Word Meanings - OVERSHINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To shine over or upon; to illumine. Shak. 2. To excel in shining; to outshine. 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.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• SHINNEY
  The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin. Halliwell.
• 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.
• SHINPLASTER
  Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
• 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.
• OUTSHINE
  To shine forth. "Bright, outshining beams." Shak.
• SHINTOIST
  An adherent of Shintoism.
• EXCELLENT
  1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims,
• EXCELSIOR
  More lofty; still higher; ever upward.
• 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 scoriæ 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.
• ILLUMINE
  To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.
• 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;
• 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.
• REILLUMINE
  To illumine again or anew; to reillume.
• MOONSHINY
  Moonlight. I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.