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A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallæ.

Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolæ.

Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea.

A large marine annelid (Nephthys cæca), inhabiting the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches.

To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. "And make the Libyan shores." Dryden. They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. Sir T. Browne. To make a bed, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order. -- To make a card (Card Playing), to take a trick with it. -- To make account.…

s Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aërial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.…

To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate. Marooning party, a social excursion party that sojourns several days on the shore or in some retired place; a prolonged picnic. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett.

allow (Bot.), a plant of the genus Althæa ( A. officinalis) common in marshes near the seashore, and whose root is much used in medicine as a demulcent. -- Marsh marigold. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Marsh pennywort (Bot.), any plant of the umbelliferous genus Hydrocotyle; low herbs with roundish leaves, growing…

er refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants. Howell.

A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.

A small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores (Limosella aquatica).

llust. under Byssus), and the larger, or horse, mussel (Modiola modiolus), inhabiting the shores both of Europe and America, are edible. The former is extensively used as food in Europe.

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.

n; as, he belongs to the navy. Navy bean. see Bean. -- Navy yard, a place set apart as a shore station for the use of the navy. It often contains all the mechanical and other appliences for building and equipping war vessels and training their crews.

rough the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. -- Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). -- Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying…

To adjoin; to border on; tobe near to. Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore. Sandys.

Near to; not remote or distant from. "was not this nigh shore" Shak.

A treenail to fasten the shores.

old age. Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. Dryden.