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- English Word Shelf Definition A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
- English Word Shelf Definition A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
- English Word Shelfa Definition Alt. of Shilfa
- English Word Shelfy Definition Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
- English Word Shelfy Definition Full of strata of rock.
- English Word Shell Definition A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
- English Word Shell Definition The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.
- English Word Shell Definition A pod.
- English Word Shell Definition The hard covering of an egg.
- English Word Shell Definition 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.
- English Word Shell Definition Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
- English Word Shell Definition 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.
- English Word Shell Definition The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.
- English Word Shell Definition Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.
- English Word Shell Definition A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
- English Word Shell Definition An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
- English Word Shell Definition An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- English Word Shell Definition The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
- English Word Shell Definition The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- English Word Shell Definition A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.
- English Word Shell Definition 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.
- English Word Shell Definition To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.
- English Word Shell Definition To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.
- English Word Shell Definition To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- English Word Shell Definition To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
- English Word Shell Definition To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.
- English Word Shell-lac Definition Alt. of Shellac
- English Word Shell-less Definition Having no shell.
- English Word Shellac Definition See the Note under 2d Lac.
- English Word Shellapple Definition See Sheldafle.