AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
shoot: an inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course.-to let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object.-to discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.-to strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.-to send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.-to push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.-to plane straight; to fit by planing.-to pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.-to variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.-to cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides.-to discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.-to be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star.-to penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.-to feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.-to germinate; to bud; to sprout.-to grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.-to change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.-to protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.-to move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.-the act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.-a young branch or growth.-a rush of water; a rapid.-a vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.-a weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.-a shoat; a young hog.
shooter: one who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.-that which shoots.-a firearm; as, a five-shooter.-a shooting star.
shooting: of shoot-the act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.-a wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.-a sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.-of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
shop: imp. of shape. shaped.-a building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.-a building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.-to visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
shopkeeper: a trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
shoplifter: 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.
shopman: a shopkeeper; a retailer.-one who serves in a shop; a salesman.-one who works in a shop or a factory.
shoppy: abounding with shops.-of or pertaining to shops, or one's own shop or business; as, shoppy talk.
shopwalker: one who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director.  cf. floorwalker.
shore: of shear-imp. of shear.-a sewer.-a prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.-to support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.-the coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.-to set on shore.
shoreless: having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean.
shoring: of shore-the act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore.-a system of props; props, collectively.
shorling: the skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing.-a person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest.
short: not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.-not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.-limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.-insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.-deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.-not distant in time; near at hand.-limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.-less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.-abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.-breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.-brittle.-engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. see the shorts, under short, n., and to sell short, under short, adv.-not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. in english, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. see quantity, and guide to pronunciation, //22, 30.-a summary account.-the part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.-short, inferior hemp.-breeches; shortclothes.-a short sound, syllable, or vowel.-in a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.-to shorten.-to fail; to decrease.
short circuit: a circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
short-circuit: to join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
short-jointed: having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
short-lived: not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
short-winded: affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
shortage: amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
shortcake: an unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
shortclothes: coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
shortcoming: the act of falling, or coming short-the failure of a crop, or the like.-neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty.
shorten: to make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.-to reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.-to make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.-to make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.-to become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from june to december; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
shortening: of shorten-the act of making or becoming short or shorter.-that which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.
shorthand: a compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. see illust. under phonography.
shorthorn: one of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. the breed was developed in england.
shortly: in a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.-in few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
shortness: the quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath.
shortsighted: not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. see myopic, and myopia.-fig.: not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect.-having little regard for the future; heedless.
shortwing: any one of several species of small wrenlike asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. they belong to brachypterix, callene, and allied genera.
shoshones: a linguistic family or stock of north american indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from montana and idaho into mexico. in a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the snakes, the most northern of the tribes.
shot: of shoot-imp. & p. p. of shoot.-woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. see shoot, v. t., 8.-a share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.-of shot-the act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.-a missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.-small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.-the flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.-a marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.-to load with shot, as a gun.
shot-clog: a person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them.
shot-free: not to be injured by shot; shot-proof.-free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free.
shotgun: a light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.
shotted: of shot-loaded with shot.-having a shot attached; as, a shotten suture.
shotten: of shoot-having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring.-shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
should: of shall-used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation (see shall); e. g.: they should have come last week; if i should go; i should think you could go.
shoulder: the joint, 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.-the flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural.-fig.: that which supports or sustains; support.-that which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.-the upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.-the angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. see illust. of bastion.-an abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.-to push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.-to take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.
shouldered: of shoulder-having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad-shouldered man.
shout: to utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.-to utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.-to treat with shouts or clamor.-a loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially of a multitudes expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage.
shove: to drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.-to push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle.-to push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.-to move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.-the act of shoving; a forcible push.-p. p. of shove.
shovel: an implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.-to take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.-to gather up as with a shovel.
shovel-nosed: having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.
shovelboard: a board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.-a game played on board ship in which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; -- called also shuffleboard.
shoveler: one who, or that which, shovels.-a river duck (spatula clypeata), native of europe and america. it has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. the male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. the australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (s. rhynchotis), is a similar species.
shovelhead: a shark (sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the atlantic and pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.
shovelnose: the common sand shark. see under snad.-a small california shark (heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil.-a pacific ocean shark (hexanchus corinus).-a ganoid fish of the sturgeon family (scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the mississippi and ohio rivers; -- called also white sturgeon.
show: to exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).-to exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.-specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.-to make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.-to bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.-to exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.-to have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.-the act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.-that which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show.-proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.-semblance; likeness; appearance.-false semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.-a discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.-a pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.
showbread: bread of exhibition; loaves to set before god; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the hebrew and greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. they were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every sabbath. the loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of israel. they were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the holy place.
shower: one who shows or exhibits.-that which shows; a mirror.-a fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.-that which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.-a copious supply bestowed.-to water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain.-to bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain.-to rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
showery: raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.-of or pertaining to a shower or showers.
showiness: the quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
showroom: a room or apartment where a show is exhibited.-a room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
showy: making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
shrag: a twig of a tree cut off.-to trim, as trees; to lop.
shrapnel: applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by gen. h. shrapnel of the british army.-a shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively.
shred: a long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.-in general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.-of shred-to cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather.-to lop; to prune; to trim.
shredding: of shred-the act of cutting or tearing into shreds.-that which is cut or torn off; a piece.
shrew: wicked; malicious.-originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.-any small insectivore of the genus sorex and several allied genera of the family sorecidae. in form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. some of them are the smallest of all mammals.-to beshrew; to curse.
shrewd: inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish.-artful; wily; cunning; arch.-able or clever in practical affairs; sharp in business; astute; sharp-witted; sagacious; keen; as, a shrewd observer; a shrewd design; a shrewd reply.
shrewish: having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.
shriek: to utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.-to utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.-a sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
shrift: the act of shriving.-confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it.
shright: imp. & p. p. of shriek.-a shriek; shrieking.
shrike: any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common european gray shrike (lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (l. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. see under butcher.
shrill: acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.-a shrill sound.-to utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.-to utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.
shrilly: in a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.-somewhat shrill.
shrimp: to contract; to shrink.-any one of numerous species of macruran crustacea belonging to crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. many of them are used as food. the larger kinds are called also prawns. see illust. of decapoda.-in a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe caridea, or any species of the order schizopoda, having a similar form.-in a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. see under fairy, and brine.-figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.
shrine: a case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.-any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.-a place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.-to enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine.
shrink: to wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.-to withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.-to express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.-to cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.-to draw back; to withdraw.-the act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
shrinkage: the act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.-the amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc.-decrease in value; depreciation.
shrive: to hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.-to confess, and receive absolution; -- used reflexively.-to receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution.
shrivel: to draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.-to cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.
shroud: that which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.-especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.-that which covers or shelters like a shroud.-a covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.-the branching top of a tree; foliage.-a set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. the lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.-one of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.-to cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.-to cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.-to take shelter or harbor.-to lop. see shrood.
shroud-laid: composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. see illust. under cordage.
shrouding: of shroud-the shrouds. see shroud, n., 7.
shrove: of shrive-imp. of shrive.-to join in the festivities of shrovetide; hence, to make merry.
shrovetide: the days immediately preceding ash widnesday, especially the period between the evening before quinguagesima sunday and the morning of ash wednesday.
shrub: a liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.-a woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.-to lop; to prune.
shrubby: full of shrubs.-of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub.
shruff: rubbish. specifically: (a) dross or refuse of metals. [obs.] (b) light, dry wood, or stuff used for fuel.