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to exhibit as a veil for something hidden. [R.] Lest that too heavenly form, pretended To hellish falsehood, snare them. Milton.

A subdivision of the tænioglossate gastropods, including the fig-shells (Pyrula), the helmet shells (Cassis), the tritons, and allied genera.

A shell, used as a die. See Props.

A game of chance, in which four sea shells, each called a prop, are used instead of dice.

The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.

astropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.

A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell. Coarctate, or Obtected, pupa, a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera. -- Masked pupa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.

Any shell of the genus Purpura.

that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell. Shak.

A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.

red with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.

The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.

The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied. "Putrefaction's breath." Shelley.

A genus of large marine gastropods. having a pear-shaped shell. It includes the fig-shells. See Illust. in Appendix.

In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as. It is with Shelley's biographers qua biographers that we have to deal. London Spectator.

Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity. Shelley.

Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina.

d-fire guns; the former being automatic guns of not less than one inch caliber, firing a shell of not less than one pound weight, the explosion of each cartridge operating the mechanism for ejecting the empty shell, loading, and firing the next shot, the latter being guns that require one operation of the hand at each…

(a) A small Mediterranean fish (Coryphæna novacula), prized for the table. (b) The razor shell. -- Razor grass (Bot.), a West Indian plant (Scleria scindens), the triangular stem and the leaves of which are edged with minute sharp teeth. -- Razor grinder (Zoöl.), the European goat-sucker. -- Razor shell (Zoöl.), any…

rike, hit, or tough with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.