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sheen, n. s.h.i.+ne, l.u.s.ter, gloss, brightness, splendor.
sheep, n. _Ovis_, _Ovis aries_; (male) ram, buck; (female) ewe; (young) lamb, eanling; (castrated ram) wether; (leader of the flock) bellwether; hoggerel, hogget. a.s.sociated Words: bleat, braxy, gid, mutton, flock, ovine, shepherd, shepherdess, cosset, raddle, yean, ean, lowbell, abigeat, sheepcote, fold.
sheep-dog, n. collie, shepherd dog.
sheepish, a. bashful, shy, over-modest.
sheepskin, n. sheep-pelt, pelt, woolfell; roan; (Cant) diploma.
a.s.sociated Words: fellmonger, woolpuller, skiver, budge.
sheer, a. thin; unadulterated, pure, unmixed; precipitous, abrupt, perpendicular.
shelf, n. mantel, mantelpiece; bracket, console; ledge, shallow, shoal; banquette.
sh.e.l.l, n. shuck, putamen; test, testa, episperm, spermoderm.
a.s.sociated Words: scleroid, enucleate, enucleation, inenucleable.
sh.e.l.l, n. armature, case, exoskeleton, shale; carapace, plastron; c.o.c.kle, conch, periwinkle, cowrie, whelk, mitre sh.e.l.l, abilone sh.e.l.l; exuviae (cast-off); conchite (fossil). a.s.sociated Words: conchology, conchologist, malacology, testaceous, c.o.c.kled, mollusk, conchiferous, conchiform conchometer, conchometry, crustacean, exuvial, exuviate, exuviation, Loricata, bivalve, multivalve, univalve.
sh.e.l.l, n. framework; bomb, torpedo, shrapnel, grenade.
sh.e.l.l, v. hull, shuck, shale, enucleate; bombard, besiege.
sh.e.l.lfish, n. pl. Mollusks, Mollusca, Testacea.
sh.e.l.l money. wampum, hiagua, peag, colcol, kopkops, seawan, suckanhock.
shelter, n. protection, screen, cover, s.h.i.+eld, defense, covert, security, lee; asylum, refuge, retreat, haven, sanctuary.
shelter, v. s.h.i.+eld, protect, defend, screen, ensconce, cover.
Antonym: expose.
sheltered, a. protected, covert.
shepherd, n. pastor, pastoralist. a.s.sociated Words: bucolic, pastoral, staff, crook.
s.h.i.+bboleth, n. watchword, party cry.
s.h.i.+eld, n. aegis, buckler, escutcheon, scutcheon, pavise, scutum; defense, protection, palladium, bulwark, safeguard. a.s.sociated Words: scutal, bouche.
s.h.i.+eld, v. defend, protect, safeguard; ward off, repel.
s.h.i.+eld-shaped, a. thyroid.
s.h.i.+ft, v. veer, change, turn; quirk, quibble, palter; change, subst.i.tute.
s.h.i.+ft, n. subterfuge, device, contrivance, evasion, stratagem, trick, dodge; resource, expedient, change, subst.i.tution; chemise.
s.h.i.+fting, a. unstable, variable, changeable.
s.h.i.+ftless, a. improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, wasteful.
Antonyms: thrifty, industrious.
s.h.i.+lly-shally, adv. irresolutely, hesitatingly.
s.h.i.+lly-shally, n. hesitation, irresolution, indecision, vacillation, wavering, trifling, evasion, dalliance.
s.h.i.+lly-shally, v. hesitate, waver, trifle, dally, vacillate, dodge, be irresolute.
s.h.i.+n, n. shank.
s.h.i.+ndy, n. (Slang) uproar, disturbance, riot, row; hockey; liking, fancy.
s.h.i.+ne, v. beam, radiate, gleam, irradiate, glisten, glow, glitter, flare, glare; excel, surpa.s.s; polish.
s.h.i.+ne, n. l.u.s.ter, polish, gloss, sheen, radiance, resplendence, brilliancy, lucency, glaze.
s.h.i.+ne, n. (Slang) liking, fancy; caper, antic, dido.
s.h.i.+ning, a. radiant, beaming, l.u.s.trous, luminous, glowing, brilliant, lucent, bright, sleek, glazed, glistening, splendent, resplendent, glossy, s.h.i.+ny; conspicuous, noticeable.
s.h.i.+ning between. interlucent.
s.h.i.+ning round. circ.u.mfulgent.
s.h.i.+p, n. vessel. a.s.sociated Words: barratry, hypothecate, hypothecation.
s.h.i.+p, v. transport; deport; (Colloq.) dismiss, send away.
s.h.i.+pbuilder, n. s.h.i.+pwright.
s.h.i.+pment, n. s.h.i.+pping, transportation; consignment.
s.h.i.+p mortgage. bottomry, hypothecation.
s.h.i.+pping, n. s.h.i.+pment, transportation; navigation.
s.h.i.+pwreck, n. wreckage; disaster, destruction, ruin, subversion, miscarriage. a.s.sociated Words: salvage, flotsam, jetsam, derelict, jettison.
s.h.i.+pwrecked person. castaway.
s.h.i.+rk, v. avoid, evade, neglect.
s.h.i.+rt, n. smock, chemise, s.h.i.+ft, tunic, camise.
s.h.i.+ver, n. splinter, sliver; s.h.i.+vering, tremor, horripilation.
shoal, n. shallow, sandbank, bar.--a. shallow.
