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A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie.

without any daubing at all, I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant. Smollett.

of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett. Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of the ocean. -- Gone to Davy Jones's Locker, dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard.

To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.

A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.

A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.

A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.

An intaglio. Mollett.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.

An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille. They breakfast in dishabille. Smollett.

A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells.

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiæ on the back.

[Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.

Sweetened; mollified. Dulcified spirit or spirits, a compound of alcohol with mineral acids; as, dulcified spirits of niter.

Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please. As she . . . was further dulcified by her pipe of tobacco. Hawthorne.

y deaf person. -- Ear vesicle (Zoöl.), a simple auditory organ, occurring in many worms, mollusks, etc. It consists of a small sac containing a fluid and one or more solid concretions or otocysts. -- Rose ear (in dogs), an ear which folds backward and shows part of the inside. -- To give ear to, to listen to; to hee…

Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria, esp. Somateria mollissima, which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest with fine down (taken from its own body) which is an article of commerce; -- called also eider duck. The American eider (S. Dresseri), the king eider (S. spectabilis),…

That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits. Smollett.