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- English Word Shin Definition 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.
- English Word Shin Definition To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
- English Word Shin Definition To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
- English Word Shindies Definition of Shindy
- English Word Shindle Definition A shingle; also, a slate for roofing.
- English Word Shindle Definition To cover or roof with shindles.
- English Word Shindy Definition An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.
- English Word Shindy Definition Hockey; shinney.
- English Word Shindy Definition A fancy or liking.
- English Word Shine Definition 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.
- English Word Shine Definition To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.
- English Word Shine Definition To be effulgent in splendor or beauty.
- English Word Shine Definition To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
- English Word Shine Definition To cause to shine, as a light.
- English Word Shine Definition 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.
- English Word Shine Definition The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.
- English Word Shine Definition Sunshine; fair weather.
- English Word Shine Definition A liking for a person; a fancy.
- English Word Shine Definition Caper; antic; row.
- English Word Shine Definition Shining; sheen.
- English Word Shined Definition of Shine
- English Word Shiner Definition That which shines.
- English Word Shiner Definition A luminary.
- English Word Shiner Definition A bright piece of money.
- English Word Shiner Definition 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.
- English Word Shiner Definition The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
- English Word Shiness Definition See Shyness.
- English Word Shingle Definition Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
- English Word Shingle Definition 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.
- English Word Shingle Definition A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.