test, testa, episperm, spermoderm.
Associated Words: scleroid, enucleate, enucleation, inenucleable.

shell, n. armature, case, exoskeleton, shale; carapace, plastron;
cockle, conch, periwinkle, cowrie, whelk, mitre shell, abilone shell;
exuviae (cast-off); conchite (fossil). Associated Words: conchology,
conchologist, malacology, testaceous, cockled, mollusk, conchiferous,
conchiform conchometer, conchometry, crustacean, exuvial, exuviate,
exuviation, Loricata, bivalve, multivalve, univalve.

shell, n. framework; bomb, torpedo, shrapnel, grenade.

shell, v. hull, shuck, shale, enucleate; bombard, besiege.

shellfish, n. pl. Mollusks, Mollusca, Testacea.

shell money. wampum, hiagua, peag, colcol, kopkops, seawan,
suckanhock.

shelter, n. protection, screen, cover, shield, defense, covert,
security, lee; asylum, refuge, retreat, haven, sanctuary.

shelter, v. shield, protect, defend, screen, ensconce, cover.
Antonym: expose.

sheltered, a. protected, covert.

shepherd, n. pastor, pastoralist. Associated Words: bucolic,
pastoral, staff, crook.

shibboleth, n. watchword, party cry.

shield, n. aegis, buckler, escutcheon, scutcheon, pavise, scutum;
defense, protection, palladium, bulwark, safeguard. Associated Words:
scutal, bouche.

shield, v. defend, protect, safeguard; ward off, repel.

shield-shaped, a. thyroid.

shift, v. veer, change, turn; quirk, quibble, palter; change,
substitute.

shift, n. subterfuge, device, contrivance, evasion, stratagem, trick,
dodge; resource, expedient, change, substitution; chemise.

shifting, a. unstable, variable, changeable.

shiftless, a. improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, wasteful.
Antonyms: thrifty, industrious.

shilly-shally, adv. irresolutely, hesitatingly.

shilly-shally, n. hesitation, irresolution, indecision, vacillation,
wavering, trifling, evasion, dalliance.

shilly-shally, v. hesitate, waver, trifle, dally, vacillate, dodge,
be irresolute.

shin, n. shank.

shindy, n. (Slang) uproar, disturbance, riot, row; hockey; liking,
fancy.

shine, v. beam, radiate, gleam, irradiate, glisten, glow, glitter,
flare, glare; excel, surpass; polish.

shine, n. luster, polish, gloss, sheen, radiance, resplendence,
brilliancy, lucency, glaze.

shine, n. (Slang) liking, fancy; caper, antic, dido.

shining, a. radiant, beaming, lustrous, luminous, glowing, brilliant,
lucent, bright, sleek, glazed, glistening, splendent, resplendent, glossy,
shiny; consp