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to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease. To palliate dullness, and give time a shove. Cowper.

To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword. Shak.

Counterfeit money. [Slang] To shove the queer, to put counterfeit money in circulation. [Slang]

ll; also, brains; sense; discretion. [Colloq.] To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel. Shak.

A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

See Shovelboard.

To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.] Ash.

utting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. [Cant]

The game of shovelboard. [Obs.]

A shovel for sludging out drains, etc.

g usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. "With spade and pickax armed." Milton.

The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2.

r jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout. To put, shove, or pop, up the spout, to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant]

A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc. [Written also strocal, strocle, strokal.]

The shoveler. [Local, U.S.]

A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.

To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. Milton.

To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose. Smart.

A shovel used in cleansing ore.