Not deep; having little depth; shoal; as shallow water; a shallow stream; a shallow brook.

Not deep; not entering far into the earth; as a shallow furrow; a shallow trench.

Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply into abstruse subjects; superficial; as a shallow mind or understanding; shallow skill. Deep vers’d in books, and shallow in himself. Milton.

A shoal; a shelf; a flat; a sand-bank; any place where the water is not deep. A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. Bacon. Dash’d on the shallows of the moving sand.

To make shallow.