AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
shepherd: a man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.-the pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.-to tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.
shepherdia: a genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as elaeagnus; also, any plant of this genus. see buffalo berry, under buffalo.
sherbet: a refreshing drink, common in the east, made of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as, orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc.-a flavored water ice.-a preparation of bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, sugar, etc., variously flavored, for making an effervescing drink; -- called also sherbet powder.
sherd: a fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. see shard.
sherif: a member of an arab princely family descended from mohammed through his son-in-law ali and daughter fatima. the grand shereef is the governor of mecca.
sheriff: the chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace.
sherry: a spanish light-colored dry wine, made in andalusia. as prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.
sherryvallies: trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback.
sheth: the part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard, or post.
shetland pony: one of a small, hardy breed of horses, with long mane and tail, which originated in the shetland islands; a sheltie.
shiah: same as shiite.-a member of that branch of the mohammedans to which the persians belong. they reject the first three caliphs, and consider ali as being the first and only rightful successor of mohammed. they do not acknowledge the sunna, or body of traditions respecting mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the sunnites, or orthodox mohammedans.
shibboleth: a word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the ephraimites from the gileadites. the ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. see judges xii.-also in an extended sense.-hence, the criterion, test, or watchword of a party; a party cry or pet phrase.
shield: a broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. see buckler.-anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.-figuratively, one who protects or defends.-in lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.-the escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.  cf. lozenge. see illust. of escutcheon.-a framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.-a spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield.-a coin, the old french crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield.-to cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury.-to ward off; to keep off or out.-to avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!
shield-bearer: one who, or that which, carries a shield.-any small moth of the genus aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves.
shieldtail: any species of small burrowing snakes of the family uropeltidae, native of ceylon and southern asia. they have a small mouth which can not be dilated.
shiff: to divide; to distribute.-to make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb.-to resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.-to practice indirect or evasive methods.-to slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.
shift: to divide; to distribute; to apportion.-to change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.-to change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.-to exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.-to change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.-to put off or out of the way by some expedient.-the act of shifting.-the act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.-something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.-the change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.-in building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.-a breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.-a change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
shifter: one who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.-an assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.-an arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.-a wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
shifting: of shift-changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.-adapted or used for shifting anything.
shiftless: destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management.
shifty: full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.
shillelah: an oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from shillelagh, a place in ireland of that name famous for its oaks.
shilling: a silver coin, and money of account, of great britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the united states currency.-in the united states, a denomination of money, differing in value in different states. it is not now legally recognized.-the spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12/ cets; -- formerly so called in new york and some other states. see note under 2.
shilly-shally: in an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner.-to hesitate; to act in an irresolute manner; hence, to occupy one's self with trifles.-irresolution; hesitation; also, occupation with trifles.
shiloh: a word used by jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as "the messiah," or as the city "shiloh," or as "rest."
shim: a kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.-a thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.
shimmer: to shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.-a faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.
shin: the front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.-a fish plate for rails.-to climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.-to run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.-to climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
shindle: a shingle; also, a slate for roofing.-to cover or roof with shindles.
shindy: an uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.-hockey; shinney.-a fancy or liking.
shine: to emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.-to be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.-to be effulgent in splendor or beauty.-to be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.-to cause to shine, as a light.-to make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them.-the quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.-sunshine; fair weather.-a liking for a person; a fancy.-caper; antic; row.-shining; sheen.
shiner: that which shines.-a luminary.-a bright piece of money.-any one of numerous species of small freshwater american cyprinoid fishes, belonging to notropis, or minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the eastern united states; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.-the common lepisma, or furniture bug.
shingle: round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.-a piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.-a sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.-to cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.-to cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.-to subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
shingles: a kind of herpes (herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
shingling: of shingle-the act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.-the process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.
shining: of shine-emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor.-splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.-having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.-emission or reflection of light.
shinney: the game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.
shinplaster: formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
shintiism: one of the two great systems of religious belief in japan. its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.
ship: pay; reward.-any large seagoing vessel.-specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. see illustation in appendix.-a dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.-to put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.-by extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.-hence, to send away; to get rid of.-to engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.-to receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.-to put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.-to engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.-to embark on a ship.
ship-rigged: rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
shipboard: a ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard.
shipbuilder: a person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
shipment: 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.-that which is shipped.
shipper: one who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.
shipping: of ship-relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.-relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.-the act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to liverpool.-the collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.-navigation.
shipshape: arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.-in a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
shipworm: 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: 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.-a ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.-fig.: destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.-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.-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.
shiraz: a kind of persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.
shire: 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.-a division of a state, embracing several contiguous townships; a county.
shirk: to procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.-to avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.-to live by shifts and fraud; to shark.-to evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.-one who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
shirr: 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: made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.-broken into an earthen dish and baked over the fire; -- said of eggs.
shirt: 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.-to cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.
shittah tree: 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.
shive: a slice; as, a shive of bread.-a thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.-a thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.
shiver: one of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.-a thin slice; a shive.-a variety of blue slate.-a sheave or small wheel in a pulley.-a small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.-a spindle.-to break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.-to separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.-to tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.-to cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.-the act of shivering or trembling.
shiver-spar: a variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
shivery: tremulous; shivering.-easily broken; brittle; shattery.
shoad: 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.
shoal: a great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.-to assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.-having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.-a place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.-a sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.-to become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.-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: the quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.
shock: a pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.-a lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some baltic ports to loose goods.-to collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.-to be occupied with making shocks.-a quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.-a sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.-a sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.-the sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.-to give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.-to strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.-to meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.-a dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.-a thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.-bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
shocking: of shock-causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.
shoddy: a fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. see mungo.-a fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.-made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as, shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy.
shode: the parting of the hair on the head.-the top of the head; the head.-alt. of shoding
shoder: a package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.
shoe: a covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. it differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.-anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use.-a plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.-a band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.-a drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.-the part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.-a trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.-the trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.-an inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.-an iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.-an iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.-a plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; -- called also slipper, and gib.-to furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor.-to protect or ornament with something which serves the purpose of a shoe; to tip.
shoebill: a large african wading bird (balaeniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. it inhabits the valley of the white nile. see illust. (l.) of beak.
shoeing-horn: a curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe.-anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium; -- by way of contempt.-anything which draws on or allures; an inducement.
shoemaker: one whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.-the threadfish.-the runner, 12.
shoer: one who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses.
shog: a shock; a jog; a violent concussion or impulse.-to shake; to shock.-to jog; to move on.
shogun: a title originally conferred by the mikado on the military governor of the eastern provinces of japan. by gradual usurpation of power the shoguns (known to foreigners as tycoons) became finally the virtual rulers of japan. the title was abolished in 1867.
shole: a plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like.-see shoal.
shoo: begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.
shooi: the richardson's skua (stercorarius parasiticus);- so called from its cry.
shook: of shake-of shake-imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of shake.-a set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.-a set of boards for a sugar box.-the parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.-to pack, as staves, in a shook.