<B>ship chandler,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a dealer who supplies ships with necessary stores. </DL>
<A NAME="shipchandlery">
<B>ship chandlery,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the business of, or goods dealt in by, a ship chandler. </DL>
<A NAME="shipentine">
<B>shipentine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a four-masted vessel having the first three masts square-rigged and the last one fore-and-aft-rigged. </DL>
<A NAME="shipfever">
<B>ship fever,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> typhus as occurring on overcrowded ships. </DL>
<A NAME="shipfitter">
<B>shipfitter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who fits together parts of ships. </DL>
<A NAME="shipful">
<B>shipful, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fuls.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a quantity or number sufficient to fill a ship. </DL>
<A NAME="shiplap">
<B>shiplap, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a flush, overlapping joint between boards, formed by cutting corresponding rabbets in the adjoining edges and lapping the boards to the depth of the rabbets. <DD><B> 2. </B>boards so rabbeted. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>having such rabbets. <BR> <I>Ex. shiplap siding.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>utilizing lumber so milled. <BR> <I>Ex. shiplap construction.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shipless">
<B>shipless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>unoccupied by ships. <DD><B> 2. </B>possessing no ships; deprived of one's ship or ships. </DL>
<A NAME="shipload">
<B>shipload, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a full load for a ship. <BR> <I>Ex. shiploads of military equipment.</I> (SYN) cargo. </DL>
<A NAME="shipman">
<B>shipman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the master of a ship; shipmaster. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) a sailor. </DL>
<A NAME="shipmaster">
<B>shipmaster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the master, commander, or captain of a ship, especially a merchant ship. </DL>
<A NAME="shipmate">
<B>shipmate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a fellow sailor on a ship. <BR> <I>Ex. Members of the catering staff walked off the ship in protest against the threatened dismissal of two of their shipmates (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who sails on the same ship; fellow passenger. <BR> <I>Ex. He also told of catching 75-pound groupers ... from the crash boat he and a shipmate were [on] (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shipment">
<B>shipment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of shipping goods. <BR> <I>Ex. A thousand boxes of oranges are ready for shipment.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the goods sent at one time to a person or company. <BR> <I>Ex. a shipment to Europe, a large shipment of nails. We received two shipments of boxes from the factory.</I> (SYN) consignment. </DL>
<A NAME="shipmoney">
<B>ship money,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an old English tax to provide money to build ships in time of war. It was abolished by an act of Parliament in 1640. </DL>
<A NAME="shipofstate">
<B>ship of state,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the government. <BR> <I>Ex. ... sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union strong and great! (Longfellow).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shipofthedesert">
<B>ship of the desert,</B> =camel.</DL>
<A NAME="shipoftheline">
<B>ship of the line,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sailing warship of the largest class, carrying 74 or more guns, big enough to be part of the line of battle of a fleet. </DL>
<A NAME="shipofwar">
<B>ship-of-war, </B>noun. =warship.</DL>
<A NAME="shipowner">
<B>shipowner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who owns a ship or ships. </DL>
<A NAME="shipowning">
<B>shipowning, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> ownership in a ship or ships. <DD><I>adj. </I> that owns a ship. </DL>
<A NAME="shippable">
<B>shippable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be shipped. </DL>
<A NAME="shipper">
<B>shipper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or company that ships goods. <BR> <I>Ex. shippers of bulk cargo.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shipperfork">
<B>shipper fork,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a two-pronged device for guiding a belt from one pulley to another on a machine. </DL>
<A NAME="shipping">
<B>shipping, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or business of sending goods by water, rail, truck, or air. <BR> <I>Ex. Mr. Hecht brought his own kind of jet propulsion into shipping long before the airplane people even dreamed of it (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>ships collectively. <BR> <I>Ex. Much of the world's shipping passes through the Panama Canal.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the ships of a nation, city, or business. <BR> <I>Ex. British merchant shipping.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>their total tonnage. <BR> <I>Ex. an increase of 250,000 deadweight tons in merchant shipping.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) a voyage. <BR> <I>Ex. God send 'em good shipping (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shippingclerk">
<B>shipping clerk,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person whose work is to see to the packing and shipment of goods. <DD><B> 2. </B>any person who works in a shipping room. </DL>
<A NAME="shippingfever">
<B>shipping fever,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a disease similar to influenza, attacking animals, such as cattle and horses, that are being shipped. The exhaustion of travel and changes in climate, water, and feed cause them to lose appetite, and to develop fever and a cough and red, watery eyes. </DL>
<A NAME="shippinglane">
<B>shipping lane,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a regular route for ships, usually provided with aids to navigation; lane. </DL>
<A NAME="shippingline">
<B>shipping line,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a company that has ships for transporting goods or passengers. </DL>
<A NAME="shippingroom">
<B>shipping room,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a room in a business house, factory, or warehouse, where consignments of goods are made up and packed, and from which they are sent. </DL>
<A NAME="shippington">
<B>shipping ton,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to 40 cubic feet or 1.13 cubic meters; measurement ton; freight ton. </DL>
<A NAME="shippon">
<B>shippon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) a cattle barn. </DL>
<A NAME="shiprigged">
<B>ship-rigged, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>rigged with square sails on all three masts. <DD><B> 2. </B>carrying square sails; square-rigged. <BR> <I>Ex. a ship-rigged mast.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shipsbell">
<B>ship's bell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the bell on a ship that is struck every half hour to tell time, indicate the time of the watch, etc. </DL>
<A NAME="shipsboat">
<B>ship's boat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rowboat, launch, or the like, carried on or towed by a ship for use in landing passengers, as a lifeboat, and for other purposes. </DL>
<A NAME="shipshape">
<B>shipshape, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> in good order; trim. <BR> <I>Ex. We finally got the rocket shipshape just before the admiral in charge of aviation policy arrived (Atlantic).</I> (SYN) tidy. <DD><I>adv. </I> in a trim, neat manner. </DL>
<A NAME="shipshusband">
<B>ship's husband,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a man who has the care of a ship while in port; a person who oversees the general interests of a ship, such as berthing, provisioning, repairing, and entering and clearing. </DL>
<A NAME="shipside">
<B>shipside, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the area alongside which a ship is docked. <BR> <I>Ex. Cargo has to be moved to shipside (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shipspapers">
<B>ship's papers,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the documents giving information, especially as to the ship's nationality, owner, crew, equipment, and cargo, which every ship must carry. </DL>
<A NAME="shipsstore">
<B>ship's store,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a general store for a ship's personnel; a Navy Exchange afloat. </DL>
<A NAME="shiptoship">
<B>ship-to-ship, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> passing from one ship to another; aimed at another ship. <BR> <I>Ex. a ship-to-ship rocket or missile.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shiptoshore">
<B>ship-to-shore, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> passing from a ship to the shore; working between a ship and shore. <BR> <I>Ex. In a ship-to-shore call she urged her husband not to waste his time meeting her at the pier (Harper's).</I> <DD><I>adv. </I> from a ship to the shore. <BR> <I>Ex. to radio ship-to-shore.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="shipway">
<B>shipway, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the structure on which a ship is built; ways. <BR> <I>Ex. The entire assembly is hoisted into the spider-web of girders that make up the shipway, for quick insertion (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=ship canal.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="shipworm">
<B>shipworm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various clams, having small valves and long, wormlike bodies, which burrow into the timbers, especially of ships and docks; teredo; copperworm. </DL>
<A NAME="shipwreck">
<B>shipwreck, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the destruction or loss of a ship by foundering, by striking a rock or shoal, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. Only two people were saved from the shipwreck.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a wrecked ship or what remains of it; wreckage. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a total loss or ruin; destruction. <BR> <I>Ex. The shipwreck of his plans discouraged him.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1a. </B>to cause (a person) to suffer shipwreck. <BR> <I>Ex. shipwrecked by a hurricane.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to cause the loss of (goods) by shipwreck. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to wreck, ruin, or destroy. <BR> <I>Ex. a career shipwrecked by war.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to suffer shipwreck. </DL>
<A NAME="shipwright">
<B>shipwright, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who builds or repairs ships. </DL>
<A NAME="shipyard">
<B>shipyard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a place near the water where ships are built or repaired. </DL>
<A NAME="shiralee">
<B>shiralee, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Australian Slang.) a bundle of personal belongings; swag. </DL>
<A NAME="shirazi">
<B>Shirazi, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Zanzibari of mixed African and Persian descent. </DL>
<A NAME="shire">
<B>shire, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one of the counties into which Great Britain is divided. <BR> <I>Ex. They mean to live to themselves more than ever in the shires (J. W. R. Scott).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>one of the larger divisions of a state local administration in Australia. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) a province; district; region. </DL>
<A NAME="shire">
<B>Shire, </B>noun. =shire horse.</DL>
<A NAME="shirehorse">
<B>shire horse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any large, strong draft horse of a breed with long hair on the back of the legs from the knees and hocks down, bred for a time in the midland counties of England. </DL>
<A NAME="shiretown">
<B>shire town,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the town where the business of a shire is transacted. </DL>
