Word Meanings - SHELFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." Dryden. 2. Full of strata of rock. The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. Carew.

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• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• CAREWORN
  Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.
• COASTING
  Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast. Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished fron foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. -- Coasting vessel,
• COAST
  1. The side of a thing. Sir I. Newton. 2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24. 3. The seashore, or land near it.
• ABOUND
  1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
• SHELFY
  1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." Dryden. 2. Full of strata of rock. The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. Carew.
• COASTWISE; COASTWAYS
  By way of, or along, the coast.
• STRATAGEM
  An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but
• COASTER
  1. A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade. 2. One who sails near the shore.
• COASTAL
  Of or pertaining to a cast.
• FASTENING
  Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
• STRATA
  pl. of Stratum.
• DANGEROUS
  1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
• COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
  A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department
• STRATAGEMICAL
  Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. Swift.
• TILLABLE
  Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.
• FASTEN
  Etym: 1. To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window. 2. To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• DISCOAST
  To depart; to quit the coast of anything; to be separated. As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow.
• ACCOAST
  To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.
• OVERABOUND
  To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.
• ROLLER COASTER
  An amusement railroad in which cars coast by gravity over a long winding track, with steep pitches and ascents.
• REFASTEN
  To fasten again.
• SEACOAST
  The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.
• SUPERABOUND
  To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.