Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shallow"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rudd \Rudd\, n. [See {Rud}, n.] (Zo["o]l.)
A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family ({Leuciscus
erythrophthalmus}). It is about the size and shape of the
roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter
body, and red irises. Called also {redeye}, {roud},
{finscale}, and {shallow}. A blue variety is called
{azurine}, or {blue roach}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shallow \Shal"low\, a. [Compar. {Shallower}; superl.
{Shallowest}.] [OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or
shelving; cf. Icel. skj[=a]lgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D.
& G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. {Shelve} to slope, {Shoal}
shallow.]
1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. ``Shallow brooks,
and rivers wide.'' --Milton.
2. Not deep in tone. [R.]
The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring.
--Bacon.
3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating
deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant;
superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill
advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the
French king. --Bacon.
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.
--Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shallow \Shal"low\, n.
1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a
shoal; a flat; a shelf.
A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon
shallows of gravel. --Bacon.
Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden.
2. (Zo["o]l.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shallow \Shal"low\, v. t.
To make shallow. --Sir T. Browne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shallow \Shal"low\, v. i.
To become shallow, as water.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shallow
adj 1: lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension;
downward ("shallow water"; "a shallow dish"); or
inward from an outer surface ("a shallow cut"); or
backward ("a shallow closet"; "established a shallow
beachhead"); or outward from a center ((sports) "hit
the ball to shallow left field") [ant: {deep}]
2: not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow
breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a
shallow trance" [ant: {deep}]
3: lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with
what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed
shallow and tedious"
n : a stretch of shallow water [syn: {shoal}]
v 1: make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn: {shoal}]
2: become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn: {shoal}]
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