Shoplifting () Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.

Shoplike () Suiting a shop; vulgar.

Shopmaid () A shopgirl.

Shopmen () of Shopman

Shopman () A shopkeeper; a retailer.

Shopman () One who serves in a shop; a salesman.

Shopman () One who works in a shop or a factory.

Shopper () One who shops.

Shoppish () Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.

Shoppy () Abounding with shops.

Shoppy () Of or pertaining to shops, or one's own shop or business; as, shoppy talk.

Shopshift () The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.

Shopwalker () One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.

Shopwomen () of Shopwoman

Shopwoman () A woman employed in a shop.

Shopworn () Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.

Shorage () Duty paid for goods brought on shore.

Shore () imp. of Shear.

Shore () A sewer.

Shore () A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.

Shored () of Shore

Shoring () of Shore

Shore () To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.

Shore () The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.

Shore () To set on shore.

Shoreless () Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean.

Shoreling () See Shorling.

Shorer () One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.

Shoreward () Toward the shore.

Shoring () The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore.

Shoring () A system of props; props, collectively.

Shorl () Alt. of Shorlaceous

Shorlaceous () See Schorl, Schorlaceous.

Shorling () The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing.

Shorling () A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest.

Shorn () p. p. of Shear.

Short () Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.

Short () Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.

Short () Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.

Short () Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.

Short () Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.

Short () Not distant in time; near at hand.

Short () Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.

Short () Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.

Short () Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.

Short () Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.

Short () Brittle.

Short () Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.

Short () Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.

Short () A summary account.

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