Shovelbill (n.) The shoveler.
Shovelboard (n.) A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.
Shovelboard (n.) A game played on board ship in which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; -- called also shuffleboard.
Shoveler (n.) One who, or that which, shovels.
Shoveler (n.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.
Shovelfuls (pl. ) of Shovelful
Shovelful (n.) As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.
Shovelhead (n.) A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.
Shovelnose (n.) The common sand shark. See under Snad.
Shovelnose (n.) A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil.
Shovelnose (n.) A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus).
Shovelnose (n.) A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white sturgeon.
Shovel-nosed (a.) Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.
Shoven () p. p. of Shove.
Showed (imp.) of Show
Shown (p. p.) of Show
Showed () of Show
Showing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Show
Show (v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).
Show (v. t.) To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.
Show (v. t.) Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.
Show (v. t.) To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.
Show (v. t.) To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.
Show (v. i.) To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.
Show (v. i.) To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
Show (n.) The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.
Show (n.) That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show.
Show (n.) Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.
Show (n.) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
Show (n.) False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.
Show (n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.
Show (n.) A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.
Showbread (n.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.
Shower (n.) One who shows or exhibits.
Shower (n.) That which shows; a mirror.
Shower (n.) A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
Shower (n.) That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
Shower (n.) A copious supply bestowed.
Showered (imp. & p. p.) of Shower
Showering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shower
Shower (v. t.) To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain.
Shower (v. t.) To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain.
Shower (v. i.) To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
Showerful (a.) Full of showers.
Showeriness (n.) Quality of being showery.
Showerless (a.) Rainless; freo from showers.
Showery (a.) Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.
Showery (a.) Of or pertaining to a shower or showers.
Showily (adv.) In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
Showiness (n.) The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
Showing (n.) Appearance; display; exhibition.
Showing (n.) Presentation of facts; statement.
Showish (a.) Showy; ostentatious.
Showmen (pl. ) of Showman
Showman (n.) One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
Shown () p. p. of Show.
Showroom (n.) A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.
Showroom (n.) A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
Showy (a.) Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
Shrag (n.) A twig of a tree cut off.
Shrag (v. t.) To trim, as trees; to lop.
Shragger (n.) One who lops; one who trims trees.
Shram (v. t.) To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.
Shrank () imp. of Shrink.
Shrap (n.) Alt. of Shrape
Shrape (n.) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
Shrapnel (a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.
Shrapnel (n.) A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively.
Shred (n.) A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
Shred (n.) In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.
Shred (imp. & p. p.) of Shred
Shredded () of Shred
Shredding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shred
Shred (n.) To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather.
Shred (n.) To lop; to prune; to trim.
Shredcook (n.) The fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain.
Shredding (n.) The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
Shredding (n.) That which is cut or torn off; a piece.
Shreddy (a.) Consisting of shreds.
Shredless (a.) Having no shreds; without a shred.
Shrew (a.) Wicked; malicious.
Shrew (a.) Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.
Shrew (a.) Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied genera of the family Sorecidae. In form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the smallest of all mammals.
Shrew (a.) To beshrew; to curse.
Shrewd (superl.) Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish.
Shrewd (superl.) Artful; wily; cunning; arch.
Shrewd (superl.) Able or clever in practical affairs; sharp in business; astute; sharp-witted; sagacious; keen; as, a shrewd observer; a shrewd design; a shrewd reply.
Shrewish (a.) having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.
Shrewmouse (n.) A shrew; especially, the erd shrew.
Shrieked (imp. & p. p.) of Shriek
Shrieking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shriek
Shriek (v. i.) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
Shriek (v. t.) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
Shriek (n.) A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
Shrieker (n.) One who utters a shriek.
Shrieval (a.) Of or pertaining to a sheriff.
Shrievalty (n.) The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty.
Shrieve (n.) A sheriff.
Shrieve (v. t.) To shrive; to question.
Shrift (n.) The act of shriving.