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a. [ Hip + shot. ] Having the hip dislocated; hence, having one hip lower than the other. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a protective ornamental covering used to screen the light bulb in a lamp from direct view. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A mollusklike marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food, found worldwide.
Syn. -- brachiopod. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The office, occupation, or persom of a pimp. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ Of imitative origin. ] Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc. [ Written also psha. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation “ Pshaw!” [ 1913 Webster ]

The goodman used regularly to frown and pshaw wherever this topic was touched upon. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called because of the fancied resemblance of its head and front teeth to those of a sheep. ] (Zool.) A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus probatocephalus syn. Diplodus probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also locally, in a loose way, applied to various other fishes, as the butterfish, the fresh-water drumfish, the parrot fish, the porgy, and the moonfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Keep everything shipshape, for I must go Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a shipshape or seamanlike manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The trick of a shopkeeper; deception. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Shropshire, country of England. ] An English breed of black-faced hornless sheep similar to the Southdown, but larger, now extensively raised in many parts of the world. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shivering urchin bending as he goes,
With slipshod heels. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A slipper. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Commonly . (a) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights. (b) (Photog.) Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. An instantaneous photograph made, usually with a hand camera, without formal posing of, and often without the foreknowledge of, the subject. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. a brief summary or appraisal, especially one that describes the state of a situation at one particular time; as, a snapshot of the moon project in 1966. [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them. Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To shoot upward. “Trees upshooting high.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]