Word Meanings - WHENEVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.

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• WHENEVER
  At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.
• 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.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• SHALLOWNESS
  Quality or state of being shallow.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SHALLON
  An evergreen shrub of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.
• SHALLOW-HEARTED
  Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson.
• WHATEVER
  Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively. Whatever
• SHALLI
  See CHALLIS
• SHALLOWLY
  In a shallow manner.
• SHALLOW-BODIED
  Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• 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.