SHAL'LOW, adjective 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal; as shallow water; a shallow stream; a shallow brook. 2. Not deep; not entering far into the earth; as a shallow furrow; a shallow trench. 3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply into abstruse subjects; superficial; as a shallow mind or understanding; shallow skill. Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. Milton. SHAL'LOW, noun A shoal; a shelf; a flat; a sand-bank; any place where the water is not deep. A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. Bacon. Dash'd on the shallows of the moving sand. Dryden. SHAL'LOW, verb transitive To make shallow [Little used.]
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI