Word Meanings - SHELLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.
Related words: (words related to SHELLY)
- SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - SHORER
One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore. - SHOREWARD
Toward the shore. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - PRIORSHIP
The state or office of prior; priorate. - SHELLER
One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events; - CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We - SHELLAPPLE
See SHELDAFLE - PRIORITY
1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others. - SHELLPROOF
Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof. - PRIORATE
The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton. - ABOUND
1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed - PRIORESS
A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess. - SHELLBARK
A species of hickory whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut. - 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 - BACKWARDATION
The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle. - 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. - SEASHORE
All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean. - MASK SHELL
Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture. - SUBPRIOR
The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior. - LONGSHORE
Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning. - TONGUE-SHELL
Any species of Lingula. - UNSHELL
To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch. - 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.