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Definition of shall

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Shall (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, the day shall come when . .

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Antanaclasis :: Antanaclasis (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc..

Depthless :: Depthless (a.) Having no depth; shallow.

Stop :: Stop (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought..

Recusation :: Recusation (n.) The act of refusing a judge or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality..

I'' Ll :: I' ll () Contraction for I will or I shall.

Wash :: Wash (n.) 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..

Shilly-shally :: Shilly-shally (adv.) In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner..

Perspective :: Perspective (a.) The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective.

Punt :: Punt (v. t.) To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion..

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

Trust :: Trust (n.) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust..

Shallowness :: Shallowness (n.) Quality or state of being shallow.

Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain..

Commission :: Commission (n.) The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.

Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.

Shoaly :: Shoaly (a.) Full of shoals, or shallow places..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind..

Guess :: Guess (v. t.) To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs..

Setter :: Setter (n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.

Provided :: Provided (conj.) On condition; by stipulation; with the understanding; if; -- usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this act shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever..