The Chancellor of the Exchequer opposed any further delay; the adoption of any other resolution would simply tend to shelve the bill for another session.
To furnish with shelves; as, toshelve a closet or a library.
The Machine had hoped to shelvehim by making him Vice President, and in spite of it he suddenly emerged as President.
The affair of the pay isn't pressing; we'll shelve it to another night.
I only heard it yesterday," the Sergeant answered, not unwilling to shelve the other topic.
The tide was out, but the shelve of the bottom must be steep, for her list to landward was not very great.
Thus the effort of Pitt and his colleagues to shelve the Duke of York was foiled.
Were Britons to shelve their own interests for a question of international import?
Her aunt's directions to her niece Young Cupid makes her shelve ; When suddenly her joy must cease- The clock upon the mantelpiece Is on the stroke of twelve.
Ah, well; then we'll shelve that subject too for the present.
And if we have to shelve so many questions in order to form our new National Party, shan't we run a risk of being shelved ourselves when the next "wave of progress" sweeps over the Constituencies?
At Keeling atoll the shores of the lagoon shelve gradually, where the bottom is of sediment, and irregularly or abruptly where there are coral-reefs; but this is by no means the universal structure in other atolls.
On coasts in all parts of the world, where sediment is accumulating, something of this kind may be observed; the banks shelve very gently far out to sea, and then terminate abruptly.
