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A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter. Cowper.

A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench. South.

A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. Locke.

A boy employed in a shop.

p. p. of Shape. Chaucer.

A girl employed in a shop.

A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.

One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.

Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.

Suiting a shop; vulgar. B. Jonson.

A shopgirl.

A shopkeeper; a retailer. Dryden.

One who shops.

Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.

Abounding with shops. [Colloq.]

The trick of a shopkeeper; deception. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.

A woman employed in a shop.

Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.

A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.