Shrug (v. t.) To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
Shrug (v. i.) To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
Shrug (n.) A drawing up of the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing dislike, dread, or doubt.
Shrunken () p. p. & a. from Shrink.
Shuck (n.) A shock of grain.
Shuck (n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
Shuck (n.) The shell of an oyster or clam.
Shucked (imp. & p. p.) of Shuck
Shucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shuck
Shuck (v. t.) To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.
Shucker (n.) One who shucks oysters or clams
Shuddered (imp. & p. p.) of Shudder
Shuddering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shudder
Shudder (v. i.) To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
Shudder (n.) The act of shuddering, as with fear.
Shudderingly (adv.) In a shuddering manner.
Shude (n.) The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.
Shuffled (imp. & p. p.) of Shuffle
Shuffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shuffle
Shuffle (v. t.) To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
Shuffle (v. t.) To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.
Shuffle (v. t.) To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
Shuffle (v. i.) To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
Shuffle (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
Shuffle (v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Shuffle (v. i.) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
Shuffle (n.) The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
Shuffle (n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
Shuffleboard (n.) See Shovelboard.
Shufflecap (n.) A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap.
Shuffler (n.) One who shuffles.
Shuffler (n.) Either one of the three common American scaup ducks. See Scaup duck, under Scaup.
Shufflewing (n.) The hedg sparrow.
Shuffling (a.) Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
Shuffling (a.) Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse.
Shuffling (v.) In a shuffling manner.
Shug (v. i.) To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.
Shug (v. i.) Hence, to crawl; to sneak.
Shumac (n.) Sumac.
Shunned (imp. & p. p.) of Shun
Shunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shun
Shun (v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
Shunless (a.) Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable.
Shunted (imp. & p. p.) of Shunt
Shunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shunt
Shunt (v. t.) To shun; to move from.
Shunt (v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
Shunt (v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.
Shunt (v. t.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
Shunt (v. i.) To go aside; to turn off.
Shunt (v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
Shunt (v. t.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.
Shunt (v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
Shunter (n.) A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.
Shut (imp. & p. p.) of Shut
Shutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shut
Shut (v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
Shut (v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
Shut (v. t.) To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
Shut (v. t.) To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.
Shut (v. i.) To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
Shut (a.) Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
Shut (a.) Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.
Shut (a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.
Shut (a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are.
Shut (n.) The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
Shut (n.) A door or cover; a shutter.
Shut (n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
Shute (n.) Same as Chute, or Shoot.
Shutter (n.) One who shuts or closes.
Shutter (n.) A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind.
Shutter (n.) A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle.
Shuttered (a.) Furnished with shutters.
Shuttle (n.) An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.
Shuttle (n.) The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
Shuttle (n.) A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
Shuttle (v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.
Shuttlecock (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
Shuttlecock (v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.
Shuttlecork (n.) See Shuttlecock.
Shuttlewise (adv.) Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
Shwan-pan (n.) See Schwan-pan.
Shy (superl.) Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
Shy (superl.) Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Shy (superl.) Cautious; wary; suspicious.
Shied (imp. & p. p.) of Shy
Shying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shy
Shy (a.) To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
Shy (v. t.) To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.
Shy (n.) A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
Shy (n.) A side throw; a throw; a fling.
Shyly (adv.) In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.
Shyness (n.) The quality or state of being shy.
Shyster (n.) A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.
Si () A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.
Siaga (n.) The ahu, or jairou.
Sialogogue (n.) An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.
Siamang (n.) A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.
Siamese (a.) Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language.
Siamese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam.