SPage 250
- English Word Shutter Definition A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle.
- English Word Shuttered Definition Furnished with shutters.
- English Word Shutting Definition of Shut
- English Word Shuttle Definition An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.
- English Word Shuttle Definition The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
- English Word Shuttle Definition A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
- English Word Shuttle Definition To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.
- English Word Shuttlecock Definition A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
- English Word Shuttlecock Definition To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.
- English Word Shuttlecork Definition See Shuttlecock.
- English Word Shuttlewise Definition Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
- English Word Shwan-pan Definition See Schwan-pan.
- English Word Shy Definition Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
- English Word Shy Definition Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
- English Word Shy Definition Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- English Word Shy Definition To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
- English Word Shy Definition To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.
- English Word Shy Definition A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- English Word Shy Definition A side throw; a throw; a fling.
- English Word Shying Definition of Shy
- English Word Shyly Definition In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.
- English Word Shyness Definition The quality or state of being shy.
- English Word Shyster Definition A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.
- English Word Si Definition A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.
- English Word Si quis Definition A notification by a candidate for orders of his intention to inquire whether any impediment may be alleged against him.
- English Word Siaga Definition The ahu, or jairou.
- English Word Sialogogue Definition An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.
- English Word Siamang Definition A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.
- English Word Siamese Definition Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language.
- English Word Siamese Definition A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam.