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shal, v. & auxiliary, [imp. should shall linger or ink, then, boxboN, chair, get. 544 SHALLOON 526 defective, having no infinitive, imperative, or participle.] Orig. to owe, be under obligation: as an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or nece ity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; expre es, in the 2d and 3d persons, a command, threat, or promise; with the 1st person, the nece ity of the action sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than in the speaker, as, I shall suffer; we shall see; and there is always a le distinct and positive a ertion of his volition than is indicated by will; after a conditional conjunction, as whether, shall is used in all persons to expre futurity simply: should is everywhere used in the same connection and the same senses as shall, as its imperfect: also expre es duty or moral obligation: see Will. [AS. sceal, I shall, scolde or sceolde, I should, scul an, to owe, be under obligation to do something.] _ Shalloon, shal-loon', A kind of worsted stuff. [Fr. Chalons, France, where was first made.] Shallop, shal'lupj A large light boat with 2 masts, usually rigged like a schooner. [F. chaloupe, Sp. and Pg. chalupa sloop.] Shallot, shal-lof, A mild-flavored plant of the onion family, with a compound bulb like garlic eschalot. [OF. eschalote, L. as cal on i a, fr. the city of Ascalon, in Palestine.] Shallow, shaKlo.o. Having little depth; shoal; slight; not of low, heavy, or penetrating sound simple ignorant; superficial; silly. — n. A place where the water of a river, lake, or sea is of little depth; a shoal; sand-bank; shelf. [Same as shoal, q. v.; shelve.] — Shallowne , Sham, sham, Any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoints; delusion; imposture; feint; humbug.— a. ialse counterfeit pretended, — v. [shammed (shamd), -ming.] To deceive expectation, trick, cheat; to obtrude by fraud or imposition; to imitate, ape. — v. To make false pretenses, deceive. [ProvE. for shame, to put shame upon one, impose upon.] Shaman, sha/man, pi. -mans. A wizard or coni'urer in some northern Asiatic regions. [Per. & lind. shaman, an idolater.] — Sha'manism, -izm, The superstitious religion of the northern nations of Asia, consisting in a belief in evil spirits, and in the influence of magic spells and rites. — Sha'manist, n. A believer in, etc.