Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Shore"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shear \Shear\, v. t. [imp. {Sheared}or {Shore};p. p. {Sheared}
or {Shorn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shearing}.] [OE. sheren,
scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran;
akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. ski?re, Gr. ???.
Cf. {Jeer}, {Score}, {Shard}, {Share}, {Sheer} to turn
aside.]
1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like
instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from
sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument;
to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to
shear a fleece.
Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.
--Shak.
3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See
{Shear}, n., 4.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shore \Shore\, n.
A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shore \Shore\,
imp. of {Shear}. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shore \Shore\, n. [OE. schore; akin to LG. schore, D. schoor,
OD. schoore, Icel. skor?a, and perhaps to E. shear, as being
a piece cut off.]
A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the
side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath
anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
[Written also {shoar}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shore \Shore\, v. t.
To set on shore. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shore \Shore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shoring}.] [OE. schoren. See {Shore} a prop.]
To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up;
as, to shore up a building.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shore \Shore\, n. [OE. schore, AS. score, probably fr. scieran,
and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin
to OD. schoore, schoor. See {Shear}, v. t.]
The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an
ocean, lake, or large river.
Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
Is come shore. --Shak.
The fruitful shore of muddy Nile. --Spenser.
{In shore}, near the shore. --Marryat.
{On shore}. See under {On}.
{Shore birds} (Zo["o]l.), a collective name for the various
limicoline birds found on the seashore.
{Shore crab} (Zo["o]l.), any crab found on the beaches, or
between tides, especially any one of various species of
grapsoid crabs, as {Heterograpsus nudus} of California.
{Shore lark} (Zo["o]l.), a small American lark ({Otocoris
alpestris}) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on
the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark
brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow
local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black
streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear
tufts. Called also {horned lark}.
{Shore plover} (Zo["o]l.), a large-billed Australian plover
({Esacus magnirostris}). It lives on the seashore, and
feeds on crustaceans, etc.
{Shore teetan} (Zo["o]l.), the rock pipit ({Anthus
obscurus}). [Prov. Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shore
adj : of or on or relating to the seashore; "seashore resorts"; "a
shore dinner"; "a marine on shore duty" [syn: {seashore(a)},
{shore(a)}]
n 1: the land along the edge of a body of water (a lake or ocean
or river)
2: a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to
provide support [syn: {shoring}]
v 1: serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"
2: arrive on shore; of ships [syn: {land}, {set ashore}]
3: support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore
and buttress an old building" [syn: {prop up}, {prop}, {shore
up}]
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