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Shelving
- verb - hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"
- place on a shelf; "shelve books"
Shieling
- - A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling.
Shifting
- verb - (of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth"
- change gears; "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill"
- change in quality; "His tone shifted"
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change; "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted"
- change place or direction; "Shift one's position"
- changing position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"; "shifty winds"
- continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors"
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"
- make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched"
- move abruptly; "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"
- move and exchange for another; "shift the date for our class reunion"
- move around; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jac
Shilling
- verb - a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up"
- an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
- the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents
Shinning
- verb - climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
Shipping
- verb - conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
- go on board
- hire for work on a ship
- place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"
- the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
- transport commercially
- travel by ship
Shirking
- verb - avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
- avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"
- the evasion of work or duty
Shirring
- verb - bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set; "shirr the eggs"
- baking shelled eggs
- Verb - In sewing, to shirr (shirring) is to make two or more rows of gathers used to decorate parts of garments, usually the sleeves, bodice or yoke.
Shirting
- verb - any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts
- put a shirt on
Shitting
- verb - give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"
- have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
- the elimination of fecal waste through the anus