Search the Dictionary

To shut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.

To shoot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard, or post.

One of a small, hardy breed of horses, with long mane and tail, which originated in the Shetland Islands; a sheltie.

A modest girl. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A small bush.

rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.

A small pond or pool; a puddle.

To unshut. [Obs.] Chaucer.

r excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind. Sin is a soil which blemisheth the beauty of thy soul. Brathwait.

to nurture with care; to protect and aid. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 1 Thess. ii. 7.

To constitute a difference; to make to differ. Who distinguisheth thee 1 Cor. iv. 7. (Douay version).

d it to be inhabited. Is. xlv. 18. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! Hab. ii. 12.

mitation or for warning; by way of example. She is exemplarily loyal. Howell. Some he punisheth exemplarily. Hakewill.

of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.

To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam. He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth. Mark ix. 18.

A flood; a freshet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles.

lk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Coleridge.

An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.