Definition of shore

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Shore (v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river..

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Seaside :: Seaside (n.) The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively..
Roadstead :: Roadstead (n.) An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4..
Beacon :: Beacon (n.) A high hill near the shore.
Shorage :: Shorage (n.) Duty paid for goods brought on shore.
Suent :: Sue (v. i.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship..
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..
Undertow :: Undertow (n.) The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.
Swamped :: Swamp (n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore..
Littoral :: Littoral (a.) Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea..
Sue :: Sue (v. t.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship..
Off :: Off (prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore..
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..
Offing :: Offing (n.) That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing..
Shore :: Shore (v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building..
Interior :: Interior (a.) Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country..
Midland :: Midland (a.) Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants..
Cockboat :: Cockboat (n.) A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore..
Sublobular :: Sublittoral (a.) Under the shore.
Rote :: Rote (n.) The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.
Shoar :: Shoar (n.) A prop. See 3d Shore.
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