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amework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.

To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. Evelyn.

all masts. See Illustation in Appendix. l Port or Larboard Side; s Starboard Side; 1 Roundhouse or Deck House; 2 Tiller; 3 Grating; 4 Wheel; 5 Wheel Chains; 6 Binnacle; 7 Mizzenmast; 8 Skylight; 9 Capstan; 10 Mainmast; 11 Pumps; 12 Galley or Caboose; 13 Main Hatchway; 14 Windlass; 15 Foremast; 16 Fore Hatchway; 17 Bitt…

The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

rson or thing hit, as an object. When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. A. Tucker.

by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true. -- Shooting box, a small house in the country for use in the shooting season. Prof. Wilson. -- Shooting gallery, a range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms. -- Shooting iron, a firearm. [Slang, U.S.] -- Shooting star. (a) (Astron.…

n with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers). Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest. Matt. viii. 4. Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more…

adversity. Chaucer. A man had got a shrew to his wife, and there could be no quiet in the house for her. L'Estrange.

welding. -- To shut up. (a) To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house. (b) To obstruct. "Dangerous rocks shut up the passage." Sir W. Raleigh. (c) To inclose; to confine; to imprison; to fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner. Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith…

To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.

The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.

Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.

e to; to ratify by hand or seal; to subscribe in one's own handwriting. Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed, And let him sign it. Shak.

ber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like. Hence:

A white variety of the goldfish. Lepisma saccharina, which may infest houses, and eats starched clothing and sized papers. See Lepisma.

t Roscommon. About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady's house. Sir P. Sidney.

bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing. Your sweet sippets in widows' houses. Milton.

place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house. Chaucer.

ct is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.