Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SHAL'LOW, a. [from shoal, Sax. sceol, a crowd, or rather sculf, a shelf.]

1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal; as, shallow water; a shallow stream; a shallow brook. – Dryden.
2. Not deep; not entering far into the earth; as, a shallow furrow; a shallow trench. – Dryden.
3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; I not penetrating deeply into abstruse subjects; superficial; as, a shallow mind or understanding; shallow skill. Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. – Milton.
4. Slight; not deep; as, a shallow sound. – Bacon.