<B>shofar, </B>noun, pl. <B>shofroth,</B> <B>shofars.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an ancient Hebrew musical instrument made of a curved ram's horn, still used in Jewish religious services, especially on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. <BR> <I>Ex. The ancient Hebrews decreed that a warning blast should be sounded on the shofar to mark the third case of an infectious disease in the community (Time).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, <B>shophar.</B> </DL>
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<B>shog, </B>verb, <B>shogged,</B> <B>shogging,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) <DD><I>v.t. </I> to shake (something) from side to side; jolt; jog. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to shake to and fro; rock. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a shake, jerk, or jog. <DD><B> 2. </B>a shogging gait. </DL>
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<B>shogi, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the game of chess as played in Japan. <BR> <I>Ex. Shogi ... where the captured piece becomes the property of the capturing side to be used for that side's offensive (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
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<B>shogun, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the former hereditary commander in chief of the Japanese army. The shoguns were the real rulers of Japan for hundreds of years until 1867. </DL>
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<B>shogunate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the position, rank, or rule of a shogun. <DD><B> 2. </B>government by shoguns. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the arrival of Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853 with both the shogunate and feudalism ending shortly thereafter (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>shohet, </B>noun, pl. <B>shohets,</B> <B>shohetim.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a Jewish slaughterer who is learned in the rabbinical laws of slaughtering animals. Also, <B>shochet.</B> </DL>
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<B>shoji, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ji</B> or <B>-jis,</B> or <B>shoji screen,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sliding screen of translucent paper used to make up the partitions or walls of a Japanese house. <BR> <I>Ex. Shoji screens slide in front of a glass bedroom wall (Sunset).</I> </DL>
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<B>Shona, </B>noun, pl. <B>-na</B> or <B>-nas.</B> <B>=Mashona.</B></DL>
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<B>shone, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> a past tense and past participle of <B>shine.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The sun shone all last week. It has not shone since.</I> </DL>
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<B>shoo, </B>interjection, verb, <B>shooed,</B> <B>shooing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>interj. </I> <B>1. </B>an exclamation used to scare away cats, hens, birds, and other animals. <DD><B> 2. </B>scat! go away! <DD><I>v.t. </I> to scare or drive away by or as if by calling "Shoo!". <BR> <I>Ex. Shoo those flies away from the sugar. If a cow came into this farmyard everybody in the place would be shooing it out again (H. G. Wells).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to call "Shoo!" <DD><B> 2. </B>to hurry away in obedience to a call of "Shoo." </DL>
<A NAME="shoofly">
<B>shoofly, </B>noun, pl. <B>-flies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=wild indigo.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) a temporary track to enable trains to avoid an obstruction in the regular line. </DL>
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<B>shoo-fly pie,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pie or cake made of flour, crumbs, brown sugar, and molasses. <BR> <I>Ex. Shoo-fly pie ... is a breakfast cake, he insists, and it's perfectly permissible to dunk it (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>shoo-in, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an easy or sure winner. <BR> <I>Ex. He had been considered a shoo-in, but now the strategists are not so sure (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an easy race or contest to win; sure thing. <BR> <I>Ex. The election will be no shoo-in for the Republicans (New York Daily News).</I> </DL>
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<B>shook</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a set of staves and pieces for top and bottom sufficient for a single barrel or keg, ready to be put together. <DD><B> 2. </B>a set of the parts of a box or article of furniture, ready to be put together. </DL>
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<B>shook</B> (2), verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>verb </I> the past tense of <B>shake.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. They shook hands. They shook with laughter. The solitary monk [Martin Luther] who shook the world (Robert Montgomery).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> (Slang.) shaken; shook-up. <BR> <I>Ex. "We had one guy so shook he couldn't speak when he came for an interview" (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>shook</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) a shock of corn or bundles of grain. </DL>
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<B>S-hook, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a double-pointed hook with the points turned in opposite directions. </DL>
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<B>shook-up, </B>adjective, or <B>shook up,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) shaken; disturbed; upset. <BR> <I>Ex. I can't get particularly shook-up about a couple of days' delay (The Nation).</I> </DL>
