2. A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.
The great quantity of shoddy goods furnished as army supplies in the late Civil War in the United States
gave wide currency to the word, and it came to be applied to persons who pretend to a higher position
in society than that to which their breeding or worth entitles them.
Shoddy
(Shod"dy), a. Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as, shoddy cloth; shoddy
blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy.
Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride.
Compton Reade. Shoddyism
(Shod"dy*ism) n. The quality or state of being shoddy. [Colloq.] See the Note under Shoddy,
n.
Shode
(Shode) n. [AS. scade, fr. sceádan. See Shed, v. t.]
1. The parting of the hair on the head. [Obs.]
Full straight and even lay his jolly shode.
Chaucer. 2. The top of the head; the head. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Shode
(Shode, Shod"ing). See Shoad, Shoading.
Shoder
(Sho"der) n. A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process
of beating.
Shoe
(Shoe) n.; pl. Shoes formerly Shoon now provincial. [OE. sho, scho, AS. sch, sceóh; akin to
OFries. sk, OS. skh, D. schoe, schoen, G. schuh, OHG. scuoh, Icel. skr, Dan. & Sw. sko, Goth.
skhs; of unknown origin.]
1. A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a
lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.
Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied.
Shak.
Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon.
Shak. 2. Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. Specifically: (a) A plate or rim of iron nailed to
the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury. (b) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened
to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow. (c) A drag, or sliding
piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a
hill. (d) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion. (e) (Arch.)
A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves
gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building. (f) (Milling.) The trough or spout for conveying
the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone. (g) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
(h) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter. (i) An iron socket to protect the point
of a wooden pile. (j) (Mach.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the
stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; — called also slipper,
and gib.
Shoe is often used adjectively, or in composition; as, shoe buckle, or shoe-buckle; shoe latchet, or shoe-
latchet; shoe leathet, or shoe-leather; shoe string, shoe-string, or shoestring.
Shoe of an anchor. (Naut.) (a) A small block of wood, convex on the back, with a hole to receive
the point of the anchor fluke, — used to prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of the vessel when
