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- English Word Shoveler Definition One who, or that which, shovels.
- English Word Shoveler Definition A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.
- English Word Shovelful Definition As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.
- English Word Shovelfuls Definition of Shovelful
- English Word Shovelhead Definition A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.
- English Word Shoveling Definition of Shovel
- English Word Shovelled Definition of Shovel
- English Word Shovelling Definition of Shovel
- English Word Shovelnose Definition The common sand shark. See under Snad.
- English Word Shovelnose Definition A small California shark (Heptranchias maculatus), which is taken for its oil.
- English Word Shovelnose Definition A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus).
- English Word Shovelnose Definition A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white sturgeon.
- English Word Shoven Definition p. p. of Shove.
- English Word Shoving Definition of Shove
- English Word Show Definition To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).
- English Word Show Definition To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.
- English Word Show Definition Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.
- English Word Show Definition To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.
- English Word Show Definition To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.
- English Word Show Definition To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.
- English Word Show Definition To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
- English Word Show Definition The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.
- English Word Show Definition That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show.
- English Word Show Definition Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.
- English Word Show Definition Semblance; likeness; appearance.
- English Word Show Definition False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.
- English Word Show Definition A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.
- English Word Show Definition A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.
- English Word Showbread Definition Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.
- English Word Showed Definition of Show