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The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.

, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.

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.

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.

A species of shell (Cypræa argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail.

A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.

A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.

A bomb. See Bomb, n.

A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.

One of the shells or valves of a cockle.

A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob.