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or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.

Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.

Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.

Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.

Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.

y formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.

A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.

The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

The cavity under the shoulder; the armpit. Bacon.

The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong. With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies. Milton.

e fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.

Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.

The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt. [Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.

A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight.

A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.