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To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time. Burke.

Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.

A shallow porus cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). [Written also coppel.] Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.

live. . . . But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. A. Lincoln.

Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot. Speculations high or deep. Milton. A question deep almost as the mystery of life. De Quincey. O Lord, . . . thy thought are very deep. Ps. xcii. 5.…

y of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness. Because they had no deepness of earth. Matt. xiii. 5.

Having no depth; shallow.

in screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals. -- Dutch pink, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. Weale. -- Dutch rush (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equ…

Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low. The water there is otherwise very low and ebb. Holland.

A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.

Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.

of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.

A long, shallow basket, with two handles. [Eng.] In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket. Spenser.

below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand. Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. Shak.

t bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.

Folly; foolery. Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house. Shak.

A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed.

Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; sockas, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.

his most gracious majesty. A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful. Neh. ix. 17. So hallowed and so gracious in the time. Shak.

Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow. Dryden.