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  • English Word Shrovetide Definition The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.
  • English Word Shroving Definition The festivity of Shrovetide.
  • English Word Shrow Definition A shrew.
  • English Word Shrowd Definition See Shrood.
  • English Word Shrub Definition A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
  • English Word Shrub Definition A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
  • English Word Shrub Definition To lop; to prune.
  • English Word Shrubberies Definition of Shrubbery
  • English Word Shrubbery Definition A collection of shrubs.
  • English Word Shrubbery Definition A place where shrubs are planted.
  • English Word Shrubbiness Definition Quality of being shrubby.
  • English Word Shrubby Definition Full of shrubs.
  • English Word Shrubby Definition Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub.
  • English Word Shrubless Definition having no shrubs.
  • English Word Shruff Definition Rubbish. Specifically: (a) Dross or refuse of metals. [Obs.] (b) Light, dry wood, or stuff used for fuel.
  • English Word Shrug Definition To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
  • English Word Shrug Definition To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
  • English Word Shrug Definition A drawing up of the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing dislike, dread, or doubt.
  • English Word Shrugged Definition of Shrug
  • English Word Shrugging Definition of Shrug
  • English Word Shrunk Definition of Shrink
  • English Word Shrunk Definition of Shrink
  • English Word Shrunken Definition of Shrink
  • English Word Shrunken Definition p. p. & a. from Shrink.
  • English Word Shuck Definition A shock of grain.
  • English Word Shuck Definition A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
  • English Word Shuck Definition The shell of an oyster or clam.
  • English Word Shuck Definition To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.
  • English Word Shucked Definition of Shuck
  • English Word Shucker Definition One who shucks oysters or clams