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Seville
- noun - a city in southwestern Spain; a major port and cultural center; the capital of bullfighting in Spain
- Isidore of Seville ( Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Spanish scholar and cleric. For over three decades, he was Archbishop of Seville.
Shallon
- noun - small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries
Shallot
- noun - aggregate bulb of the multiplier onion
- small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning
- type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
Shallow
- adjective - a stretch of shallow water
- become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
- lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
- lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"
- make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
- not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"
Shallus
- noun - sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains; introduced into United States from India
Shapley
- noun - United States astronomer (1885-1972)
Shawlie
- unknown - old term for a poor working class woman traditionally wearing a shawl
Shellac
- 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
Shelled
- 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
- of animals or fruits that have a shell
- remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"
- remove the husks from; "husk corn"
- use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"