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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shore \Shore\, imp. of {Shear}. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shore \Shore\, n. A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shore \Shore\, n. [OE. schore; akin to LG. schore, D. schoor, OD. schoore, Icel. skor?a, and perhaps to E. shear, as being a piece cut off.] A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging. [Written also {shoar}.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shore \Shore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shoring}.] [OE. schoren. See {Shore} a prop.] To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shore \Shore\, n. [OE. schore, AS. score, probably fr. scieran, and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin to OD. schoore, schoor. See {Shear}, v. t.] The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river. [1913 Webster] Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come shore. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The fruitful shore of muddy Nile. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] {In shore}, near the shore. --Marryat. {On shore}. See under {On}. {Shore birds} (Zool.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore. {Shore crab} (Zool.), any crab found on the beaches, or between tides, especially any one of various species of grapsoid crabs, as {Heterograpsus nudus} of California. {Shore lark} (Zool.), a small American lark ({Otocoris alpestris}) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear tufts. Called also {horned lark}. {Shore plover} (Zool.), a large-billed Australian plover ({Esacus magnirostris}). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc. {Shore teetan} (Zool.), the rock pipit ({Anthus obscurus}). [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shear \Shear\ (sh[=e]r), v. t. [imp. {Sheared}or {Shore};p. p. {Sheared} or {Shorn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shearing}.] [OE. sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. ski?re, Gr. ???. Cf. {Jeer}, {Score}, {Shard}, {Share}, {Sheer} to turn aside.] 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. [1913 Webster] Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth. [1913 Webster] 2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. [1913 Webster] Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster] 4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece. [1913 Webster] 5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See {Shear}, n., 4. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shore \Shore\, v. t. To set on shore. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: shore n 1: the land along the edge of a body of water 2: a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support [syn: {shore}, {shoring}] v 1: serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees" 2: arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" [syn: {land}, {set ashore}, {shore}] 3: support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building" [syn: {prop up}, {prop}, {shore up}, {shore}]