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

A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.

arbors. -- Ship's company, the crew of a ship or other vessel. -- Ship's days, the days allowed a vessel for loading or unloading. -- Ship's husband. See under Husband. -- Ship's papers (Mar. Law), papers with which a vessel is required by law to be provided, and the production of which may be required on certain o…

Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.

The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.

Becoming shallow gradually. "A shoaling estuary." Lyell.

Full of shoals, or shallow places. The tossing vessel sailed on shoaly ground. Dryden.

ntity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc. Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain. Dryden.

A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.

The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun. Shunt dynamo (Elec.), a dynamo in which the field circuit is connected with the main circuit so as to form a shunt to the letter, thus employing a portion of the current from the armature to ma…

. Sir I. Newton. His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . . Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings. Longfellow.

f a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer.

A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.

A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. [Obs.] "To scant my sizes." Shak.

A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Grose.

To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

A valley, or small, shallow dell. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

his heart. Ecclus. xix. 16. To let slip, to loose from the slip or noose, as a hound; to allow to escape. Cry, "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war. Shak.

Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.