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Shack
v. t.
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To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
Shack
n.
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The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
Shack
n.
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Liberty of winter pasturage.
Shack
n.
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A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Shackatory
n.
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A hound.
Shackle
n.
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Stubble.
Shackle
n.
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Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.
Shackle
n.
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Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.
Shackle
n.
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A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
Shackle
n.
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A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.
Shackle
n.
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A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
Shackle
n.
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The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.
Shackled
imp. & p. p.
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of Shackle
Shackling
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Shackle
Shackle
v. t.
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To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
Shackle
v. t.
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Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
Shackle
v. t.
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To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
Shacklock
n.
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A sort of shackle.
Shackly
a.
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Shaky; rickety.
Shad
n. sing. & pl.
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Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.
Shadbird
n.
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The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad.
Shadbird
n.
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The common European sandpiper.
Shadd
n.
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Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein.
Shadde
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obs. imp. of Shed.
Shaddock
n.
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A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.
Shade
n.
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Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light.
Shade
n.
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Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural.
Shade
n.
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An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat.
Shade
n.
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That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade.
Shade
n.
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Shadow.