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English
English : metonymic occupational name for an armorer, from Middle English scheld ‘shield’ (Old English scild, sceld).English : topographic name for someone who lived near the shallow part of a river, from Middle English scheld ‘shallow place’ (Old English sceldu, scieldu).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Siadhail ‘descendant of Siadhal’ (see Shields).
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English
English : habitational name from Plush in Dorset, originally named with an Old English word plysc ‘shallow pool’.
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Shakespearean
The Merry Wives of Windsor' Cousin to Shallow.
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English flasshe ‘pool’, ‘marsh’. This is thought to be from Old Danish flask ‘swamp’, ‘swampy grassland’, ‘shallow water’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Flasch.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Flasch.
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American, Australian, British, English
River Crossing; A Shallow Place Used to Cross a River; Stream; Surname
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English and Dutch
English and Dutch : nickname for an idle person, from Middle Dutch slac, Middle English slack, ‘lazy’, ‘careless’.English : topographic name from northern Middle English slack ‘shallow valley’ (Old Norse slakki), or a habitational name from one of the places named with this word, for example near Stainland and near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.Scottish (Dumfriesshire) : habitational name, maybe from Slake or Slack in Roberton, Roxburghshire (now part of Borders region).It may also be an Americanized spelling of Slovenian Slak, a nickname from slak ‘bindweed’.
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A shallow place used to cross a river or stream. Surname.
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Hindu, Indian
Calm; Shallow
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Shakespearean
King Henry IV, Part 2' Robert Shallow, a country justice. 'King John' Robert Faulconbridge, and...
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King Henry IV, Part 2' and 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' Robert Shallow, a country justice.
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English : habitational name from any of the places so called, in London, Norfolk, and West Yorkshire. The first is named from Old English sceald ‘shallow’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’, the latter two from scēad ‘boundary’ + well(a).
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King Henry IV, Part 2' Robert Shallow, a country justice. 'King John' Robert Faulconbridge, and...
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n.
A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.
v. i.
To become shallow, as water.
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Full of shoals, or shallow places.
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Shallow-brained.
v. t.
To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.
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Quality or state of being shallow.
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A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.
adv.
In a shallow manner.
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Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo.
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A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
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A shallow drinking bowl.
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An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]
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A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
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A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.
v. t.
To make shallow.
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The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.
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A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
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Becoming shallow gradually.
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An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.
superl.
Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.