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Composed of shells; containing many shells.

A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz.

Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.

An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.

The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.

Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. Kirwan.

tions fill. Daniel. Concussion fuse (Mil.), one that is ignited by the concussion of the shell when it strikes.

A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form. Cone of rays (Opt.), the pencil of rays of light which proceed from a radiant point to a given surface, as that of a lens, or conversely. -- Cone pulley. See in the Vocabulary. -- Oblique or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base.…

o prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length. A bridge of wond'rous length, From hell continued, reaching th' utmost orb of this frall world. Milton.

A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4.

to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.

A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served.

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.

The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.

Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin. Coronal suture (Anat.), a suture extending across the skull between the parietal and frontal bones; the frontoparietal suture.

Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.

ng view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. Sir W. Hamilton.