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Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." Dryden.

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.

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.

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…

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

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

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

To make sober. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Pope.

An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food. "Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend," thus heard I say. Chaucer. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. Shak.

A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release. Knight.

A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Patient anglers, standing all the day Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay. W. Browne.

Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage.

One who attends to anything superficially; a superficial or shallow person; a sciolist; a smatterer.

To attend to, or to treat, superficially, or in a shallow or slighting way. [R.] It is a characteristic weakness of the day to superficialize evil. E. P. Whipple.