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American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2
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Shoulder
SHOULDER, n.
1. The joint by which the arm of a human being or the fore leg of a quadruped is connected with the body; or in man, the projection formed by the bones called scapula or shoulder blades, which extend from the basis of the neck in a horizontal direction.
2. The upper joint of the fore leg of an animal cut for th emarket; as a shoulder of mutton.
3. Shoulders, in the plural, the upper part of the back.
Adown her shoulders fell her length of hair. Dryden.
4. Figuratively, support; sustaining power; or that which elevates and sustains.
For on thy shoulders do I build my seat. Shak.
5. Among artificers, something like the human shoulder; a horizontal or rectangular projection from the body of a thing.
SHOULDER, v.t.
1. To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence.
Around her numberless the rabble flow’d,
Should’ring each other, crowding for a view. Rowe.
As they the earth would shoulder from her seat. Spenser.
2. To take upon the shoulder; as, to shoulder a basket.
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Chicago:
Noah Webster Jr., "Shoulder," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed July 13, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=113NBW8HHZSK7MX.
MLA:
Webster, Noah, Jr. "Shoulder." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 13 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=113NBW8HHZSK7MX.
Harvard:
Webster, N, 'Shoulder' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 13 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=113NBW8HHZSK7MX.
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