<B>shapoo, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mountain sheep of central Asia which resembles the bighorn of North America. </DL>
<A NAME="sharable">
<B>sharable, </B>adjective. =shareable.</DL>
<A NAME="shard">
<B>shard</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a piece of broken earthenware or pottery. <DD><B> 2. </B>a broken piece; fragment. <DD><B> 3. </B>the hard case that covers a beetle's wing; elytron. Also, <B>sherd.</B> </DL>
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<B>shard</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Dialect.) excrement; a mass of cow dung. </DL>
<A NAME="shardbeetle">
<B>shard beetle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various dung beetles. </DL>
<A NAME="shardborn">
<B>shard-born, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>born or generated in shards or dung. <BR> <I>Ex. ... The shard-born beetle ... (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>borne on shards or elytra (due to a misinterpretation of Shakespeare). </DL>
<A NAME="sharded">
<B>sharded, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having shards or elytra, as a beetle; coleopterous. <BR> <I>Ex. Sharded insects ... vastly outnumber all the other forms of active life we see (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="share">
<B>share</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>shared,</B> <B>sharing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the part belonging to one person; part; portion. <BR> <I>Ex. to take little share in a conversation. He left each child an equal share of his property. He does more than his share of the work.</I> (SYN) allotment, quota. <DD><B> 2. </B>a part of anything owned in common with others. <BR> <I>Ex. One of the boys offered to sell his share in the boat.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>each of the equal parts into which the ownership of a company or corporation is divided. Shares are usually in the form of transferable certificates of stock. <BR> <I>Ex. The ownership of this railroad is divided into several million shares. With borrowed money, they bought 59,100 shares ... then agreed to resell the block (Newsweek).</I> <DD> (Abbr:) sh. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to use together; enjoy together; have in common. <BR> <I>Ex. Since one tent leaked, all the boys shared the other one.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to divide into parts, each taking a part. <BR> <I>Ex. The child shared his candy with his sister.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to divide. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a thin oaten cake, shared into fragments (Charlotte Bronte).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to have a share; take part. <BR> <I>Ex. to share in the expenses. Everyone shared in making the picnic a success.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>go shares,</B> </I>to share in something. <BR> <I>Ex. If you find the treasure we will go shares (H. Rider Haggard).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>on shares,</B> </I>sharing in the risks and profits. <BR> <I>Ex. Men can always be had to go on shares, which is by far the most profitable method, both to the employers and the fishermen (Jeremy Belknap).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>share and share alike,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to share alike in; have equal shares, such as in a will or insurance policy. </I> <I>Ex. I bequeath to my nephews and nieces ... the whole of my ... personal effects, share and share alike (Frederick Marryat).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to share everything with others. <BR> <I>Ex. Children should not fight about their toys but should share and share alike.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="share">
<B>share</B> (2), noun. =plowshare.</DL>
<A NAME="shareable">
<B>shareable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be shared. </DL>
<A NAME="sharecrop">
<B>sharecrop, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>-cropped,</B> <B>-cropping.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to farm as a sharecropper. <BR> <I>Ex. Later they sharecropped, saved money, bought their own land, grew cotton, corn and rice (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sharecropper">
<B>sharecropper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who farms land for the owner in return for part of the crops. <BR> <I>Ex. Sharecroppers and tenant farmers left the farm and turned to the rapidly growing opportunities in industry (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sharedraft">
<B>share draft,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a draft ordering a credit union to pay someone from funds on deposit. </DL>
<A NAME="shareholder">
<B>shareholder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person owning shares of stock; stockholder. <BR> <I>Ex. This railroad has many thousands of shareholders.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shareholding">
<B>shareholding, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> stockholding; shareownership. <BR> <I>Ex. Chase Manhattan plans to acquire ... an important shareholding in an overseas banking corporation (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shareout">
<B>shareout, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> distribution (as of prizes, shares, or commodities) in shares. <BR> <I>Ex. In the shareout of decorations which had accompanied victory his name had been noticeably absent (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shareowner">
<B>shareowner, </B>noun. =shareholder.</DL>
<A NAME="shareownership">
<B>shareownership, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> ownership of shares of stock. <BR> <I>Ex. Without stock markets this free exchange of shareownership obviously would be extremely difficult, if not totally impossible (Alfred L. Malabre, Jr.).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sharer">
<B>sharer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that shares. </DL>
<A NAME="shareware">
<B>shareware, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> computer software available free from other users or at very low cost from producers or vendors. <BR> <I>Ex. It is perfectly legal, and even encouraged, to distribute copies of shareware and public-domain programs. Not so with other software (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sharia">
<B>Sharia</B> or <B>Shariah, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the religious law of the Moslems, consisting of the Koran and the traditional sayings of Mohammed. <BR> <I>Ex. They urge the enforcement of a modified Sharia law and propagate the principle of a theocratic state (Atlantic).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, <B>Sheria.</B> </DL>
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<A NAME="sharif">
<B>sharif, </B>noun. =sherif.</DL>
<A NAME="shark">
<B>shark</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of fishes, mostly marine, certain kinds of which are large and ferocious and eat other fishes. Certain kinds are sometimes dangerous to man. Sharks have streamlined, spindlelike bodies, with gill slits on the sides and thick, dull-colored skin, and swim by movements of the tail. adj. <B>sharklike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="shark">
<B>shark</B> (2), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a dishonest person who preys on others. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) a person unusually good at something; expert. <BR> <I>Ex. a shark at bridge.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to act or live by preying on others; live by trickery. <DD><B> 2. </B>to be a cardsharp. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to obtain by trickery, fraud, or theft. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) to collect quickly. </DL>
<A NAME="sharkliveroil">
<B>shark-liver oil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> oil extracted from the liver of sharks, used as a source of vitamin A and as a preservative. </DL>
<A NAME="sharkproof">
<B>sharkproof, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> able to withstand an attack by a shark; protected against sharks. </DL>
<A NAME="sharkrepellent">
<B>shark repellent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a chemical substance that repels sharks. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S. Finance.) any means used by a company to prevent a corporate take-over. </DL>
<A NAME="sharkskin">
<B>sharkskin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a fabric made from fine threads of wool, rayon, or cotton, used in suits. <BR> <I>Ex. ... dapper, aromatic men in sharkskin and effulgent neckties (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>the skin of a shark. <DD><B> b. </B>leather made from the skin of a shark. </DL>
<A NAME="sharksucker">
<B>shark sucker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fish, widely distributed over warm seas, that attaches itself by means of a sucker to large fish without regard to their species; remora. </DL>
