SPage 200
- English Word Shaft Definition A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.
- English Word Shaft Definition The chamber of a blast furnace.
- English Word Shafted Definition Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.
- English Word Shafted Definition Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.
- English Word Shafting Definition Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
- English Word Shaftman Definition Alt. of Shaftment
- English Word Shaftment Definition A measure of about six inches.
- English Word Shag Definition Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.
- English Word Shag Definition A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
- English Word Shag Definition A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.
- English Word Shag Definition Any species of cormorant.
- English Word Shag Definition Hairy; shaggy.
- English Word Shag Definition To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.
- English Word Shag-haired Definition Having shaggy hair.
- English Word Shag-rag Definition The unkempt and ragged part of the community.
- English Word Shagbark Definition A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory.
- English Word Shagbark Definition The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod.
- English Word Shagebush Definition A sackbut.
- English Word Shagged Definition of Shag
- English Word Shagged Definition Shaggy; rough.
- English Word Shagginess Definition The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness.
- English Word Shagging Definition of Shag
- English Word Shaggy Definition Rough with long hair or wool.
- English Word Shaggy Definition Rough; rugged; jaggy.
- English Word Shagreen Definition To chagrin.
- English Word Shagreen Definition A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.
- English Word Shagreen Definition The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts.
- English Word Shagreen Definition Alt. of Shagreened
- English Word Shagreened Definition Made or covered with the leather called shagreen.
- English Word Shagreened Definition Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen.