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n. A kind of net to catch woodcock. [ Obs. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cockshut time or
Cockshut light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [ Obs. ] Shak. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Metal.) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. -- n. An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The husk covering an ear of Indian corn. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., from dachs badger + hund dog. ] (Zool.) One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ill humor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chin. feng wind + shiu water. ] A system of spirit influences for good and evil believed by the Chinese to attend the natural features of landscape; also, a kind of geomancy dealing with these influences, used in determining sites for graves, houses, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. [ Jap. ] the main island of Japan. Together with the islands of Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku it forms the bulk of the land area of Japan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Nunchion. Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shut out. [ R. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) The Canada lynx. [ Written also peeshoo. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

phrase Do what you claim you can do; -- a challenge to someone who has claimed some ability. [ colloq. ] [ PJC ]

‖ /mhw>, n. [ Chinese san-shao thrice fired. ] A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure. S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ Jap., lit., true sect. ] The leading and most progressive Buddhist sect of Japan, resting its faith rather upon Amida than Gautama Buddha. Rites and ceremonies are held useless without uprightness. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A shock of grain. [ Prev. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perhaps akin to G. shote a husk, pod, shell. ] 1. A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The shell of an oyster or clam. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shucked p. pr. & vb. n. Shucking. ] 1. To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off. [ Colloq. ]

“Shucking” his coronet, after he had imbibed several draughts of fire water. F. A. Ober.

He had only been in Africa long enough to shuck off the notions he had acquired about the engineering of a west coast colony. Pall Mall Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who shucks oysters or clams [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Shuddered p. pr. & vb. n. Shuddering. ] [ OE. shoderen, schuderen; akin to LG. schuddern, D. schudden to shake, OS. skuddian, G. schaudern to shudder, schütteln to shake, schütten to pour, to shed, OHG. scutten, scuten, to shake. ] To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. “With shuddering horror pale.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of shuddering, as with fear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a shuddering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shuffled p. pr. & vb. n. Shuffling ] [ Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a freq. of shove. See Shove, and Scuffle. ] 1. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rombler. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shuffe off, to push off; to rid one's self of. --
To shuffe up, to throw together in hastel to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. [ 1913 Webster ]

I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your life, good master,
Must shuffle for itself. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The aged creature came
Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; juggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Shovelboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap. [ R. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

2. (Zool.) Either one of the three common American scaup ducks. See Scaup duck, under Scaup. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The hedg sparrow. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. “A shuffling nag.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. In a shuffling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Shrug. ] 1. To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to crawl; to sneak. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There I 'll shug in and get a noble countenance. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Sumac. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shunned p. pr. & vb. n. Shunning. ] [ OE. shunien, schunien, schonien, AS. scunian, sceonian; cf. D. schuinen to slepe, schuin oblique, sloping, Icel. skunda, skynda, to hasten. Cf. Schooner, Scoundrel, Shunt. ] To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Acts xx. 26, 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scarcity and want shall shun you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Avoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable. [ R. ] “Shunless destiny.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shunting. ] [ Prov. E., to move from, to put off, fr. OE. shunten, schunten, schounten; cf. D. schuinte a slant, slope, Icel. skunda to hasten. Cf. Shun. ] 1. To shun; to move from. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift. [ 1913 Webster ]

For shunting your late partner on to me. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To go aside; to turn off. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See Shunt, v. t. ] 1. (Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Elec.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gunnery) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shunt dynamo (Elec.), a dynamo in which the field circuit is connected with the main circuit so as to form a shunt to the letter, thus employing a portion of the current from the armature to maintain the field. --
Shunt gun, a firearm having shunt rifling. See under Rifling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Railroad) A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr. & vb. n. of Shunt. Specif.: vb. n. (a) (Railroads) Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. [ British ] (b) (Finance) Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage. [ Great Britain ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Mach.) A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif., a valve, actuated by the governor, used in one system of marine-engine governing to connect both ends of the low-pressure cylinder as a supplementary control. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Elec.) A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding. -- Shunt"-wound` a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shut; p. pr. & vb. n. Shutting. ] [ OE. shutten, schutten, shetten, schitten, AS. scyttan to shut or lock up (akin to D. schutten, G. schützen to protect), properly, to fasten with a bolt or bar shot across, fr. AS. sceótan to shoot. √159. See Shoot. ] 1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall that be shut to man which to the beast
Is open? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. “Shut from every shore.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shut in. (a) To inclose; to confine. “The Lord shut him in.” Cen. vii. 16. (b) To cover or intercept the view of; as, one point shuts in another. --
To shut off. (a) To exclude. (b) To prevent the passage of, as steam through a pipe, or water through a flume, by closing a cock, valve, or gate. --
To shut out, to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof. --
To shut together, to unite; to close, especially to close by welding. --
To shut up. (a) To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house. (b) To obstruct. “Dangerous rocks shut up the passage.” Sir W. Raleigh. (c) To inclose; to confine; to imprison; to fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner. [ 1913 Webster ] Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Gal. iii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ] (d) To end; to terminate; to conclude. [ 1913 Webster ] When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ] (e) To unite, as two pieces of metal by welding. (f) To cause to become silent by authority, argument, or force. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shut up, to cease speaking. [ Colloq. ] T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Closed or fastened; as, a shut door. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. [ Now dialectical or local, Eng. & U.S. ] L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Phon.) (a) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g. H. Sweet. (b) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, ă, &ebreve_;, &ibreve_;, &obreve_;, ŭ, always are. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door. [ 1913 Webster ]

Just then returned at shut of evening flowers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A door or cover; a shutter. [ Obs. ] Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cold shut, the imperfection in a casting caused by the flowing of liquid metal upon partially chilled metal; also, the imperfect weld in a forging caused by the inadequate heat of one surface under working. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Chute, or Shoot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who shuts or closes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Photog.) A mechanical device of various forms, attached to the aperture of a camera lens for opening and closing to expose the plate. It is usually designed so that the time during which the aperture is opened may be varied by a manual dial or by some automatic mechanism, thereby allowing proper exposure of a photographic film under different intensities of light. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]