Vocabulary : Shinplaster to Ship railway
Shinplaster : Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
Shintiism : One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.
Shintiyan : Alt. of Shintyan
Shinto : Alt. of Shintiism
Shintoist : An adherent of Shintoism.
Shinty : A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game.
Shintyan : A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
Shiny : Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
Ship : Pay; reward. ;; Any large seagoing vessel. ;; Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix. ;; A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. ;; To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water. ;; By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad. ;; Hence, to send away; to get rid of. ;; To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen. ;; To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea. ;; To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder. ;; To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war. ;; To embark on a ship.
Ship railway : An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs. ;; A railway on which to transport vessels overland between bodies of water.
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