| shirt-stud abscess | An abscess consisting of two cavities connected by a narrow isthmus, usually formed by rupture of an abscesses through a fascial layer in the hand or foot. Synonym: shirt-stud abscess. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| shittah | A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc, of the Jewish tabernacle were made; now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in colour. Origin: Heb. Shittah, pl. Shittim. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shittah tree | A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc, of the Jewish tabernacle were made; now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in colour. Origin: Heb. Shittah, pl. Shittim. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shittim | The wood of the shittah tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shittim wood | The wood of the shittah tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shive | 1. A slice; as, a shive of bread. 2. A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking. 3. A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks. See: Sheave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shiver | To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered. "There shiver shafts upon shields thick." (Chaucer) "The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . Would instantly shiver into millions of atoms." (Woodward) 1. One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; generally used in the plural. "All to shivers dashed." 2. A thin slice; a shive. "A shiver of their own loaf." "Of your soft bread, not but a shiver." (Chaucer) 3. <geology> A variety of blue slate. 4. A sheave or small wheel in a pulley. 5. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter. 6. A spindle. Origin: OE. Schivere, fr. Shive; cf. G. Schifer a splinter, slate, OHG. Scivere a splinter, Dan. & Sw. Skifer a slate. See Shive, and cf. Skever. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shiver-spar | <chemical> A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure. Synonym: slate spar. Origin: Cf. G. Schiefer-spath. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shivering | Involuntary trembling or quivering of the body caused by contraction or twitching of the muscles, a physiologic method of heat production in man and other mammals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| shoad | <chemical> A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines. Alternative forms: shode. Origin: Cf. G. Schutt rubbish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shoading | <chemical> The tracing of veins of metal by shoads. Alternative forms: shoding. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shoal | A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. "Great shoals of people." "Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides." (Waller) Origin: AS. Scolu, sceolu, a company, multitude, crowd, akin to OS. Skola; probably originally, a division, and akin to Icel. Skilja to part, divide. See Skill, and cf. School. Of fishes. To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place. Origin: Shoaled; Shoaling. 1. A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc, is shallow; a shallow. "The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their span." (Mortimer) "Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor." (Shak) 2. A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal. "The god himself with ready trident stands, And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, Then heaves them off the shoals." (Dryden) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shoaly | Full of shoals, or shallow places. "The tossing vessel sailed on shoaly ground." (Dryden) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shoat | A young hog. Synonym: shote. Origin: M.E. Shote (05 Mar 2000) |
| shock | 1. <psychiatry> A sudden disturbance of mental equilibrium. 2. <cardiology> A condition of profound haemodynamic and metabolic disturbance characterised by failure of the circulatory system to maintain adequate perfusion of vital organs, it may result from inadequate blood volume (hypovolaemic shock), inadequate cardiac function (cardiogenic shock) or inadequate vasomotor tone (neurogenic shock, septic shock). (18 Nov 1997) |