shopwindow (shopwin"do)

A window of a shop, especially one of the front windows in which goods are displayed for sale; a show window. Some may think more of the manner of displaying their knowledge to a monetary advantage, like goods in a shop window , than of laying hold upon the substance. Gladstone, Gleanings of Past Years, I. 20. shop-woman (shop'wum"an), n. A woman who serves in a shop. 5586 He [Canute] caus'd his Royal Seat to be set on the shoar while the Tide was coming in. Milton, Hist. Eng., vi. 2. In law, the space between ordinary high water mark and low-water mark; foreshore. In the Roman law, the shore included the land as high up as the largest wave extended in winter. Burrill. Lee shore. See leel . - Shore cod-liver oil. See cod liver.- Shore fish. See fish 1. - Shore-grounds, inshore fishing-grounds. [Gloucester, Ma achusetts.] - Shore pool, a fishing-place for shore-seining. [Delaware River, New Jersey.] - Shore sandpiper. See sandpiper . shorel (shor), v . t .; pret. and pp. shored , ppr. shoring. [ I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him; if he think it fit to shore them again,. let him call me rogue for being so far officious. Shak ., W. T., iv. 4. 869. shore2 (shor), n. [Early mod. E. also shoar ; schore = D. schoor , a prop, = Norw.skora, a prop, Sw. dial. skåre , a piece of cut wood (cf. Icel. skordha, a prop, esp. under a boat, = Norw. skorda , a prop); prob. orig. a piece 'cut off of a suitable length, AS.sceran ( pp.scoren ), cut, shear: see shearl , and cf. shorel .] A post or beam of timber or iron for the temporary support of something; a prop. Schore, undursettynge of a thynge that wolde falle;. Suppositorium. Prompt. Parv., p. 448. As touching props and shores to support vines, the best (as we have said) are those of the oke or olive tree. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xvii. 22. The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. Long fellow, Building of the ship. Especially-( a ) A prop or timber obliquely placed, acting as a strut on the side of a building, as when the wall is in danger of falling, or when alterations are being made in the lower part of it, the upper end of the shore resting against that part of the wall on which there is the greatest stre . See dead - shore. (b) In ship - building: (1) A prop fixed under a ship's side or bottom to support her on the stocks, or when laid on the blocks on the slip. See also cut under launch Frame of a Ve el supported by Shores. shoreweed