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An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.

Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, and the like, of several colors.

A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon. [Written also maroon.]

oth (Zoöl.), any moth whose larva constructs an earthen cocoon under the soil. -- Mason shell (Zoöl.), a marine univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it cements other shells and pebbles upon its own shell; a carrier shell. -- Mason wasp (Zoöl.), any wasp that constructs its nest, or brood cells, of…

due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure. Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure. Is. v. 14.

To cause to be mechanical. Shelley.

One of a group of univalve shells, having a large aperture or mouth.

The black hellebore. [Obs.] Spenser.

One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.

A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo. Melon beetle (Zoöl.), a small leaf beetle (Diabrotiea vittata), which damages the leaves of melon vines. -- Melon cactus, Melon thistle. (a) (Bot.) A genus of cactaceous plants (Melocactus) having a fleshy and usually globose stem with the surface divided…

The hellbender.

, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message. Message shell. See Shell.

An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. [Obs.] Shak.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human beings; the earth.

A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.

A fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus Miliola.

A carrier shell (Phorus).

The term is used especially when the pieces form a right angle. See Miter, 2. -- Miter shell (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells of the genus Mitra. -- Miter square (Carp.), a bevel with an immovable arm at an angle of 45º, for striking lines on stuff to be mitered; also, a square with an…