Noah Webster
Shirt
SHIRT, noun shurt. [Latin curtus.] A loose garment of linen, cotton or other material, worn by men and boys next the body.
It is folly for a nation to export beef and linen, while a great part of the peaple are obliged to subsist on potatoes, and have no shirts to wear. adjective.M.
SHIRT, verb transitive shurt.
1. To cover or clothe, as with a shirt
2. To change the shirt and put on a clean one.