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the sun; as, a sunny room; the sunny side of a hill. Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores. Addison.

A valuable kind of wood obtained on the shores of the Demerara River in South America, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like.

The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach. Surf bird (Zoöl.), a ploverlike bird of the genus Aphriza, allied to the turnstone. -- Surf clam (Zoöl.), a large clam living on the open coast, especially Mactra, or Spisula, solidissima. See Mactra. -- Surf duck (Zoöl.), any one of several…

Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf; as, a surfy shore. Scarce had they cleared the surfy waves That foam around those frightful caves. Moore.

6 (Rev. Ver.) He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, Pursues the foaming surges to the shore. Dryden.

und saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. Tennyson. A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words).…

narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.

xploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.

o. The god, vindictive, doomed them never more-Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore. Pope.

He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak.

To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.

To sail alongshore. [Obs.]

The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.

Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.

the seat of God. Milton. A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore. Pope.

One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.

f several species of wagtails of the restricted genus Motacilla. They live chiefly on the shores of ponds and streams. (b) The American water thrush. See Water thrush. -- Wood wagtail, an Asiatic wagtail; (Calobates sulphurea) having a slender bill and short legs.