Vocabulary : Shittah to Shivered

Shittah : Alt. of Shittah tree
Shittah tree : A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.
Shittim : Alt. of Shittim wood
Shittim wood : The wood of the shittah tree.
Shittle : A shuttle. ;; Wavering; unsettled; inconstant.

Shittlecock : A shuttlecock.
Shittleness : Instability; inconstancy.
Shive : A slice; as, a shive of bread. ;; A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking. ;; A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.
Shiver : One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. ;; A thin slice; a shive. ;; A variety of blue slate. ;; A sheave or small wheel in a pulley. ;; A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter. ;; A spindle. ;; To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet. ;; To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered. ;; To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear. ;; To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind. ;; The act of shivering or trembling.
Shivered : of Shiver

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