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  • English Word Shingle Definition To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
  • English Word Shingle Definition To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
  • English Word Shingle Definition To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
  • English Word Shingled Definition of Shingle
  • English Word Shingler Definition One who shingles.
  • English Word Shingler Definition A machine for shingling puddled iron.
  • English Word Shingles Definition A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
  • English Word Shingling Definition of Shingle
  • English Word Shingling Definition The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.
  • English Word Shingling Definition The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.
  • English Word Shingly Definition Abounding with shingle, or gravel.
  • English Word Shinhopple Definition The hobblebush.
  • English Word Shining Definition of Shine
  • English Word Shining Definition Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor.
  • English Word Shining Definition Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.
  • English Word Shining Definition Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.
  • English Word Shining Definition Emission or reflection of light.
  • English Word Shiningness Definition Brightness.
  • English Word Shinned Definition of Shin
  • English Word Shinney Definition The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.
  • English Word Shinning Definition of Shin
  • English Word Shinplaster Definition Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
  • English Word Shintiism Definition One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.
  • English Word Shinto Definition Alt. of Shintiism
  • English Word Shintoist Definition An adherent of Shintoism.
  • English Word Shinty Definition A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game.
  • English Word Shiny Definition Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
  • English Word Ship Definition Pay; reward.
  • English Word Ship Definition Any large seagoing vessel.
  • English Word Ship Definition 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.