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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.

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

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones. In every babbling he finds a friend. Wordsworth.

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment…

An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.

Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce. Bacon. Ure.

er at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.

A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

rge box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted. Camel bird (Zoöl.), the ostrich. -- Camel locust (Zoöl.),…

a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.

A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.