Definition of shy

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Shy (n.) A side throw; a throw; a fling.

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Meshy :: Meshy (a.) Formed with meshes; netted.
Sarcocarp :: Sarcocarp (n.) The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of Endocarp..
Brachiopoda :: Brachiopoda (n.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle..
Press :: Press (n.) An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black..
Carditis :: Carditis (n.) Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis.
Racket :: Racket (n.) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground..
Rushy :: Rushy (a.) Abounding with rushes.
Flag :: Flag (n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter..
Tod :: Tod (n.) A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump.
Startled :: Startish (a.) Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
Spaniel :: Spaniel (n.) One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker..
Washy :: Washy (a.) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse..
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Sycophancy :: Syconus (n.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig..
Sarcous :: Sarcous (a.) Fleshy; -- applied to the minute structural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed..
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Diethylamine :: Diethylamine (n.) A colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine..
Baggage :: Baggage (n.) Trashy talk.
Fleshiness :: Fleshiness (n.) The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.
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