Shore, n. [OE. schore; akin to LG. schore, D. schoor, OD. schoore,
Icel. skor&?;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.]
Shore, 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.
Shore, 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.
Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come
shore.
Shak.
The fruitful shore of muddy Nile.
Spenser.
In shore, near the shore. Marryat. -- On shore. See under On. -- Shore
birds (Zoöl.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found
on the seashore. -- Shore crab (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus
magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc.
-- Shore teetan (Zoöl.), the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). [Prov. Eng.]
Shore (?), v. t. To set on shore. [Obs.] Shak.
Shore"less, a. Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited
extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young.
Shore"ling (?), n. See Shorling.
Shor"er (?), n. One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a
shore.
Shore"ward (?), adv. Toward the shore.
Shor"ing, n. 1. The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or
shore.