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or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. Capt. John Smith (1616). Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a coclke; it lieth under the sand. Wood (1634).

Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.

Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.

coats were sleek. Fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell. Milton.

Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

s Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.

Inclosed in a shell. The tender horns of cockled snails. Shak.

ocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells. Cocoa shells, the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.

The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.

A genus of univale shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.

A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.

The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells.

A chamber of a multilocular shell. Glanvill.

terior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.

Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.

A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.

That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.

Producing or having shells.

Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.

A fossil or petrified conch or shell.