Index of English words, starting with "sh"

(1) - Shingle (v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
(2) - Shingle (v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
(3) - Shingle (v. t.) To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
(4) - Shingle (n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
(5) - Shingle (n.) 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.
(6) - Shingle (n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

(1) - Shingler (n.) A machine for shingling puddled iron.
(2) - Shingler (n.) One who shingles.

(1) - Shingles (n.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.

(1) - Shingly (a.) Abounding with shingle, or gravel.