Index of English words, starting with "sh"

(1) - Shrievalty (n.) The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty.

(1) - Shrift (n.) Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it.
(2) - Shrift (n.) The act of shriving.

(1) - Shrike (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.

(1) - Shrill (v. t.) To utter or express in a shrill tone; to cause to make a shrill sound.
(2) - Shrill (v. i.) To utter an acute, piercing sound; to sound with a sharp, shrill tone; to become shrill.
(3) - Shrill (n.) A shrill sound.
(4) - Shrill (v. i.) Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.