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See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster.

To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

uct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters.

lop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.

Baked in a scallop; cooked with crumbs. Scalloped oysters (Cookery), opened oysters baked in a deep dish with alternate layers of bread or cracker crumbs, seasoned with pepper, nutmeg, and butter. This was at first done in scallop shells.

A bed of oysters or mussels. [Scot.]

The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries.

The oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus Hæmatopus.

Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans. Sedentary spider (Zoöl.), one of a tribe of spiders which rest motionless until their prey is caught in their web.

a cotyledon; a seed leaf. -- Seed oil, oil expressed from the seeds of plants. -- Seed oyster, a young oyster, especially when of a size suitable for transplantation to a new locality. -- Seed pearl, a small pearl of little value. -- Seed plat, or Seed plot, the ground on which seeds are sown, to produce plants fo…

A young oyster when first attached.

omotive, boiler. -- Shell road, a road of which the surface or bed is made of shells, as oyster shells. -- Shell sand, minute fragments of shells constituting a considerable part of the seabeach in some places.

One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.

Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.

The shell of an oyster or clam. [U. S.]

One who shucks oysters or clams

The oyster catcher.

A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.

The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.

An artificial bed of oysters. [Local, U.S.]