Vocabulary : Shin Shu to Shingled
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.
Shindies : of Shindy
Shindle : A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. ;; To cover or roof with shindles.
Shindy : An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot. ;; Hockey; shinney. ;; A fancy or liking.
Shine : To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night. ;; To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver. ;; To be effulgent in splendor or beauty. ;; To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation. ;; To cause to shine, as a light. ;; To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them. ;; The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen. ;; Sunshine; fair weather. ;; A liking for a person; a fancy. ;; Caper; antic; row. ;; Shining; sheen.
Shined : of Shine
Shiner : That which shines. ;; A luminary. ;; A bright piece of money. ;; Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada. ;; The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
Shiness : See Shyness.
Shingle : Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere. ;; 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. ;; A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. ;; To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. ;; To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. ;; To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Shingled : of Shingle
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