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Word Meanings - SHALT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

2d per. sing. of Shall.

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  • 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.

 

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