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ragments of shells. -- Shell meat, food consisting of shellfish, or testaceous mollusks. Fuller. -- Shell mound. See under Mound. -- Shell of a boiler, the exterior of a steam boiler, forming a case to contain the water and steam, often inclosing also flues and the furnace; the barrel of a cylindrical, or locomotive…

A thin slice; a shive. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "A shiver of their own loaf." Fuller. Of your soft bread, not but a shiver. Chaucer.

himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. Fuller. Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. -- Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick. -- Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. -- Sick headache (Med.), a variety…

ke made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.] Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels. Fuller.

ser. Clergy and laity, male and female, gentle and simple made the fuel of the same fire. Fuller.

e. In the new casting of a die, when ace is on the top, sise must needs be at the bottom. Fuller.

. . . by a thousand princely skills, gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return. Fuller.

l; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance. Frequent begging makes slender alms. Fuller.

entional error or fault; a false step. This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom. Fuller.

Slovenliness. [Obs.] Fuller.

ears by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. De Foe.

An associate. [Obs.] As for you, Dr. Reynolds, and your sociates. Fuller.

Dirty; soiled. [Obs.] Fuller.

se in strengthening this city; since which time we find no solemn taking it by the Turks. Fuller.

Able to pay one's debts; solvent. [Obs.] Fuller.

sleep; to quiet. [Obs.] The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies. Fuller.

Quite new; brand-new; fire-new. "A span-new archbishop's chair." Fuller.

o bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. One edition [of books] spawneth another. Fuller.

e. [Obs.] The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect. Fuller.

e workmanship. Puttenham. Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations. Fuller.