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butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles. Admiral shell (Zoöl.), the popular name of an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis). Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Britain.…

In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip. D. G. Mitchell.

A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil

exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal.…

Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

] We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.

The bearer of a flag; an ensign. [Obs.] This is Othello's ancient, as I take it. Shak.

With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods.

used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall.

to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the inferior of the grain, leaving only the shell.

A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.

A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

Before birth. Shelley.

Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.

ineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.

One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.