n. [ OE. shoppe, schoppe, AS. sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. schup a shed, G. schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG. scopf. ] 1. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. [ 1913 Webster ]

From shop to shop
Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks
The polished counter. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tailor called me in his shop. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

4. A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop; also, (Slang), any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc. [ Slang, Chiefly Eng. ]

6. the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop. [ Colloq. ]

☞ Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession. --
To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Store; warehouse. See Store. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Shopped p. pr. & vb. n. Shopping. ] To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Shape. Shaped. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A boy employed in a shop. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. p. p. of Shape. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A girl employed in a shop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Shop + lift. See Lift to steal. ] One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal. [ 1913 Webster ]