*shingl*

adv. With clashing. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Conspicuously; showily. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner to diminish. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With distinction; with some mark of preference. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to throw into ecstasy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flushing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With gnashing. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a gushing manner; copiously. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Weakly; sentimentally; effusively. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a languishing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Nutritively; cherishingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a ravishing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a rushing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stones. ] (Geol.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v. t., Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, shingle, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to slit. ] 1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. [ 1913 Webster ]

I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [ Jocose, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shingled p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling ] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

They shingle their houses with it. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who shingles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A machine for shingling puddled iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cengle a girth, F. sangle, fr. L. cingulum a girdle, fr. cingere to gird. Cf. Cincture, Cingle, Surcingle. ] (Med.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metal) The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shingling hammer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron. --
Shingling mill, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled. [ 1913 Webster ]