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English Idioms :: shingle
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shingles.html - See: HANG OUT ONE'S SHINGLE. |
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Traditional English :: shingle(1)
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shingles.html - n. (in sing. or pl.) small rounded pebbles, esp. on a sea-shore. shingly adj. [16th c.: orig. uncert.] |
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Traditional English :: shingle(2)
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shingles.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a rectangular wooden tile used on roofs, spires, or esp. walls.
2 archaic a shingled hair. b the act of shingling hair.
3 US a small signboard, esp. of a doctor, lawyer, etc. --v.tr.
1 roof or clad with shingles.
2 archaic a cut (a woman's hair) very short. b cut the hair of (a person or head) in this way. [ME app. f. L scindula, earlier scandula] |
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Traditional English :: shingles
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shingles.html - n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) an acute painful viral inflammation of the nerve ganglia, with a skin eruption often forming a girdle around the middle of the body. [ME f. med.L cingulus f. L cingulum girdle f. cingere gird] |
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English Idioms :: shingle
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shingles.html - See: HANG OUT ONE'S SHINGLE. |
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Traditional English :: shingle(1)
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shingles.html - n. (in sing. or pl.) small rounded pebbles, esp. on a sea-shore. shingly adj. [16th c.: orig. uncert.] |
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