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imber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads. D. Kemp. To lay on the shelf, to lay aside as unnecessary or useless; to dismiss; to discard.

Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." Dryden.

A shelf to hold books.

The shelf of a mantel.

equal. [Obs.] It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford.

Doubt; uncertainty. [Obs.] Shelford.

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

A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.

A board or shelf for cups and dishes. [Obs.] Bacon.

Bidding or manifesting defiance. [Obs.] Shelford.

A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin.

The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. Smart.

Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.

A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like.

A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.

ireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. [Written also mantle.]

; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown. Shak.

a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc. To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat. -- To plow up, to turn out of the ground by plowing.plow ahead, to continue in spite of obstacles or resistence by others.…