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The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

Any species of Lingula.

Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.

Any one of numerous species of marine top_shaped shells of the genus Thochus, or family Trochidæ.

A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the bursting charge, which consists of about 130 pounds of high explosive. It has no soft cap, and is intended to effect its damage by the powerful explosion which follows on slight resistance. It is used chiefly in 12-inch mortars.…

Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra.

Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.

A large, handsomely colored, marine univalve shell (Fasciolaria tulipa) native of the Southern United States. The name is sometimes applied also to other species of Fasciolaria.

A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.

The turtle cowrie.

A lithographic drawing or painting material of the same nature as lithographic ink. It is also used as a resistant in the biting-in process.

See 2d Tusk, n., 2.

Not accomplished or performed; unfinished; also, deficient in accomplishment; unrefined.

Not blemished; pure; spotless; as, an unblemished reputation or life. Addison.

A sheriff's deputy.

Undershrievalty. [Obs.]

Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.

To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.

Not parted or divided, as the hair. [Obs.] Spenser.