Shipfuls (pl. ) of Shipful
Shipful (n.) As much or as many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a ship.
Shipholder (n.) A shipowner.
Shipless (a.) Destitute of ships.
Shiplet (n.) A little ship.
Shipload (n.) The load, or cargo, of a ship.
Shipmen (pl. ) of Shipman
Shipman (n.) A seaman, or sailor.
Shipmaster (n.) The captain, master, or commander of a ship.
Shipmate (n.) One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.
Shipment (n.) The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.
Shipment (n.) That which is shipped.
Shipowner (n.) Owner of a ship or ships.
Shippen (n.) A stable; a cowhouse.
Shipper (n.) One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.
Shipping (a.) Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
Shipping (a.) Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
Shipping (n.) The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
Shipping (n.) The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
Shipping (n.) Navigation.
Shippon (n.) A cowhouse; a shippen.
Ship-rigged (a.) Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
Shipshape (a.) Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
Shipshape (adv.) In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
Shipworm (n.) Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
Shipwreck (n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
Shipwreck (n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
Shipwreck (n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
Shipwrecked (imp. & p. p.) of Shipwreck
Shipwrecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shipwreck
Shipwreck (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.
Shipwreck (v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.
Shipwright (n.) One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.
Shipyard (n.) A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.
Shiraz (n.) A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.
Shire (n.) A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.
Shire (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county.
Shirked (imp. & p. p.) of Shirk
Shirking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shirk
Shirk (v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
Shirk (v. t.) To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
Shirk (v. i.) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
Shirk (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
Shirker (n.) One who shirks.
Shirky (a.) Disposed to shirk.
Shirl (a.) Shrill.
Shirl (n.) See Schorl.
Shirley (n.) The bullfinch.
Shirr (n.) A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and gauging.
Shirred (a.) Made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.
Shirred (a.) Broken into an earthen dish and baked over the fire; -- said of eggs.
Shirt (n.) A loose under-garment for the upper part of the body, made of cotton, linen, or other material; -- formerly used of the under-garment of either sex, now commonly restricted to that worn by men and boys.
Shirted (imp. & p. p.) of Shirt
Shirting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shirt
Shirt (v. t. & i.) To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.
Shirting (n.) Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.
Shirtless (a.) Not having or wearing a shirt.
Shist () Alt. of Shistose
Shistose () See Shist, Schistose.
Shittah (n.) Alt. of Shittah tree
Shittah tree (n.) A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.
Shittim (n.) Alt. of Shittim wood
Shittim wood (n.) The wood of the shittah tree.
Shittle (n.) A shuttle.
Shittle (a.) Wavering; unsettled; inconstant.
Shittlecock (n.) A shuttlecock.
Shittleness (n.) Instability; inconstancy.
Shive (n.) A slice; as, a shive of bread.
Shive (n.) A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.
Shive (n.) A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.
Shiver (n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.
Shiver (n.) A thin slice; a shive.
Shiver (n.) A variety of blue slate.
Shiver (n.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
Shiver (n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
Shiver (n.) A spindle.
Shivered (imp. & p. p.) of Shiver
Shivering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shiver
Shiver (v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.
Shiver (v. i.) To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
Shiver (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
Shiver (v. t.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
Shiver (n.) The act of shivering or trembling.
Shiveringly (adv.) In a shivering manner.
Shiver-spar (n.) A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
Shivery (a.) Tremulous; shivering.
Shivery (a.) Easily broken; brittle; shattery.
Shoad (n.) A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines.
Shoading (n.) The tracing of veins of metal by shoads.
Shoal (n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
Shoaled (imp. & p. p.) of Shoal
Shoaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoal
Shoal (v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
Shoal (a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
Shoal (n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
Shoal (n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
Shoal (v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
Shoal (v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.
Shoaliness (n.) The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.