Rudd \Rudd\, n. [See Rud, n.]

(Zo["o]l.) 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Shallow \Shal"low\, a. [Compar. Shallower; superl. Shallowest.]

[OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skj[=a]lgr 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.

2. Not deep in tone. [R.]

The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. --Bacon.

3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.

The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. --Bacon.

Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Shallow \Shal"low\, n.

1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.

A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. --Bacon.

Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden.

2. (Zo["o]l.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Shallow \Shal"low\, v. t. To make shallow. --Sir T. Browne.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Shallow \Shal"low\, v. i. To become shallow, as water.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)