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Shining brightly. Shak.

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  • SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
    A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
  • SHINDLE
    A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland.
  • SHINGLER
    1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
  • SHINNEY
    The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin. Halliwell.
  • SHINPLASTER
    Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
  • SHIN
    A fish plate for rails. Knight. Shin bone , the tibia. -- Shin leaf , a perennial ericaceous herb with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers. (more info) scina, G. schiene, schienbein, Dan. skinnebeen, Sw. skenben.
  • SHINGLE
    Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
  • SHINGLY
    Abounding with shingle, or gravel.
  • SHINTOIST
    An adherent of Shintoism.
  • SHINGLES
    A kind of herpes which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
  • SHINGLING
    The process of expelling scoriƦ and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. Shingling hammer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron. -- Shingling mill, a mill or forge where
  • SHININGNESS
    Brightness. J. Spence.
  • SHINESS
    See SHYNESS
  • SHIN SHU
    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.
  • SHINING
    1. Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor. "Fish . . . with their fins and shining scales." Milton. 2. Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished;
  • SHINTY
    A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game. Jamieson.
  • SHINDY
    1. An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot. Thackeray. 2. Hockey; shinney. Bartlett. 3. A fancy or liking. Bartlett.
  • SHINTO; SHINTIISM
    One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its
  • SHINY
    Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded. Like distant thunder on a shiny day. Dryden.
  • SHINER
    That which shines. Specifically: A luminary. A bright piece of money. Has she the shiners, d' ye think Foote. black eye. Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and
  • SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
    A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
  • MOONSHINER
    A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
  • PLANISHING
    a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. Planishing rolls , rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness.
  • BRATTISHING
    Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. (more info) 1. See Brattice, n.
  • ASTONISHING
    Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event. Syn. -- Amazing; surprising; wonderful; marvelous. As*ton"ish*ing*ly, adv. -- As*ton"ish*ing*ness, n.
  • BUSHINESS
    The condition or quality of being bushy.
  • FLUSHING
    A surface formed of floating threads. (more info) 1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the
  • SWASHING
    1. Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak. 2. Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.
  • RAVISHING
    Rapturous; transporting.
  • SUNSHINY
    1. Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day. 2. Bright like the sun; resplendent. Flashing beams of that sunshiny shield. Spenser. 3. Beaming with good spirits; cheerful. "Her sunshiny face." Spenser.
  • INDISTINGUISHING
    Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson.
  • SPANNISHING
    The full blooming of a flower. Rom. of R.
  • LASHING
    The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. South. Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance.
  • DEPOLISHING
    The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
  • MOONSHINY
    Moonlight. I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.
  • DISHING
    Dish-shaped; concave.

 

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