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Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.

To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.

Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore. Shak. "Shelving arches." Addison.

Sloping gradually; shelving. The shore was shelving and shallow. Shak.

ose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.

A prop. See 3d Shore.

rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like.

Duty paid for goods brought on shore. Grabb.

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

Lying near the shore. [Obs.]

an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off. He grasped the oar,shoved from shore. Garth.

To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. "Shut from every shore." Dryden.

A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.

manently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.

of speech, and slow of tongue. Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard their shore from an expected foe. Dryden.

e. See under Quail. -- Robin snipe, the knot. -- Sea snipe. See in the Vocabulary. -- Shore snipe, any sandpiper. -- Snipe hawk, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stone snipe, the tattler. -- Summer snipe, the dunlin; the green and the common European sandpipers. -- Winter snipe. See Rock snipe, under Rock. --…

nose, a short or flat nose. -- Snub post, or Snubbing post (Naut.), a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel.

de of barium (Bolognese or Bologna phosphorus), calcium sulphide, etc., which become phosphorescent, and shine in the dark, after exposure to sunlight or other intense light. -- Solar plexus (Anat.), a nervous plexus situated in the dorsal and anterior part of the abdomen, consisting of several sympathetic ganglia wit…

One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.