Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SHIP-CAR-PEN-TER, n.

A shipwright; a carpenter that works at ship-building.

SHIP-CHAND-LER, n. [ship and chandler, G. handler, a trader or dealer.]

One who deals in cordage, canvas and other furniture of ships.

SHIP'-HOLD-ER, n. [ship and hold.]

The owner of a ship or of shipping.

SHIP'LESS, a.

Destitute of ships. – Gray.

SHIP'MAN, n. [ship and man.]

A seaman or sailor. [Obs.] – 1 Kings ix. Acts xxviii.

SHIP'MAS-TER, n. [ship and masler.]

The captain, master or commander of a ship. – Jonah i.

SHIP'MATE, n. [ship and mate.]

One who serves in the same ship with another.

SHIP'MENT, n.

1. The act of putting any thing on board of a ship or other vessel; embarkation; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London.
2. The goods or things shipped, or put on board of a ship or other vessel. We say, the merchants have made large shipments to the United States. The question is whether the share of M. in the shipment, is exempted from condemnation by reason of his neutral domicil. – J. Story.

SHIP'-MON-EY, n. [ship and money.]

In English history, an imposition formerly charged on the ports, towns, cities, boroughs and counties of England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for the king's service. This imposition being laid by the king's writ under the great seal, without the consent of parliament, was held to be contrary to the laws and statutes of the realm, and abolished by stat. 17 Car. II. – Encyc.

SHIP'-OWN-ER, n.

The owner of a ship or ships.

SHIP'PED, pp.

Put on board of a ship or vessel; received on board.

SHIP'PEN, n. [Sax. scipen.]

A stable; a cow-house. [Not in use.] – Chaucer.

SHIP'PING, n.

Ships in general; ships or vessels of any kind for navigation. The shipping of the English nation exceeds that of any other. The tunnage of the shipping belonging to the United States is second only to that of Great Britain. To take shipping, to embark; to enter on board a ship or vessel for conveyance or passage. John vi.

SHIP'PING, ppr.

1. Putting on board of a ship or vessel; receiving on board.
2. adj. Relating to ships; as, shipping concerns. – Kent.

SHIP-SHAPE, adv.

In a seamanlike manner. – Mar. Dict.

SHIP'WRECK, n. [ship and wreck.]

1. The destruction of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or broken to pieces by beating against rocks and the like. – Mar. Dict.
2. The parts of a shattered ship. [Unusual.] – Dryden.
3. Destruction. To make shipwreck concerning faith, is to apostatize from the love, profession and practice of divine truth which had been embraced. – 1 Tim. 1.

SHIP'WRECK, v.t.

To destroy by running ashore or on rocks or sand-banks. How many vessels are annually shipwrecked on the Bahama rocks! To suffer the perils of being cast away; to be cast ashore with the loss of the ship. The shipwrecked mariners were saved. – Addison. Shak.

SHIP'WRECK-ED, pp.

Cast ashore; dashed upon the rocks or banks; destroyed.

SHIP'WRIGHT, n. [ship and wright. See Work.]

One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels. – Swift.

SHIRE, n. [Sax. scir, scire, scyre, a division, from sciran, to divide. See Share and Shear. It is pronounced in compound words, shir, as in Hampshire, Berkshire.]

In England, a division of territory, otherwise called a county. The shire was originally a division of the kingdom under the jurisdiction of an earl or count, whose authority was intrusted to the sherif, [shire-reeve.] On this officer the government ultimately devolved. In the United States, the corresponding division of a state is called a county, but we retain shire in the compound half-shire; as when the county court is held in two towns in the same county alternately, we call one of the divisions a half-shire. In some states, shire is used as the constituent part of the name of a county, as Berkshire, Hampshire, in Massachusetts. These being the names established by law, we say, the county of Berkshire, and we can not with propriety say, the county of Berks, for there is no county in Massachusetts thus named.

SHIRE-MOTE, n. [Sax. scyr-gemote, shire-meeting.]

Anciently in England, the county court; sherif's turn or court. – Cowel. Blackstone.

SHIRK, n.

A different spelling of Shark, – which see.

SHIRL, n.

A different spelling of Shorl. [See Shorl.]

SHIR'LEY, n.

A bird, by some called the greater bullfinch; having the upper part of the body of a dark brown, and the throat and breast red. – Dict.

SHIRT, n. [shurt; Dan. skiorte, Sw. skiorta, a shirt; Dan. skiort, a petticoat; Ice. scyrta. This word seems to be named from its shortness or cutting off, and might have signified originally a somewhat different garment shortened; Sax. scyrt, short, L. curtus.]

A loose garment of linen, cotton or other material, worn by men and boys next the body. It is folly for a nation to export beef and linen, while a great part of the people are obliged to subsist on potatoes, and have no shirts to wear. – A. M.