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f Shoe.

A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.

A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.

The quality or state of being shoddy. [Colloq.] See the Note under Shoddy, n.

The parting of the hair on the head. [Obs.] Full straight and even lay his jolly shode. Chaucer.

See Shoad, Shoading.

A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.

Without wetting the feet.

Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.

ing shoes or slippers down at the heel. The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels. Cowper.

Having the feet, or the shoes on the feet, wet.

A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

intain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up. To bolster baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.

Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.

ate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.

Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.

Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced. "The foundation of houses of discalced friars." Cardinal Manning's St. Teresa.

A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the [Eng.]

Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.

milar noise by any means; to pass with a sibilant sound; as, the arrow hissed as it flew. Shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice. Wordsworth.