shore

imp. of Shear. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sewer. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. schore; akin to LG. schore, D. schoor, OD. schoore, Icel. skor&unr_;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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

a. Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Shorling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore. [ 1913 Webster ]