Shine (?), a. [AS. scn. See Shine, v. i.] Shining; sheen. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Shin"er (?), n. That which shines. Specifically: (a) A luminary. (b) A
bright piece of money. [Slang]
Has she the shiners, d' ye think?
Foote.
(c) (Zoöl.) 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. (d)
(Zoöl.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
Blunt-nosed shiner (Zoöl.), the silver moonfish.
Shi"ness (?), n. See Shyness.
Shin"gle (?), n. [Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel,
small round stones.] (Geol.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and
pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the
seashore and elsewhere.
Shin"gle, n. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf.
scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v.t., Gr. &?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;,
shingle, &?;&?;&?; to slit.] 1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and
small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering
buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the
thin ends of the row below.
I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral
church covered with shingles or tiles.
Ray.
2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
[Jocose, U. S.]
Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the
Western States for making shingles.
Shin"gle, v. t. [imp. &. p. p. Shingled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling
(?).] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
They shingle their houses with it.
Evelyn.
2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the
head, as shingles on a roof.
Shin"gle, v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of
iron from the pudding furnace.
Shin"gler (?), n. 1. One who shingles.