"Shell" is a word in ENGLISH
A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut
shell.
The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of
mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks,
as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also,
the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise,
and the like.
Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar
or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse
or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its
fragments scattered. See Bomb.
The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and
shot, used with breechloading small arms.
Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior
structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a
house.
A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin
inclosed in a more substantial one.
An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having
been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
An engraved copper roller used in print works.
The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used
as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves
revolve.
A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or
with paper; as, a racing shell.
To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the
shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.
To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to
shell a town.
To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of
the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye
shells in reaping.
A pod.
To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
The hard covering of an egg.
To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat,
oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.
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Read the complete definitionHaving a shell or covering like a double shield.
Read the complete definitionThe larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally …
Read the complete definitionThe thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
Read the complete definitionA genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills.
Read the complete definitionAn order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum …
Read the complete definitionA small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery …
Read the complete definitionOne of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong …
Read the complete definitionThe hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust …
Read the complete definitionOne of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which …
Read the complete definitionThe shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.
Read the complete definitionTo come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; …
Read the complete definitionCovered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance …
Read the complete definitionCast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins …
Read the complete definitionAn extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them …
Read the complete definitionThe siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box …
Read the complete definitionhabul v [A; a] weave with a hand loom. Habla ang lánut, Weave the abaca fibers in a hand loom. …
Read the complete definitionA division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.
Read the complete definitionlabud n {1} welt. Dílà ra ang walay labud nímu, Ill beat every inch of you. (Lit. only your tongue …
Read the complete definitionCovered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.
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