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[PEG, 8., I. 2.] shoe-shaped, a. Anthrop.: An epithet applied to a form of pointed flake implement (the use of which is unknown), flat on one face and convex on the other. "The whole form is so like that of a shoe, that the name shoe- shaped has been applied to it."- Evans : Ancient Stone Implements , p. 565. IMG:content-1369.png:[blocks in formation] B. In trans.: To move off; to jog off or along. "Come, prethee let's shogg off, and browse an hour or two."- Beaum . & Flet.: Coxcomb , ii. 1. shog'-ging, 8. [SHOG, v.] A concu ion, a shaking. shog-gle, v. t. [Eng. shog, v.; frequent. suff. -le.] To joggle, to shake. shō-goon, 8. [SHOGUN.] shō-gun, s . [Japanese generali imo.) The so-called "secular" emperor of Japan; in reality the governor and generali imo of that country. (See extract.) "The mikado was the true sovereign of Japan, and the shogun was a usurper, and in no sense of the word a king or emperor. He was but a military governor, a commander-in-chief The term taikum (or IMG:content-1370.png:[blocks in formation] 4. To throw out, as a net, into the water; to cast. "On joining them afterward, we found that they had just shot their nets."- Field , Dec. 6, 1884. 5. To kill game in, on, or over; to shoot game over. "We shall soon be able to shoot the big coverts in the hollow."- London Daily News, 6. To strike with a in is sile shot; to hit, wound, or kill with a mi ile discharged from a gun, firearm, bow, . "To dethe he schet ys owne fader." Robert of Gloucester, p. 11. 7. To contend in, as a shooter; as, to shoot a match. 8. To pa rapidly through, under, or over. "The attempt to shoot that portion of Niagara which is found below the whirlpool."-London Daily Telegraph. 9. To drive or cast with the hand in working. "An honest weaver, and as good & workman as e'er shot shuttle, and as close."-Beaum. & Flet .: Coxcomb , v. 1. 10. To push or thrust forward; to protrude: to dart forth. (Followed by out .) "They shoot out the lip, they shake the head."-Psalm xxii. 7. 11. To put forth, as vegetable growth. "A grain of mustard groweth up and shooteth out IMG:content-1371.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1372.png:[blocks in formation] 4. A right to shoot game over a certain district. 5. A district or defined tract of ground over which game is or may be shot. "To induce a le ee to rent his shooting ."- Field , Sept. 4, 1886. becoming luminous, and darting acro the sky, its course being marked by a streak of silvery radiance, which is an optical illusion caused by the rapidity shooting-star is called a fire-ball (q. v.). "Shooting- stars , that glance and die." I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of one who or that which shoots; the of its pa age. [METEOR, 1;12.] When larger a 2. Bot .: (See extract.) "Our real cowslip, the shooting-star rare." Burroughs: Pepacton , p. 118. IMG:content-1373.png:[blocks in formation] 5. A trough or inclined plane to carry coal, lum- ber, .; a chute. 6. A young swine; a shoat or shote. 7. A species of colic, often fatal to calves. ( Low- or coming up regularly in the rows, as potatoes. IMG:content-1374.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A building or apartment, generally with a frontage to the street or road, in which retail goods are sold. "In gospel-phrase their chapmen they betray; Their shops are dens, the buyer is their prey." Dryden: Medal , 192. 2. A building or room in which workmen carry on their trades or occupation; as, a joiner's shop . II. Figuratively : IMG:content-1375.png:[blocks in formation] wood. Sepals five, enlarging into long wings; pet- als five; stamens twenty-five to thirty; fruit three valved, one-celled, one-seeded. Shorea robusta is the Saul-tree (q. v.). S. nervosa and S. tumbuggaia are from the south of India: the former yields a clear, yellowish resin like colophony, the latter a dammar used as a substitute for pitch. S. obtusa exudes a white and S. siamensis a red resin; both are from the Eastern Peninsula. IMG:content-1376.png:[blocks in formation] shöre-ward, a. or adv . [Eng. shore (1), s.; ward.] Toward the shore. "Sailing where the shoreward ripple curled." A. C. Swinburne: Tristram of Lyone e, viii. shör-ing, s . [Eng.shore (2), s.; -ing.] 1. The act of supporting with shores or props. 2. A number or set of shores or props taken col- lectively. shorl, shor-lā-ceo us (cas sh), . [SCHORL, SCHORLACEOUS, .] shor-ling, shöre-ling, s. [Eng. shore , pret. of shear ; -ling .] 1. Wool shorn from a living sheep, in opposition to that of a dead sheep, or morling (q. v.). " Shorling being the fells after the fleeces are shorn off the sheep's back."- Tomlin : Law Dictionary. 2. A sheep of the first year's shearing; a shear- ling; a newly-shorn sheep. IMG:content-1377.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Cut off; as, shorn wool. 2. Having the hair or wool cut off; as, a shorn sailors, soldiers, ., during a protracted voyage, IMG:content-1378.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1379.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Not coming up to a fixed or required standard; deficient; limited in quantity; not reaching a certain point; insufficient, inadequate, scanty, defective. "His means most short . " --Shakesp.: Timon, i. 1. 4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; not having a sufficient or adequate supply, amount, or quantity; deficient, wanting. (Generally followed by of , and used predicatively.) "I know them not; not therefore am I short Of knowing what I ought." Milton: P. R. , i. 56. 5. Not distant in time; not far in the future; near at hand. "He commanded those, who were appointed to attend him, to be ready by a short day." -Clarendon: Civil Wars. 6. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not far-reaching or comprehensive; contracted, narrow, scanty; not tenacious; as, a short memory. 1. Brief, short; not prolix or tedious. " Short tale to make." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. III ., ii. 1. 8. Curt, brief, abrupt, pointed, sharp, petulant; not ceremonious. "I will be bitter with him and pa ing short." Shakesp.: As You Like It , iii. 5. 9. Brittle, friable; liable to break. [COLD SHORT.] "Marl from Derby shire was very fat, though it had so great a quantity of sand, that it was so short , that, wet, you could not work it into a ball." - Mortimer: Hus- bandry. IMG:content-1380.png:[blocks in formation] "Short- cut or long, 'tis all the same to me." W. B. Rhodes: Bombastes Furioso. IMG:content-1381.png:[blocks in formation] Comm.: The rate of exchange quoted in the market for bills payable ten, twenty, thirty, or more, days after sight. short-hairs, s . A cant name applied politically and socially to the ma es of working people as distinguished from the wealthier cla es, or "silk-stockings" (q. v.).