Definition of shore

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Shore (v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building..

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Thinolite :: Thinolite (n.) A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada..
Shoreless :: Shoreless (a.) Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean..
Track :: Track (v. t.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow..
Inlet :: Inlet (n.) A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands..
Inshore :: Inshore (a.) Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents..
Off :: Off (prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore..
Liberty :: Liberty (n.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore.
Shelve :: Shelve (v. i.) To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore..
Arrive :: Arrive (v. i.) To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east..
Spit :: Spit (n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand..
Squillitic :: Squilla (n.) Any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also mantis shrimp. See Illust. under Stomapoda.
Situated :: Situated (a.) Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore..
Undersail :: Undersail (v. i.) To sail alongshore.
Shoreward :: Shoreward (adv.) Toward the shore.
Circumlittoral :: Circumlittoral (a.) Adjointing the shore.
Flux :: Flux (n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux..
Rivage :: Rivage (n.) A bank, shore, or coast..
Palmy :: Palmy (a.) Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore..
Limicolae :: Limicolae (n. pl.) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae..
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