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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Cove :: Cove (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore..
Rivage :: Rivage (n.) A bank, shore, or coast..
Mussel :: Mussel (n.) Any one of many species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Mytilus, and related genera, of the family Mytidae. The common mussel (Mytilus edulis; see Illust. under Byssus), and the larger, or horse, mussel (Modiola modiolus), inhabiting the shores both of Europe and America, are edible. The former is extensively used as food in Europe..
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck..
Sublobular :: Sublittoral (a.) Under the shore.
Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.
Seine :: Seine (n.) A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish..
Coast :: Coast (v. t.) The seashore, or land near it..
Lurg :: Lurg (n.) A large marine annelid (Nephthys caeca), inhabiting the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches..
Sea Holly :: Sea holly () An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.
Wharf :: Wharf (n.) The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea..
Offshore :: Offshore (a.) From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal..
Awash :: Awash (a.) Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it..
Creek :: Creek (n.) A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river..
Dammara :: Dammara (n.) An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine..
Surge :: Surfy (a.) Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf; as, a surfy shore..
Littoral :: Littoral (a.) Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea..
Botany Bay :: Botany Bay () A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770..
Rance :: Rance (n.) A prop or shore.
Glasswort :: Glasswort (n.) A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap..
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