Index of English words, starting with "sh"

(1) - Shim (n.) A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.
(2) - Shim (n.) A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.

(1) - Shimmer (n.) A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.
(2) - Shimmer (v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

(1) - Shimmy (n.) A chemise.

(1) - Shin (v. t.) To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
(2) - Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
(3) - Shin (v. i.) To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.
(4) - Shin (n.) A fish plate for rails.
(5) - Shin (n.) The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.