Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
2. A fish plate for rails.
1. To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.
2. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
Shinar
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
a province of Babylonia, where men undertook to build the tower of Babel, Genesis xi, 2; x, 10. Calneh was built in this country. Amraphel was king of Shinar in the days of Abraham, Genesis xiv, 1. See BABYLON.
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
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To cover or roof with shindles.
3. A fancy or liking.
1. Fair weather.
2. Be it fair or foul, rain or shine . Dryden .
4. The glittering shine of gold. Decay of Piety.
5. Fair op'ning to some court's propitious shine . [ Not elegant .] Pope .
1. [If s is a prefix, this word accords with the root of Latin canus , caneo .
2. To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit lightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night. Shining differs from sparkling, glistening, glittering , as it usually implies a steady radiation or emission of light, whereas the latter words usually imply irregular or interrupted radiation. This distinction is not always not always observed, and we may say, the fixed stars shine , as well as they sparkle . But we never say the sun or the moon sparkles .
3. To be bright; to be lively and animated; to be brilliant.
5. To be unclouded; as, the moon shines .
6. To be glossy or bright, as silk.
7. Fish with their fins and shining scales. Milton .
8. To be gay or splendid.
10. To be beautiful.
11. Once brightest shin'd this child of heat and air. Pope .
12. To be eminent, conspicuous or distinguished; as, to shine in courts.
13. Few are qualified to shine in company. Swift .
14. To give light, real or figurative.
15. The light of righteousness hath not shined to us. Wisdom .
16. To manifest glorious excellencies.
17. To be clearly published.
18. To be conspicuously displayed; to be manifest.
19. Let your light so shine before men- Matthew 5:16 .
20. To cause the face to shine , to be propitious.
1. To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
4. To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
1. To cause to shine, as a light.
2. To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them.
1. That which shines.
2. A luminary.
3. A bright piece of money.
4. Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.
1. A thin board sawed or rived for covering buildings. Shingles are of different lengths, with one end much thinner than the other for lapping. They are used for covering roofs and sometimes the body of the builking.
2. Round gravel, or a collection of roundish stones.
3. The plain of La Crau in France, is composed of shingle . Pinkerton .
1. Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
3. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
1. One who shingles.
The hobblebush.
1. Bright; splendid; radiant.
2. Illustrious; distinguished; conspicuous; as a shining example of charity.
1. Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor.
2. Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.
3. Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.
Emission or reflection of light.
Brightness.
Ascent Roget’s Thesaurus §305
N. ascent, ascension, rising &c. # 309, acclivity, hill, flight of steps, flight of stairs, ladder rocket, lark, sky rocket, sky lark, alpine club
V. ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise, go up, get up, work one's way up, start up, shoot up, go into orbit, float up, bubble up, aspire, climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount, shin, shinny, shinney, scale, scale the heights, raise, elevate, go aloft, fly aloft, tower, soar, take off, spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards, hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge, leap
Adv. uphill
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And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;
In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.
against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.
Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.