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flow. Pope Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. Matt. xiv. 28 I was bid to pick up shells. D. Jerrold.

Having a double margin, as certain shells.

Having a shell or covering like a double shield.

The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyst…

The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. De Colange.

hon. Knight. -- Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead. -- Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode. -- Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift.…

Having thick lips. "A blobber-lipped shell." Grew.

A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to chang…

Without bloom or flowers. Shelley.

A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into. Next, she means to bombard Naples. Burke. His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe. Wood.

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.

A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.

Indies. -- Bonnet limpet (Zoöl.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ). -- Bonnet monkey (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. -- Bonnet piece, a gold coin of the time of James V. of Scotland, the king's head on whi…

of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

e strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.

One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.