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- English Word Shackle Definition To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
- English Word Shackle Definition Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
- English Word Shackle Definition To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
- English Word Shackled Definition of Shackle
- English Word Shackling Definition of Shackle
- English Word Shacklock Definition A sort of shackle.
- English Word Shackly Definition Shaky; rickety.
- English Word Shad Definition Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.
- English Word Shad-spirit Definition See Shadbird (a)
- English Word Shad-waiter Definition A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.
- English Word Shadbird Definition The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad.
- English Word Shadbird Definition The common European sandpiper.
- English Word Shadd Definition Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein.
- English Word Shadde Definition obs. imp. of Shed.
- English Word Shaddock Definition A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.
- English Word Shade Definition Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light.
- English Word Shade Definition Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural.
- English Word Shade Definition An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat.
- English Word Shade Definition That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade.
- English Word Shade Definition Shadow.
- English Word Shade Definition The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes.
- English Word Shade Definition The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above.
- English Word Shade Definition Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink.
- English Word Shade Definition A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms.
- English Word Shade Definition To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from.
- English Word Shade Definition To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes.
- English Word Shade Definition To obscure; to dim the brightness of.
- English Word Shade Definition To pain in obscure colors; to darken.
- English Word Shade Definition To mark with gradations of light or color.
- English Word Shade Definition To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.