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Word Meanings - PHRAGMOCONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.

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  • SHELL-LESS
    , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
  • ANTERIORITY
    The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
  • CHAMBERING
    Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
  • CHAMBERER
    1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
  • SHELLER
    One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
  • CHAMBERED
    Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
  • SHELL
    The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates,
  • SHELLAPPLE
    See SHELDAFLE
  • CHAMBERMAID
    1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson.
  • SHELLPROOF
    Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
  • SHELLBARK
    A species of hickory whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
  • ATTACH
    tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
  • SHELLY
    Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.
  • SHELLAC; SHELL-LAC
    See LAC
  • SHELLED
    Having a shell.
  • SHELLING
    Groats; hulled oats. Simmonds.
  • SHELLFISH
    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.
  • ATTACHABLE
    Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.
  • CHAMBERLAIN
    OHG. chamerling, chamarlinc, G. kämmerling, kammer chamber (fr. L. 1. An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers. 2. An upper servant of an inn. 3. An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a
  • ATTACHE
    One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.
  • GOROON SHELL
    A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
  • VALVE-SHELL
    Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
  • SPOUTSHELL
    Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
  • SLIT-SHELL
    Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
  • STAR-CHAMBER
    An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
  • MASK SHELL
    Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
  • TONGUE-SHELL
    Any species of Lingula.
  • UNSHELL
    To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.
  • INCHAMBER
    To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
  • EGGSHELL
    A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form. (more info) 1. The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.
  • FROGSHELL
    One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.
  • TOOTHSHELL
    Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.
  • REATTACHMENT
    The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
  • COMBUSTION CHAMBER
    A space over, or in front of , a boiler furnace where the gases from the fire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.

 

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