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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHIRT, n. shurt. [L. curtus.] A loose garment of linen, cotton or other material, worn by men and boys next the body.
It is folly for a nation to export beef and linen, while a great part of the peaple are obliged to subsist on potatoes, and have no shirts to wear. A.M.
SHIRT, v.t. shurt.
1. To cover or clothe, as with a shirt.
2. To change the shirt and put on a clean one.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a garment worn on the upper half of the body v
1: put a shirt on

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English shirte, from Old English scyrte; akin to Old Norse skyrta shirt, Old English scort short Date: before 12th century 1. a garment for the upper part of the body: as a. a cloth garment usually having a collar, sleeves, a front opening, and a tail long enough to be tucked inside trousers or a skirt b. undershirt 2. all or a large part of one's money or resources <lost his shirt on that business deal> • shirtless adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a man's upper-body garment of cotton etc., having a collar, sleeves, and esp. buttons down the front, and often worn under a jacket or sweater. 2 a similar garment worn by a woman; a blouse. 3 = NIGHTSHIRT. Phrases and idioms: keep one's shirt on colloq. keep one's temper. put one's shirt on colloq. bet all one has on; be sure of. shirt blouse = sense 2 of n. shirt-dress = SHIRTWAISTER. shirt-front the breast of a shirt, esp. of a stiffened evening shirt. the shirt off one's back colloq. one's last remaining possessions. shirt-tail the lower curved part of a shirt below the waist. Derivatives: shirted adj. shirting n. shirtless adj. Etymology: OE scyrte, corresp. to ON skyrta (cf. SKIRT) f. Gmc: cf. SHORT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shirt Shirt, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Shirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shirting.] To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt. --Dryden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shirt Shirt, n. [OE. schirte, sherte, schurte; akin to Icel. skyrta, Dan. skiorte, Sw. skjorta, Dan. ski["o]rt a petticoat, D. schort a petticoat, an argon, G. schurz, sch["u]rze, an argon; all probably from the root of E. short, as being originally a short garment. See Short, and cf. Skirt.] A loose under-garment for the upper part of the body, made of cotton, linen, or other material; -- formerly used of the under-garment of either sex, now commonly restricted to that worn by men and boys. Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts. --Addison. She had her shirts and girdles of hair. --Bp. Fisher.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(shirts) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A shirt is a piece of clothing that you wear on the upper part of your body. Shirts have a collar, sleeves, and buttons down the front. N-COUNT 2. see also dress shirt, stuffed shirt, sweatshirt, T-shirt

Foolish Dictionary

Every man's bosom friend.

Moby Thesaurus

O, basque, blouse, bodice, body shirt, body suit, coat shirt, corsage, dickey, doublet, dress shirt, evening shirt, gipon, habit shirt, hair shirt, halter, hickory shirt, jupe, linen, polo shirt, pullover, shift, tank top, top, waist