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adjective

Shallow adj. (compar. shallower; superl. shallowest)

Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide."

Not deep in tone. (R.) "The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring."

Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning. "The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king." "Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself."

noun

Shallow n.

A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf. "A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel." "Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand."

(Zool.) The rudd. (Prov. Eng.)

verb

Shallow v. t. To make shallow.

Shallow v. i. To become shallow, as water.

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... lord came and held before him a broad, shallow, golden dish with fragrant rosewater in it, to cleanse his mouth and fingers with; and my lord the Hereditary Diaperer stood by with a napkin for his use. Tom gazed at the dish a puzzled moment or two, then raised it to his lips, and gravely took a draught. ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... regard illiteracy as a bar to the highest administrative or judicial post.... The people of Plav and Gusinje have, on the other hand, no hostility against Serbia. In November 1918 a detachment of thirty Serbs was stationed at Gusinje, what time certain Italian agents put it into the shallow minds of some Albanians that Albania desired to be independent under Italian protection. Nothing happened when a Serbian force came from Mitrovica, except that these agents and a few of their tools—be it noted that ...

— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein

... in general all articles of jewelry, may be dressed by dipping them in spirits of wine warmed in a shallow kettle, placed over a slow fire or hot plate. Silver ornaments should be kept in fine arrowroot, ...

— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller

... set well up-hill from it, so that all drainage runs away from its basin. This, of course, is possible only in the country, or in villages or small towns, where houses have plenty of ground about them. Consequently, the health laws of most cities and states forbid the use of shallow wells for drinking purposes in ...

— A Handbook of Health • Woods Hutchinson

... the head on Cupid's seal What impression the heart will take; If shallow the head, oh! soon we feel What a poor impression 'twill make! Tho' plagued, Heaven knows! by the foolish zeal Of the fondling fop who pursues me, Oh, think not I'd follow their desperate rule, Who get rid of the folly by wedding ...

— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

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