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A shell or cup of pastry filled with custard, whipped cream, crushed macaroons, etc.

The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.

he existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. A man who was great among the Hellenes of his day. Jowett (Thucyd. ) If my debtors do not keep their day, . . . I must with patience all the terms attend. Dryden.

Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.

s; a great depth. Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs. Cowley. The hollow deep of hell resounded. Milton. Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound. Pope.

To cast down. [Obs. or Archaic] Christ dejected himself even unto the hells. Udall. Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller.

A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer. Delthyris limestone (Geol.), one of the divisions of the Upper Silurian rocks in New York.

The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.

A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.

A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.

Destined. [Obs.] "Destinate to hell." Foxe.

ng; classification; as, I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells.

r evil. Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. Pope.

Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left. Dextral shell (Zoöl.), a spiral shell the whorls of which turn from left right, or like the hands of a watch when the apex of the spire is toward the eye of the observer.

A calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts.

A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.

To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover. The shells being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty. Woodward.

Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus. Discoid flower (Bot.), a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower.

To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

In owls, the space around the eyes. Disk engine, a form of rotary steam engine. -- Disk shell (Zoöl.), any species of Discina.