Word Meanings - SHALT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
2d per. sing. of Shall.
Related words: (words related to SHALT)
- SHALLOP
A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails. - SHALLOON
A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift. - SHALLOW-BRAINED
Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South. - SHALLOW-WAISTED
Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel. - SHALLOW
schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone. - SHALLOT
A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot. - SHALL
sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll, - SHALLOW-PATED
Shallow-brained. - SHALLOWNESS
Quality or state of being shallow. - SHALLON
An evergreen shrub of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry. - SHALLOW-HEARTED
Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson. - SHALLI
See CHALLIS - SHALLOWLY
In a shallow manner. - SHALLOW-BODIED
Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel. - DISHALLOW
To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams. - SHILLY-SHALLY
To hesitate; to act in an irresolute manner; hence, to occupy one's self with trifles. - SHILL-I-SHALL-I; SHILLY-SHALLY
In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner. I am somewhat dainty in making a resolution, because when I make it, I keep it; I don't stand shill-I-shall-I then; if I say 't, I'll do 't. Congreve.