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See the Note under 2d Lac.

See Sheldafle.

A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.

Having a shell.

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.

Groats; hulled oats. Simmonds.

Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.

Work composed of shells, or adorned with them. Cotgrave.

Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.

Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.

Having a soft or fragile shell. Soft-shell clam (Zoöl.), the long clam. See Mya. -- Soft-shelled crab. (Zoöl.) See the Note under Crab, 1. -- Soft-shelled turtle. (Zoöl.) Same as Soft tortoise, under Soft.

Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.

Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.

Any species of Lingula.

Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.

Any one of numerous species of marine top_shaped shells of the genus Thochus, or family Trochidæ.

A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the bursting charge, which consists of about 130 pounds of high explosive. It has no soft cap, and is intended to effect its damage by the powerful explosion which follows on slight resistance. It is used chiefly in 12-inch mortars.…

Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra.

Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.