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To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.

o advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). [Obsolescent] Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. Goldsmith. War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. Milton.

One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.

sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb. [Obs.] Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the diverb goes. Burton.

c larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.

A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Nares.

haped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.

A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells.

. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. Farrow.

A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.

of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast. -- Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots. -- Diamond drill. See under Diamond. -- Drill jig. Se…

ay. The connection had been dropped many years. Sir W. Scott. Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. Tennyson.

nd guides the planets in their course. S. Rogers. In heaven, or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton.

he Bulgarian Church be included) mutually independent churches (including among these the Hellenic Church, or Church of Greece, and the Russian Church), using the vernacular (or some ancient form of it) in divine service and varying in many points of detail, but standing in full communion with each other and united as…

the ebb. Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of morality! Shelley.

the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.

often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.

Sir W. Raleigh. As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Shelley. Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under Annular. -- Cycle of eclipses. See under Cycle.

Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells.

. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.