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,

1. To push or thrust with the shoulder to push with violence.

Around her numberless the rabble flow'd,

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