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To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.

Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young.

See Shorling.

One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.

Toward the shore.

Along the shore or coast.

See Longshoreman.

On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.

One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. -- adv.

Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.

One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.

From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.

The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

-- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.

To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.

On land; to the land; ashore. "Cast aland." Sir P. Sidney.

, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.