SHELLY
First name SHELLY's origin is English. SHELLY means "from the ledge meadow". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SHELLY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of shelly.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with SHELLY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming SHELLY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SHELLY AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH SHELLY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (helly) - Names That Ends with helly:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (elly) - Names That Ends with elly:
skelly elly nelly donnelly kelly kennellyRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (lly) - Names That Ends with lly:
dolly jilly kally lilly molly polly sally tilly billy connolly donnally nally rally reilly scully tally tully wally willy cully sully holly callyRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ly) - Names That Ends with ly:
moly kim-ly bily wetherly aisly aracely beverly bly carly chaisly charly cicely cicily cymberly daly eily emily gormly joely karly keely lily marily nathaly neely ashly blakely bradly brocly bromly burly caly cranly crosly dunly ely farly farnly greely hagly hanly hawly hrapenly huntly huxly karoly kealy kenly kirkly laidly lawly lindly linly manly marly mihaly morly priestly stanly thornly townly waverly weatherly yardly zachely gedaly hurly sheply seely ridgely everlyNAMES RHYMING WITH SHELLY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (shell) - Names That Begins with shell:
shelleyRhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (shel) - Names That Begins with shel:
shelbi shelby shelden sheldon shelny shelomo sheltonRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (she) - Names That Begins with she:
shea shealyn sheary sheedy sheehan sheelah sheena sheffield sheila sheilah sheiling sheiramoth shekinah shem shemariah shemus shepard shephard shepherd shepley sherard sherborne sherbourn sherbourne sherburne shereef sheridan sherif sherise sherlock sherman shermarke shermon sheron sherrer sherri sherry sherwin sherwood sherwyn sheshebens shet sheyRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (sh) - Names That Begins with sh:
sha-mia sha-ul shaaban shaan shabab shabaka shace shad shada shadd shaddoc shaddock shadha shadi shadia shadiyah shadoe shadrach shadwell shae shaela shaeleigh shaelynn shafeeq shafiq shahana shaheen shahrazad shai shaibya shailey shain shaina shaine shaithis shakeh shaker shakini shakir shakira shaku shalene shalom shalott shamay shamika shamra shamus shanNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SHELLY:
First Names which starts with 'sh' and ends with 'ly':
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'y':
safiy salisbury sallsbury sandy scandy sceley scotty sealey sedgeley selby seleby serenity sevy shandley shandy shanley shawnessey shay shipley shirley siany sibley sidney silny silsby sinley sisay skelley sky slansky slany slevy smedley sonny sorley stacey stacy stanbeny stanbury stanley stanway stockley stoney stormy suhay sunny susy suthley suzy sweeney sydneyEnglish Words Rhyming SHELLY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SHELLY AS A WHOLE:
shelly | adjective (a.) Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SHELLY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (helly) - English Words That Ends with helly:
helly | adjective (a.) Hellish. |
rakehelly | adjective (a.) Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. |
schelly | noun (n.) The powan. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (elly) - English Words That Ends with elly:
belly | noun (n.) That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen. |
noun (n.) The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly. | |
noun (n.) The womb. | |
noun (n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. | |
noun (n.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to swell out; to fill. | |
verb (v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge. |
felly | noun (n.) The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes. |
adverb (adv.) In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. |
gelly | noun (n.) Jelly. |
gravelly | adjective (a.) Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil. |
gruelly | adjective (a.) Like gruel; of the consistence of gruel. |
hazelly | adjective (a.) Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. |
jelly | noun (n.) Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like. |
noun (n.) The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly. | |
verb (v. i.) To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly. |
kernelly | adjective (a.) Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels. |
redbelly | noun (n.) The char. |
rosselly | adjective (a.) Loose; light. |
sawbelly | noun (n.) The alewife. |
skelly | noun (n.) A squint. |
verb (v. i.) To squint. |
swagbelly | noun (n.) A prominent, overhanging belly. |
noun (n.) Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. |
tinselly | adjective (a.) Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap. |
adverb (adv.) In a showy and cheap manner. |
whitebelly | noun (n.) The American widgeon, or baldpate. |
noun (n.) The prairie chicken. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (lly) - English Words That Ends with lly:
ally | noun (n.) See Alley, a marble or taw. |
verb (v. t.) To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. | |
verb (v. t.) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. | |
verb (v.) A relative; a kinsman. | |
verb (v.) One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate. | |
verb (v.) Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary. | |
verb (v.) Anything akin to another by structure, etc. |
billy | noun (n.) A club; esp., a policeman's club. |
noun (n.) A slubbing or roving machine. |
bully | noun (n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow. |
noun (n.) A brisk, dashing fellow. | |
adjective (a.) Jovial and blustering; dashing. | |
adjective (a.) Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse. | |
verb (v. t.) To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. | |
verb (v. i.) To act as a bully. | |
verb (v.) Alt. of Bully beef |
blolly | noun (n.) A shrub or small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies (Pisonia obtusata) with smooth oval leaves and a hard, 10-ribbed fruit. |
noun (n.) The rubiaceous shrub Chicocca racemosa, of the same region. |
capercally | noun (n.) A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. |
causally | noun (n.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing. |
adverb (adv.) According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes. |
cavally | noun (n.) A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.] |
chilly | adjective (a.) Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering. |
colly | noun (n.) The black grime or soot of coal. |
noun (n.) A kind of dog. See Collie. | |
verb (v. t.) To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. |
conjecturally | noun (n.) That which depends upon guess; guesswork. |
adverb (adv.) In a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture. |
coolly | adjective (a.) Coolish; cool. |
adverb (adv.) In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently. |
cully | noun (n.) A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull. |
noun (n.) To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive. |
dilly | noun (n.) A kind of stagecoach. |
dolly | noun (n.) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer. |
noun (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. | |
noun (n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver. | |
noun (n.) A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building. | |
noun (n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc. | |
noun (n.) A child's mane for a doll. |
dulwilly | noun (n.) The ring plover. |
filly | noun (n.) A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal. |
noun (n.) A lively, spirited young girl. |
folly | noun (n.) The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind. |
noun (n.) A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery. | |
noun (n.) Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness. | |
noun (n.) The result of a foolish action or enterprise. |
gally | noun (n.) See Galley, n., 4. |
adjective (a.) Like gall; bitter as gall. | |
verb (v. t.) To frighten; to worry. |
gentilly | adjective (a.) In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly. |
gillie gilly | noun (n.) A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands. |
gully | noun (n.) A large knife. |
noun (n.) A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry. | |
noun (n.) A grooved iron rail or tram plate. | |
verb (v. t.) To wear into a gully or into gullies. | |
verb (v. i.) To flow noisily. |
hilly | adjective (a.) Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country. |
adjective (a.) Lofty; as, hilly empire. |
holly | noun (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas. |
noun (n.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm. | |
adverb (adv.) Wholly. |
hully | adjective (a.) Having or containing hulls. |
impartially | adjective (a.) In an impartial manner. |
imperially | noun (n.) Imperial power. |
adverb (adv.) In an imperial manner. |
jolly | adjective (a.) A marine in the English navy. |
superlative (superl.) Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. | |
superlative (superl.) Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety. | |
superlative (superl.) Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to be jolly; to make good-natured; to encourage to feel pleasant or cheerful; -- often implying an insincere or bantering spirit; hence, to poke fun at. |
loblolly | noun (n.) Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen. |
molly | noun (n.) Same as Mollemoke. |
noun (n.) A pet or colloquial name for Mary. |
quirboilly | noun (n.) Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor. |
noun (n.) Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor. |
piccadilly | noun (n.) A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century. |
polly | noun (n.) A woman's name; also, a popular name for a parrot. |
rally | noun (n.) The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word). |
noun (n.) A political mass meeting. | |
noun (n.) Good-humored raillery. | |
verb (v. t.) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite. | |
verb (v. i.) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite. | |
verb (v. i.) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate. | |
verb (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire. | |
verb (v. i.) To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment. |
rascally | adjective (a.) Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. |
shrilly | adjective (a.) Somewhat shrill. |
adverb (adv.) In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice. |
silly | noun (n.) Happy; fortunate; blessed. |
noun (n.) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive. | |
noun (n.) Weak; helpless; frail. | |
noun (n.) Rustic; plain; simple; humble. | |
noun (n.) Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman. | |
noun (n.) Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question. |
spritefully | adjective (a.) Alt. of Spritely |
squally | adjective (a.) Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather. |
adjective (a.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain. | |
adjective (a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth. |
stilly | adjective (a.) Still; quiet; calm. |
adverb (adv.) In a still manner; quietly; silently; softly. |
sully | noun (n.) Soil; tarnish; stain. |
verb (v. t.) To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation. | |
verb (v. i.) To become soiled or tarnished. |
tally | noun (n.) Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept. |
noun (n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate. | |
noun (n.) One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate. | |
noun (n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game. | |
noun (n.) A tally shop. See Tally shop, below. | |
noun (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit. | |
noun (n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard. | |
adjective (a.) Stoutly; with spirit. | |
verb (v. i.) To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game. |
towilly | noun (n.) The sanderling; -- so called from its cry. |
trolly | noun (n.) A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. |
noun (n.) A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. | |
noun (n.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. | |
noun (n.) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. |
twilly | noun (n.) A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy. |
unsilly | adjective (a.) See Unsely. |
whally | adjective (a.) Having the iris of light color; -- said of horses. |
wilfully | noun (n.) Alt. of Wilfulness |
willy | noun (n.) A large wicker basket. |
noun (n.) Same as 1st Willow, 2. |
wittolly | adjective (a.) Like a wittol; cuckoldly. |
woolly | adjective (a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece. |
adjective (a.) Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. | |
adjective (a.) Clothed with wool. | |
adjective (a.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SHELLY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (shell) - Words That Begins with shell:
shell | noun (n.) A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal. |
noun (n.) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell. | |
noun (n.) A pod. | |
noun (n.) The hard covering of an egg. | |
noun (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like. | |
noun (n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering. | |
noun (n.) A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb. | |
noun (n.) The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms. | |
noun (n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house. | |
noun (n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one. | |
noun (n.) An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell. | |
noun (n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works. | |
noun (n.) The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc. | |
noun (n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve. | |
noun (n.) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell. | |
noun (n.) Something similar in form or action to an ordnance shell; | |
noun (n.) A case or cartridge containing a charge of explosive material, which bursts after having been thrown high into the air. It is often elevated through the agency of a larger firework in which it is contained. | |
noun (n.) A torpedo. | |
noun (n.) A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape. | |
noun (n.) A gouge bit or shell bit. | |
verb (v. t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters. | |
verb (v. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk. | |
verb (v. t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town. | |
verb (v. i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling. | |
verb (v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping. |
shelling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shell |
noun (n.) Groats; hulled oats. |
shellac | noun (n.) See the Note under 2d Lac. |
shellapple | noun (n.) See Sheldafle. |
shellbark | noun (n.) A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut. |
shelled | adjective (a.) Having a shell. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Shell |
sheller | noun (n.) One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. |
shellfish | noun (n.) Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs. |
shellproof | adjective (a.) Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof. |
shellwork | noun (n.) Work composed of shells, or adorned with them. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (shel) - Words That Begins with shel:
shelfa | noun (n.) Alt. of Shilfa |
sheld | adjective (a.) Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald. |
sheldafle | noun (n.) Alt. of Sheldaple |
sheldaple | noun (n.) A chaffinch. |
sheldfowl | noun (n.) The common sheldrake. |
sheldrake | noun (n.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows. |
noun (n.) Any one of the American mergansers. |
shelduck | noun (n.) The sheldrake. |
shelfy | adjective (a.) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. |
adjective (a.) Full of strata of rock. |
shelter | noun (n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen. |
noun (n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender. | |
noun (n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security. | |
verb (v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect. | |
verb (v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise. | |
verb (v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively. | |
verb (v. i.) To take shelter. |
sheltering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shelter |
shelterless | adjective (a.) Destitute of shelter or protection. |
sheltery | adjective (a.) Affording shelter. |
sheltie | noun (n.) Alt. of Shelty |
shelty | noun (n.) A Shetland pony. |
shelving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shelve |
noun (n.) The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet. | |
noun (n.) The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim. | |
noun (n.) Material for shelves; shelves, collectively. | |
adjective (a.) Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore. |
shelvy | adjective (a.) Sloping gradually; shelving. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (she) - Words That Begins with she:
sheaf | noun (n.) A sheave. |
noun (n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. | |
noun (n.) Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. | |
verb (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat. | |
verb (v. i.) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. |
sheafy | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf. |
sheal | noun (n.) Same as Sheeling. |
noun (n.) A shell or pod. | |
verb (v. t.) To put under a sheal or shelter. | |
verb (v. t.) To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod. |
shealing | noun (n.) The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell. |
noun (n.) Same as Sheeling. |
shearing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shear |
noun (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. | |
noun (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth. | |
noun (n.) Same as Shearling. | |
noun (n.) The act or operation of reaping. | |
noun (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates. | |
noun (n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. | |
noun (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. |
shearbill | noun (n.) The black skimmer. See Skimmer. |
sheard | noun (n.) See Shard. |
shearer | noun (n.) One who shears. |
noun (n.) A reaper. |
shearling | noun (n.) A sheep but once sheared. |
shearman | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to shear cloth. |
shearn | noun (n.) Dung; excrement. |
shears | noun (n.) A cutting instrument. |
noun (n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances. | |
noun (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins. | |
noun (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge. | |
noun (n.) Anything in the form of shears. | |
noun (n.) A pair of wings. | |
noun (n.) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle. | |
noun (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe. |
sheartail | noun (n.) The common tern. |
noun (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail. |
shearwater | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon. |
sheatfish | noun (n.) A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid. |
sheath | noun (n.) A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard. |
noun (n.) Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part. | |
noun (n.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses. | |
noun (n.) One of the elytra of an insect. |
sheathbill | noun (n.) Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic seas. |
sheating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sheathe |
sheathed | adjective (a.) Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath. |
adjective (a.) Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Sheathe |
sheather | noun (n.) One who sheathes. |
sheathfish | noun (n.) Same as Sheatfish. |
sheathing | noun (n.) That which sheathes. |
noun (n.) The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing. | |
noun (n.) The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general. | |
adjective (p. pr. & a.) Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants. |
sheathless | adjective (a.) Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed. |
sheathy | adjective (a.) Forming or resembling a sheath or case. |
sheaved | adjective (a.) Made of straw. |
shebander | noun (n.) A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies. |
shebang | noun (n.) A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop. |
shebeen | noun (n.) A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold. |
shechinah | noun (n.) See Shekinah. |
shecklaton | noun (n.) A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton. |
shed | noun (n.) A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed. |
noun (n.) A parting; a separation; a division. | |
noun (n.) The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed. | |
noun (n.) That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed. | |
noun (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads. | |
noun (n.) A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar. | |
verb (v. t.) To separate; to divide. | |
verb (v. t.) To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain. | |
verb (v. t.) To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water. | |
verb (v. t.) To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover. | |
verb (v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle. | |
verb (v. i.) To fall in drops; to pour. | |
verb (v. i.) To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Shed |
shedding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shed |
noun (n.) The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood. | |
noun (n.) That which is shed, or cast off. |
shedder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears. |
noun (n.) A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state. |
sheeling | noun (n.) A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed. |
sheely | noun (n.) Same as Sheelfa. |
sheen | noun (n.) Brightness; splendor; glitter. |
verb (v. t.) Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny. | |
verb (v. i.) To shine; to glisten. |
sheeny | adjective (a.) Bright; shining; radiant; sheen. |
sheep | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia. |
noun (n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow. | |
noun (n. sing. & pl.) Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd. |
sheepback | noun (n.) A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; -- usually in the plural. |
sheepberry | noun (n.) The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry. |
sheepbiter | noun (n.) One who practices petty thefts. |
sheepcot | noun (n.) Alt. of Sheepcote |
sheepcote | noun (n.) A small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold. |
sheepfold | noun (n.) A fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined. |
sheephook | noun (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. |
sheepish | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to sheep. |
adjective (a.) Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess. |
sheepmaster | noun (n.) A keeper or feeder of sheep; also, an owner of sheep. |
sheeprack | noun (n.) The starling. |
sheepshank | noun (n.) A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened. |
sheepshead | noun (n.) A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, / Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SHELLY:
English Words which starts with 'sh' and ends with 'ly':
shackly | adjective (a.) Shaky; rickety. |
shaly | adjective (a.) Resembling shale in structure. |
shepherdly | adjective (a.) Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic. |
shingly | adjective (a.) Abounding with shingle, or gravel. |
shoaly | adjective (a.) Full of shoals, or shallow places. |
shoefly | noun (n.) A contrivance for throwing the track temporarily to one side for convenience in filling washouts or effecting other repairs. |
noun (n.) In some cylinder presses, a device with long fingers for freeing the sheet from the cylinder. |