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Shroving
() The festivity of Shrovetide.
Shrow
() A shrew.
Shrowd
() See Shrood.
Shrub
() A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
Shrub
() A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
Shrub
() To lop; to prune.
Shrubberies
() of Shrubbery
Shrubbery
() A collection of shrubs.
Shrubbery
() A place where shrubs are planted.
Shrubbiness
() Quality of being shrubby.
Shrubby
() Full of shrubs.
Shrubby
() Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub.
Shrubless
() having no shrubs.
Shruff
() Rubbish. Specifically: (a) Dross or refuse of metals. [Obs.] (b) Light, dry wood, or stuff used for fuel.
Shrugged
() of Shrug
Shrugging
() of Shrug
Shrug
() To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
Shrug
() To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
Shrug
() A drawing up of the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing dislike, dread, or doubt.
Shrunken
() p. p. & a. from Shrink.
Shuck
() A shock of grain.
Shuck
() A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
Shuck
() The shell of an oyster or clam.
Shucked
() of Shuck
Shucking
() of Shuck
Shuck
() To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.
Shucker
() One who shucks oysters or clams
Shuddered
() of Shudder
Shuddering
() of Shudder
Shudder
() To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
Shudder
() The act of shuddering, as with fear.
Shudderingly
() In a shuddering manner.
Shude
() The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.
Shuffled
() of Shuffle
Shuffling
() of Shuffle
Shuffle
() To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
Shuffle
() To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.
Shuffle
() To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
Shuffle
() To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
Shuffle
() To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
Shuffle
() To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Shuffle
() To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
Shuffle
() The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
Shuffle
() A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
Shuffleboard
() See Shovelboard.
Shufflecap
() A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap.
Shuffler
() One who shuffles.
Shuffler
() Either one of the three common American scaup ducks. See Scaup duck, under Scaup.
Shufflewing
() The hedg sparrow.
Shuffling
() Moving with a dragging, scraping step.