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- English Word Shittlecock Definition A shuttlecock.
- English Word Shittleness Definition Instability; inconstancy.
- English Word Shive Definition A slice; as, a shive of bread.
- English Word Shive Definition A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.
- English Word Shive Definition A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.
- English Word Shiver Definition One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.
- English Word Shiver Definition A thin slice; a shive.
- English Word Shiver Definition A variety of blue slate.
- English Word Shiver Definition A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- English Word Shiver Definition A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
- English Word Shiver Definition A spindle.
- English Word Shiver Definition To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.
- English Word Shiver Definition To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
- English Word Shiver Definition To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
- English Word Shiver Definition To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
- English Word Shiver Definition The act of shivering or trembling.
- English Word Shiver-spar Definition A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
- English Word Shivered Definition of Shiver
- English Word Shivering Definition of Shiver
- English Word Shiveringly Definition In a shivering manner.