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SHELDAFLE; SHELDAPLE n.

A chaffinch. [Written also sheldapple, and shellapple.]

The sheldrake. [Written also shellduck.]

s a shepherd. [Poetic] White, fleecy clouds . . . Shepherded by the slow, unwilling wind. Shelley.

To shell. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.

SHRAPNEL a. 2 definitions

Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army. -- n.

SHUCK n. 2 definitions

A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.

asses; a channel or guide along which the shuttle passes in a sewing machine. -- Shuttle shell (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Volva, or Radius, having a smooth, spindle- shaped shell prolonged into a channel at each end.

far south as the Sacramento. Called also kisutch, whitefish, and white salmon. -- Silver shell (Zoöl.), a marine bivalve of the genus Anomia. See Anomia. -- Silver steel, an alloy of steel with a very small proportion of silver. -- Silver stick, a title given to the title field officer of the Life Guards when on dut…

whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.

SIPHON n. 2 definitions

The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.

Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.

SIPHONIFEROUS a.

Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.

SIPHONOBRANCHIATA n.

h sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

SIPHONOSTOMATA n.

An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.

SIPHONOSTOMATOUS a.

Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods.

SIPHONOSTOME n.

A siphonostomatous shell.

The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

A creator; a maker; an author; an originator. [He] was the sire of an immortal strain. Shelley.

See Skyey. Shelley.