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To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.

One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

yphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.

provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune. When Jubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden. Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp. Beecher.

A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.

, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. Capt. John Smith (1616). Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a coclke; it lieth under the sand. Wood (1634).

Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.

Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.

coats were sleek. Fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell. Milton.

Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

us Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.

Inclosed in a shell. The tender horns of cockled snails. Shak.

hocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells. Cocoa shells, the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.

The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.

A genus of univale shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.

A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.

The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells.

A chamber of a multilocular shell. Glanvill.

nterior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.