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   Rudd (?), n. [See Rud, n.] (Zool.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow.  A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.
   
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   Shallow (?), a. [Compar. Shallower (?); superl. Shallowest.] [OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjālgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah.  Cf. Shelve to slope, Shoal shallow.]
   1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. “Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.”  Milton.
   
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   2. Not deep in tone. [R.]
   
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   The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. Bacon.
   
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   3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, “a shallow mind; shallow learning”.
   
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   The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. Bacon.
   
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   Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton.
   
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   Shallow, n.
   1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
   
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   A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. Bacon.
   
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   Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. Dryden.
   
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   2. (Zool.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]
   
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   Shallow, v. t. To make shallow.  Sir T. Browne.
   
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   Shallow, v. i. To become shallow, as water.
   
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