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To owe; to be under obligation for. [Obs.] "By the faith I shall to God" Court of Love.

See Challis.

An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.

A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.

A boat. [She] thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser.

A small kind of onion (Allium Ascalonicum) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.

Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton.

Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.

Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.

Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson.

Shallow-brained.

Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.

In a shallow manner.

Quality or state of being shallow.

To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.

t dainty in making a resolution, because when I make it, I keep it; I don't stand shill-I-shall-I then; if I say 't, I'll do 't. Congreve.

rifles. She lost not one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, - - no shilly-shally in Kate. De Quincey.

r estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. ll.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak.

ng parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.