Word Meanings - WHEREBY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. By which; -- used relatively. "You take my life when you take the means whereby I life." Shak. 2. By what; how; -- used interrogatively. Whereby shall I know this Luke i. 18.

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• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• INTERROGATIVELY
  In the form of, or by means of, a question; in an interrogative manner.
• SHALLOT
  A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
• SHALL
  sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll,
• SHALLOW-PATED
  Shallow-brained.
• SHALLOWNESS
  Quality or state of being shallow.
• SHALLON
  An evergreen shrub of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.
• WHEREBY
  1. By which; -- used relatively. "You take my life when you take the means whereby I life." Shak. 2. By what; how; -- used interrogatively. Whereby shall I know this Luke i. 18.
• SHALLOW-HEARTED
  Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson.
• SHALLI
  See CHALLIS
• SHALLOWLY
  In a shallow manner.
• SHALLOW-BODIED
  Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.
• DISHALLOW
  To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.
• SHILLY-SHALLY
  To hesitate; to act in an irresolute manner; hence, to occupy one's self with trifles.
• CORRELATIVELY
  In a correlative relation.