Shiness to Shire
Shiness
(Shi"ness) n. See Shyness.
Shingle
(Shin"gle) n. [Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.)
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common
on the seashore and elsewhere.
Shingle
(Shin"gle), n. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split,
E. shed, v.t., Gr. shingle, to slit.]
1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, — used in covering
buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.
I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles.
Ray. 2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [Jocose, U. S.]
Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles.
Shingle
(Shin"gle), v. t. [imp. &. p. p. Shingled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling ]
1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
They shingle their houses with it.
Evelyn. 2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
Shingle
(Shin"gle), v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding
furnace.
Shingler
(Shin"gler) n.
1. One who shingles.
2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
Shingles
(Shin"gles) n. [OF. cengle a girth, F. sangle, fr. L. cingulum a girdle, fr. cingere to gird. Cf.
Cincture, Cingle, Surcingle.] (Med.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around
the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
Shingling
(Shin"gling) n.
1. The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.
2. (Metal) 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 puddled iron is shingled.
Shingly
(Shin"gly) a. Abounding with shingle, or gravel.
Shinhopple
(Shin"hop`ple) n. The hobblebush.
Shining
(Shin"ing) a.
