but not as a family unit).
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|Shareland ||n||A region of arable land divided into sections and farmed by different persons.
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|Shareless ||adj||Without a share.
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|Share-milk ||n||Milk produced by share farming in dairy farming in which the owners of cattle move them between different farms.
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|Share-milker ||n||One who participates in a share-milking co-operative.
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|Share-milking ||n||A system of co-operation whereby milk is produced by share farming in dairy farming in which the owners of cattle move them between different farms.
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|Sharemonger ||n||A person who rallies a group to a join a house-share (share-house) at a beach or in the countryside, then must hound his friends to pay their part of the rent while wrangling the property owner and juggling house members' changing weekend requests.
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|Share-out ||n||An act of sharing out; a distribution.
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|Shareowner  ||n||A shareholder.
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|Share-owning ||n||A person who owns shares in various types of share-owning schemes.
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|Sharesman ||n||A member of the crew of a fishing vessel, who has a share in the profit instead of receiving wages.
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|Shareware ||n||Computing software that is available free of charge and often distributed informally for evaluation , after which a fee is requested for continued use.
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|Sharewort ||n||Starwort, harwort, (grey); hoarwort.
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|Sharing ||n||Something shaved.
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|Sharingness ||n||The quality of being sharing.
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|Sharn ||n||Dung, especially of cattle.
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|Sharnbud ||n||The dung-beetle, from "budde" ---beetle.
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|Sharp ||adj||Clearly defined, as in a photo. 2. ending in a sharp point, acute, acute, needle-like. 3. having the ability to recognize a sharp distinction, insightful. 4. showing hard-headed, down-to-earthness smartness. 5. intelligent, shrewd, astute, keen in perception, quick to discern, penetrating, clever, sagacious. 6. keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interest; close and exact in dealings with others. 7. in speech or language harsh, sharp-worded, acerbic, biting, cutting, sarcastic, cruel. 8. very hard or severe upon other's feelings; sharp, rigorous, severe in rebuke. 9. extremely steep, precipitous. 10. high in pitch, sharp note or tone. 11. keen or painfully felt. 12. quick and forceful; keen in quest; impatient.
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|Sharp ||adv||Suddenly in change, direction, amount or degree.
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|Sharp ||phr||"Have a Sharp Tongue" - talk angry, sarcastically. 2. to speak one's mind in forceful language.
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|Sharp ||phr||"Look Sharp" - to appear eager; to be on one's guard. 2. to move or act quickly. 3. be quick!
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|Sharp ||phr||"Sharp as a Needle" - quick-witted; having plenty of perception.
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|Sharp ||phr||"Sharp's the World" - look alive, there! No hanging about.
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|Sharp ||phr||"Sharpen One's Axe" - get ready for a difficult task.
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|Sharp ||phr||"Sharpen the Knives" - get ready for a concerted attack on some principle.
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|Sharp-dealer ||n||A person engaged in barely honest or mildly unethical practices, a conman, grifter, scammer.
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|Sharp ||phr||"Sharpen One's Wits" - (cause to)become more mentally alert, able, inventive, or cunning.
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|Sharp-elbowed ||adj||Pushy; having a boldly assertive manner intended to established an advantage. 2. possessing narrow, bony rather pointed elbow.
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|Sharpen ||vb||To make or become sharp. 2. give a keen edge or fine point to. 3. to make more eager or intelligent. 4. to make more tart or with more acidity. 5. (music): to raise a semi-tone.
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|Sharp-end ||n||(Jocular) a bow of a ship. 2. (colloquial) the scene of a direct action or decision.
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|Sharpened ||adj||Having a sharp point or edge.
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|Sharpener ||n||A device for make something sharp. 2. a device that puts a sharper point on a pencil. 4. (fig) that which make something sharp.
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|Sharpening Horse ||n||A frame for securing a circular saw while being sharpened.
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|Sharp-eyed ||adj||Having acute vision. 2. having good eyesight. 3. very observant.
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|Sharpish ||adj||Fairly sharp.
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|Sharpish ||adv||Fairly sharp; quite quickly.
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|Sharp-looking ||n||Having the appearance of smartness. 2. emaciated.
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|Sharpness ||n||Quick and penetrating intelligence. 2. an urgent attribute in one's voice tone. 3. a strong odor or taste; a pungency. 4. a keen and painful feeling. 5. a thinness of edge; a fineness of point. 6. a harshness of manner, asperity.
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|Sharp-nosed ||adj||Having a pointed nose. 2. possessed of a keen sense of smell.
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|Sharp-set ||adj||Eager or keen for food, hungry, ravenous. 2. having a desire fixed upon craving. 3. having a craving for sexual indulgence. 4. eager and ready to attack. 5. set at a sharp angle; prepared like a saw cutting.
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|Sharpship ||n||Rigor, hardship: to be sharp or hard upon others in criticism or censure.
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|Sharp-shod ||adj||Pertaining to horse-shoes with sharp spikes for use in ice-bound surfaces.
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|Sharp-shooter ||n||A person trained to shoot precisely with a rifle; a highly skilled marksman.
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|Sharp-sighted ||adj||Quick and acute of sight. 2. having acuteness of mental vision, discernment or understanding; acuity.
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|Sharp-sightedness ||n||The sense of an acute vision or sight.
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|Sharp-tongued ||adj||Having an acrid or bitter wit. Often said of someone skilled at or given to caustic, insulting or belittling others.
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|Sharp-witted ||adj||Clever; keen of perception and intellect, swift of thought; thought-swift. 2. having an acute, discening mind.
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|Sharp-wittedly ||adv||In a sharp-witted manner.
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|Sharp-wittedness ||n||The state or property of being sharp-witted.
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|Shave ||n||A thin slice or shaving. 2. a cutting of the beard. 3. the operation of shaving. 4. exorbitant discount of price. 5. a hand tool consisting of a sharp blade, with a handle at each end. 6. the act of passing near, so as to almost touch or graze. 7. the act of swindling or extorting money, shaving.
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|Shave ||vb||OE. sceafan: to scrape, shave, polish, cut, hack. 2. to use s razor to remove the beard. 3. to cut the hair closely. 4. to strip, steal or plunder someone of money or possessions. 5. to be hard in bargaining, extort, cheat, cut the price of. 6. strip, plunder, steal. 7. to cut in thin slices. 8. to touch the surface lightly, skim along the surface.
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|Shave ||phr||"A Good Lather is Half the Shave" - your work is half done if you;ve laid yours plans and made your preparations properly.
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|Shave ||phr||"A Near Shave" - a narrow escape from some danger.
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|Shave ||phr||"Shave an Egg" - to attempt to extort the uttermost.
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|Shave ||phr||"Shave Off" - remove with a razor a growth of hair that has been allowed to develop.
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|Shave-foam ||n||Shaving cream.
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|Shave-hook ||n||A tool for scraping metals, consisting of a sharp-edged triangular steel plate attached to a shank and handle.
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|Shave-ice ||n||Any of the various desserts that include finely crushed or shaved ice and sweet syrup.
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|Shaveless ||adj||Without a shave.
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|Shaveling ||n||Someone with all or part of their head shaved, notably a tonsured clergyman or monk(often in derogatory terms). 2. a stripling; a young man physically ripe enough to shave.
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|Shaven ||adj||Having been shaved.
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|Shaver ||n||One who shaves. 2. a barber, whose occupation is to shave customers. 3. a tool or machine for shaving. 4. an electric razor.
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|Shavetail ||n||(slang) a fleecer, scammer, grister. 2. pillager, plunderer, spoiler. 3. a newly-commissioned military officer. 4. a lad, boy, little fellow.
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|Shavewort ||n||Plant of the genus Equisetum, horsetail, shave-grass, shave-rush, shaveweed.
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|Shaving ||n||The act of shaving. That which is shaved off. 3. the process of rendering various materials perfectly flat and free from irregularities by means of a shaving knife. 4. a thin strip cut off the surface of wood etc. 2. something used in the shaving of the face.
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|Shaw ||n||A thicket, a small wood, copse or grove. 2. a strip of wood or underwood forming the border of a field.
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|Shaw ||n||The stalks and leaves of potatoes, turnips. (a variant of the word 'show').
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|Shaw ||vb||To fence or border (a field) with a shaw.
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|Shawy ||adj||Abounding in shaws, woody.
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|She ||pr||Things female or of the female sex. 2. the female person or being previously mentioned or understood, in the nominative case. 4. that woman or female: any woman 5. an object designated or personified as feminine; things regarded as female ( a ship).
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|She ||pfx||Female, feminine in hyphenated compounds.
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|She ||phr||"She Could Be Your Mother" - said to a young man in a romantic relationship with a much older woman.
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|She ||phr||"She'll Be Apples" - everything will be all right, O.K.
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|She ||phr||"She'll be Right" - everything will be O.K.
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|Sheading ||n||O.E. sceadan: to divide. one of the six political division of the Isle of Man
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|She-shed ||n||Woman cave
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|Sheaf ||n||A quantity of stalks of cut grain or the like, bound together; a bundle of straw. 2. any collection of things, as papers held together by a band or tie. 3. the quiver full of arrows carried by an archer -- usu. 4. a bale, bindle, bundle, faggot, quiver, truss.
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|Sheaf ||vb||Make into sheaves; to sheave.
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|Sheafless ||adj||Without as sheaf or sheave.
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|Sheaf-like ||adj||Resembling a sheaf or some aspect of one.
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|Sheaf-wise ||adj||In sheaves or bundles.
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|Sheafy ||adj||Pertaining to, consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves. 2. resembling a sheaf.
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|Shear ||n||An edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it.
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|Shear ||vb||O.E. cut through with a weapon, divide, shave. 2. to deviate, sheer, to cut, clip, or sever a thing with shears or similar instrument, to shear or to shear a fleece a sheep. 3. to reap grain or other similar crops. 4. to deprive of property. 5. to separate or remove with shears or a like instrument. 6. to cut off or clip from the surface. 7. a tendency for one part to slide over another.
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|Shearer||n||A workman who shears for a living.
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|Shearing ||n||The operation or clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. 2 the product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine. 3. the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth. 4. (Scotland) the act or operation of reaping. 5. the act or operation of dividing with shears. 6. the shearing of metal plates. 7. the process of preparing shear steel; tilting. 8. (mining) the process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal
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|Shearing ||adj||Tending to cut or tear.
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|Shear-line ||n||A line which separates regions of differing wind velocity.
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|Shearling ||n||A sheep only once sheared.
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|Shearman ||n||One who shears sheep or cuts evenly the pile of cloth
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|Shears ||n||Any large cutting or clipping instrument worked by crossing or cutting edges. 2. the ways or guides, as of a lathe. 3. an apparatus for hoisting and moving heavy objects.
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|Shear-steel ||n||A steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments.
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|Shear strength||n||The resistance to forces that cause or tend to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relative to each other in a direction parallel to their contrast.
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|Shear-tail ||n||Any of various hummingbirds with forked tails.
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|Shear-wall ||n||(In architecture)an element of a wall that resists lateral shear on a building.
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|Shearwater ||n||A seabird allied to the fulmars and petrels.
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|Shear-wave ||n||(Physics) a wave that changes the medium through which it travels to change its shape but not its volume or density . 2. a seismic body wave that shakes the ground back and forth perpendicular to the direction the wave is moving.
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|Sheat-fish ||n||(O.E. sceota; trout) A catfish (Siluris glanis) of the fresh waters of central and eastern Europe. It is the largest freshwater fish in Europe.
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|Sheath ||n||A protective cover/covering, especially for the blade of a knife or sword; a case or holder for a knife or sword. 2. a condom. 3. an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant. 4. the protective cover around an electric cable. 5. a close-fitting dress.
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|Sheath ||vb||To put into a sheath; to gather and bind into a sheath, as in to sheaf wheat. 2. to plunge a sword into flesh, as if into a sheath. 3. to encase or protect with a covering, as the hull of a ship with metal. 4. to draw in as claws.
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|Sheath ||phr||"Sheath the Sword" - to make peace; cease hostilties
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|Sheathing ||n||Something that wraps around or surrounds something, as a sheath encases its blade.
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|Sheath-knife ||n||A knife with a fixed blade that fits in a sheath to protect the knife and its owner.
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|Sheathless ||adj||Without a sheath.
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|Sheathlike ||n||Resembling or characteristic of a sheath.
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|Sheath-winged ||adj||Of insects that have wings enclosed in a sheath; coleopterous.
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|Sheathy ||adj||Forming or resembling a sheath or case; sheath-like.
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|Sheave ||vb||To gather and bind in a sheaf; sheave.
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|Sheave ||n||Slice of bread. 2. a slice; a shaving.
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|Sheaved ||adj||Of straw, made into a sheaf.
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|She-bear ||n||A female bear.
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|She-bitch ||n||A cruel and fearsome woman.
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|She-cat ||n||A female (adult) cat.
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|Shed ||n||Distinction, discrimination, separation (of one thing from another). 2. the faculty of discerning, or distinguishing. 2. something being shed or fallen as "a shed of snow." 3. a slope of a hill, decline, escarpment, gradient, run-off; as in watershed (lit and fig.)
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|Shed ||n||A small low building, often with its sides or front open; a lean-to. 2. a hangar. 3. any building used for storage made from tin; sometimes a temporary covering. 4. a store-house barn.
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|Shed ||vb||To fall in drops; to pour out in drops. 2. to let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering. 3. to drop leaves, branches. 4. to get rid of, dismiss, sack, let go, release. 5. to shed or spill blood. 6. to cause or allow a substance to flow, spill or run out. 7. to cast off hair, fur, skin, feathers or other coverings like certain animals: to molt, exuviate, slough. 8. to emit, diffuse, cause to flow or pour out, as the sun sheds light. 9. to sprinkle, intersperse, to cause: her hair was shed with grey.
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|Shed ||phr||"Shed Blood" - to kill.
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|Shed ||phr||"Shed a Tear" - cry, release tear due to sadness.
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|Shed ||phr||"Shed Light Upon" - illuminate to the understanding, make intelligible; to clarify or explain (give explanation) to something unknown.
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|Shed ||phr||"Shed Out" - to move (sheep who have lambed) to better pasture.
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|Shed ||phr||"Shed Tears Over" - express one's regret especially about a person or over an event which do not merit them.
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|Shedded ||adj||Having, or covered by, a shed.
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|Shedder ||n||One who sheds. 2. an animal that sheds or has lately shed its skin, as a crab.
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|She-devil ||n||A woman whose bad temper, cruelty or wicked ways are so extreme as to evoke an image of the devil. 2. (literally): a female devil.
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|Shedding ||n||The act of shedding, separating, or casting.
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|Shedful ||adj||As much as a shed can hold.
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|Shedhand ||n||Australia and New Zealand: an unskilled assistant in a shearing shed.
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|Shedless ||n||Without a shed.
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|Shedlike ||adj||Resembling a shed.
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|Shedline ||n||A water-parting line.
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|Shedload ||n||A large amount; a shitload.
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|She-dog ||n||A male dog.
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|Shed roof ||n||A lean-to roof.
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|Sheel ||n||Shell, husk, pod, shell or outer covering. 2. that in the process of sheeling, shealing. 3. a parting, separation, division. 4. the act of parting, separation, dividing.
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|Sheen ||n||A beautiful woman, a sheen. (Your beautiful sister Lucina, the sheen.) 2. The Sun: " The Sheen." 3. loss, lustre on a surface. radiance, brightness, brilliance, dazzle.
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|Sheen ||adj||Something to behold. 2. of a person, esp. of women and their appearance, features: beautiful, fair, comely, beholding. 3. " a sheen " a beauty in a woman or women. 4. of animals, inanimate objects, places: beautiful, attractive. 5. in a non-material sense: beautiful, radiant, noble, pure, clean, free from sin.) 6. bright, shiny, glossy, sheeny, resplendent. 7. of the day, the sky, bright, sheeny, sun-filled, bright in color.
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|Sheen ||vb||To shine, glisten, gleam, glint, to glow after.
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|Sheenful ||adj||Having a sheen, shiny, glossy.
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|Sheenless ||adj||Without beauty, plain, unattractive, ugly. 2. dull, wan, dark, sunless. 3. ignoble, impure, unclean, peccable.
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|Sheenly ||adv||(Poetical) brightly.
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|Sheeny ||adj||Beautiful, resplendent.
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|Sheep ||n||A medium-sized, domesticated animal of the genus "Ovis aries." 2. an animal, a ruminant, kepted by man for its wool, skin and meat. 3. a docile vulnerable person with the supposed temperament of a sheep: meek, self-conscious, sheepishly bashful, foolish-feeling, weak and timid, a simpleton, who is preyed upon by. 4. the people of God under god's protection. 5. 'a black sheep' - a disreputable member of an otherwise respectable family; a rogue.
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|Sheep ||phr||"As Well be Hung for a Sheep as a Lamb" - if punishment is to be handed out, one might as well do something really bad and enjoy it while they can.
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|Sheep ||phr||"Be a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" - be a hypocrite or to be dangerous although masquerading as something harmless.
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|Sheep ||phr||"Home On a Sheep's Back" - be doing well.
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|Sheep ||phr||"Make Sheep Eyes At" - make a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance at.
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|Sheep ||phr||"Riding on a Sheep's Back" - to benefit from the production of wool (as Australia).
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|Sheep ||phr||"There's a Black Sheep in every Flock" - in every community or group of people there is sure to be at least one shady character.
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|Sheepback ||n||In glaciology, a roche moutonnée (or sheepback) is a rock formation created by the passing of a glacier. The passage of glacier ice over underlying bedrock often results in asymmetric erosional forms as a result of abrasion on the "stoss" (upstream) side of the rock and plucking on the "lee" (downstream) side. These erosional features are seen on scales of less than a metre to several hundred metres.
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|Sheep bell ||n||A bell attached to a collar worn by a sheep.
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|Sheep-berry ||n||One of the black oval, edible drupes of the sweet vibernum, (viburnum lentago). 2. the sheep-berry tree itself.
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|Sheep-biting ||n||Contemptible, unscrupulous, surly, sneaky, shifty, thieving.
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|Sheepcote ||n||A small building for sheltering sheep.
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|Sheep dip ||n||A liquid formulation of insecticide and fungicide, used to protect from infestation by external parasites.
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|Sheep dog ||n||A breed of dog, used for herding sheep. 2. a bred of dog, used to guard sheep. 3. the old English sheepdog.
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|Sheepdom ||n||The quality or state of being asleep.
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|Sheepflesh ||n||The meat or flesh of sheep; mutton.
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|Sheepfold ||n||An enclosure for penning sheep.
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|Sheep-head ||n||Doltish, stupid, silly person.
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|Sheep-headed ||adj||Silly, simple-minded; stupid.
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|Sheep-herder ||n||One who herds sheep.
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|Sheep-herding ||n||The activity of herding sheep.
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|Sheep-hook ||n||Shepherd's crook.
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|Sheepily ||adv||In the manner of a sheep, sheepishly.
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|Sheepiness ||n||The state or quality of being sheepy.
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|Sheepish ||adj||Spiritless, shy, bashful, reticent, sheep-like, coy, hesitant. 2. embarrassed, awkward as through guilt and/or shame.
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|Sheepishly ||adv||In a sheepish way; meekly; self-consciously, with embarrassment.
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|Sheepishness ||n||The quality or state of being sheepish.
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|Sheep-like ||adj||Resembling a sheep; docile and uncomplaining or willing to follow a leader blindly.
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|Sheepmeat ||n||The meat of a sheep, used as food; mutton.
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|Sheepness ||n||The quality of being asleep.
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|Sheep-run ||n||An extensive tract of country where sheep range and graze.
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|Sheep's-bit ||n||A European herb.
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|Sheep's eyes ||n||A secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance.
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|Sheep-shanks ||n||Also sheepshank, 1670s, "leg of a sheep," from sheep + shank (n.). 2. a type of something lank, slender, or weak. (Attested earlier in transferred sense of "type of sailor's knot used to shorten a rope without cutting it). 2. A kind of knot used to shorten a rope temporarily, made by taking two bights of rope and securing them to the standing rope with two half hitches.
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|Sheep-shearer ||n||A pastoral worker who uses shears for the removal of the fleece from sheep.
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|Sheep-shearing ||n||The act of shearing sheep.
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|Sheep shears ||n||A tool consisting of two blades with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, used for the removing the fleece of sheep.
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|Sheep-silver ||n||(Historical) money specifically paid by tenants for exemption from the service of washing the Lord's sheep.
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|Sheep skin ||n||The skin of a sheep, especially when used to make parchment or in bookbinding. 2. a diploma. 3. the tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on, especially when used for clothing, rugs, etc.
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|Sheep-stealing ||n||The theft of sheep.
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|Sheeps-wool sponge||n||A marine sponge, Hippospongia lachne.
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|Sheepwalk ||n||Land given to pasturing of sheep, smaller that a sheep run.
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|Sheepwash ||n||A lotion applied to the fleece of sheep, to kill vermin or preserve the fleece.
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|Sheepy ||adj||Resembling a sheep.
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|Sheer ||adj||(Textiles) very thin or transparent. 2. (obsolete) pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated. 3.(by extension) downright; complete; pure. 4. used to emphasize the amount or degree of something. 4. very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
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|Sheer ||adj||Clean, quite; at once. 2. pure, unmixed, simple, absolute, downright. 2. of fine linen or silk.
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|Sheer murder ||n||To be extremely unpleasant or difficult; or to be an inglorious defeat.
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|Sheerness ||n||The property of being sheer. 2. the result or product of being sheer.
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|Sheerwater ||n||A seabird, that breeds on islands or coastal cliffs.
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|Sheet ||n||A towel, napkin, a cloth. 2. a broad piece of linen or cotton stuff, canvas or the like for covering, swathing, protecting from injury. Nb: "a burying sheet": shroud.
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|Sheet ||phr||"Between Sheets" - in bed.
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|Sheet ||phr||"Sheet Down" - rain heavily in sheets.
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|Sheet ||phr||"That Was My Sheet Anchor" - my best hope, chief stay, last refuge.
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|Sheet ||phr||"Three Sheets in the Wind" - tipsy, drunk, intoxicated.
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|Sheet ||phr||"White as a Sheet" - very white.
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|Sheet anchor ||n||????A large, spare anchor. 2. a a source of confidence and help in times of danger.
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|Sheetboard ||n||Panels of plywood or chipboard, typically used for constructing of paneling walls.
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|Sheetcake ||n||A simple, flat rectangular cake often vanilla or sometimes chocolate.
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|Sheeted ||adj||Wrapped in a sheet or sheets, esp. a windy or encircling sheet; applied to the dead or ghosts. 2. encircled by a sheet as protection against injury or cold. 3. spread out like a sheet, esp. of rain, snow, lightning. 4. a shipwright's term for a surface built up of tongued and grooved boards.
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|Sheet-flood ||n||A short-lived expanse of running water that spread as a continuous sheet over a large area following rain.
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|Sheetful ||adj||The amount that fits on a sheet (any meaning).
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|Sheeting ||n||Fabric used to make sheets (bedding). 2. (engineering) a lining of planks or boards for protecting an embankment. 3. (geology) a weathering process in which rock breaks into sheets after the compressed stress on it is removed. 4. close horizontal timbering for excavations. 5. matched-board surfaces on a ship.
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|Sheet iron ||n||Iron in broad, thin sheets.
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|Sheetless ||adj||Without sheets.
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|Sheet-lightning ||n||A diffused and sudden glow of light flashing out of the clouds and illuminating their outlines.
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|Sheet-like ||adj||Resembling a sheet.
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|Sheet-rock ||n||A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings; drywall.
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|Sheet-rock ||vb||To install and finish sheet rock.
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|Sheety ||adj||Resembling a sheet, wide and flat.
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|Shelf ||n||OE. (scylfe) ledge, a ledge or shelf of rock or mountain, a floor. 2. OE. (scylf) rugged rock, pinnacle. 3. modern word " shelf" : a partition; a thin flat piece of wood, metal etc. projecting from the wall, or as part of a unit, used to support books etc. 4. a horizontal flat board, framed in a cupboard etc., or fixed to a wall,and used for storing articles.
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|Shelf ||phr||"Left or Put On the Shelf" - (of a woman)- unmarried, and not likely to marry because of age or unattractive looks. 2. no longer used; discarded, said of officials, workers etc no longer actively employed. 3. a project no longer continued.
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|Shelf-cloud ||n||A low horizontal cloud typically forming the leading edge of thunderstorm outflow. 2. an arcus type-cloud often found along squall lines.
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|Shelfful ||adj||Enough or the amount that fills a shelf.
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|Shelf-life ||n||The length of time a product (especially food and drugs) will last without deteriorating or without being sold. 2. the maximum time a packaged material can be stored under specific conditions and still meet the performance requirements specified
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|Shelf-like ||adj||Resembling a shelf or some aspect of one.
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|Shelf-mark ||n||A usual alphanumeric indicating the physical of a book within a library.
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|Shelf-room ||n||Available space on a shelf.
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|Shelfward ||adv||Towards a geological shelf.
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|Shelf-talker ||n||A printed card affixed to a supermarket shelf to draw customer's attention to a specific product.
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|Shelf-ware ||n||A piece of software that has never been used at all since its creation. 2. a piece of software created for the sole purpose of being immediately shelved. 3. software purchased but not use
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|Shelfworthy ||adj||A product good enough to be kept or displayed on a shelf.
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|Shell||n||Ammunition fired by a cannon or rocket-launcher. 2. the hard outer covering of any animal; the housing or outer covering of something. 3. outer covering of some fruits, such as eggs, nuts. 4. rigid covering that covers an object. 5. a very light, narrow, racing boat. 6. metal sheathing of any thickness. 7. any slight, hollow structure. 8. a basic structure of a building or buildings left after bombing, after demolition or during renovation. 9. framework, hollow, skeleton. 10. a coarse, thin kind of interior coffin, enclosed within a more stronger one.
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|Shell ||vb||To direct, throw or use explosives on or upon enemies during or conflict, bomb or bombard a city. 2. create by explosion and explosive blasts a hole through a rock. 3. remove from a pod, husk, outer covering friut, nuts, seeds. 4. look for and collect shells by the seashore. s break off the shell, as in shelling peas or nuts. 7. separate the kernels of or from the cob, ear or husk. 8.
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|Shell ||phr||"Come Out of One's Shelf" - cease, or become less shy; become more friendly, confident or communicative.
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|Shell ||phr||"Go Into (One's) Shell" - to retreat into one's mind or otherwise isolate oneself so as to avoid undesirable thoughts, situations, or interactions with people.
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|Shell ||phr||"Shell Out" - (slang) to pay money, fork out, stump up, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money. 2. (computing) to use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.
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|Shell-back ||n||A worldly or old sailor. 2. a sailor who has crossed the equator. 3. a sea turtle 4. a barnacle.
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|Shell-bit ||n||A carpenter's tool of crescent-shaped section used for boring screw holes.
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|Shelled ||adj||Having a shell; testaceous. 2. having had the shell stripped off or removed.
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|Shell egg ||n||An egg of the domestic fowl still in its natural state, as contrasted with dried egg.
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|Sheller ||n||One who shells or husks.
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|Shellfire ||n||The firing of shells, especially repeatedly. 2. frequently, perhaps an illusion, seen of sparks on horses hoofs at night near the seashore. This is supposed to be a phosphorescent light thrown out by decaying marine bodies.
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|Shell-fish ||n||An aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, as oysters or the lobster; crustaceans or molluscs.
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|Shell-game ||n||A confidence trick through deception. 2. in the phrase: play the shell game.
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|Shell heap ||n||A mound of domestic waste consisting mainly of shells, common at prehistoric sites. 2. a kitchen midden.
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|Shell-hole ||n||A hole made by an exploding shell; specifically , a crater-like depression in the ground.
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|Shell-ice ||n||Ice not supported by water, which has receded.
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|Shelliness ||n||The state or quality of being shelly.
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|Shelling ||n||An artillery bombardment. 2. the removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc. 3. grain from which the husk has been removed. 4. (topology) an ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. 5. shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar
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|Shell-less ||adj||Without a shell
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|Shell-like ||adj||Having a similar shape to a seashell. 2. the ear, particularly in set phrases, (can I have a word in your shell-like.
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|Shell-lime ||n||Lime obtained by burning sea shell.
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|Shell-limestone ||n||Limestone composed mainly of sea-shells.
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|Shell-meat ||n||Consisting of shellfish or testaceous molluscs.
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|Shell-monger ||n||Shell-seller or trader in shells. 2. shell collector.
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|Shell out||phr||Distribute freely
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|Shell-room ||n||A compartment on board a warship, where shells are stored; a magazine.
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|Shell-sand ||n||Minute fragments of shells constituting a considerable part of the seashore or beach.)
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|Shell star ||n||(Astronomy) a raid-rotating star that has an equatorial circumstellar disc of gas.
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|Shelltoes ||n||A style of basketball shoes with segmented rubber uppers resembling a seashell.
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|Shellwork ||n||Decorations or ornamentation made from pattern of shells.
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|Shelly ||adj||Composed of the shells of dea marine creatures. 2. resembling or comprising, the shell of a mollusc. 3. abounding in shells. 3. applied to wood in which shell shakes appear. 4. any form of hut, caboose, or shed that provides shelter against the weather. 5. any form or structure that provides protection against air raids.
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|Skelp ||n||OE. (scylp): a sandbank in a river or sea; sometimes seen as shelf.
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|Shelter ||n||A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something. 2. an institution that provides temporary housing for the homeless. 3. a shed-like structure , open on the sides and provided with seats.
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|Shelter ||vb||To produce cover from damage and harassment. 2. to take cover.
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|Shelter ||phr||"Shelter from" - use something as a cover or protection from a storm, bombardment etc. 2. offer or afford cover (from) gunfire.
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|Shelter-belt ||n||A line of trees etc. planted to protect crops from the wind. 2. natural of artificial forest maintained as a protection from wind or snow.
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|Shelter-belted ||adj||A row of trees that act as a windbreak to protect crops from the wind.
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|Shelter-dog ||n||A do temporarily resident in or obtained from an animal shelter.
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|Sheltered ||adj||Protected, as from wind or weather. 2. (of a person) who grew up being overprotected by parents or other guardians; often implies a lack of social skills, worldly experience, etc
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|Shelteredness ||n||The quality of being sheltered.
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|Sheltered workshop ||n||A place with limited cognition can work in a safe environment.
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|Sheltering ||n||A shelter, a structure beneath which one shelters.
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|Shelterless ||adj||Lacking shelter; homeless.
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|Sheltersome ||adj||Characterized or marked by sheltering; affording shelter or protection.
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|Shelterwood ||n||Mature trees, left to provide shelter to new saplings.
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|Sheltron ||n||OE. (scieldtruma): a troop. 2. a close, compact body of troops, troops drawn in battle array. 3. a phalanx. 4. a compact body of ships; a shieldtrum (troop). 3. sheltrum.
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|Shelve ||vb||OE. to shield or defend. 2. abandon or defer a plan. 3. remove a person from work; to retire. 4. to place on a shelf; put books on a shelve. 5. fit a cupboard with shelves. 6. to incline or slope slightly.
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|Shelve ||phr||"Shelve Down" - slope gently (towards); slope down (to).
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|Shelved ||adj||Of or pertaining to shelving; having shelves. 2. postponed.
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|Shelving ||n||Shelves collectively. 2. material for the construction of shelves. 3. the act of putting away on shelves; hence, putting aside; dismissing. 4. a slight inclining. 5. the bank of a river.
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|Shelving ||adj||Sloping steeply.
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|Shelvy ||adj||Of rocks, ice,etc. having shelves. 2. sloping, shallow.
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|Shench ||n||A cupful of drink or liquor,
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|Shench ||vb||To pour liquor. 2. to give a person a drink. 3. to shenk
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|Shend ||vb||To put to shame and disgrace. 2. to confound, confuse. 3. to destroy, ruin, bring to destruction. 4. to disfigure, corrupt, infect, defile, soil. 5. to overcome with fatigue, bewilder, stupefy. 6. a milder sense: to injure, hurt, impair, damage, spoil; to discomfit in an argument or disagreement. 7. to dishonor, blacken, denigrate, demean, to be shent.
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|Shendful ||adj||Infamous, disgraceful, vile, ignominious, shendlac
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|Shendship ||n||Shendness, disgrace, ignominy, infame, vileness, the condition or quality of shend: shendness.
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|Shendship ||n||Shendness, disgace, ignominy, infame, vileness, the condition or quality of shend: shendness.
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|Shenker ||n||A drinker, a drunk, boozer.
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|Shene ||vb||To burst asunder, break, blow up, explode.
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|Shent ||n||Disgrace, shame, ignominy, scandal.
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|Shepherd ||n||One who tends, feeds and guards sheep, esp. a grazing flock. 2. a church pastor or clergyman who gives religious guidance.
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|Shepherd ||vb||To watch out and tend as a shepherd; guard, protect. 2. to marshal the members of some group.
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|Shepherd ||phr||"The Good Shepherd" - Jesus Christ.
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|Shepherd ||phr||"The Shepherd's Warning" - "red sky at night is the shepherd's delight, Red sky in the morning is the shepherd's warning.
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|Shepherd-hearted ||adj||Kind, compassionate, caring.
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|Shepherdish ||adj||resembling or suiting a shepherd; pastoral.
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|Shepherd-knot ||n||A low growing herb, the tormentil.
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|Shepherdless ||adj||Lacking a shepherd.
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|Shepherdlike ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a shepherd.
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|Shepherdly ||adv||Resembling or characteristic of a shepherd; pastoral, rustic. 2. taking care of a group or flock, as a shepherd does.
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|Shepherd-moon ||n||A small moon that orbits near the outer of a planetary ring or within gaps in the ring. The edge of the ring remains sharply defined owing to the gravity of shepherd moons.
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|Shepherd's crook ||n||A long staff, having the end curved to form a large hook.
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|Shepherdship ||n||The dignity or office of a shepherd.
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|Shepherd's needle ||n||Venus's comb. 2. beggarticks.
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|Shepstare ||n||The starling: from their habit of sitting on a sheep's back and searching for ticks to eat.
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|Sheriff ||n||Shire-reeve, the shireman.
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|Sheriffdom ||n||The regions in which a sheriff has authority. 2. the office, or period of office, of a sheriff.
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|Sheriffhood ||n||The office of a sheriff.
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|Sheriffship ||n||The office or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
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|Sheriffwick ||n||The area of jurisdiction of a sheriff.
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|Shewel ||n||A scarecrow.
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|She-wolf ||n||A female wolf. 2. a predatory.
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|Shide ||n||A piece of wood split for timber, often used for fire wood, a shider.
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|Shide ||vb||To divide, cleave, split, shatter, splinter.
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|Shield ||n||A scute, carapace, plastron, or any protective plate covering. 2. a privy, toilet, out-house. 3. sheet ice. 4. the dome of a shield volcano or a very broad dome with gently sloping sides. 5. a broad area of very old rocks above sea level that is usually characterized by thin, poor soils and low population densities
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|Shield ||vb||To protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm. 2. hold back a thought or feeling about. 3. to harbor a grudge etc. 4. to cover with, defend, protect from injury. 5. to ward off, to keep off or out, to forbid. 6. to avert misfortune.
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|Shield ||phr||"Shield from" - give protection from the elements or physical danger.
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|Shield-back ||n||A chair in which the back has an outline of a shield.
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|Shield-bearer ||n||A person who carries a shield, especially a lower ranking person who carries it for a higher-ranking person.
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|Shield-bone ||n||The scapula or shoulder bone.
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|Shield-fern ||n||Any common fern of the genus which has a shield-shaped sporangia.
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|Shielding ||n||Protection in various senses.??????
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|Shieldly ||adv||In a protective manner.
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|Shieldless ||adj||Without a shield or any kind of protection.
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|Shield-like ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a shield.
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|Shield maiden ||n||In Norse mythology a virgin who has chosen to fight as a warrior in battle.
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|Shieldman ||n||One who carries a shield.
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|Shield Wall ||n||The formation of a shield wall, as Scildweall or Bordweall in Old English, (Skjaldborg in Old Norse) is a military tactic that was common in many cultures in the very early modern warfare age. There were many slight variations of this tactic among these cultures, but in general, a shield wall was a "wall of shields" formed by soldiers standing in formation shoulder to shoulder, holding their shields so that they abut or overlap. Each soldier benefits from the protection of their neighbors' shields as well as their own.
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|Shieldwise ||adv||In the manner of a shield, as a protective barrier.
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|Shift ||n||A transformation, displacement 2. a work-shift: time which you are at work. 3. a crew of workers. 4. the act of moving one place to another. 5. switch, changeover, directional change, dislodgement. 6. unsteady sideways movement. 7. a geological fault, fracture, break. 8. division, veering, distribution. 9. a woman's sleeveless undergarment.
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|Shift ||vb||In OE: to determine. 2. put in order, arrange. 3. apportion, distribute, divide into shares, partition off. 4. manage matters, make provision, deal, bargain. 5. bestir oneself; make a living by one's own devices. 6. manage with something inferior; to made do or to make shift. 7. to change someone mind; to change places. 8. to dress in fresh underclothing. 9. to change a scene. 10. to evade, turn aside. 11. transfer blame, responsibility or burden. 12. to palm off something onto a person. 13. to change a mechanical thing like a lever. 14, to alter direction. 15. to avoid, elude, escape. 16. shirk, to put off, deter. 17. to quit or leave. 18. to rid of. 19. to put off a person with a subterfuge. 20. evade or turn aside an argument or promise. 21. get rid of the effects, of drink, etc. 22. to change one's lodgings. 23. to move away, withdraw, depart esp to slip off unobserved.24. travel, journey, fare, move on.
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|Shift ||phr||"Get a Shift On" - hurry up (informal)
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|Shift ||phr||"Make Shift" - manage or contrive; get along somehow. 2. do what one wants to do in spite of not having ideal conditions.
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|Shift ||phr||"Shift and Shaft" - the act of increasing taxes at a lower level of government, whilst lowering them at the highest level for political expediency.
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|Shift ||phr||"Shift for Oneself" - rely on one's own efforts. 2. manage to earn a living, run a home, etc, without the help from others. 2. manage as best one can without help from others.
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|Shift ||phr||"Shift Off" - get rid of (responsibility) to another.
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|Shift ||phr||"Shift One's Ground" - take up a new position in an argument. 2. say or write something that contradicts something one has previously written or said.
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|Shift ||phr||"Shift One's Tides" -(dated, nautical) to record the variations of the tide and the positions of the sun and moon using a nautical almanac and sextant to determine the location and phase of the moon and to calculate the relative effect of the tides on the navigation of the ship.
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|Shifter ||n||One who, or that which, shifts or changes. 2. (linguistics) a word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis. 2. (nautical) an assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. 3. (engineering) an arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. 4.(engineering, textiles) a wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. 5. (cycling) a component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable. 6. a spanner with an adjustable jaw size. 7. (mining, historical) a person employed to repair the horse-ways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed. 8. 9. (US, Pennsylvania) a switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting. 10.(mythology, science fiction, fantasy) a shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form. 11. (erotica) a genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves
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|Shiftful ||adj||Habitually traveling; itinerant.
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|Shiftily ||adv||In a shifty manner or way.
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|Shiftiness ||n||The property of being tricky of character or behavior. 2. the result or product of being shifty.
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|Shifting ||n||A shift or change; a shifting movement. 2. changing places or positions, displacement, fickle, unreliable, unstable.
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|Shifting-sands ||n||Arguments which are constantly changing.
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|Shift-key ||n||The key on a typewriter used to select uppercase letters and certain special characters by physically moving the mechanism. 2. (computing) a key on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used to effect the same function, or to change the function of the function keys.
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|Shiftless ||adj||Helpless from self-defence. 2. void of cunning or artifice. 3. lacking in resource, incapable of shifting for oneself, hence inefficient, effete, lazy, shiftlessness; as shiftless good-for-nothings. 4. of action, ineffective, futile, unvarying, unchanging, without shift, without wend. 
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|Shiftlessness ||n||the state or condition of being shiftless.
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|Shift-off ||n||A delay, deferment, put-off, lay aside.
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|Shiftshaper ||n||Creature or thing that has the ability to transform its physical form or shape. This is usually achieved through an inherent ability of a mythological creature, divine intervention or the use of magic. Werewolves are shiftshapers; so are words.
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|Shiftshaping ||n||The ability of a being or creature to transform its physical form or shape. This is usually achieved through an inherent ability of a mythological creature, divine intervention or the use of magic.
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|Shiftwork ||n||Scheduled work outside outside customary working hours. 2. a mode of employment to maintain a continuous 24/7 operation.
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|Shifty ||adj||Not straightforward; evasive, deceitful. 2. full of expedients; alert, capable. 3. artful,tricky, fickle.
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|Shild ||n||Debt, fault, due, obligation, liability. 2. sin, guilt, crime, offence.
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|Shildy ||adj||Guilty, culpable.
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|Shill ||vb||To resound, sound loudly, 2. to ashill.
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|Shill ||vb||To separate. 2, to curdle milk.
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|Shilling ||n||A coin formerly used in the U.K. U.S. Ireland, and many other Commonwealth countries.
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|Shilling ||phr||"Be Only Ten Pence in the Shilling" - be slightly stupid.
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|Shilling ||phr||"Take the King's Queen's Shilling" - enlist as a soldier (formerly a soldier was paid a shilling)
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|Shillingless ||adj||Without a shilling; penniless, broke.
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|Shilling side ||n||An area or suburb in a city or town, where the shops carry a cheaper range of merchandise than on the other areas or suburb of the same town/city. @. two-dollar shops.
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|Shim  ||n||Shadow, gloom. 2. the streak of white on a horse's face. 3. a faint or transient appearance; a glimpse, a shimmer.
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|Shimmer ||n||A soft, slight wavering light. 2. a shine bright, a glistening, a gleam; glimmer. 3. a shine or shining with slightly flickering light. 4. to shine faintly, give off or emit a tremulous shining or gleaming.
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|Shimmer ||vb||Earlier use to shine brightly, glisten. 2. to shine with a tremulous, somewhat flickering light. 2. to gleam faintly. 3. to shine with a soft, slight wavering light. 4. to move effortlessly, glide, drift.
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|Shimmering  ||n||Shining with a soft, slightly watery light.
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|Shimmeriness ||n||Flickering.
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|Shimmeringly ||adv||Shining with a soft, slight wavering light.
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|Shimmery ||adj||Shimmering or seeming to shine brightly.
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|Shin||n||The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg, between the knee and the ankle. 2. the foremost part of the human leg, between the knee and the ankle. 3. the tibia.
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|Shin ||vb||Climb awkwardly, as if to scramble. 2. to climb a tree, pole etc. by grasping it by the arms and legs, without the help of spikes, steps or other aids: "to shinny up.". 3. to go or run hastily in order to borrow money from a number of persons: 'to shin it.'
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|Shin ||phr||"Shin It" - to go or run hastily in order to borrow money from a number of persons.
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|Shin ||phr||"Shin Up" - climb up a tree, wall, rope.
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|Shin bone ||n||The tibia, the larger of the two bones of the leg.
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|Shinder ||vb||To shiver. 2. to shatter into pieces.
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|Shine ||n||The quality of being bright and emitting light rays. 2. the quality or state of brightness, lustre, gloss, polish, sheen. 3. effulgence, refulgence. 4. sunshine, fairweather. 5. a liking or fancy for another.
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|Shine ||vb||To be bright by reflecting or casting light. 2. to be shiny, as if wet, glisten. 3. to emit light, beam, gleam, glint. 4. to be distinguished, eminent, talented. 5. to have a bright complexion; to glow, beam, radiate. 6. to touch or seem to be touching visually. 7. to experience a well-being feeling or happiness. 8. to make a surface shine, looked polished, smooth, smoothen. 9 to fall upon, strike.
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|Shine ||phr||"Come Rain or Shine" - whatever happens.
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|Shine ||phr||"Make Hay While the Sun Shines" - to make use of an opportunity before it disappears.
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|Shine ||phr||"Rise and Shine" - make the best of an opportunity.
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|Shine ||phr||"Shine like a Good Deed in a Naughty World" - be praiseworthy and pleasing in sharp contrast to the less pleasant bckground, etc.
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|Shine ||phr||"Shine Out" - give out a bright light. 2. be clearly noticeable, outstanding because of one's qualities.
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|Shine ||phr||"Shine Through" - (fig. of a positive things) to be discernible despite obstruction; to be apparent or evidenced.
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|Shine ||phr||"Shine Up" - to cause to be shiny or more shiny.
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|Shine ||phr||"Take a Shine to" - like; take a fancy to. 2. form a liking for somebody. 3. be keen on a person.
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|Shine ||phr||"Take the Shine Off Something" - spoil the brilliance or newness of. 2. spoil the performnce of something.
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|Shine ||phr||"Take the Shine Out of" - to demonstrably surpass. 2. put into the shade by surpassing, eclipsing, humiliating. 3. cause to appear inferior or less important than previously.
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|Shine ||phr||"Wnen One's Ship Comes In" - when one becomes wealthy.
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|Shineless ||adj||Without any shine; dull.
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|Shiner ||n||One who shines; a luminary; that which shines. 2. (colloquial) a black eye. 3. (slang, dated) a bright piece of money, especially a sovereign. 4. any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Minnilus, and allied genera, such as the redfin. 5. any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
6. the common silverfish. 7. (slang) a moonshiner. 8. small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
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|Shinily ||adv||In shiny manner.
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|Shininess ||n||The usual property of something shining with reflective light, shine.
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|Shiningness ||n||The quality of of shining, brightness. 2. reflecting light. 3. emitting light.
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|Shining ||n||Emitting or refracting a continuous light. 2. reflecting light; gleaming, luminous. 3. of unusual brilliance, excellence, conspicuous. 4. having a high polish or sheen. 5. having exceptional merit.
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|Shining light ||n||An eminent or scholarly person. 2. outstanding good in any field or activity.
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|Shiningly ||adv||in a shining manner, brilliantly.
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|Shink ||vb||O.E. scencan: to pour or serve wine or beer.
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|Shin-leaf ||n||A low perennial herb (Pyrola elliptica) with rounded evergreen root leaves, common in the woods of the northern United States.
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|Shinny ||vb||To climb in an awkward manner.
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|Shinny ||phr||"Shinny Up" - to climb a tree, pole etc. by grasping it by the arms and legs, without the help of spikes, steps or other aids.
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|Shiny ||phr||Having a shine, glistening, polished, glossy; polished, bright. 2. (of clothing esp. the seat of trousers etc) having the nap worn off.
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|Ship ||n||A sea vessel that carries freight and passengers. 2, any large sea-going vessel. 3. a space going craft. 4. a dish originally fashioned like the hull of a ship, used to hold incense.
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|Ship ||vb||To engage to serve on board a vessel. 2. to engage or secure for service seaman on board a ship. 3. to embark on a ship. 4. to put on board a ship or rail train ;for transportation, to transport or convey. 4. convey on ships belonging to one country or industry, such as on a cargo ship, merchant ship.
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|Ship ||sfx||Forming nouns denoting: a quality or condition (friendship). 2. status, office or honor (lordship). 3. a tenure of office (leadership). 4. a skill in a certain capacity (workmanship). 5. the collective individuals of a group (membership)
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|Ship ||phr||"Run One's Own Ship" - do things and organize subordinates in one's own way.
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|Ship ||phr||"Ship a Sea" - be flooded by a wave.
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|Ship ||phr||"Ship Off" - send, dispatch especially by sea or air.
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|Ship ||phr||"Ship of War" - a warship.
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|Ship ||phr||"Ship Out" - to depart, especially for a sea voyage or military assignment. 2. go to sea as a crew member. 3. send, carry from a port as a cargo; send, especially by means of a transport vehicle. 4. figuratively) to leave, get out, or resign; to get rid of, expel, or discard.
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|Ship ||phr||"Take Ship" - embark.
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|Ship ||phr||"When One Ship Comes In" - when one's business ventures are successfully completed or when luck arrives. 2. when a person's fortune is made. 3. 'when my ship comes home' The allusion is to argosy returning from foreign ports laden with very rich freight, and so enriching the merchant who sent it forth,
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|Shipboard ||n||Used or occurring on board a ship (a shipboard love).
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|Shipboard ||phr||"On Shipboard" - on board ship.
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|Shipborne ||adj||Carried by ship.
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|Shipbote ||n||Payment or charge for the repair of a ship
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|Ship breaker ||n||One who works in shipbreaking.
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|Ship-breaking ||n||The breaking up of ships for scrap recycling.
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|Shipbreche ||n||Shipwreck; shipwreck.
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|Shipbroker ||n||An intermediary agent who negotiates between shipowners and persons wanting to charter shipping.
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|Shipbuilder ||n||One who builds vessels, such as ships and boats.
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|Shipbuilding ||n||The construction of a ship or ships.
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|Ship burial ||n||Burial (in earlier times) in a wooden ship under a mound.
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|Shipe ||n||In OE. sense, dignity, condition. 2. something allocated, wages, reward, remuneration, shiping.
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|Shipe ||vb||To reward, pay wages.
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|Shipful ||adj||Of full cargo or complement.
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|Shipholder ||n||One who owns a ship or ships.
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|Shipholding ||n||Owning a ship or ships.
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|Shipless ||adj||Without a ship, as in a shipless sea.
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|Shiplike ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a ship.
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|Shipload ||n||The amount of cargo that a ship can carry.
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|Shiplord ||n||A shipmaster, skipper, sea captain.
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|Shipman ||n||The master of a ship; a shiplord.
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|Shipmaster ||n||The master of a ship; a captain,a commander. 2. a seaman, sailor, a mariner. 3. the master of a ship, a shiplord.
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|Shipowner ||n||One who owns a ship.
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|Shipowning ||n||Owning a ship.
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|Shipped ||adj||Aboard a ship; part of a cargo.
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|Shippen ||vb||O.E. scypen: a stable; cowhouse.
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|Shipper ||n||A seaman. 2. a sea captain, skipper. 3. one who ships goods for transportation. 4. one who transports goods by rail.
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|Shipping ||n||The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials; transportation, transport; transportation, transport. 2. conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry.
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|Shipping forecast ||n||A broadcast containing weather reports around a coastline.
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|Shipping lane ||n||A route across an ocean, sea or other body of water which is regularly used by commercial maritime vehicles.
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|Shipping marks ||n||Private trade marks of timber exporting company to denote the quality of the wood.
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|Shipping-master ||n||An official presiding at the signing of ship's articles, paying off of seamen etc.
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|Shippon ||n||A cattle-shed, a cowhouse, an ox-stall, a shippen, farm buildings.
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|Shiprat ||n||The black rat (Rattus rattus).
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|Shiproom ||n||The storage space on a ship.
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|Ship's bell ||n||A bell used to indicate the time aboard a ship and hence to regulate the sailors' duty watches.
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|Ship's boat ||n||A utility boat carried by a larger vessel.
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|Ship's days ||n||The days allowed for a vessel to load or unload; shipping days.
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|Shipshape ||adj||In a seaman like manner: meticulously neat and tidy; in good order. 2. organized, serviceable trained and ready for action.
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|Ship's husband ||n||An agent who has the authority to repair and outfit a particular ship.
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|Shipspeak ||n||Nautical jargon.
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|Ship's time ||n||The time shown by the deck clock: usually local mean time at whatever meridian a vessel happens to be.
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|Shipwards ||adv||Towards a ship.
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|Shipway ||n||The sloping dry dock in which a ship built and from which it is launched; slip-way. 2. a navigable canal.
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|Shipwide ||adj||Throughout a ship.
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|Shipworker ||n||A shipyard worker.
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|Shipworm ||n||A marine mollusc (Teredo) and (Bankia)that bores through wood. 2. marine boeres.
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|Shipwreck ||n||The partial or total destruction of a ship at sea. 2. utter or practical destruction or ruin. 3. scatterd remnants, as of a wrecked ship, wreckage.
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|Shipwrecked ||adj||Stranded as a result of a shipwreck.
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|Shipwright ||n||A person who designs, builds and repairs ships, especially wooden ones. 2. a ship's carpenter; ship-builder.
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|Shipyard ||n||A place where ships are built and repaired; a shipbuilding yard.
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|Shipyard-eye ||n||Kerato-conjuctivitis.
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|Shire ||n||In OE: official charge, adminstration office, esp, that of a bishop, steward, governor. In Old English times of smaller districts, hundreds and wapentake for purposes of local government. 2. A province, district.
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|Shire ||adj||Bright, shining. 2. of liquids: clear, translucent. 3. pure, unnixed. 4. morally, spiritually clean or pure. 5. complete, perfect, sheer, utter; also negatively mere, bare. 6. thin, tenuous, not dense, scanty, sheer, weak, small.
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|Shire ||sfx||Forming the name of counties (Wiltshire).
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|Shire ||phr||"Come Out of the Shires" - to come from a considerable distance.
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|Shire ||phr||"Knight of the Shire" - the original name of two men of rank of knight who formerly a shire or county in parliament. The boroughs were represented by burgesses.
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|Shire-hall ||n||A courthouse or assembly room of a shire or county.
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|Shire horse ||n||The tallest breed of a draught horse, heavy and powerful and bred chiefly in the midlands counties of England. 2.
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|Shirely ||adv||Brightly, clearly, purely, shirenessly 2. with main force: with might, straight down.
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|Shire-moot ||n||Judicial assembly of the shire in OE. times. 2. a shire-mote.
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|Shire-reeve ||n||A local official in medieval England appointed by the King to administer the shire
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|Shires ||n||"The Shires" - the midland counties of England whose name all end in -shire; part of these counties where hunting on a large scale take place.
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|Shire-town ||n||The administrative centre, capital, of a Shire.
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|Shire-wite ||n||Tax paid to the sheriff for holding a shire court.
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|Shirt ||n||OE: scherte: a short garment, a petticoat, tunic, argon, apron. 2. a garment or shirting worn on the upper part of the body. 3. a loose garment of cloth, linen or other materials worn on the upper part of the body. Formerly worn by both male and female wearers, now usu. worn only by men and boys. 4. 'bloody shirt' the symbol of murder or outrage.
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|Shirt ||vb||To clothe or cover with a shirt.
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|Shirt ||phr||"Give The Shirt off One's Back" - give one's last remaining possessions to help another. 2. be very generous; give all one has.
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|Shirt ||phr||"Keep One's Shirt On" - keep one's temper; relax, chill out.
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|Shirt ||phr||"Lose One's Shirt" - lose all one's possessions. 2. to make heavy financial losses.
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|Shirt ||phr||"Not a Shirt to One's Name" - penniless.
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|Shirt ||phr||"Put One's Shirt On a Horse" - gamble or bet one's entire possessions on. 2. be sure of.
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|Shirt ||phr||"Take the Shirt off One's Back" - to take all one has.
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|Shirt ||phr||"Wear a Hair Shirt" - practise self-discipline.
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|Shirt ||phr||"Work In One's Shirt Sleeves" - work hard.
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|Shirted ||adj||Wearing a shirt.
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|Shirtily ||adv||In an shirty manner. 2. annoyingly, ill-temperedly.
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|Shirtiness ||n||The state or characteristic of being shirty. 2. annoyance, a state of ill-temper.
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|Shirting ||n||Any fabric or material (in a roll) used to make shirts. 2. closely woven material of cotton, linen, silk etc., used for making shirt s, blouses, dresses. 3. shirts (collectively).
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|Shirtless ||adj||Without, or not wearing, a shirt.
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|Shirtlessness ||n||Absence of a shirt or shirts.
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|Shirt-like ||adj||Resembling a shirt.
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|Shirtmaker ||n||One who makes shirts as an occupation.
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|Shirt-making ||n||The industry or practice of making shirts.
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|Shirt-sleeve ||n||The part of a shirt that covers an arm.
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|Shirt-tail ||n||The lower curved part of a shirt below the waist.
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|Shirty ||adj||Ill-tempered and annoyed.
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|Shit ||n||Excrement; the act of defecation. 2. a contemptible person.
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|Shit ||phr||"Like Shit" - very bad.
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|Shit ||phr||"No Shit" - an exclamation of amazement or belief. 2. an ironic, sarcastic response to the statement ???
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|Shit ||phr||"Shit for Brains" - a stupid person.
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|Shithouse ||n||A toilet, lavatory, bathroom.
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|Shitless ||adj||Be extremely frightened.
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|Shit show ||n||A messy situation, especially involving drunkenness and revelry.
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|Shit-talk ||n||Offensive and rude speech.
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|Shit-talking ||n||Speaking rude and offensively about someone, especially behind their backs.
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|Shit weasel ||n||A deceitful and contemptible person.
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|Shitware ||n||Computing software of exceptionally poor quality.
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|Shittle ||adj||Of persons and their faculties: inconstant, variable, wavery, flighty, fickle. 2. Of things, shaky, unstable. 3. shittle-wit: a foolish person; shittle-willed: wavering, fickle in resolve.
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|Shittleness ||n||Fickleness. instability, vacillation, shakiness.
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|Shive ||n||A sheave, a particle of tusk. 2. a splinter. 3. apiece of wood for a bung on a cask. 4. a piece of thread or fluff on the surface of a cloth. 5. refuse of hemp or flax. 6. a sliver of light; a shive-light. 7. a piece of bread, a sheave of bread, a sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
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|Shiver ||n||A fragment, one of the small pieces into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence, a chip, splinter. 2. flake, loose fibre, or filament; nb: plural-shivers. 3. slately stone a variety of blue state. 4. a breastplate of a plough. 5. a small wedge for the fastening of the bolt of a window shuttle; a spindle. 6. reflex motion caused by cold or fever or excitement, a tremble, a shake. 7. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; a frisson of surprise. 8. a chill, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle.
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|Shiver ||vb||To tremble convulsively, from fear or excitement; shudder, throb, thrill. 2. to vibrate, quiver, shake as from cold. 3. to cause to tremble as a sail.
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|Shiver ||phr||"Get the Shivers" - have malaria, ague, a chill, a cold.
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|Shiver ||phr||"Shiver My Timbers" - reputed piratical curse, exclaiming of astonishment or amusement. An imprecation used by 'stage-sailors' and popular with children's story writers. Presumably of nautical origin , shiver here is used in the sense 'to shatter' or 'splinter into pieces', the timber being those of the ship.
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|Shivering ||n||The act of shivering or trembling.
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|Shivery ||adj||Inclined to shiver, tremulous, mild to excess.
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|Shoad ||vb||In OE. to divide, separate, shed. 2. loose fragments of tin, lead, copper.
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|Shoal ||n||Flock of birds. 2. large number of person, a throng, a crowd, a troop. 3. a large number of inaminate things. 5. a mass of floating ice.
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|Shoal ||adj||Of water, watercourse, harbour, sound: not deep, slight in the depth, becoming shallow, shoaling. 2. of mind or intellectual: shallow, unprofound, shallowness.
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|Shoal ||vb||Of waterway, streams, bays, harbor: to become shallower. 2. Of a ship to come into shoal or the shallows. 3. to dig or drive less deeply into soil.
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|Shoal-hood||n||Shallowness, undepthness, slightness.
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|Shoaliness ||n||The quality or state of being shoaly. 2. a small depth of water; shallowness.
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|Shoaling ||pp||Growing or becoming shallower.
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|Shoaling wave ||n||A wave that is shoaling, and a shallow when it hits hard.
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|Shoalwise ||adv||In or as a shoal.
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|Shoaly ||adj||Full of or abounding in shoals or shallow places.
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|Shoat ||n||A young weaned pig. 2. an idle, worthless person.
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|Shock ||n||An unkempt or shaggy mass of hair. 2. a poodle or shaggy-haired dog; a shough.
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|Shock-dog ||n||A shaggy dog.
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|Shock-head ||n||Having a thick, bushy head of hair.
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|Shod ||adj||Wearing shoes. 2. having tyres equipped.
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|Shode ||n||The crown of the head. 2. the part(ing) of the head. 3. a dividing ridge.
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|Shoding ||n||Separation. 2. the parting of the hair.
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|Shoe ||n||A metal u-shaped plate nailed for protection to the underside of a horse's hoof. 2. footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather, and a sole or heel of a heavier material. 3. to supply or furnish with shoes. 4. any form of iron foot for a wood member. 5. a metal point for a foot of a pile. 6. a bent piece at the foot of a down-pipe to turn the water away from the wall. 7. the seating for the heel of a swing door. 8 at metal slipper at the bottom of a sliding door sash to engage with the runner. 8. any adjective applied to the numerous parts of and appliances for footwear: shoe-tree, shoe-last, shoe-heel, shoe-filler etc.
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|Shoe ||phr||"Stand in Another Man's Shoes" - to be in the situation of another; their difficulty and responsibilities.
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|Shoe ||phr||"Be In Dead Men's Shoes" - to expect promotion in times.
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|Shoe ||phr||"Fill Someone's Shoes" - be a good successor.
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|Shoe ||phr||"His Shoes Are Made of Running Leather" - he is given to roving or wandering.
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|Shoe ||phr||"Shake in One's Shoes" - to be a state of fear or terror.
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|Shoe ||phr||"Stand in Another Man's Shoes" - to be in the situation of another; their difficulty and responsibilities.
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|Shoe ||phr||"Whose Shoes I am Not Worthy to Bear" - (biblical Matt. 111, 11). I am not worthy to be his humblest slave. It was the business of a slave recently purchased to carry his master's sandals.
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|Shoe beam ||n||A beam of non-conducive material (usually fibre-glass or wood), attached to a train bogey that supports the pick up shoe.
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|Shoe bolt ||n||A bolt with a flaring hood, for facilitating shoes on sleigh runners.
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|Shoebox ||n||A box in which shoes are sold. 2. (derogatory) a small cramped residence, or similar space.
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|Shoecare ||n||The care and maintenance of shoes.
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|Shoe-hammer ||n||A hammer with a broad face for pounding leather on a lap-stone.
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|Shoe-heel ||n||
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|Shoehorn ||n||A tool use to assist putting the foot a shoe by sliding the heel in.
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|Shoehorn ||vb||To force or squeeze into an inadequate space.
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|Shoehorning ||n||A thing by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium. 2. an inducement.
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|Shoeing ||n||The act of fitting an animal with horseshoes. 2. a thrashing.
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|Shoeing-smith ||n||A farrier.
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|Shoe-last ||n||A shoe maker's model for repairing shoes and boots.
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|Shoe-leather ||n||Leather that is used to make shoes. 2. leather from which shoes are made that is worn out through walking.
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|Shoe leather ||adj||Basic, old-fashioned or traditional; specifically (journalism) shoe-leather journalism or shoe-leather reporting: journalism involving walking from place to place observing things and speaking to people, rather than sitting indoors at a desk
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|Shoe-leather ||phr||"As Ever Trod Shoe-leather" (idiomatic, archaic) - as ever existed or lived. Treading shoe leather refers to walking, in the sense of walking on this earth.
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|Shoe-less ||adj||Without shoes.
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|Shoelessness ||n||The state or condition of being shoeless.
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|Shoe-like ||adj||Resembling a shoe or some aspect of some.
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|Shoemaker ||n||One who makes boots, shoes, etc. 2. a cobbler, a sutler.
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|Shoemaker ||phr||"The Shoemaker's Son Always Goes Barefoot" - refers to those who neglect their own interests and those of their families.
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|Shoeshine ||n||A polish given to shoes. 2. the polished appearance giving to shoes.
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|Shoesmith ||n||A person who smiths or repairs iron or steel shoes for a living (other metals are used, but this is uncommon). 2. a farrier.
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|Shoestring ||n||A shoelace. 2. figuratively, manage on a small amount.
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|Shoestring ||phr||"Live on a Shoestring" - do something with great economy.
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|Shoestring ||adj||Barely adequate; precarious.
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|Shoe top ||n||The upper surface of a shoe.
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|Shoe-tree||n|| A wooden or metal form inserting in boots or shoes to preserve their shape or to stretch them; also called a boot-tree.
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|Shoe-up ||vb||To properly shoe a horse.
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|Shoe-wear ||n||Shoes (as a category of clothing).
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|Shoe-wedge ||n||A wege-shaped shoe insert to be affixed inside any footwear to make the wearer look taller.
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|Shond ||n||Shame, disgrace, ignominy, scandal, infamy. 2. "To do someone shond." --- treat with indignity. 3. "to bring shond upon oneself or another." --- bring scandal, infamy, etc.
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|Shond ||phr|| "To do Someone Shond." - treat with indignity.
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|Shond ||phr|| 3. "To Bring Shond Upon Oneself or Another." - bring scandal, infamy, etc.
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|Shood ||n||The husk of oats after threshing. Also spelt "shude."
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|Shoot ||vb||To hit, wound, kill with a missile, discharged from a weapon. 2. to discharge a missile from a bow, rifle. 3. to send forth swiftly; to move or act quickly or suddenly.. 4. to launch or discharge a projectile. 5. to begin to speak. 6. (figuratively) to dismiss or do away with. 7. to photograph; to film. 8. to go over or pass quickly through: 'shoot the rapids'. 9. to penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation (in a limb). 10. to change form suddenly; especially, to solidify. 11. to send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. 12. to send to someone. 13. to make the stated score (as in golf). 14. in surveying, to measure the distance and direction to (a point). 15. to inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously. 16. to develop, move forward. 17. To germinate; to bud; to sprout. 18. to grow; to advance.
19. (nautical) to move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee. 20. to push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out. 21. to protrude; to jut; to project; to extend, as land shoots into a promontory. 22. in carpentry, to plane straight; to fit by planing. 23. to variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches
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|Shoot ||n||The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant. quotations. 2. a photography session. 3. a hunt or shooting competition. 4. (professional wrestling, slang) an event that is unscripted or legitimate 5. the act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot. 6. a rush of water; a rapid. 7. (mining) a vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. 8. (weaving) a weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick. 9. a shoat; a young pig. 10. an inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a chute. 11. an inclined slide or trough.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Go The Whole Shoot" - do all there's to do; do everything; do the whole gamut; the whole shooting match.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot Ahead" - come quickly to the front of other competitors; outstrip. 2. rapidly progress, take the lead.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot a Line" - (slang Royal Air Force)suggest by one's remarks that one 's standing, work, achievements etc are better, or more important, than they actually are. 2. talk pretentiously, to exaggerate.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot At" - to strive for; attempt to attain or obtain.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot Down" - to move quickly and violently. 2. to shoot at and force to come down to ground (and usually out of control), like an enemy aircraft. 3. to thwart the passage of, such as a proposal; vote down, defeat. 4. bring down, cut down, deal a death-blow to.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot for the Stars" - to aim high, set lofty goals.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot from the Hip" - (literally) to discharge a firearm while it is held near the hip, without taking time to aim by means of the gun-sights. 2. (fig.) to speak frankly or act quickly based on first impression, without carefully studying the background information, or wider context etc.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot in" - give covering fire for infantry, assaulting an enemy position.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot It Out" - engage in a decisive gun battle. 2. fight to a conclusion, or decision (usually with a small-arm).
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot Off One's Mouth" - to speak spontaneously and without restraint; lip off. 2. to talk too freely or too much. 3. to speak without thinking.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot One's Bolt" - find that there is nothing further one can do to attack somebody, defend oneself, or to achieve one's aim, make one's final effort (from bolt : arrow, hence 'have no weapon left'). 2. to lose one's temper.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot Oneself in the Foot" - to act foolishly against one's own interests; to unintentionally behave self-destructively.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot Out Of" - emerge swiftly and suddenly from a burrow, door, gate etc.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot Out Of the Water" - to frustrate something.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot Out One's Neck" - (slang) to become forward and impertinent.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot the Moon" - to hit the moon, with a rocket or by other means. 2. (figuratively, by extension) to attain great heights, a high value, or a numerically high measurement. 3. (card games) to achieve the lowest or highest score possible, such that the player is usually rewarded with bonus points. 4. to leave at night, without paying due rent.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot the Sun." - to take the altitude of with a sextant.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot Through" - (Australian and New Zealand slang): to leave.
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|Shoot ||phr||"Shoot Up" - to grow, rise or move up very quickly. 2. rise, increase sharply, race up, into (costs, prices, rent, temperature, pressure, attendance etc). 3. move through a place and terrorize it by firing guns into the air, at houses etc.
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|Shooter ||n||One who shoots. 2. an implement for shooting.
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|Shoot-house ||n||A structure used in military exercises with live ammunition.
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|Shooting ||n||An instance of shooting a person with a gun. 2. the sport or activity of firing a gun. 3. the act of one who, or that which, shoots. 3. a sensation of darting pain.
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|Shooting board ||n||A framed board for steadying a piece of wood while shooting or straighten the edges with a plane.
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|Shooting-box ||n||A lodge used by sportsmen in the shooting season.
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|Shooting-iron ||n||A weapon, firearm, gun
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|Shooting-match ||n||A competition in shooting.
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|Shooting-rights ||n||The right to enter upon land to make a geophysical survey.
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|Shooting-star ||n||An incandescent shooting star moving swiftly across the sky; a meteor. 2. cynosure. 3. any of certain small perennial herbs, especially the american cowslip.
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|Shooting-sticks ||n||A walking stick that has a spike at one end, and a handle that unfolds into a simple seat; used as a short-term seat at outdoor events. 2. portable weapon mount used by field shooters, like hunters, snipers and metallic silhouette black-powder rifle shooters, similar to a monopod, bipod or tripod, with one, two or three legs.
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|Shooting war ||n||A war in which there is shooting (as opposed to cold war, war of nerves, cyber war).
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|Shootless ||adj||(Botany) without shoots.
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|Shoot-out ||n||A gunfight; a battle or fight with guns, often between gangs. 2. a military conflict between regularly constituted armed forces, guerillas or insurgents, a firefight. 3. the growth or movement upwards very quickly. 4. a tie breaker in various sports decided by each side taking a specified number of penalty shots.
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|Shop ||n||A building, a commercial establishment, in which goods, wares, items are sold by retail. 2. a small place, a workshop, where handcrafts or manufacturing done. 3. a course of instruction in a trade class.
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|Shop ||vb||To go or do shopping, buy at, patronize.
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|Shop ||phr||"All Over the Shop" - everywhere, in disorder. 2. scattered in every direction, spread everywhere. 2. pursuing an erratic course.
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|Shop ||phr||"On the Shop Floor - among the industrial worker of a workshop, factory.
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|Shop ||phr||"Shut Up Shop" - abandon any enterprise or established activity; stop working.
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|Shop ||phr||"Talk Shop" - to discuss business or professional matters on a social occasion.
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|Shop ||phr||"You're Come to the Wrong Shop" - I can't help you, I can't give you the information, and so, you require.
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|Shop-bench ||n||A bench at which work is done.
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|Shop-board ||n||A bench in a workshop and by tailors.
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|Shop-bought ||adj||Purchased from a shop, not homemade.
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|Shop-breaker ||n||One who breaks into a shop with unlawful intent to steal.
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|Shop-breaking ||n||That act of breaking into a shop with unlawful intent to steal.
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|Shop-dropping ||n||The practice of covertly placing objects on display in a shop.
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|Shop floor ||n||Workers in a factory as opposed to management. 2. their area or place of work.
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|Shopful ||adj||The amount of items for sale a shop can hold.
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|Shopgoer ||n||One who goes to shop.
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|Shophouse ||n||A building that has both retail and domestic use.
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|Shopkeep ||n||To sells goods in a shop, or by retail, in distinction from one who sells by wholesale , or sells from door to door.
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|Shopkeeper ||vb||A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail, in distinction from one who sells by wholesale , or sells from door to door.
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|Shopland ||n||The shopping preconct of a town or city.
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|Shoplike ||adj||Resembling a shop or some aspect of one.
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|Shopowner ||n||Someone who owns a shop.
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|Shopper ||n||A purchase who makes purchases in a shop. 2. a shopping bag or trolley. 3. a small-wheeled bicycle with a basket. 2. (slang) a police informer.
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|Shoppiness ||n||The state or condition of being shoppy.
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|Shopping ||n||The act of looking around for goods and services available for sale
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|Shopping cart ||n||A supermarket trolley.
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|Shopping-network ||n||A shopping channel on TV or similar electronic media promoting and offering goods for sale to viewers.
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|Shoppy ||adj||Pertaining to shop business. 2. continually talking about one's occupation; technical.
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|Shopstead ||vb||To buy an abandoned shop facilities that are offered for sale inexpensively as part of an urban renewal.
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|Shopsteader ||n||One who buy an abandoned shop facilities that are offered for sale inexpensively as part of an urban renewal.
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|Shop-steading ||n||The sale by the government shops nto entrepreneurs who are willing to renovate them and operate them, as part of an urban renewal policy.
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|Shopsteal ||vb||To shoplift; rob from a shop.
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|Shop steward ||n||A local member of a trade union elected to represent his fellow workers in discussion with the management at workplace.
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|Shop talk||phr||Interest, conversation about one's work or what's going on in their workplace. 2. to make one's work or occupation the chief topic of conversation, to talk shop. 3. conversation limited to one's job or profession.
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|Shop timber ||n||Wood to be cut or re-converted for further manufacture.
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|Shop time ||n||The time for which a vehicle of machine is out of service for repairs.
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|Shopwalker ||n||A retail store floor supervisor. 2. a manager who walks about a shop (shop-walking) to supervise employees and help customers.
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|Shopway ||n||A way that leads to a shop.
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|Shop window ||n||A large window at the front of a shop, behind which items for sale are displayed.
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|Shopworker ||n||A person who works in a shop; a shop-assistant.
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|Shopworn ||adj||Having been used, as a sample item in a retail shore. 2. (fig) not fresh, soiled, damaged.
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|Shore ||adj||Precipitous, rugged, sheer; steep.
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|Shorn ||adj||Cut off; having the hair or wool cut off of sheared;, deprived.
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|Shorn ||phr||"Shorn Of" have something removed or cut away from it (part of text from a book, legislation, scheme etc).
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|Short ||adj||Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically. 2. (of a person) of comparatively little height. 3. having little duration; opposite of long. 4. (followed by for) of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another). 5. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. 6. (see shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust.) abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant. 7. limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty. 8. insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking. 9. deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard. 10. (obsolete) not distant in time; near at hand. 11. being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future. 12. having a small distance between ends or edges): short is often used in the positive vertical dimension and used as is shallow in the negative vertical dimension; in the horizontal dimension narrow is more commonly used. 13. (having a small distance between ends or edges): low, narrow, slim, shallow. 14. of a person, of comparatively little height): little, pint-sized, petite, titchy (slang).
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|Short ||adv||Abruptly, curtly, briefly. Unawares. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
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|Short ||n||Used to indicate a short-length version of a size: a short film; a short circuit. 2. (finance) a short seller. (the market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne). 4. a short or quick sale. 5. summary account. 6. (phonetics) a short sound, syllable, or vowel. 7. (programming) an integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
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|Short ||vb||To cause a short circuit in (something). 2. of electrical circuit, to short circuit. 3. to shortchange. 4. to provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount. 5.(business) to sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
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|Short ||prp||Deficient in. 2. having a negative position in.
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|Short ||phr||"At Short Sight" - of an account, to be paid soon.
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|Short ||phr||"Break Off Short" - abruptly, without warning, but completely.
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|Short ||phr||"Bring Up Short" - to interrupt and reprimand a speaker. 2. make someone suddenly stop what they are doing.
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|Short ||phr||"Come Short" - be inadequate or disappointing.
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|Short ||phr||"Come (or fall) Short of" - fail to reach an amount to.
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|Short ||phr||"Draw the Short Straw" - to be the one appointed to do something.
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|Short ||phr||"Drop of Something Short" - shot of whisky, as opposed to a long drink.
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|Short ||phr||"Fall Short of" - fail to meet a specified amount, quantity, standard.
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|Short ||phr||"For Short" - as a short name, (Tom for Thomas). 2. in an abbreviated way; short for.
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|Short ||phr||"Give Somebody the Short Shrift" - devote little time to somebody (and in an abrupt manner). 2. to be impatient with a person (refers to the confession to apriest just before an execution).
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|Short ||phr||"Go Short" - to have less than you need of something, such as food, clothing, shelter. 2. have to little for something.
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|Short ||phr||"In Short" - in a word, stated briefly.
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|Short ||phr||"In the Short Run" - over a short period of time.
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|Short ||phr||"Little Short of" - almost, nearly the same as.
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|Short ||phr||"Long and Short of It" - the whole; upshot, the final issue. 2. all that needs to be said about this.
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|Short ||phr||"Make Short Work of" - accomplish, complte, conclude, dispose of, destroy, consume etc quickly. 2. to dispose of it quickly, to deal with summarily.
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|Short ||phr||"Nothing short of" - really; (exactly) the same as.
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|Short ||phr||"Pull Up Short" - check or pause abruptly.
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|Short ||phr||"Run Short of" - to be temporary out of cash or funds.
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|Short ||phr||"Sell (Somebody/Something) Short" - fail to resent to somebody/something to its best advantage. 2. to sell stock securities you do not own.
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|Short ||phr||"Short and Sweet" - brief, or lasting too short, or only a short time, fleeting, but nevertheless, welcome or pleasing. 2. short at least, even though that it may be its only merit (especially where referring to an unpleasant task).
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|Short ||phr||"Short Back and Sides" - a type of men's haircut where the sides and the back are left shorter than the top of the hair.
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|Short ||phr||"Short End of the Stick" - a situation, opportunity or outcome which is less favorable than situations, opportunities or outcomes experienced by or available to others.
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|Short ||phr||"Short For (something)" - as a short name, (Tom for Thomas). 2. in an abbreviated way; short for.
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|Short ||phr||"Short life and Merry" - a life full of pleasure and enjoyment (is best) even if it shortened thereby.
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|Short ||phr||"Short of" - except, without going as far as, or not as far as. 2. lacking, without, not enough of something.
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|Short ||phr||"Short of Breath" - panting; breathless, short-winded.
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|Short ||phr||"Short On" - not have enough of something, like lacking know-how.
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|Short ||phr||"Short Reckonings Make Long Friends" - borrowed money should be paid back aas a soon as possible.
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|Short ||phr||"Stop Short of" - to stop abruptly; not to carry out to a full conclusion. 2. not go as far as.
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|Short ||phr||"Taken Short" - to be put at a disadvantage. 2. have an urgent need to urinate.
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|Short ||phr||"Win by a Short Head" - (a horse-racing term)only just outdistance one's competitor, to win with nothing to spare.
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|Shortalls ||n||Overalls, particularly (about 7 feet long) with a tapered, pointed noise.
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|Short back and sides ||n||A haircut in which the hair is cut short at the back and sides.
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|Shortboard ||n||A type of surfboard.
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|Shortboarder ||n||A person who surfs.
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|Shortboarding ||n||The use of a surfboard in surfing.
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|Shortbread ||n||A type of biscuit made in Britain, traditionally from one part sugar, two parts sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.
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|Shortbreak ||n||A short vacation or holiday.
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|Short-breathed ||adj||Having short breath or quick respiration.
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|Shortcake ||n||A sweet cake or biscuit, typically made which sugar, flour, salt, butter, milk, cream, sometimes eggs and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
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|Shortcoming ||n||Deficiency, lack, failing, remissness, weakness. 2. failing to come up to a standard; delinquency.
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|Short drink ||n||A strong alcoholic drink served in small measures.
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|Short-ear owl  ||n||A migratory day-flying owl that frequents open country, found in northern Eurasia and North and South America. (Asio flammeus, family Strigidae).
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|Shorten ||vb||Become or make shorter or short; curtail. 2. reduce the amount of (sail spread). 3. with reference tto gambling odds, prices etc) become or make shorter; decrease.
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|Short end ||n||The Short End: the part of a stock market which deals in short-term stocks or other securities or commodities
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|Short ends ||n||Wood in deal, batten, or board sizes, up to 5 1/2 foot long.
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|Shortener ||n||One who, or that which, shortens.
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|Shortening ||n||Solid fat, such as margarine, lard or butter, used to make shortcrust pastry.
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|Short-eyes ||n||(Slang); a child molester.
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|Short-fall ||n||An instance of not meeting a quota, debt, or monthly payment on a debt or other obligation, or of having an insufficient amount to cover such obligations. 2. the amount by which a quota, debt, or monthly payment on a debt or other obligation is missed; the difference between the actual quota or debt and the lesser amount available to pay such obligations.
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|Short-fetched ||adj||Of breathing: shallow. 2. of ocean waves: starting close to shore, shallow recently formed. An analogy with 'far-fetched' - not very likely, not easily to believe, not obvious.
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|Short-film ||n||Any motion picture not enough to be long enough to be a feature film.
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|Shortgrass ||n||A species of short, tough grass that thrives in arid conditions; often specifically the native grasses of the North American Great Plains.
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|Short hairs ||n||(Slang): pubic hairs.
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|Short-hand ||n||A compendious and rapid method of writing. 2. any brief or shortened way of saying or doing something. 3. written in hand.
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|Short-handed ||adv||In a short-handed matter. 2. not having a sufficient or the usual number of assistants or helpers.
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|Short-handedness ||n||The condition of being short-handed.
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|Short-handed ||adv||In a short-handed matter. 2.undermanned or understaffed.
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|Short-hander ||n||Stenographer.
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|Short head ||n||A distance less than a horse's head. 2. a small amount, distance.
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|Short head ||vb||To beat or win by a short head (horse-racing parlance). 2. only just outdistance one's competitor, to win with nothing to spare.
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|Shorthold ||adj||Describing a tenancy that exists for an agreed term, and the end of which the property may be recovered by the landlord.
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|Short-horn ||n||An animal of breed of cattle with short horns.
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|Short-hundred ||n||One hundred (100), 10x10, especially when contrasted to one long hundred: (historical) one hundred and twenty (120); 12x10.
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|Shortish ||adj||Somewhat short; moderately short.
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|Short-line ||n||An independent rail company that operates over a relatively short distance.
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|Short-list ||n||??A list of selected candidates from which a final choice is made.
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|Short-lived ||adj||Ephemeral; alive or existent for only a short period of time; not lasting long.
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|Shortlivy ||adj||Ephemeral, short-lived, un-enduring, fleeting.
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|Shortly ||adv||In a short or brief manner. 2. in or after a short-time. 3. before long; soon. 4. in a few words; briefly. 5. in an irritable manner.
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|Short-necked ||adj||Having a short neck; bull-necked.
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|Shortness ||n||The property of being short. 2. being short of stature or brief. 3. result of the product of being short. 4. the property of being short or terse.
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|Short rib ||n||A lower-rib, not joined to the breastbone, as the false ribs and the floating ribs.
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|Shorts ||n||Trousers reaching only to the knees or higher. 2. underpants.
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|Short sale ||n||(Real estate) a property sale negotiated with a mortgage company in which a lender takes less than the total amount due. 2. (investments) 3. a sale of a security that one does not own, delivery obligation met by borrowing the security from another owner (usually in the hope that the price will decrease before the loan must be repaid). 4. (economics) a sale of a financial security, commodity, or other good that one does not own with the contractual obligation to make delivery of the good to the buyer at a date in the future
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|Short score ||n||A score in which are parts are condensed on to a small number of staves.
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|Short-sell ||n||To engage in the process of selling stock one does not own on the promise of the stock's price going down. 2. to sell oneself short and to belittle oneself in judgement, to underestimate oneself and one's abilities (and thus avoid being acknowledged to the deserved extent???. 3. to underestimate the value of something.
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|Short-selling ||n||(Commerce, finance) the finance of selling items or stock which one does not currently possess.
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|Short-sheet ||vb||A play or prank by folding someone's bed sheets to make the space for lying in bed unusually short.
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|Short-shipped ||adj||Put on board a ship in deficient quantity.
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|Short shrift ||n||A rejection; especially one which is curt and impolite. 2. an undertaking without prior consideration; summary treatment; little or no mercy or delay in dealing with a person of disposing of a matter. 2. a final speech, restricted in time by the prison governor, by a condemned man before execution. 3. a short time to confess before dying.
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|Short sight ||n||The inability to focus except on comparatively near objects; myopia, shortsightedness.
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|Short-sighted ||adj||Near-sighted; myopic; unable to focus on a distant object. 2. (fig) unable to see long term objective; lacking foresight.
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|Short-sightedly ||adv||With a short sight; myopically. 2. unable to see clearly at a distance. myopic, nearsighted. 3. in a manner that fails to consider the big picture or future effects of an action or decision. 2. failure to appreciate the ultimate course of action.
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|Short-sightedness ||n||Myopia, nearsightedness. 2. the propensity of a person to ignore long-term goals in favor of short term gain.
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|Short-sleeper ||n||A person who consistently substantially less sleep everyday than the customary amount for most people of the same age and developmental need.
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|Short-sleeved ||adj||With sleeves not reaching below the elbow.
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|Shortsome ||adj||Marked or characteristic of or by shortness. 2. amusing, enjoyable;.
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|Short-spoken ||adj||Sharp and curt in one's speech; gruff, terse, laconic.
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|Short-staffed ||adj||Having insufficient staff.
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|Short-step ||n||Soldiers on parade; a half-step.
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|Short-sword ||n||A sword of a class generally shorter than one meter, but longer than a dagger.
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|Short-thinker ||n||One whose thoughts don't carry far into a subject; a dilettante.
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|Short-time ||n||A period of reduced working hours due to poor trading or other causes .
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|Short-timer ||n||A person nearing the end of their military service.
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|Short-tongued ||adj||Inarticulate, stammering, lisping. 2. taciturn, unwilling to speak.
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|Shortwards ||adj||Towards the short part of a structure.
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|Shortwave ||n||(Of radio waves) having a wavelength of approximating 10-20 meters. 2. (of radio equipment)- caable of transmitting or receiving at such a wavelength.
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|Short-winded ||adj||Easily out of breath, gasping for air; breathing rapidly, or given to becoming short of breath; asthmatic. (figuratively) hasty, breathless; rushed. 2. concise and to the point (opposite of long-winded)
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|Short-witted ||adj||Having little wit; of scant intellect.
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|Shot ||n||A solid missile, as a ball of iron, or a bullet, a pellet of lead. 2. the act of shooting; that which is discharged in shooting. 3. any assessment, tax, payment, contribution; reckoning or fine; a scot (scot-free). 4. a dead shot(skilled in marksmanship); pot shot (a random shot). 5. a photograph.
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|Shot ||vb||To fire a gun. 2. to send something forward or into the air or sky.
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|Shot ||phr||"A long Shot" - a remote chance; such as hazarding a highly improbable guess.
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|Shot ||phr||"Be a Sitting Shot" - to be a person whose actions make him/her very vulnerable.
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|Short ||phr||"Beat By a Long Shot" - to defeat very convincingly.
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|Short ||phr||"Call the Shots" - to have the direction over a project.
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|Shot ||phr||"Get Shot of" - get rid of, dismiss.
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|Shot ||phr||"Give One's Best Shot" - make the best attempt possible.
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|Shot ||phr||"Have a Shot at (Someone)" - to use subtly chosen words implying friendly criticism but designed to embarrass another person.
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|Shot ||phr||"Have a Shot at Something" - to attempt to achieve something in which you make no particular claim to expertise..
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|Shot ||phr||"Have Shot in the Locker" - something kept in reserve.
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|Shot ||phr||"I Haven't a Shot in the Locker" - my last resources are spent; I am out of food, drink nd money.
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|Shot ||phr||"Like a Shot" - without hesitation; rapidly, eagerly, most willingly.
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|Shot ||phr||"Shot in the Arm" - stimulus or encouragement. 2. a drink of strong spirits. 3. something which puts life in one; an allusion to a hypodermic needle or morphine, cocaine.
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|Shot ||phr||"Shot in the Dark" - a wild guess, attempt or random choice made with little or no evidence or knowledge. 2. an attempt that has little chance of success.
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|Shot ||phr||"Shot Through with" - intertwined with something; infused with some quality.
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|Shot ||phr||"Shot Up" - be injured, damaged or reduced in numbers by enemy action.
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|Shot ||phr||"Shot Wide of the Mark" - he was altogether wrong. (an obvious allusion to target shooting).
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|Shot ||phr||"Shot with a Shovel" - (In Irish English): severely admonished; castigated.
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|Shot ||phr||"Take a Potshot at Someone" - to make disparaging remarks about a person.
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|Shot ||phr||"That's a Long Shot" - there is only remote possibility.
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|Shot-glass ||n||A small glass used to hold or measures small qualities of liquor.
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|Shothole ||n||A hole, very deep but only a few inches wide, which is used to drop explosives beneath the Earth's surface to help petroleum harvesting. 2. a hole caused by a shot or bullet. 3. small holes in wood due to boring insects, called shot hole borers; pinhole, wormhole.
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|Shotless ||adj||With a shot or shots (in various sports).
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|Shoot-like ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a shoot (emerging stem of a new plant).
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|Shotmaker ||n||A player who is skilled at making shots in various sports.
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|Shotmaking ||n||The skill of making accurate shots in sports.
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|Shotten ||vb||Dislocated, as a bone. 2. shot out at the socket.
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|Shotten herring ||n||A herring that has spawned. 2. a lean, weakened or dispirited person. 3. herring gutted and dried.
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|Shotten-milk ||n||Sour milk, curded.
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|Shough ||n||Shaggy-haired poodle; a poodle.
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|Should ||n||A statement of what should be the case as opposed to what is the case. 2. the should-be.
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|Should ||vb||Past tense of shall. (auxiliary) be obliged to; have an obligation to; indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate or that the speaker has some strong advice but has no authority to enforce it. 3. (auxiliary) ought to; speaker's opinion, or advice that an action is correct, beneficial, or desirable. 4. (auxiliary) will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the subject of the sentence is likely to execute the sentence predicate. 5. (auxiliary, subjunctive) used as a variant of the present subjunctive. 6. (auxiliary, formal, literary) a variant of would when used with first person subjects.
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|Should ||phr||"Could Have, Would Have, Should Have" - expressing regret at something that cannot be changed.
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|Shoulder ||n||Point where arm, front leg or wing is joined to or connects the body. 2. the part of the trunk between the neck and the free portion of the arm or forelimb. 3. the forequarter of an animal 4. anything which supports, bears up, or projects like a shoulder. 5. a projection to give strength and support to anything as the projection at the root of a tenon. 6. either edge of a road or highway.
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|Shoulder ||vb|| To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.  2. to put (something) on one's shoulders.  3. to place (something) against one's shoulders.  4. (figuratively) to bear a burden, as a financial obligation.  5. (figuratively) To accept responsibility for.  6. to form a shape resembling a shoulder.  7. to move by or as if by using one's shoulders. 8. to round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail. 9. to slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Be Head and Shoulders Above (Someone)" - very much better than.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Give Someone the Cold Shoulder" - ignore or treat coldly.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Have a Good Head on One's Shoulders" - be clever, sensible.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Have An Old Head on Young Shoulders" - (uncharacteristic) have wisdom in one's youth.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Have Broad Shoulders" - be able, willing to accept more responsibility.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Need to Look Over One's Shoulder" - be subject to attack which is not obvious.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Put a Burden On Someone's Shoulders" - to impose responsibility on a person.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Put One's Shoulder to the Wheel" - set to work vigorously. 2. to make a strong effort.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Shoulder Arms" - to rest a rifle against the shoulder, holding the butt with the hand on the same side, the arm being held bent and close to the side.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Shoulder Aside" - push somebody to one side with the shoulder.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Shoulder the Burden" - to take on responsibility. 2. perform a duty that invoves considerable work and sacrifice.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Shoulder to Lean on" - receive sympathy in times of distress or sadness.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Stand On Someone's Shoulders" - build up on another person's ideas.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Straight from the Shoulder" - candidly; straightforward, bluntly in speech. 2. with full physical force.
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|Shoulder ||phr||"Work Shoulder to Shoulder" - side by side and close together in mutual support. 2. with united effort in co-operation.
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|Shoulder-belt ||n||A belt worn diagonally over one shoulder and across the upper body.
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|Shoulder-blade ||n||The bone that connects the humerus, (upper arm bone) with the clavicle (collar-bone).
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|Shoulder-bone ||n||Shoulder-blade.
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|Shoulder-devil ||n||The devil representing a person's temptations in works of fiction , portrayed as sitting on one's shoulder while an angel occupies the other.
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|Shoulder-girdle ||n||The human pectoral girdle, consisting of the collarbone and shoulder-blade.
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|Shoulder-high ||adj||Up to or as high a shoulders.
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|Shouldering ||vb||The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder. 2. (architecture) The process of bracing a load with a jutting structural member such as a corbel or bracket. 3. flanged portion of something, similar to a lip but occurring on the side rather than the rim. 4. axle with shouldering. 5. the rounding and raising of the top edges of slate tiles.
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|Shoulder-knot ||n||An ornamental length of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder of fashionable men's jackets, esp. in the C17th and C18th. 2. a knot of ribbon, metal, lace etc. worn as part of a ceremonial dress. 3. an epaulet.
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|Shoulder-length ||adj||(of hair) reaching to the shoulders.
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|Shoulderless ||adj||Without shoulders.
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|Shoulder-like ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a shoulder.
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|Shoulder mark ||n||The shoulder strap of a US naval officer.
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|Shoulder-strap ||n||A strap worn over the shoulder. 2. a strap or piece worn over the shoulder to support a loose upper garment. 3. a narrow strap on the shoulder of a uniform.
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|Shoulder weapon ||n||any small weapon designed to be held against the shoulder in firing, as a rifle, carbine.
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|Shove ||vb||To thrust, push (with violence), but now less dignified in use, often suggesting some notion of roughnness, carelessness or harshiness. 2. To thrust a weapon. 3. banish, eject object, from an office, society. 4. To impart, communicate, to move a heavy object forward through muscular strength from behind. 5. to force onward by pushing. 6. to cause to fall over a cliff or out of a plane. 7. to throw down in. 8. bring into prominence. 9. to impel, urge forward.
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|Shove ||phr||"Shove Down Someone's Throat" - repeat something often in the hope that it will be learnt, accepted etc. 2. ram down someone's throat.
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|Shove ||phr||"Shove off" - to set a boat in motion by pushing with an oar or boat hook. 2. to leave, get-going, depart, go-away, start of, begin. 3. go away, leave, (usually indicating boredom, irritation etc on the part of the part of the persons leaving or asking another to leave); push off.
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|Shovel ||n||Instrument similar to a spade, but with a hollower blade for moving loose materail, such as soil, sand, snow, coal. 2. largish machine with a broad blade or scoop for taking up, removing or throwing loose matter.
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|Shovel ||vb||To gather up, lift up, dig up or clear away, often in large quanties, earth, snow, etc. with a shovel
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|Shovel-board ||n||A board marked out for a game with discs or half-pennies.
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|Shovelful ||adj||The amount a shovel can hold.
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|Shovel-hat ||n||A broad-brimmed hat esp. worn by some clergymen.
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|Shoveling ||n||The act of shoveling.
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|Shovel-ready ||adj||To be ready, willing and eager to commence a project, esp. a building one.
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|Shoveller ||n||One who or that which shovels.
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|Shovel-like ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a shovel.
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|Shovelware ||n||(Computing, slang, derogatory) -a haphazard collection of software assembled in terms of quantity rather than quality. 2. (media, slang) traditional media content, such as printed news reports, republished hastily on the Internet without considering the needs and capabilities of that medium.
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|Shoving ||n||That act of one who shoves.
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|Show ||n||The act of showing or bringing into view. 2. the exposure to sight or exhibition. 3. a proud or showy display. 4. that which is shown, a spectacle, exhibition, representation. 5. a sight, semblance, likeness, appearance. 5. false semblance, pretense, deceit. 6. ostentation, parade, pomp, display. 7. a likeness, appearance, pretence; indication. 7. the appearance of blood and mucus; discharged from the vagina at the commencement of labour; the menses.
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|Show ||vb||To exhibit, view, or present; to place in sight to display. 2. to tell, reveal, make known. 4. to direct, guide, lead, usher. 5. to make approach or clear by evidence. 6. to prove, explain, to manifest, to evince. 7. to bestow, confer, afford.
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|Show ||phr||"For Show" - for appearance sake only.
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|Show ||phr||"Get the Show on the Road" - get something started.
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|Show ||phr||"Give the (Whole) Show Away" - demonstrated the inadequacies and reveal the truth. 2. reveal a confidence, secret. 3. indiscreetly reveal sensitive information.
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|Show ||phr||"Good Show!" - well done!, or I am pleased.
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|Show ||phr||"Have to Show For" - to have something one can display or point to as the result of one's work, effort, expenditure, etc.
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|Show ||phr||"Nothing to Show for" - for no visible result of (effort etc).
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|Show ||phr||"On Show" - being exhibited. 2. sdisplay for everyone to see.
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|Show ||phr||"Run the Show" - be in control.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Fight" - be persistent, offer resistance. 2. be belligerent.
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|Show ||phr||"Show for It" - have as recompense.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Forth" - to manifest, publish, proclaim. 2. exhibit, display, expound.
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|Show ||phr||"Show In/Into" - to lead or direct to an enclosed space, usually a room. 2. conduct, somebody into a place.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Must Go On" - despite difficulties the action being considered has to proceed.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Off" - to exhibit the best attributes of something. 2. to attract attention to for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism; to demonstrate a skill, talent or property for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism. 3. to make an ostentatious display of one's possessions, abilities, talents in order to impress others. 4. display something, make it appear, to advantage. 5. display, draw people's attention to somebody, something.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Of Hands" - a raising of hands to indicate judgement. 2. a vote taken by a show of hands.
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|Show ||phr||"Show One's Hand" - disclose one's plans; let others know your intentions, resources, capability.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Oneself" - be seen in public.
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|Show ||phr||"Show One's Teeth" - reveal one's strength; be aggressive; imply threats. 2. use one's authority, or one power to intimidate or punish.
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|Show ||phr||"Show One the Door" - to escort someone to the exit of the premises; to expel someone from a room, gathering, etc. 2.(idiomatic, by extension, especially of a person) To dismiss, fire, or reject; to exclude someone who was formerly included.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Out" - lead or conduct someone to the door by which they leave. 2. ask someone to leave (because you are not pleased with them). 3. to flamboyantly show a positive presence for oneself or a group one is related to.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Over" - take a visitors on a tour of a place, show around.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Someone the Ropes" - explain the fundamentals of something to someone. 2. teach a beginner how to do something.
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|Show ||phr||"Show the Cloven Foot/Hoof" - to reveal a devilish character or an evil purpose, despite attempts to disguise it.
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|Show ||phr||"Show the Way" - indicate what has to be done, by attempting it first. 2. show others which way to go etc.
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|Show ||phr||"Show the White Feather" - to show cowardice; appear cowardly.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Through" - be visible through, noticable, or from under a cover. 2. (of real feelings) be revealed inadvertently.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Up" - to appear, arrive, to attend, especially suddenly or erratically. 2. to make visible or expose faults and deficiences usually by comparison. 3. make clearly visible or conspicuous; to stand out prominently. 4. reveal a fraud, impostor, inferiority, etc). appear, be present, arrive. 5. ridicule, embarrass or humiliate; make somebody feel inept, foolish. 6. make somebody feel embarrassed by behaving badly in their company.
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|Show ||phr||"Show What One Is Made of" - to demonstrate one's coverage, stamina etc.
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|Show ||phr||"Show Willing" - to show enthusiasm and energy. 2. to make a valiant effort. 3. to indicate one's willingness to do something whether actually required to or not; to acquiesce, co-operate. 4. ensure that one is seen as a co-operative, agreeable person. 5. to pretend to be willing, to bluff.
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|Show ||phr||"Steal the Show" - attract the most, praise (away from somebody/something else).
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|Show ||phr||"The Whole Show" - the center of interest or notice.
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|Show-and-tell ||n||A school activity in which each student brigs an item to school and gives a talk on it to the class.
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|Show-barn ||n||A building for exhibiting cattle and other domestic animals, as at a country fairgrounds.
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|Show bench ||n||A bench or stand on which entries are placed at dog or other animals shows, horticultural shows, fairs or similar events.
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|Show-bizzy ||adj||Relating or pertaining to the activities of show business.
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|Show boat ||n||In the US, a river steamboat having a troupe giving theatrical performance. 2. (informal) a show-off; braggart.
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|Show-boating ||n||The action or practice of showing off.
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|Show-boating ||adj||Given to showing off.
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|Show box ||n||A box containing some object of curiosity carried around as a show.
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|Show breeding ||n||The practice by breeders of mating selected animals (dogs, goats, llamas, birds) with the intent to maintain or produce spacific qualities or characteristics. They may breed for profit, for show or because of an interest in a certain particular breed or to improve the soundness or to correct some issue with a breed.
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|Show-business ||n||The business or activities - the entertainment industry- relating to or providing entertainment on stage, theatre, television, radio or other mediums. 2. Showbiz (slang).
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|Show day ||n||A public holiday (in some Australian States) where agricultural shows are held.
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|Showdown ||n||A hostile, often violent disagreement, confrontation or conflict face-to-face bringing an issue to a head. 2. disclosure of certain pertinent facts. 3. moment when the cards in all hands are revealed. 2. (informal)a moment, in a trial of strength, when one side reveals the weakness, pretensions etc of the other and/or its strength.
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|Showdown ||phr||"Have a Showdown" - reveal the strength of one's position. 2. to have a final confrontation in a dispute to settle the matter or to clear the air. 3.
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|Show end ||n||The end of a piece of cloth on the outside of the roll, for exhibition to customers.
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|Shower ||n||A plumbing piece that sends water over you in a spray when taking a shower. 2. a short falling of rain; a great dropping of leaves, etc; a coming in abundance of letters, money; a profuse of kind words or praise to a person. 3. a sudden pouring out of tears. 4. a sprinkle of a spray of any kind of liquid.
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|Shower ||n||Someone who organises or produces a stage-show.
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|Shower ||vb||To water with a shower. 2. to bestow liberally, to distribute or give in abundance.
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|Shower ||phr||"Come Down in the Last Shower" - be naive.
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|Shower ||phr||"Shower Down" - to fall from the sky, especially in vast qualities.
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|Shower ||phr||"Shower in a Can" - a can of deodorant, typically used when there is no time for a real shower (humorous slang).
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|Shower ||phr||"Shower Upon" - be given, give in somebody freely, in abundance; rain upon.
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|Shower ||phr||"Shower With" - to give someone an abundance of something.
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|Shower bath ||n||A bath equipped with a fine-spraying shower over it.
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|Showerful ||adj||Full of showers; rainy.
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|Shower-head ||n||The part of the shower where the water comes out.
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|Showeriness ||n||The state or condition of being showery or unsettled.
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|Showerless ||adj||Without rain; rainless. 2, without a bathroom shower fitting.
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|Shower shoe ||n||A slip-on shoe designed to be worn indoors on a wet surface.
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|Shower tree ||n||Any tree of the genus Cassia, the members of which have pendulous racemes of flowers.
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|Showery ||adj||Raining intermittently, in showers or in short duration.
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|Show-field ||n||A field used as a showground.
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|Show-folk||n||Person working in the entertainment industry.
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|Show forth ||vb||To manifest, publish, proclaim.
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|Showful ||adj||Showy; gaudy.
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|Show-glass ||n||A mirror; a glass that displays a object. 2. a full-length mirror for use in shops.
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|Show-goer ||n||One who attends a show.
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|Showground ||n||A place where a watchable event occurs.
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|Show-home ||n||A house that is furnished and shown to prospective homebuyers as an example of the kind of home they may buy.
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|Show-horse ||n||A horse used in showjumping.
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|Show-house ||n||A shop or other building in which wares are displayed.
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|Show-how ||n||The teaching which imparts know-how; used especially in connection with the imparting of skills.
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|Showily ||adv||In a showy manner, ostentatiously pompously.
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|Showiness ||n||A specious or ostentatious display.
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|Showing ||n||The action of displaying, exhibiting, manifesting to the public or an individual. 2. the fact of being displayed, exhibited. 3. to show a movie, film, exhibition of art, books etc. 4. a display, a representation; an opportunity of showing one's power.
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|Showing-finger ||n||The forefinger; the arrow finger.
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|Showish ||adj||Ostentatious, showy.
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|Showlike ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a show.
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|Showman ||n||An entertainer, singer, musician, dancer etc. 2. a theatrician, impresario, promoter of ashow. 3. one who stages, manages or produces works in the entertainment industry. 4. one (fig.) who dramatises or overplays a situation or incident. 5. a specious person who habitually draws attention to himself.
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|Showmanish  ||adj||Chracteristic of a showman or showmanship.
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|Showmanship ||n||The quality or skill of giving an engaging or compelling performance; a stage prescence.
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|Show-me ||excl||an exclamation that demands demonstration. 2. believing only in clear evidence, extremely sceptical.
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|Show-off ||n||A person (a swaggerer) who acts over-proudly, ostentatiously or flaunts his achievements or percieved status.
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|Show-of-hands ||n||raising hands indicating a vote for or against , usually without being counted.
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|Show-ring ||n||A ring where animals are exhibited to compete for prizes or for sale. 2. a ring (as at a cattle show) where animals are displayed.
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|Show-room ||n||A room used for the display of goods or merchandise. 2. a room in which a show is exhibited. 3. the rooms in a large mansion, which are regularly shown to vistors.
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|Showroomimg ||n||The practice of visiting a shop or shops in order to examine a product before buying it online at a lower price.
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|Show-run ||n||To act as a showrunner for a television show.
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|Showrunner ||n||The person in overall charge of the production of a television show.
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|Show-stealer ||n||An actor who attracts attention when another is intended to be the centre of attention.
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|Show-stealing ||adj||That steals the show.
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|Show stone ||n||A piece of glass or crystal supposed to have the property of showing images of persons of things not present, thus indicating in that way future events; a crystal ball.
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|Show-stopper ||n||A performance so outstanding or a moment so overwhelming in a show that those watching are awestruck. 2. Someone who is so strikingly attractive or something that is full of natural appeal.
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|Show-stopping ||n||Characteristic of a showstopper.
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|Show time ||n||A time at which an entertainment event is set to begin. 2. (fig.) the time for action.
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|Show up||vb||To show, reveal, make known, make clear. 2. to manifest, publish, proclaim.
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|Show window ||n||A windowed, street-facing compartment in which a selection of a store's goods and wares are shown.
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|Showy ||adj||Of visible objects, presenting an imposing or striking presence for making a good display. 2. proud, ostentatious or over-showing in display or parade. 3. marked by ostentation, but often completely tasteless. 4. superficially attractive and stylish, suggesting wealth without wisdom. 5. splendid, gorgeous, fine, great, magnificent, gaudy, pompous.
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|Shred ||n||A fragment, piece, particle, shard, cut or broken off. 2. a narrow strip, scrap, a thrum; a small piece of cloth, paper. 3. a tiny or scarcely detectable amount, a whit or smidge. 4.
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|Shred ||vb||To destroy. 2. to prune, lop off a branch. 3. to strip one of his or her wealth. 4. to cut off a lock of hair. 5. to pare, peel, cut away, cut down, shave away. 6. to cut into shreds or thin strips or slices, esp. in cooking. 7. cut or tear into narrow strips, paper, documents into an unreadable state. 8. to become divide into small pieces, parts. 9. cut or sever with scissors. 10. cleave, hack, tear into pieces or two parts. 11. to lop or prune.
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|Shredded ||adj||Cut or torn into narrow pieces. 2. in bodybuilding: having extremely muscular definition.
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|Shredden ||vb||To make or made of shreds, patchwork, thrums, strips, fragments etc.
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|Shredder ||n||A device that shreds documents for security reasons, that is, to prevent the wrong people from reading or copying them.
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|Shredding ||n||The act of cutting or tearing into shreds. 2, that is cut or torn off: a fragment, thrum, a mote. 3. fig, to destroy someone or something good name: " to shred someone reputation."
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|Shreddy ||adj||Consisting of shreds, in a tattered, ragged condition. 2. thrummy, fragmented
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|Shredling ||n||A minute portion, part, mote, bit, shreddigs.
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|Shredless ||adj||Without shreds, thrum, fragments
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|Shreitch ||n||The Missel-thrush
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|Shrench ||vb||To place cross-wise. 2. to put in as stumbling block, put in the way of, to entrap. 2. to decieve. 3. to shrivel with heat.
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|Shrepe ||vb||To scratch.
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|Shrew ||n||The Sorex. 2. a wicked, evil-disposed, or malignant man. 3. a mischievous or vexatious person; a rascal, villian. 3. a woman of vexatious, scolding or nagging disposition.
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|Shrew ash ||n||A tree whose twigs, if applied to the limbs of beasts harmed by the shrew-mouse, give relief.
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|Shrewd ||adj||Shrewdish, cunning, artful, wily, mindful. 2. evil, ill-disposed, wicked, malicious. 3. inclined to scold, curse, hence nasty, vicious, malicious, wicked, vexatious, unfair. 4. able, clever in everyday matters, astute in business. 5. sharp-witted, wise, sagacious, keen. 6. critical, subtle, artful, acute, discerning, penetrating, farsighted, canny.
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|Shrewdom ||n||Wickedness, shrewness, shrewhood.
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|Shrewd-head ||n||A cunning person, a shrewdie.
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|Shrewd-hearted ||adj||Ruled by reason rather than sentiment. 2. wordly, worldly-wise, astute. 3. cunning, artful, wily.
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|Shrewdish ||adj||Somewhat shrewd.
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|Shrewdishness ||n||Thhe qualty of being shrewd.
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|Shrewdly ||adv||In a shrewd manner.
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|Shrewdness ||n||The quality of being shrewd.
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|Shrewd-tongued ||adj||Cunning in speech and argument. 2. careful and calculating in speech and speaking.
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|Shrewish ||adj||Having the manner of a shrew; sharp-tongued, cantankerous, nagging.
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|Shrewishly ||adv||In a shrewish manner.
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|Shrewishness ||n||The state or quality of being shrewish.
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|Shrewlike ||adj||Resembling a shrew (mammal) or some aspect of one. 2. resembling a shrew (ill-tempered woman); shrewish
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|Shrewmouse ||n||A small insectivorous animal claimed to be able to harm cattle, by making them lame.
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|Shride ||vb||OE. scrydan. to cloth, provide with clothes. 2. to ward off
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|Shriding ||n||Clothing, apparel, garments.
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|Shrift ||n||A thing confessed to a priest. 2. penance imposed by a priest after confession. 3. the act of shriving ; confession, absolution.
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|Shrift ||n||The act of doing shrift or penance. 2. a father confessor.
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|Shrift ||phr||"To Take, Nim or Do Shrift" - to shrive, confess, and seek absolution.
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|Shrift-father ||n||A priest who listens to confessions.
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|Shriftness ||n||Confession.
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|Shrike ||vb||??Of birds: to pipe or shrike, as the Shrike or Missel Thrush
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|Shrike-like ||adj||Resembling or characteristic of a shrike.
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|Shrim ||vb||To shrink or shrivel. 2. to chill or benumb.
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|Shrine ||n||A worship place made holy by it's history and association with some enshrined, sacred person, event or thing. 2. an altar, tomb, church, sometimes because of it's art, relics or enshrinements.
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|Shrine-goer ||n||One who visits shrines.
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|Shrined ||adj||Enshrined.
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|Shring ||vb||To enshrine. 2. to cherish devoutly, hold sacred.
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|Shrink ||n||A psychiatrist, psycotherapist. 2. the act of shrinking, contraction, recoil, withdrawal. 3. die-away; fade-away, diminishment, dwindling, ebbing.
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|Shrink ||vb||To draw back with fear or pain. 2. wither or shrivle up through the loss of moisture. 3. reduce or decrease in range, in size and extent; become smaller or draw together. 4. wrinkle, bend, curl; gather together. 5. to withdraw, retire, shy away from harm or danger. 6. to delay or decline action through fear, horror or caution; to recoil from fear, horror or distress. 7. to pull back from distress, fear or horror. 8. to express fear, horror or pain by conntracting the body or part of it. 9. to shake, shudder, quake. 10. to ebb, fade, falter.
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|Shrink ||phr||"Shrink Away" - to draw back in fear, cringe,back down, shy away.
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|Shrink ||phr||"Shrink Back" - to back way or retreat, to abandon. 2. move back, withdraw (somebody or something) out of fear, sensitivity.
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|Shrink ||phr||"Shrink Heads" - give psychiatric treatment or therapy.
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|Shrink ||phr||"Shrink Into Oneself" - become withdrawn.
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|Shrink ||phr||"Shrink On" -Onshrink: to adhere firmly and tightly around another by natural contraction through cooling.
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|Shrink ||phr||"Shrink Up" - to contract or shrink completely, shrink up. 2. make somebody small and inconspicuous.
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|Shrinker ||n||One who shrinks or recoils from the truth, from duty, danger or the like. 2. an apostate: one who shrinks from faith.
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|Shrinking ||n||The process or result of becoming less or smaller. 2. the act of becoming less. 3. ebbing, fading, falter.
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|Shrinking ||adj||Withering, lessening, diminishing in size. 2. wrinkly, bendy, curly.
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|Shrinkingly ||adv||In a shrinking manner.
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|Shrink-swell ||vb||The capacity of certain clay minerals to expand when wet and retracts when dry.
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|Shrinky ||adj||Characterstic of a shrink (a psychologist)
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|Shrithe ||vb||To go; take oneself away to a place; go about. 2. to proceed, move; creep, roam, wander.
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|Shrive ||vb||(Of a priest) hear the confession of an assigned penance to, and absolve. 2. (of a penitent) submit oneself to a priest for confession. 3 to allot, assign, decree, adjudge, impose a sentence, impose penance, regard, care for, shrift.
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|Shriving-time ||n||Time for confession.
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|Shroud ||n||OE scrud. a covered place used as a shelter or refuge. 2. a cave, den, crypt, vault under a church. 3. a clothing, garment, cloth of sheet wound around the corpse before burial. 4. the dress of the dead.
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|Shroud ||vb||To hide, conceal, cover, mist over. 2. that which clothes, conceals or protects. 3. to take shelter, harbour, hide
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|Shroud ||phr||"Shroud of Rain" - a mist of rain, a rain-shrouded.
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|Shroud ||phr||"Shroud of Smoke" - covered with smoke; smoke-covered; smoke-shrouded.
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|Shroudless ||adj||Without a shroud.
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|Shroud-like ||n||Resembling or characteristic of a shroud.
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|Shroud-waved||adj||Opposing or against a proposed policy on the grounds that it will result in death.
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|Shroud-waver ||n||One who argues against a proposed policy on the grounds that it will result in death.
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|Shroud-waving ||n||In derogatory manner - arguing against a proposed policy on the grounds that it will result in death.    2. the use of sad or frightening events or figures to draw attention to issues or to get a political advantage.
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|Shroudy ||adj||Affording shelter.
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|Shrove ||n||Penalty, punishment, shrift. 2. confession, 3. absolution.
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|Shrove ||vb||OE. scrivan: to impose penalty, punishment, shrift upon. 2. to hear the confession and adminster absolution. 3. to make merry, merrymake.
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|Shrove Tide ||n||The period immediately before Lent; ending on Shrove Tuesday, when in the Middle ages the people 'shrove' themselves or made their annual confession of sins.
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|Shrove Tuesday ||n||The day before Ash Wednesday.
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|Shrub ||n||OE. shrob. 2. a woody plant of less size than a tree, and usu. with several stems from the the same root. 2. underwood: shrubs and smaller trees.
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|Shrub ||vb||To lop, prune.
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|Shrubbiness ||n||The state or quality of being shrubby.
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|Shrubble ||n||A little sprout or shrub.
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|Shrubby ||adj||The nature of a shrub; full of shrubs.
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|Shrunken ||adj||Contracted, shriveled, reduced, atrophied, narrowed in size.
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|Shun ||vb||To avoid and stay away from deliberately. 2. stay clear of, get out of the way of, escape from. 3. eschew. 4. expel from a community, banish, ban, ostracise, cast out. 5.
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|Shunning ||n||The act of deliberately avoiding; keeping away or clear off, preventing from happening. 2. escaping fom, eschewing
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|Shurt ||vb||To amuse oneself, pass the time.
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|Shurting||n||Amusement, past-time, hobby, interest, diversion.
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|Shury ||adj||Scurfy.
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|Shut ||vb||To close the eyes or mouth. 2. to obstruct a passage; to close so as to hinder entry or exit. 3. to prevent from entering; shut out. 4. keep out , exclude, preclude, bar, prohibit. 5. to hold together, to close over, to close by bringing the parts togther.
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|Shut ||phr||"Keep One's Mouth Shut" - not discuss some matters.
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|Shut  ||phr||"Shut Away" - to put in a place where something cannot be removed or got out of. 2. to lock away, puut away, lock in, shut up. 3. enclose, confine (in a secure or quiet place).
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut Down" - to stop from or cause to operate. 2. close up, close down. 3. push a window into a closed position. 3, cease production at (permanently or for a time) close down.
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut In" - (of hills, houses) encircle, prevent access, etc to, escape from (were shut in by the sea on three sides). 2. to enclose, confine, to cover or block the view of. 3. enclose or surround by snow, winter etc.
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut It" - shut up, be quiet, remain silent.
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut Off" - to prevent te passage of, as water from a tap or through an irrigation system. 2. to block or interrupt the flow of or shutting off any kind of liquid, such as gas, oil, water. 3. to exclude, keep out, avoid. 4. to shut oneself off from some painful or hurtful emotion situation by denial.
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut One's Ears, Eyes, Heart, Mind" - pretend not, or deliberately refuse to, to see (or hear, feel sympathy for or think about). 2. turn a blind eye to.
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut One's Mouth" - to refrain from divulging sensitive information. 2. keep quiet about confidential information. 3. not start to speak, stop speaking; keep one's mouth shut.
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut Out" - to exclude from entry, deny admission (often such occurs during a industrial dispute where the employers stop the workers from entering the workplace) 2. to shut oneself off from some painful or hurtful emotion situation by denial. 3. prevent something or somebody from entering or being seen. 4. be rid of.
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut the Door On" - to refuse to consider, make something impossible, remember, accept, or engage in. 2. to deny a person a desired opportunity.
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|Shut ||phr||'Shut To" - close a door. 2. (of a door) close a door as far as it will go.
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut Together" - to unite, to link, to close, to end simultaneously, to culminate.
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut Up" - to close (a building; the windows and the doors) so that no one can enter; to close, make fast or secure the entrances before leaving at night. 2. to end , finish, terminate, conclude, to terminate (a business). 3. to enclose (a person, animal or thing) in a room or other place so that it cannot leave; to enclose, confine, imprison, to fasten; to shut or lock up a prisoner. 4. to put (an object) in a secure enclosed place, as a box. 5. to obstruct, as in a passage through something. 6. of a person, to stop talking or (of a person or thing) making noise or to be silent by rebuke; to cause to become silent through fear, intimidation or threat. 7. to unite two pieces, as in welding or joining them together. 8. (slang) to murder, kill.
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut Up Shop" - to shut up shop: to end a business activity.
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|Shut ||phr||"Shut Your Mouth" - an impolite request to stop talking.
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|Shut-down ||n||The stopping from or causing to operate. 2. the closing up, or closing down of.
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|Shute ||n||A channel or open trough for conveying water, esp. to a lower level. 2. a gutter fixed between the eves of a building. 3. a sudden flood in a river, a freshet. 4. a steep (artificial) channel or enclosed passage down which ore, coal, grain is shot to a receptacle below.
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|Shut-eye ||n||(Slang) for sleep, doze, kip, forty-winks or a nap.
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|Shut-in ||n||A person confined from normal social intercourse; an agrophobiac. 2. someone who is incapacitated by chronic illness or injury and finds it difficult to go out into society.
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|Shut-in ||adj||Somewhat introverted, retiring, shy, closeted.
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|Shut-minded ||adj||Of a closed mind, not ready to recieve new ideas. 2. uninnovative; conservative, narrow-minded.
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|Shut-mindedness ||n||The state or quality of having a closed, conservative, uninnovative mind.
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|Shut-mouthed ||adj||Word-bound, quiet, taciturn, unwordy. 2. not apt to talk, reserved, silent, uncommunicative. 3. dumb, mute, aphasic.
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|Shut-off ||n||Something used for stopping an operation. 2. a cessation of flow, supply, or activity.
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|Shut-out||n||The act of denying entry or admission to someone or representatives of a group. 2. a state of mind where one shut oneself out (shut-out) from some painful or hurtful emotion situation by denial.
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|Shutter ||n||Projections for windows or other openings or aperture of any kind. They may be boxing or folding, hinged, lose, rolling,or sliding shutters, and they may be on the inside or outside. Exterior types may be louvred , to allow for light and ventilation. 2. a hinged blind for a window. 3. one who opens and shuts any kind of aperture. 4. each of a pair of or set of panels (or slats) fixed inside or outside a window for security or privacy or to keep the light in or out. 5. a device which exposes a film in a photographic camera.
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|Shutter ||vb||To put up the shutters of. 2. provide with shutters.
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|Shutter ||phr||"Put Up the Shutters" - cease business activity (for the day).
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|Shuttering ||n||The formwork, falsework, or sheeting used for concrete work, especially in situ.
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|Shutter shades ||n||A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.
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|Shutter-speed ||n||(Photography) the duration of time which the shutter of a camera remains open when exposing photographic film or other photo sensitive material to light for the purpose of recording an image.
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|Shutting-in ||n||To stop from or cause to operate. 2. close up, close down.
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|Shutting-in ||n||The evening, nightfall, dusk. ('The Shutting-in')
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|Shutting-off ||n||The act of stemming the flow of something etc., usu. gas, water . 2. the closing off, isolating or separating something. 3. the blocking off of the paasage of.
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|Shuttle ||n||A bobbin in weaving loom and a sewing machine. 2. a arrow, dart, missile. 3. a bolt, bar or shuttle on a door. 4. a shutter or shuttle on a channel made to carry molten lead. 5. a space shuttle. 6. a floodgate in a millstream.
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|Shuttle ||vb||To move backwards and forwards (to and fro) like a shuttle. 2. to come and go; ebb and flow; wax and wane. 2. travel in a shuttle.
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|Shuttle-box ||n||A box fitted to the ends of the race of a loom to help direct a flying shuttle and its driver. 2. an apparatus used in experiments on animals, with two electrifiable chambers connected by a hole.
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|'''Shuttle-bone''' ||n||Each of the bones in the forearm.
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|Shuttle-brain ||n||Fickle; flighty.
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|Shuttle-driver ||n||A device for moving the shuttle between the shuttle boxes and through the warp of a loom.
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|Shuttlecraft ||n||A relatively small spacecraft, usually capable of atmospheric transport.
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|Shuttleless ||adj||(Of a loom) without a shuttle.
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|Shuttle-run ||n||A popular training technique which involves shorts bursts of speed.
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|Shuttlewise ||adv||Back and forth, like a shuttle
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|Shuttle-witted ||adj||Fickle; flighty.
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|Shut up ||vb||To close , make fast or secure the entrances. 2. to obstruct, as in a passage through something. 3. to enclose, confine, imprison, to fasten. 4. to shut or lock up a prisoner. 5. to end, finish, terminate, conclude. 6. to unite two pieces, as in welding or joining them together. 7. to cause to become silent through fear, intimidation or threat.
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|Shy ||adj||Lacking self-confidence, diffident, abashed, timid, demure. 2. worried and distrustful, inclining to avoid persons and situations. 3. easily frightened, fearful, nervous, cautious, wary, suspicious. 4. reserved, coy, embarrassed.
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|Shy ||phr||"Fight Shy Of" - to avoid.
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|Shy ||phr||"A Shy Bairn Gets Nowt" - if you are too shy, and don't ask, you won't get what you want.
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|Shy ||phr||"Look Shy At" - to distrust.
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|Shy ||phr||"Once Bitten, Twice Shy" - be extra cautious after having a bad experience.
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|Shy ||phr||"Shy Away From" - to avoid having to deal with some unpleasant situation. 2. avoid, move away from, out of shyness, prudery, fear, etc.
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|Shy bladder ||n||An inability to urinate in the presence of others.
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|Shyful ||adj||Exhibiting shyness; timid.
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|Shying ||n||The act of one who shies or turns aside in fear.
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|Shying ||adj||Avoiding, reticent, fearful, bashful, timid, diffident.
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|Shyly ||adv||In a shy manner.
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|Shyness ||n||The quality or state of being shy, bashful, reserved, coy, timid, diffident.
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