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Shellack
- verb - cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"
Shellacs
- noun - Slang
a. To strike repeatedly and severely; batter.
b. To defeat decisively.
c. an utter defeat.
d. a sound thrashing.
- a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
- cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"
- lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
Shellers
- noun - a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters)
Shelling
- verb - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
- create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain"
- fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled"
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"
- remove the husks from; "husk corn"
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing"
- use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
Shelters
- noun - a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
- a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings
- invest (money) so that it is not taxable
- protective covering that provides protection from the weather
- provide shelter for; "After the earthquake, the government could not provide shelter for the thousands of homeless people"
- temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons
- the condition of being protected; "they were huddled together for protection"; "he enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home"
Shelvers
- noun - a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves
Shelving
- verb - hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"
- place on a shelf; "shelve books"
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
Sialidae
- noun - an arthropod family including: alderflies