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To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.

a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.

pear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.

A bank, shore, or coast. [Archaic] Spenser. From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets musical. Tennyson.

A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads. Shak.

An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4. Moored in the neighboring roadstead. Longfellow.

ither of two fleshy cruciferous plants (Cakile maritima and C. Americana) found on the seashore of Europe and America. -- Yellow rocket (Bot.), a common cruciferous weed with yellow flowers (Barbarea vulgaris).

Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.

The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.

To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.

Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.

An East Indian timber tree (Shorea robusta), much used for building purposes. It is of a light brown color, close-grained, and durable. [Written also saul.]

ea water for the production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore. -- Salt gauge, an instrument used to test the strength of brine; a salimeter. -- Salt horse, salted beef. [Slang] -- Salt junk, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang] -- Salt lick. See Lick, n. -- Salt marsh, grass land…

A name given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort. Black saltwort, the sea milkwort.

A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies. Golden samphire. See under Golden.

icoline birds, such as the sandpipers, plovers, tattlers, and many others; -- called also shore birds. -- Sand blast, a process of engraving and cutting glass and other hard substances by driving sand against them by a steam jet or otherwise; also, the apparatus used in the process. -- Sand box. (a) A box with a perf…

Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore.

[Obs.] Wandering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates. Milton.

The seashore. Shak.

A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.