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A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.

hes in the work. Moxon. These nails with scratches deform my breast. Prior. God forbid a shallow scratch should drive The prince of Wales from such a field as this. Shak.

Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted.

A broad, shallow basket.

n of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics. Macaulay.

A shallow seggar for porcelain. Ure.

er, n., 2. -- Setting pole, a pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing boats along in shallow water. -- Setting rule. (Print.) A composing rule.

A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships. On the tawny sands and shelves. Milton. On the secret shelves with fury cast. Dryden.

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.

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…

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.