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n by men and boys. Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts. Addison. She had her shirts and girdles of hair. Bp. Fisher.

A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.

A costume consisting of a plain belted waist and skirt of the same material.

Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.

Not having or wearing a shirt. Pope. -- Shirt"less*ness, n.

A kind of nightgown for men.

A shirt worn next the skin, under another shirt; -- called also undervest.

A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

icle, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom. He put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. Ex. iv. 6.

n, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).

A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.

Dressed with a shirt over the other garments.

An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.

The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings. [Obs.] Gascoigne.

A false shirt front or bosom.

of before the substantive which follows. "Some six or seven dozen of Scots." "A dozen of shirts to your back." "A dozen sons." "Half a dozen friends." Shak.

ar, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer. Wiping the dingy shirt with a still more dubious pocket handkerchief. Thackeray.

A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.

Hairy. [Obc.] His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet. J. Taylor.

esidence for the purpose of hunting. -- Hunting seat, a hunting lodge. Gray. -- Hunting shirt, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather. -- Hunting spider (Zoöl.), a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. -- Hunting watch. See Hunter, 6.