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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shallow \Shal"low\, n. 1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf. [1913 Webster] A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shallow \Shal"low\, v. t. To make shallow. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shallow \Shal"low\, v. i. To become shallow, as water. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shallow \Shal"low\, a. [Compar. {Shallower}; superl. {Shallowest}.] [OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skj[=a]lgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. {Shelve} to slope, {Shoal} shallow.] 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Not deep in tone. [R.] [1913 Webster] The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning. [1913 Webster] The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. --Milton. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rudd \Rudd\, n. [See {Rud}, n.] (Zool.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family ({Leuciscus erythrophthalmus}). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also {redeye}, {roud}, {finscale}, and {shallow}. A blue variety is called {azurine}, or {blue roach}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: shallow adj 1: 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" [ant: {deep}] 2: not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance" [ant: {deep}] 3: lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious" n 1: a stretch of shallow water [syn: {shoal}, {shallow}] v 1: make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn: {shallow}, {shoal}] 2: become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn: {shallow}, {shoal}]