amorphous.
shapely, a. symmetrical, well-formed, comely, well-proportioned.
share, v. apportion, divide; partake, participate in.
share, n. portion, allotment, quota, dole, proportion, contingent,
dividend.
sharer, n. participator, partaker; divider, distributor.
shark, n. (Colloq.) sharper, trickster, cheat, swindler; fraud,
trickery.
sharp, a. pointed, trenchant, incisive, keen; poignant, piercing,
acute, penetrating, severe, excruciating, intense, subtile, violent;
biting, sarcastic, acrimonious, acrid, cutting; sagacious, clever,
perspicacious, ingenious, bright, discerning, resourceful, astute, shrewd,
apt, smart, long-headed, acuminous; fierce, fiery, unquenchable, eager;
exacting, close; steep, abrupt, precipitous; pungent, piquant peppery,
high-seasoned: shrill, piercing; peaked, ridged.
sharpen, v. intensify, aggravate, quicken; hone, grind, point, whet.
sharpening stone. whetstone, hone, oilstone, grindstone, abradant.
sharper, n. trickster, swindler, knave, cheat, extortioner, blackleg.
sharpness, n. keenness, poignancy, acuity, acuteness, edge; asperity,
acrimony, impatience; acumen, sagacity, shrewdness, astuteness, aptness;
pungency, piquancy.
sharp practice. trickery, chicanery.
sharp-sighted, a. eagle-eyed, acute, perspicacious, argus-eyed.
shatter, v. shiver, demolish; disorder, derange.
shave, n. shaving; spokeshave, drawshave.
sheath, n. case, scabbard; covering.
shed, v. diffuse, emit, radiate, spread; cast, exuviate, moult, mew,
discard; doff.
shed, n. outhouse, lean-to, shack, shanty.
shedding, n. (skins_, _shells_, _etc.) exuviation, ecdysis,
moulting.
she-devil, n. Jezebel, fury, virago, termagant.
sheen, n. shine, luster, gloss, brightness, splendor.
sheep, n. _Ovis_, _Ovis aries_; (male) ram, buck; (female) ewe;
(young) lamb, eanling; (castrated ram) wether; (leader of the flock)
bellwether; hoggerel, hogget. Associated Words: bleat, braxy, gid,
mutton, flock, ovine, shepherd, shepherdess, cosset, raddle, yean, ean,
lowbell, abigeat, sheepcote, fold.
sheep-dog, n. collie, shepherd dog.
sheepish, a. bashful, shy, over-modest.
sheepskin, n. sheep-pelt, pelt, woolfell; roan; (Cant) diploma.
Associated Words: fellmonger, woolpuller, skiver, budge.
sheer, a. thin; unadulterated, pure, unmixed; precipitous, abrupt,
perpendicular.
shelf, n. mantel, mantelpiece; bracket, console; ledge, shallow,
shoal; banquette.
shell, n. shuck, putamen;
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