Shore

imp.	1.	imp. of Shear.
n.	1.	A sewer.
	1.	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.
v. t.	1.	To support by a shore or shores; to prop; - usually with up; as, to shore up a building. [imp. & p. p. Shored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shoring.]
n.	1.	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. On shore See under On. - Marryat. Shore birds (Zool.) a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore. Shore crab (Zool.) 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 (Zool.) 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 (Zool.) a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc. Shore teetan (Zool.) the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus).
v. t.	1.	To set on shore.

Noun	1.	shore - the land along the edge of a body of water
	2.	shore - a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support Synonyms: shoring
Verb	1.	shore - serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"
	2.	shore - arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" Synonyms: set ashore, land
	3.	shore - support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building" Synonyms: prop, prop up, shore up

SHORE. Land on the side of the sea, a lake, or a river, is called the shore. Strictly speaking, however, when the water does not ebb and flow, in a river, there is no shore. See 4 Hill, N. Y. Rep. 375; 6 Cowen, 547; and Seashore.

To see the shore in your dream, denotes that you are satisfying your emotional needs and any inner turmoil has been resolved. It also symbolizes a place where the conscious mind meets the unconscious.afford support, aquatic, back, back up, balneal, bank, beam, bear, bear out, bear up, berm, board, bolster, bolster up, border, bordure, brace, brim, brink, broadside, brow, buoy up, buttress, carry, cheek, chop, coast, coastal, coastland, coastline, column, cradle, crutch, cushion, deep-sea, edge, embankment, estuarine, featheredge, finance, flange, flank, foreshore, frame, fringe, fund, give support, grallatorial, hand, handedness, haunch, hem, hip, hold, hold up, ironbound coast, jowl, keep, keep afloat, keep up, labellum, labium, labrum, laterality, ledge, lend support, lido, limb, limbus, lip, list, littoral, mainstay, maintain, many-sidedness, marge, margin, multilaterality, natant, natatorial, natatory, pillow, plage, planking, playa, profile, prop, prop up, quarter, ragged edge, reinforce, rim, riparial, riparian, riparious, riverbank, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, selvage, shingle, shore up, shoreline, shoreside, shoreward, shoulder, side, sideline, siding, skirt, stay, strand, submerged coast, subsidize, subvention, subventionize, support, sustain, swimming, temple, tidal, tidewater, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underpinning, underset, unilaterality, upbear, uphold, upkeep, verge, water-dwelling, water-growing, water-living, water-loving, waterfront, waterside

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