Shipshape
(Ship"shape`) a. Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
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.
Keep everything shipshape, for I must go
Tennyson. Shipshape
(Ship"shape`) adv. In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
Shipworm
(Ship"worm`) n. (Zoöl.) Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied
genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc.
See Teredo.
Shipwreck
(Ship"wreck`) n.
1. The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against
rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
2. A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage. Dryden.
3. Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.
1 Tim. 1. 19.
It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck.
J. Morley. Shipwreck
(Ship"wreck`), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shipwrecked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shipwrecking.]
1. To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind
and waves in a tempest.
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break.
Shak. 2. To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster
or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business. Addison.
Shipwright
(Ship"wright`) n. One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other
vessels.
Shipyard
(Ship"yard`) n. A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.
Shiraz
(Shi*raz") n. A kind of Persian wine; — so called from the place whence it is brought.
Shire
(Shire) n. [AS. scire, scir, a division, province, county. Cf. Sheriff.]
1. A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical
with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.
An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a county or shire.
Blackstone. 2. A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county. [U. S.]
Shire is commonly added to the specific designation of a county as a part of its name; as, Yorkshire
instead of York shire, or the shire of York; Berkshire instead of Berks shire. Such expressions as the
county of Yorkshire, which in a strict sense are tautological, are used in England. In the United States
