Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of shore is as below...

Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed..

Row :: Row (v. t.) To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge..

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..

Shingle :: 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..

Inshore :: Inshore (a.) Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents..

Undertow :: Undertow (n.) The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.

Seaside :: Seaside (n.) The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively..

Cockboat :: Cockboat (n.) A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore..

Rote :: Rote (n.) The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.

Shore :: Shore (n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging..

Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.

Sandworm :: Sandworm (n.) Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore.

Liberty :: Liberty (n.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore.

Midden :: Midden (n.) An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens..

Bull :: Bull (v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4..

Beacon :: Beacon (n.) A high hill near the shore.

Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.

Circumlittoral :: Circumlittoral (a.) Adjointing the shore.

Pale :: Pale (n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

Mangrove :: Mangrove (n.) The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant..

Random Fonts

Most Popular