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noun. The usually hard outer covering that encases certain organisms, such as insects, turtles, and most mollusks.

noun. A similar outer covering on a nut or seed.

noun. A similar outer covering on certain eggs, such as those of birds and reptiles; an eggshell.

noun. The material that constitutes such a covering.

noun. Something resembling or having the form of a shell, especially.

noun. An external, usually hard, protective or enclosing case or cover.

noun. A framework or exterior, as of a building.

noun. A thin layer of pastry.

noun. The external part of the ear.

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noun. The hull of a ship.

noun. A light, long, narrow racing boat propelled by rowers.

noun. A small glass for beer.

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noun. An artillery projectile containing an explosive charge.

noun. A metal or cardboard case containing the charge and primer for a piece of firearms ammunition, especially one also containing shot and fired from a shotgun.

noun. An attitude or a manner adopted to mask one's true feelings or to protect one from perceived or real danger.

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noun. A set of electron orbitals having nearly the same energy and sharing the same first quantum number.

noun. Any of the stable states of other particles or collections of particles (such as the nucleons in an atomic nucleus) at a given energy or small range of energies.

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noun. A usually sleeveless and collarless, typically knit blouse, often worn under another top.

noun. A thin, usually waterproof or windproof outer garment for the upper body.

noun. A program that works with the operating system as a command processor, used to enter commands and initiate their execution.

noun. A company or corporation created by a second company or corporation for the purposes of facilitating a particular transaction, especially one that is intended to be concealed.

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intransitive verb. To remove the shell of; shuck.

intransitive verb. To remove from a shell.

intransitive verb. To separate the kernels of (corn) from the cob.

intransitive verb. To fire shells at; bombard.

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intransitive verb. To defeat decisively.

intransitive verb. To hit the pitches of (a pitcher) hard and with regularity.

intransitive verb. To shed or become free of a shell.

intransitive verb. To look for or collect shells, as on a seashore.

phrasal verb. To hand over; pay.

To strip off or remove the shell or outer covering of; take out of the shell: as, to shell nuts.

To remove from the ear or cob: as, to shell corn.

To cover with or as with a shell; incase in or as in a shell.

To cover or furnish with shells, as an oysterbed; provide shells for spat to set; also, to cover (land) with oyster-shells as a fertilizer.

To throw bombshells into, upon, or among; bombard: as, to shell a fort or a town.

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To fall off, as a shell, crust, or exterior coat.

To cast the shell or ex terior covering: as, nuts shell in falling.

To deal in or have to do with oyster-shells in any way; transport, furnish, or make use of oyster-shells as an occupation. See I., 4.

noun. A smoked or colored concavo-convex glass for shielding the eye.

noun. In sheet-metal work, any piece of sheet-metal upon which one operation has been performed and which requires one or more additional operations to complete it. It is usually of a cup or shell form.

noun. The dug-out portion of a West Indian canoe, which consists of a dugout the sides of which are built up to any required height. See buck-shell.

noun. The part of a horse-hide obtained from the rump: a comparatively small piece.

"I used to listen to the sea in that shell in the sitting-room, and I tried and tried to find a name for the sound, and all at once _song_ came into my head -- _The song of the sea in the shell_."

armorpiercing shell  baptismal shell  blind shell  bombay shell  capped shell  

clamshell  come out of one’s shell  eggshell  seashell  shell out  

cover  covering  create  emerge  gather  

Adel  Adele  Bel  Bell  Belle  

ball  bone  bullet  fire  fish  

Eustachian tube  L  R  acting area  aim at  

bomb  

shelled  shelling  shells